Author: Miss Dale

Good Mental Health is important. We all have days where we feel better than others. When we face a challenge this can test out mental health. At the moment staying at home and not being allowed to visit family, friends and school is a huge challenge!

Sleeping well, making healthy balanced food choices and exercise are all daily ways to improve your mental health.

Here are some other ways for parents and pupils to manage their mental health:

 

Have you found other ways to improve your mental health?

Catching up with my sister on the phone while we have a cup of tea or watching Pooch Perfect with my Mother in Law on Facetime are just 2 ways I’ve found. Small changes which make us laugh and make us feel more positive.

Phone school for a catch up 01387 720326 –  I’ll be very happy to stop and have a cuppa and a catch up!

Stay safe and well,

Miss Dale

 

Tom Hughes is a storyteller living in Holywood.

He’s very interested in sharing traditional folk tales.  You might have heard him tell stories at the school’s gala day, on a community history walk around the area, or at the village hall which he helps to run.  Here he’s telling a favourite tale, the story of foolish Mr Vinegar.

And here he is telling the tale of The Russet Dog

 

Hello P4/5,

Join the Big Class Catch Up for P4/5 tomorrow at 2pm.

You get in the same way as the senior pupils but your Team has a BEE MEDAL as it’s logo.

See you on Teams!

Miss Dale

Noah worked hard to solve the teacup challenge.

Do you agree with his solution?

He also said it was fun!!  What?!?!  Learning fun…

Thanks Noah,

Miss Dale

 

Join a P67 Team Meet

Home Learning January 15th

Please hit the link to read!

Thanks,
P Dale

We’ve been very busy – check out our big diagram showing what learning has looked like in terms 1 and 2. Lots of learning in the outdoors and team work!

Recovery Back to Learning at Holywood

 

Hi there,

I’ve been having a big natter with James who joined P3 last week.

It turns out that he likes Salt and Vinegar nuts!! Not a favourite of mine!!

He also likes playing zombie/ jumping games on his X-Box.

He needs to wear a helmet when he is out riding his bike especially if he is performing wheelies!!

I’ve noticed already that James likes making up big stories – this is exciting and I can’t wait to read the stories that he writes in class!  Can one of your stories be about a giraffe that lives at home with a head teacher please?!

James loves kebab meat and wants us to try it too!  Not sure about that one.

We both love roast chicken!

At school James likes break times, choose times and home time!!

We hope he also likes getting muddy now that he has joined Team Holywood!

Miss Dale

 

I have tasked P6/7 to use their forces knowledge and skills to design and build a pointless contraption with a point.

Rube Goldberg was famous for his cartoons and contraptions which used elaborate components and ridiculous elements to make a simple thing happen.

With the push of just one finger the machine would be started…

I have asked the pupils to design a machine to move a pencil along, into a sharpener and then get it sharpened.

Of course, being Holywood some pupils have decided to invent Goal Scoring machines, the Thirst Quenching machine and other creations of their own.

Some designs include electric circuits and fans, dominoes and moving cars or marbles, one even has  boat moved by a tidal wave…

We will share photos when the working models are completed.