Today, Zoe Kelly, the DJ from West FM came in to record some of our pupils. We have been chosen to be ‘School of the Week’ in the near future. We will post dates when we have them confirmed.
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Classical Music and Ship Building
Last week Primaries 4, 5 and 6 went to the Glasgow City Halls to enjoy the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform the 10 Pieces Concert. The event was hosted by Barney Harwood from Blue Peter, helped out by Hacker and Dodge. Some of the pupils commented: “I liked how they told stories through music,” and “I’ve never been to anything like this before!” You can find out more about the 10 Pieces by clicking here.
Primary 4 also visited the Maritime Museum in Irvine and found out more about the Titanic and what it was like for the ship builders and their families.
World Book Day Winners!
We are proud to announce that we have been named runner-up in the third annual World Book Day Award announced today (Thursday 2nd March) on World Book Day. The school was chosen as one of 10 third prize winners for the Award, each winning £1,000 worth of books for our library.
Each year, schools are invited to take part in a creative challenge, which celebrates reading for pleasure – this year picture book giant, Oliver Jeffers and acclaimed fine artist, Sam Winston asked schools to create their own ‘world of stories’ inspired by their new children’s book, A Child of Books, published by Walker Books, who have funded the Award for 2017.
We are the only school in Scotland to win an award this year. Please take a look at our entry under the Creativity tab at the top of the page and tell us about your favourite book too.
The P7 organised this year’s World Book Day events – this included a house quiz, Where’s Wally Hunt and a book swap. It was a huge success.
SCOTTISH BALLET AUDITIONS FOR CHILDREN – MAY 2017
SCOTTISH BALLET is looking for Primary School children to audition for their Junior Associate Programme! Click here for the poster.
Auditions will be held in May – closing date Monday 24 April 2017.
Children who are currently in Primary 5 or Primary 6 are invited to apply. No previous dance experience necessary. Every child who applies will be offered an audition.
Full details can be found on the website – http://www.scottishballet.co.uk/education/junior-associates.html
Civil Engineer Visit – Wendy Pring
This week we had a visit from engineer, Wendy Pring of KCP Environemental who is a Civil Engineer, and the managing director of the company along with her husband. She was inspiring and talked to the pupils about STEM careers that will be around when they are leaving school. Developments like the Spaceport in Prestiwck. She also told us about an engineer in Prestwick who has discovered that he can produce a plastic type cover for packaging out of the 90% waste that comes from shellfish. She also told us about how they are using shredded vehicle tyres mixed with tarmac for road and palypark surfacing. Very inspiring.
Euroquiz 2017
Well done to our Euroquiz team. They thoroughly enjoyed learning lots about Europe and taking part in the quiz. They were great ambassadors for the school. Congratulations go to Alloway Primary who were these year’s winners.
P1 – P3 Future Me Campaign
The ‘Future Me’ campaign as part of Read, Write, Count, encourages families across Scotland to share their children’s dreams for the future.
‘Future Me’ aims to support families to start a conversation with their P1-3 children about their hopes and aspirations, which will ultimately help to improve their lives in the future. It asks families to share those dreams, either as a picture, letter or film on the ‘Future Me’ wall at www.futureme.scot. The campaign builds on existing Scottish Government efforts to tackle educational inequalities and raise attainment in early years and beyond. With increasing time pressures on families, Read, Write, Count highlights easy activities built around everyday things families are already doing. Whether it’s going to the shops, travelling to school or at mealtimes, Read, Write, Count offers parents and carers simple ideas that will help children do their best at school.
All families in P1 – P3 will recieve a ‘Future Me’ leaflet home from school.
Click here for a copy of the toolkit.
Burns Competition
Well done to all the finalists in our Burns Competition. The standard was incredibly high and this made the task of judging very difficult. We would like to thank Mr. Gemmell, our minister, who sat on the judging panel. The overall winner of the Market Inn Burns Quaich was Oliver – congratulations.
Authors and Brown Trout!
We have had a really busy week in school. On Tuesday, We had a visit from Ross Mackenzie, prize-winning author of “The Nowhere Emporium” and “Shadowsmith“. He worked with the P3, 4 and 5s to help them develop their writing and maybe help inspire our pupils to become authors too!
