Year 6 Sports Day

Year 6 had an incredible Sports Day which saw the children take part in a full day of activities. We competed in events such as the high jump, the relay and the vortex throw in the morning and then took part in our team events during the afternoon. The throwing was amazing; the running was so speedy; the jumping was incredible; the effort was exceptional; the collaboration was brilliant. 

This was a truly spectacular way to end our primary school journey. A big thank you to Mrs Ayres and Mr Watson for all of their hard work to ensure that we had a really special day! 

A huge well done to all of the children that participated and were helpers for Year 5 Sports Day on Wednesday! It was a brilliant showcase of all of your perseverance and collaboration skills and you were all very supportive of each other, cheering on your teams and trying your hardest to win your team points. You should all be very proud of yourselves. A huge thank you to Mrs Ayres and Mr Watson for organising such a wonderful afternoon, too! 

Year 2 have been creating their own moving sea creature out of card and split pins. They researched, designed and then created by connecting together levers and pivots to make linkages. They then finished off by evaluating their design. 

We were very lucky and blessed yesterday afternoon as our grown ups came in to share our fantastic learning that we have been doing over the past year.  They got to explore our books and the children shared what they had been up to, showing our new learning maps and explaining how the purple represented what they knew at the start and then the red to show what they learnt.  The grown-ups were blown away by how much they have learnt across the year and how much their presentation had improved too!  

After, they kindly helped the children decorate their 3rd SOLE book - Yes 3RD!  The children had been so busy that they have already filled up 2 books! 

This half term, Year 5 have been lucky enough to have some cricket training. Each week we have been practising a specific cricket skill that will help improve our overall game. Last week, we practised batting! We hit the ball off of markers and then eventually played in a small team game to practise our batting in a game environment. 

Last week, Year 5 travelled to Exeter to visit the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and participate in their Ancient Egypt day. We had a great time practising mummifying, having a tour of the museum, handling Ancient Egyptian artefacts, learning about how animals were important to the Ancient Egyptians and we even got to see a tomb which had a real mummy in it! 

A huge congratulations to all of the children in Year 1 for competing so brilliantly in our Sports Day last week. We are so proud of you all for showing such fantastic perseverance and collaboration. You all tried your very best, well done! 

Thank you to all of the family members who came to support them, we hope you were as impressed as we were.

Finally, thank you to our amazing house captains, Mrs Ayres and Mr Watson for organising and running such a successful event for us. We are very lucky to have you!

🤸‍♀️ KS2 Devon Gymnastics Competition 🤸‍♂️

We started with 74 competitors, over 29 of them achieved top 10 places in East Devon whilst 6 children represented HPS at the Devon School Finals Gymnastics competition with fantastic results: 5th, 4th, 2nd and a total of 3: 1st places - great success team! 👏

And thank you to Mr Moran (our SSGO) for presenting the certificates, medals, tshirts and an incredible frame of Team GB’ Jake Jarman’s Commonwealth Games records! Now to find a place to hang it!  🌟

The Hippo Returns!

After its stay outside the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, our Honiton Hippo made the arduous journey back to HPS. With the help of some year 6 children, it has now settled in the quad, complete with an array of streamer decorations to boot.

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