Our Scottish Showcase performances are on Friday 25th November. Tickets are selling out fast. Pupils may wear something tartan to school on Friday.
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Parent Voice Dress Down Day
Thursday 24th November is a Dress Down Day for donations for the class Christmas hampers. The hampers will be raffled at the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 3rd December 10.00am – 1.30pm. Donations should be something festive – chocolates, festive drinks, decorations, shortbread, crackers,small christmas gifts, advent calendars, mince pies – no perishable goods please.
Super Gritter Visit
Mr Stewart came into school with his super gritter to give the pupils the opportunity to discover how Ayrshire’s roads are kept free of snow and ice during winter weather. The pupils enjoyed the workshop and learning about the importance of delivering winter services within our local communities and they especially loved the opportunity to get up close with the gritters to see how they operate. More photos can be seen by clicking here. (Please note this is an external link)
Knex Champions
Well done to the Holmston Knex Team – they came first in our Cluster heat with their amazing design for vehicles that could transport a bottle of water. Next time it’s off to Kilmarnock for the Ayrshire finals.
World Book Day
We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 3rd March. Pupils may dress up as their favourite book character or in non-uniform. If you would like to come and read your favourite children’s book to your child’s class please contact the school office. Pupils should also bring in their favourite book too.
Euroquiz
Well done to the Euroquiz Team. They were excellent ambassadors of Holmston Primary at the recent local heat of the nationwide quiz. They demonstrated all the hard work and effort that they had put in to learning all about Europe.
P7 visit to Belmont
P7 recently attended workshops led by the students at Belmont High School. They found out about physics, chemistry and biology. The most popular activities were using the Bunsen burners to make firework-like effects by burning different materials and using microscopes to examine different items including a fly’s leg!
finding out about light
finding out about light
using the Bunsen burners
using the Bunsen burners
using the Bunsen burners
P6 and P7 Author Visit
Last week P6 and P7 were invited to Ayr Library to meet Janis Mackay the author of “The Accidental Time Traveller”. She read from her books and gave us ‘top-tips’ for writing including using all of our senses.
Please support your local library and if you haven’t joined yet please go as soon as possible.
Glee Club Christmas Performances
Our Glee Club have been very busy out and about in the community. As well as performing at the school fayre, they have also been to Tesco, Hansel Village and various nursing homes. They will be going to perform at Ayr Hospital later on in the week. Thank-you to Mrs Hunter and Ms Slider for organising this.
P1-3 Nativity
Christmas has finally arrived with the staging of our Nativity “Prickly Hay”. The children really enjoyed learning their lines, songs and fantastic dance moves! Well done to all involved and thank you to the staff for organising this. Thanks also go our our parent helpers, Mrs Lambie and Mrs Henry for helping with the art work.
P7 STEM Event at Belmont
The Primary 7s from across the Cluster enjoyed a day of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths at Belmont High School. This gave them an opoprutnity to make new friends as well as develop their understanding of a variety of STEM skills. The balloon kebabs and marble run proved to be very popular activities.
The Christmas Fayre
Thank you to the Parent Voice for organising yet another hugely successful event and to the parents, pupils and staff who supported the event. The total raised was £1200 which will be put back into enriching the pupils’ experiences at Holmston.
Scottish Showcase
To celebrate St Andrew’s Day we invited our families and friends to share our learning about Scottish Culture at the Scottish Showcase. This included social dancing, poetry, songs and lots of Scots Language. I particularly enjoyed finding out about the pirates especially ‘Glaikit Greeting Gary’. We hope this event will feature in the Ayrshire Post soon.
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