🌟 Welcome to Our Primary 5 & 6 Class Page! 🌟
Holy Cross Primary School – School Year 2025–2026
Hello and welcome! We’re excited to share our learning journey with you this year. This page will be regularly updated with photos, news, and details of the wonderful events and activities happening in our class.
Your class teacher is Mrs Woods, and our fantastic classroom assistants are Diane and Katrina. Together, we’re looking forward to a fun, creative, and inspiring year ahead!
Stay tuned and check back often to see what we’ve been up to!
The Elf
Sprout the elf appeared in our class today. He added a little festive flair to our class photo. He can be a little naughty at times!
Winter Themed Acrostic Poems
The class wrote amazing winter themed acrostic poems and created lovely penguins that are all now displayed in our school hallway.
Christmas Card Making
Everyone is feeling festive this week so the whole class made Christmas cards.
Hot Chocolate Procedural Writing
We enjoyed making and drinking hot chocolates in class with Mrs Woods. We then completed our procedural writing on the process involved.
3D Shapes
We created 3D shapes from nets. Lots of fun was had and we learnt lots about vertices, faces and edges.
Ditch The Dark Santa Dash
We had a great day doing our daily mile while wearing our very bright clothing, this was for Ditch the dark day 2025 (NI road safety initiative) encouraging students to wear bright colours and reflective gear to promote visibility during darker months.
Our Christmas Play KS2
'Straw and Order'
Congratulations to all the boys and girls on an amazing performance on Thursday night in Holy Cross Church. You have worked so hard over the past number of weeks and you really outdone yourselves. We're so proud of you all.
Pizza Party
Once again we would like to thank Ava for winning our class a pizza party. We had a delivery at lunchtime from Dominos on Friday 5th December. The staff and children really enjoyed our pizza party lunch.
Christmas is coming!
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust
Dave from the Walk Wheel Cycle Trust visited our classroom on Tuesday. He discussed the different types of transport on our roads and introduced 'Buzz five gears to us. We learnt more valuable information about road safety and BEING BRIGHT BEING SEEN.
ANGLES
This week we discussed different sorts of angles and then found many right angles in our classroom. We enjoyed exploring the many different right angles around us.
Adobe Winner
Huge congratulations to Ava, who won the Adobe Newsdesk competition! Her infographic entry was chosen out of 1,500 submissions—what an amazing achievement! As a reward, the whole class will enjoy a pizza party. David Huntley recognised the excellent efforts from our class and said there were lots of amazing entries—well done to everyone who took part!
Halloween Dress Up
Book Week NI 2025
This week was Book Week NI where we were celebrating 10 years of reading together. We began to read 'The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy'. We really enjoyed the beginning of the story and are looking forward to continuing this novel after the Halloween break and complete an author study on Jill Murphy.
+-/x Math's Week 2025 +-/x
Last week we have had the opportunity to work with St Louis, Kilkeel for Math's Week along with other schools and complete a Puzzle each day.
Congratulations to Primary 5 &6 who were the prize winners for the Wednesday's competition of the St. Louis math's week challenge.
Well done to all involved.
Maths Week
Our Primary 5 and 6 pupils showed fantastic creativity and teamwork as they designed and created their very own maths games for the younger children in our school. With great patience and enthusiasm, they explained the rules, supported the players, and made sure everyone had fun while learning. It was a joy to see so many smiling faces and such positive interaction across the classes. Well done boys and girls, you made maths magical!
Sponsored Walk to Mourne Park
Shape and Space
Explore Tangrams
Understanding Number
Place Value
Make, explore and discuss regular and irregular 2D shapes using a variety of materials
Art
Painting using warm and cool colours