Hello everyone…..

As the end of term is drawing close,  please ensure to keep checking on the ECC and PS Glow blogs for information.  We understand this may be an anxious time for many families and that you may have lots of questions. Please know that once we have all relevant information regarding the return in August we will be in touch.

Parent Club is a great resource to keep up to date on information and there is a dedicated FAQ page.

https://www.parentclub.scot/

Going forward until end of month we have made up some activity ideas to keep the children learning at home.

Home Learning

Maria

eamaria.paterson@glow.sch.uk

Good morning 💙💚💛❤️💜

For today’s sporting challenge it is the Egg & Spoon race.

You will need to set up a finish line and the aim is to get to the finish line as fast as you can without dropping the object on the spoon. Now this can be an egg (perhaps your grown up could hard boil it first 😁) or you could use a potato, a small ball..whatever you can find to put on the spoon.
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Hope you all have fun with today’s challenge. Don’t forget to do your warm up that Michelle posted on Mondays blog.

Let me know how you get on.

Amanda

eaAmanda.hopkins@glow.sch.uk

Good morning ❤️💜💛💚💙

For today we ask that you perhaps go a short or long walk and see what numbers you can find?! Remember to take a pen/paper with you so you can write down the numbers you see or your grown up can keep a note in their phone.
Here is an idea of items you may find numbers on..

Let me know how you get on.

Amanda ❤️
eaAmanda.hopkins@glow.sch.uk

Good morning ❤️💜💚💛💙

I know in these uncertain times that some of you may be feeling anxious if your child is due to start Primary 1 after the summer. Following on from the First Minister’s briefing last week you may be wondering what this means now?

There are a lot of questions that have yet to be answered and as soon as the School & ECC have these answers this will allow us to put together a plan to ensure that this transition is a positive experience for both children and families, despite the challenges of Covid-19.

We will also be looking at how best to support children transitioning from home or another establishment into the ECC, as well as returning children.

I would like to thank you all for your continued patience and understanding. Please remember that we are all in this together and going forward the team at Hurlford PS & ECC will endeavour to do our very best in supporting families through these challenging times.

As soon as a plan is set we will be in touch with families.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Maria 💗

eamaria.paterson@glow.sch.uk

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all involved in making the video for us! It means so much and I feel so privileged to work with such wonderful families and all the children, that I am missing so much. We are so proud of you all and how amazing you have been through these times.   We look forward to seeing you all, hopefully soon ❤️💙💜💚💛

Thank you again 🥰

Maria

Good morning,

For today I thought we could focus on circles…what circles can you find in your house or around the garden?

Let’s do a shape hunt!!!

Let us know how you get on.

Maria 💗

eamaria.paterson@glow.sch.uk

Hello everyone,

For today let’s get a little creative.

You will need;

1. pens
2. paper
3. materials from outdoors – stones, leaves etc

Let’s see if you can draw some pictures and use what you have gathered from outdoors to finish off your picture or you can make a picture using just the materials you have collected.

I hope you enjoy 😁

Maria

Good morning ❤️💜💚💛💙

I hope you are all well! With the weather not being as nice I thought for daily task today you could do a counting game. We have played this one in the ECC on our promethean board.

Can you see how many cupcakes you have to give the teddy bear?

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/teddy-numbers 

Let me know how you get on 😁

Maria

eamaria.paterson@glow.sch.uk

Hello everyone,

After the staff speaking with a few of you yesterday I know that some of you may be feeling anxious about your child starting Primary 1 after the holidays and getting the children prepared for this. I want to reassure you all that you are doing an amazing job in these unprecedented times. It is important that your child is happy, confident and content. Children have a way of amazing us all the time and I am confident that they will surprise us when the time comes. If you want to help your child along with some skills try helping them become more independent. It was a home learning task – to put on own clothes, socks and shoes. Putting on a jacket and being able to zip it up, and even organising their belongings so for example get a backpack and ask them to put in specific things like a pencil, paper and keep practising at this.

We will continue daily tasks to help keep the children busy and learning.  A few of you have raised concerns about children writing their name. Here is an idea of skills we would be working on within the ECC to aid fine motor control.

In Primary 1 your child will be taught how to write their name so please don’t be worried about this, it could be they are simply not ready for that task yet! 😁

i hope this helps if you need any other information or any guidance then please just let us know.

Maria 💗

Good morning everyone.

I hope we are all keeping well? Has any of your sunflowers started peeking through the soil? I know some of them are! well done and keep up the good work. I am so proud of you all for being responsible and taking care of your plants.

I would like for you to get a bit active today.

In the ECC we practice lot’s of skill at gym and in the outdoors. Have you been practising skipping? It is a hard one, remember to change feet . What about some hopping? it takes a lot of balance to make it a better challenge maybe you could try balancing a a small potato or ball on a spoon – no cheating!!

Let me know how it goes. Have fun and remember sometimes if you find it difficult just have a small break and try again.

Amanda

eaAmanda.Hopkins@glow.sch.uk