🎅🏻 A VISIT FROM SANTA! 🎅🏻 

⚡️ ELECTRICITY- series and parallel circuits. ⚡️

THE REINDEER RUN 

Taking part in The Reindeer run to raise money for the Southern Area Hospice. 

FOREST SCHOOL

P7H enjoyed their recent visit to the Forest where they used natural materials to decorate one of the trees for Christmas. 🎄 

ENERGY

Completing our e-Books on Energy before presenting them to the class. 

VICTORIAN DAY IN P7

The P7 pupils thoroughly enjoyed their Victorian Day! They had the opportunity to dress up, play games, look at artefacts and to make models and use stop start animation to make short films. 

🏆 SUCCESS AT BANBRIDGE FESTIVAL! 🏆

ICT- BOOK CREATOR

We enjoyed our introduction to the Book Creator app on the iPads before we create our ebooks on ‘Energy’. 

EXPLORING ELECTRICITY

Discovering how a bulb lights and exploring circuits using bulb holders. 

GEOTHERMAL ROADSHOW

A group of pupils from P7H visited a Geothermal Roadshow at City of Armagh High School. They learnt that geothermal energy is renewable and how it can be used to replace fossil fuels- coal, oil and gas as an energy source in our homes. Pupils had the opportunity to discuss geology and drilling bore holes to harness heat energy from the earth. 🌏 They also really enjoyed using VR headsets to look into the earth’s structure. 

MATHS WEEK

P7H really enjoyed taking part in a carousel of practical maths activities. The activities all focused on the topic of MEASURE and the pupils worked in groups to complete the task at each station before moving on to the next challenge. Everyone successfully completed the activities. 

NUMERACY

Enjoying a game of ‘Battleships’ to practise our skills of using co-ordinates in the four quadrants. 

AMAZING AMAZIOGRAPHS

After studying the work of William Morris and drawing our own wallpaper designs we used the app ‘AMAZIOGRAPH’ to produce our designs digitally. 

LITERACY

After reading and discussing the poem ‘The Woodpecker’ by Ted Hughes the pupils worked in groups to prepare questions to give to another group. After answering the questions the groups then evaluated the questions set using two stars and a wish. All the groups did a fantastic job! 

PE

Demonstrating our balancing skills in a gymnastics lessons with Healthy Kidz. 
 

RUGBY

P7H boys who were part of the team from Hardy who finished runners up in a Blitz at Armagh Royal. The scorer of the most tries was also from our class and received at rugby ball signed by Rory Best! 🏈😀

ICT- MICRO:BITS

We really enjoyed programming micro:bits to convey our emotions digitally during anti-bullying week. 

ICT

Pupils working on an unplugged activity using logical reasoning to write and debug algorithms. This activity helped to prepare the pupils for their work using micro:bits. 

WAU

P7H enjoy their introduction to our topic on electricity by experimenting and making circuits. 

AMAZING INVENTIONS- ‘THE INTERNET’.

As part of our Literacy topic about Amazing Inventions, P7H looked at the invention of the internet. We worked in groups to discuss and note the positive and negative effects that it has on the world today. After using buzzers (fastest finger first) to highlight the points discussed everyone had to make a decision about the statement ‘The Internet Has Made The World A Better Place’. The pupils then had to move to different parts of the room to show if they supported the statement. We were divided in our opinion but in the end the majority of children agreed with the statement. 

INVENTIONS IN THE FOREST

We had an amazing time in the forest working on some transient art. We worked in groups to use materials found in the forest to make 2D or 3D art work of inventions from Victorian Times. Can you guess what our inventions are? After all our hard work we had some FUN!!

iPad Maths Games.

Some pupils practise their division skills as they try to defeat the robots in our maths game. 

🏃🏼‍➡️ HARDY HERO! 🏃🏻‍♂️

P7H have their very own ‘Hardy Hero’ who successfully took part in two ‘Iron Kids’ challenges in Belgium and Spain!

DECIMALS

The girls and boys enjoyed using number generators to help them to understand place value up to two decimal places. 

P7H WEAR YELLOW TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAY. 

ICT

Pupils enjoyed researching and finding out about inventions in Victorian Times before taking time to think about and to design their own inventions. Miss Herron would like someone to invent a ‘Marvellous Marking Machine’ to help her with her work!! 👩‍🎓

COMMUNITY POLICE VISIT

As part of our ‘Being Well Doing Well’ project the PSNI visited our P7 pupils to talk about the importance of Internet and Firework safety. We found out some very interesting facts and discussed ways of staying safe online and when watching fireworks at home. 

🏈 RUGBY STARS 🏈

 P7H welcomed rugby coach Harry Doyle from Armagh City Rugby Club to Hardy for the first of a series of rugby coaching sessions. 

NUMERACY

We used number generators to revise our work in place value up to tens of thousands. 

A DRAMATIC INVENTION!

As part of our new Literacy topic about ‘Inventions’ pupils worked in groups to think of an invention and then mime what live was like before and after the invention. The rest of the class and Miss Herron watched closely to try and guess what the invention was. The acting was brilliant! 🤩 
 

FOREST SCHOOL

After collecting natural materials in the forest P7H made designs and photographed them using the KaleidaCam app on the iPads to produce some very colourful art work. 

MATHS PROBLEM SOLVING

Pupils demonstrated their skills to use partitioning to mentally add and subtract three digit numbers. 

IZAK 9

The boys and girls in P7H had great fun competing in teams to solve maths problems using IZAK 9. 

ICT

P7H pupils enjoy spending time in the computer suite to research information about the Victorian writer Charles Dickens.  

FOREST SCHOOL

We spent time in the School Forest collecting items of different colours, sizes and textures to prepare for using the KaleidaCam app on the iPads to produce some natural forest art.  

NSPCC

On Friday 20th September P7H welcomed Margaret and Buddy, the NSPCC mascot, to our classroom to discuss the importance of feeling safe and secure. We learnt that “We all have the right to speak out and stay safe.”

CONSCIENCE ALLEY
 

P7H pupils enjoy taking part in their own ‘Conscience Alley’ to decide whether Oliver Twist should ask the Master of the orphanage for more food. After much deliberation the answer was “Yes!” The children then worked in groups to note the advantages and disadvantages of asking for more food. 

⛹🏼‍♀️ ENJOYING OUR FIRST DAY WITH HEALTHY KIDZ! 🤾🏼‍♂️

PLACE VALUE

P7H had some fun revising place value up to hundreds of thousands. Everyone did very well recording answers on their whiteboards. 👏🏻👏🏻

P7H CLASS RULES 2024-2025

New P7H pupils ‘Think, Pair, Share’ to decide on our classroom rules for the year.