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Kilbroney Centre Residential - Day 1

22nd Apr 2026

We have all had a fantastic first day in Co. Down at the Kilbroney Centre. After room allocations and time to fine our bearings, we prepared for giant paddle boarding in the sea after lunch, with everybody working well together (16 children per board) to control the huge boards! Most impressive was the fact that every child and staff member plucked up the courage to jump in numerous times...

🌲 P1/2 Shared Education Day – Gosford Forest Park 🌲

1st Apr 2026

Our P1 and P2 pupils enjoyed a fantastic Shared Education day at Gosford Forest Park on Tuesday. The children loved exploring the park, taking part in activities, and spending time learning and playing together. It was a fun‑filled day that everyone thoroughly enjoyed.

🌼 Easter Celebrations in School 🌼

1st Apr 2026

This morning, our P1 and P2 pupils performed a lovely Easter assembly , which was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. We were also treated to some very thoughtful prayers written and shared by our P6 class , making the assembly extra special. After lunch, the celebrations continued with a special visit from two Easter bunnies , who helped us announce the winner of our Crack the Code competition...

Henri Rousseau inspired artwork by Primary 6 🐯

1st Apr 2026

As part of their Rainforests topic, Primary 6 have been looking at the work of French artist Henri Rousseau. Rousseau painted around twenty rainforest themed paintings, despite never leaving France! He explained that he often visited the Botanical Gardens in Paris and used these for inspiration. After close inspection, we discovered that Rousseau used a wide variety of shades of green,...

P6/7 Adventure day with Clintyclay PS

30th Mar 2026

Friday, P6/7 had a fantastic day at Gosford Forest Park with our friends from Clintyclay Primary School as part of our Shared education celebration day. The children thoroughly enjoyed exploring a trail of play parks and taking part in fun challenges throughout the day. 🤩

P7 - World numeracy day activities

27th Mar 2026

P7 celebrated world numeracy days with a selection of maths based activities. The day started with our P7’s showing off some of their maths magic tricks to all of the other classes and they did a fantastic job. They had a taster of Italian as they learnt to count to 20 with great enthusiasm and some interesting pronunciation. They took part in a numeracy relay race where they had to run through...

P7 - world book day

27th Mar 2026

P7 looked fantastic in their world book day outfits! A great job all round. Well done!

Rainforest Topic in Primary 6 🐸🌳🐍

20th Mar 2026

Primary 6 have been thoroughly enjoying their new topic, Rainforests! So far they have been using iPads to identify the location of the different temperate and tropical rainforests of the world and to find out the conditions of each. They have also been learning about the four layers of the rainforest. Everyone enjoyed using natural resources to build their own ‘Rainforest in a...

Football at Newtownhamilton

13th Mar 2026

Today some of our pupils travelled to Newtownhamilton to take part in a football tournament against a number of other local primary schools. All of the children played brilliantly, showing great teamwork and sportsmanship and most importantly had a fantastic time.

Primary 6 visit to the FE McWilliam Gallery

5th Mar 2026

Primary 6 had a wonderful time at the FE McWilliam Gallery yesterday, and we extend a special thanks to Jason (Emily’s uncle) and his colleagues for facilitating this fantastic opportunity. We received a lovely warm welcome and began our day exploring art pieces in the studio with Jason. We then completed a hunt in the sculpture garden and there was even an opportunity to sketch our favourite...

Welcome

A very warm welcome to our newly refreshed school website. We hope it will continue highlighting Hamiltonsbawn Primary School as being an accessible and informative school, whilst also providing us with the opportunity to share some of the wonderful things that go on in our school during the academic year.

We are very proud of our school and confident that we are able to offer a happy, safe and supportive learning environment within a Christian ethos. We hope you enjoy visiting our website which gives you a glimpse of the exciting educational opportunities we offer our children.

If you require further information or would like to visit our wonderful school, please contact the school office or email info@hamiltonsbawnps.hamiltonsbawn.ni.sch.uk

Yours sincerely,

D. R. Hutchinson (Mr)

(Principal)

'BELIEVE, ACHIEVE, SUCCEED'

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