Meanwhile, the P6s had a visit from Gordon and Struan from the Ayrshire River Trust to start a project on hatching trout in the classroom. They showed the class how to fly fish, taught them about the life-cycle of the trout and helped to set up our incubation tank. If the P6 can ensure a steady temperature of 8 degrees for two weeks, Gordon and Struan will bring back 100 trout eggs for us to hatch and release back into the river. This is a very exciting project. You will be able to follow the development of this project on the P6 class blog.
Active Schools Annual Review
Click here for the Active Schools Annual Review Report.
Glee Club at Ayr Central
Today the Glee Club entertained the shoppers at Ayr Central on the last stop of their Christmas Tour. A big thank you goes to Mrs Hunter for organising the club again this year.
P1 – P3 Nativity “Straw and Order”
Our Nativity show has been a complete success. All the pupils performed fantastically in this re-telling of the Christams Story. We hope you were able to come along an watch one of the shows – please leave us a comment. Here are some photos taken by our P3 photographer, Olly.
Belmont Transition Christmas Disco Review
On the 14th of December pupils from Holmston Primary School went to the Belmont transition disco for all of the P7 pupils in the Belmont Cluster. It was for us to meet new people so moving on to High School isn’t as tough. It was a fun night with lots of Scottish Dancing. We did dances such as Gay Gordon’s, Canadian Barn Dance, Dashing White Sergeant, Military Two Step and many more. During half time we all got a complimentary ice lolly there was also a tuck shop. After half time we started more Scottish dances we even did some of them to Christmas songs which were much quicker. Once we had finished the Scottish dances we danced to YMCA, Macarena and had the Conga – Boys versus Girls. The Boys Won! We played the Corner Game. After that it was time to leave. All round it was a fun night.
by Callum
Whitletts Activity Centre Football Tournament Review
On the Wednesday 14th of December we went to a school football tournament at the Whitletts activity centre. We were quickly told about the rules and then we were told who we were playing first. We were on the bench first. The games were 7 minutes. We played Alloway first. It was a tough game but we managed to score one to seal the game. We had a quick drinks break then watched the Grammar vs Alloway game then we were quickly on against Forehill in our 2nd match. The game kicked off and we quickly grabbed a goal we were in complete domination in the match and grabbed a 2nd goal. The game ended 2-0 Holmston. Our 3rd and final match was against Grammar we were determined not to concede and we got what we wanted! We quickly came on and bagged a goal not long after we scored again then in the last minute of the match we scored and the whistle was blown for full time.
Overall we scored 6 goals as a team
Conceded 0 goals
And won all 3 games!!
by Patrick
South Ayrshire Schools’ Junior Concert Choirs
South Ayrshire Music Service is delighted to offer an opportunity for your child to take part in the South Ayrshire Schools’ Junior Concert Choir.
The Junior Concert Choir is open to anyone from Primary 4, 5 and 6 and the Senior Choir is open to P7 to S6. These choirs will focus on performance and production of popular music from theatre, film and rock & pop, including choreography and opportunities for group and solo singing.
Click here for further information
Maths Challenge – Elf Suits!
Mrs Claus made four of the workshop elves new suits for Christmas.
Each suit had matching trousers, waistcoat, jacket and hat.
One suit was all red, one was all green, one was all yellow and one was all blue. The elves were delighted with their presents, but decided it would be fun to wear a different outfit every day for as many days as possible. So they agreed to swap around parts of their suits until they ran out of new combinations.
How many days did their fun last?
World Book Day Competition
Please take a look at the marvellous work the pupils from across the school and Mrs Messner have undertaken as part of our World Book Day Competition entry. We are hoping this work will encourage more pupils – and adults – to read for pleasure. We are also looking forward to having author visits to the school next term too.
Click on the ‘Creativity – World Book Page‘ to find out more and leave us your favourite book recommendation or book review through the comments section.
Christmas Fair
Well done to the Parent Voice for organising yet another fantastic Christmas Fair. The total raised is still being calculated. Thank you to everyone for coming along and supporting the event. As always, the homebaking was amazing and the bacon and egg rolls certainly hit the spot!
Foodbank Thank You
Thank you to everyone that sent in food at Harvest. It is very much appreciated.
After School Netball Club
Please note that Monday 28th November 2016 was the last after school netball session for this term. Mrs Tindall will meet with the players at their match on Wednesday 7th December 2016 at Whitletts Activity Centre. Please return any outstanding permission slips to the school before this event.
After School sessions will recommence on Monday 16th January 2017.
