The whole school enjoyed an afternoon of dancing to raise money for the school. Each class demonstrated their dance before the whole school tried it out with dances ranging from Choo Choo Wah and Superman to the Macarena. One of the highlights was the staff performance of YMCA (photos for this are unfortunately unavailable!). A huge thanks goes to everyone that sponsored the pupils and Mrs Parkhill and Mrs Young for organising.
Primary 5 had great fun learning about the Scottish Wars of Independence at Dundonald Castle. The learned how to sword fight and about life in the 1300s. What a great experience!
We are pleased to let you know that the results and findings from our HMIE inspection in January have now been released on the HMIE website. Please see the links below for the Parental Letter, Summarised Inspection Findings and additional evidence. We are very proud of all the hard work and commitment of staff, pupils and parents and this is demonstrated through our report, and we look forward to building on these strengths.
HMIE Holmston PS Report Letter to Parents
Holmston Primary School | Inspection Report | His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education in Scotland
Two of our P7s had a great time performing an extract from Tam O’Shanter at the P7 Burns Supper at Ayr Town Hall on Tuesday. They enjoyed the full Burns Supper experience with their P7 peers from across the authority. The event was
fully funded and supported by Alloway Burns Club.
Well done to one of our pupils for coming 5th in her group at the North East Opens in Billingham last week. What a star! Well done!
Well done to all our winners at our annual Burns Competition. The standard was incredibly high again this year. Well done to our overall winner who receives a book of Burns Poems from the Market Inn Burns Club. Several of our pupils also recited their poems to the congregation at the Auld Kirk Burns Supper Lunch on Sunday – we were very proud of them.
Well done to Mrs Bell-Sammutt and the Lego Club. They recently participated in the First Lego League Discover Competition, “Unearthed” at Ayrshire College in Kilmarnock. The took part in a lot of challenges where they had to programme the robot to solve problems and the won the best robot design competition too!
P7 thoroughly enjoyed their visit to Dolphin House. A week of abseiling, paddleboarding, caving, beach cleaning and exploring Culzean. We learned new skills and achieved the John Muir Award.
A huge well done goes to our P6 class for organising and leading our Shoe Box appeal to collect items for young people in the Ukraine for Christmas. They wrote letters, put up posters in the local area and even put together a radio advert. Thank you to everyone who donated to this important cause.
Well done to our amazing P3s. They delivered our Harvest Service last week at the Auld Kirk linked to all the work they had been learning about in class on farming. We also welcomed our friends from Southcraig who performed with our P5s. Well done to you all.
Congratulations to one of our football players. She was recently signed for Kilmarnock Girls U10s. What a fantastic achievement – well done!
We still managed to hold our Sports Day this year by keeping all the classes apart. Castlehill were the overall winners on the day but we think all of our pupils are superstars! Thanks to Emma, our Active Sports Co-ordinator for helping out too.
Unfortunately we cannot host our usual competition and technology is making it very difficult to upload. So we will be having a Burns celebration this week with poetry recitals on Friday. In the meantime for your entertainment, please click the links to experience a collection of Scot’s poetry and songs performed by the amazing Ken O’Hara.
Click the link for the December Newsletter 2020.
Primary 5 have been finding out all about Christmas customs and traditions in countries all around the world. They worked hard as a group to research and present their information. That confident presenters – well done everyone!
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Primary 6 and Primary 7 have been taking part in Bikeability training over the past few weeks at Level 1 and Level 2. Even the rain hasn’t stopped them developing their skills in cycling – building up to cycling safely on the roads! Many thanks go to the volunteers and parents that have supported us in this.
A copy of our November newsletter is available here. Remember to follow us on Twitter for all our up-to-date news.
During Maths Week Scotland, we let you know about a national photographic maths competition, ‘Oot an’ Aboot’, organised by the University of Glasgow. One of our pupils took part in the competition and was a runner-up and had another entry highly commended – well done to Lillyanna for her excellent mathematical thinking and questioning. She received an Amazon voucher and certificates during an online award ceremony last week.
Next week is the national Walk to School Week. We would like to encourage as many pupils as possible to walk to school next week. We are hopeful that this will be a BIG celebration and a whole lot of FUN! To make the week special, we would love for our pupils to dress up each day. The themes are as follows:
| Day | Walk to school wearing… |
| Monday | silly socks or odd shoes! |
| Tuesday | crazy hair! |
| Wednesday | a hat and/or sunglasses! |
| Thursday | bright colours! |
| Friday | something purple for Ayrshire Hospice. |
Walking to school helps children feel happier and healthier and they arrive refreshed, fit and ready to learn. More families walking means fewer cars on the road during the school run, helping to reduce congestion and pollution at the school gates. If you live too far away or don’t have time to walk the whole way to school, you can ‘Park and Stride’.
If you would like to make a small monetary donation towards the Ayrshire Hospice on Friday, this would be gratefully received, although there is no obligation to do so.
Remember to take a selfie and tag us on Twitter! @HolmstonPS #WalktoSchoolWeek
