P5 & P6 Mrs Woods

🌟 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!

Funtasia

We had great fun on our class trip to the water park.

MADE TO MOVE TOPIC

In our Made to Move project P5 got busy with Mr Hardy. We worked as a team to design and build a small moving car using a variety of materials. The aim was to create a model that could move smoothly while being strong and stable.

First, we planned our design carefully, thinking about the shape, balance, and how the car would move. We chose wood for the frame and axle because it is strong and provides good support. This helped keep the structure stable and allowed the wheels to turn effectively.

For the wheels, we used plastic as it is lightweight and reduces friction, making it easier for the car to move. To strengthen the structure, we used card to reinforce the corners, ensuring the car would not easily bend or break during movement.

During the building process, we tested and adjusted our design to improve performance. We considered factors such as alignment of the axle, stability of the frame, and smooth rotation of the wheels.

Overall, this project helped us develop skills in planning, problem-solving, and teamwork in understanding how different materials affect movement. Our final product successfully demonstrated how different materials can be combined to create a functional, moving model. We all thoroughly enjoyed this experiment.

Buddy Reading

We enjoyed reading to the P1 and P2 children.

May Alter

Our class May Alter to Mary

Healthy Kids Colour Run

We had lots of fun at the colour run.

The Worst Witch

We have been enjoying reading the Worst Witch together as a class.

Irish with Mrs Ryan

Mrs Ryan gave us all the irish translation of our first names this week. We also had fun singing in irish.

Cotton Bud Painting

We got very creative this week, using cotton buds to create wonderful landscape paintings.

Irish lessons

We had lots of fun this week creating outfits to help us learn the clothing names in irish and also playing bingo with Mrs Ryan.

St. Patrick's Mass

We enjoyed making shamrocks to decorate the chapel for our St. Patrick's mass.

World Book Day

We all had a fun filled day in our favourite book character costumes.

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Feis Results

We had some wonderful results from our pupils at the feis this week.

COORDINATES

We have had lots of fun learning about coordinates and working out what our coordinates create.

AI Chatbot

We have been on a mission to train an AI chatbot and to create system prompts to tell it to behave .

Painting Landscapes

Pancake Tuesday

Audio Podcast Creations

Niall from the Amma Centre came and helped us create digital audio podcasts.

Report writing

We have been learning how to write reports.

Under the Sea

We enjoyed being creative with our sea creatures and learning different facts about them all.

Irish

Mrs Ryan was in with us this week teaching us how to tell the time in Irish.

Measuring

We all enjoyed using rulers, meter sticks and measuring tapes to measure different things in our classroom.

Toy Friday

The children got to bring in a toy that they received over Christmas, everyone had lots of fun sharing during golden time.

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!