Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

We have had a busy term, especially the last couple of weeks and everyone is now getting very excited for the Christmas holidays!

During this term we have developed our writing skills by learning about how to use commas for different purposes and how to write reports, including a newspaper report.  We have started a topic about World War Two and, so far, have learned about when and why it began, which countries were involved and about evacuation.  In Maths and Numeracy, the focus has been on telling the time, doing speed, distance and time calculations, and  identifying factors, multiples and prime numbers.  We have also revised how to do written calculations for addition and subtraction.

In the lead up to Christmas we have learned about Advent and looked at famous paintings of the Nativity story.  We made Christingles and created our own Nativity art, choosing either pencils, pastels or paint.

For the Christmas Fayre, we worked in teams and used our food preparation skills to make dog biscuits.  Everyone did brilliantly and the home-made packaging looks great too!

Today we have been using the ‘Hour of Code’ site to develop some computer coding skills by helping the Grinch save Christmas.

Wow what a busy week in P6!

Literacy & English this week started with Picture Questions with Inference and HOTS questions.  Focus for spelling words was on adding ~ing to words.  Then reading tasks on Tuesday comprised of reading a passage looking for the main idea.  On to Writing on Wednesday and it was all about poetry.

Maths and Numeracy was all about Fractions and Measure. We had to find a fraction of a quantity/amount.

The Campus Cop came to visit us on Thursday to help us with online learning.  He reinforced the importance of NOT sharing/saying things online that may be upsetting to others and how important it is NOT to have US as our profile picture on Whatsapp, Facebook etc. AND the scary nature of how Tiktok works on our phone!!! He said we should make sure our Facebook is set to private.

The Victorians is the next topic and will be very interesting.  We have started to look at what we might like to learn – we call these our Big Questions.

Friday was all about the excitement of Elves arriving and trees going up at home and at school.  The class advent calendar appeared and some were lucky to get their treat already!! We had some P6 elves decorating our class tree and they did a smashing job!!! Thank you.

We ran our own P.E Potted Sports session with p3 this week after all the work Lynsey had done with us for our Play Award. P3 were a brilliant class and P6 did a fantastic job of planning and leading the activities they planned.

Friday ended with some Maths Advent Calendar fun and with some crazy AI!!!! We tried out Riffusion which turns any text into a song.  What a giggle.

Take care everyone and have a fabulous weekend!

Mrs Fx

P.S Here’s the Riffusion we made for Lynsey Murphy (Active Sports) to say thank you for coming and teaching p6 about the Play Award – developing their skills greatly to be able to plan and lead an activity.

https://www.riffusion.com/riffs/e60de766-729d-432a-8a5a-eb8809c27e11