Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

An East Ayrshire Council School

October 9, 2020
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P6P Week Beginning 5th October 2020

Hello P6P,

We have made it to the end of term one and what a quick term it has been! Everyone has settled in very well to the school year, adapting to the changes around the school.

This week we completed the CANI Coaching programme. Throughout the week we participated in many team activities and challenges, developing our communication and team working skills. I think one of our favourite challenges this week was the stretchy band challenge where we had to get all of our team members through the stretchy band in the quickest time possible. Team one achieved the record score of 32 seconds! We also explored our personal values and set out goals for the future. We finished off the coaching programme with a graduation ceremony where everyone presented what they had been learning about throughout the week and received their certificates – it was a great success!

HOME CHALLENGE

For your home challenge we will continue to practice our times tables:

  • Google search www.topmarks.co.uk.
  • In the search bar at the top, type in ‘times tables’.
  • Select the first game on the list – Hit the Button.
  • You can choose which times tables you would like to try (try to choose ones that you need more practice with).
  • You can also select the mixed option to be challenged on all your times tables.
  • Try a few times and see if you can beat your high score each time – good luck!

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!

Miss McLeish 🙂

October 9, 2020
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7 09.10.20

Well done to everyone in P7 for settling back in at school so well this term.  What a quick term it has been!

This week we have been very busy writing news reports, finishing off our materials from Earth topic and completing one-point perspective drawings.

In our outdoor space, we were looking for examples of symmetry in our natural surroundings and creating beautiful nature collages.  We were so lucky to have another sunny afternoon on Monday!

We have also been getting to grips with how to use MS Teams through Glow.  Something we have been exploring is how to use the collaboration space – which is a document that we can all contribute to at the same time!

Thank you for sending in or showing me your videos/photos in response to the home learning task.  If you haven’t managed to show me yet, I will look forward to seeing your work after the break.

I hope you all enjoy the October holidays.

Take care,

Mrs J

October 8, 2020
by Ms Wilson
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P6W: week beginning 5th October 2020

We have made it to the end of Term 1 – well done P6W.  I’m sure everyone is looking forward to their holiday.

This week we have been focusing on improving our story writing skills.  We planned and wrote another adventure story and the pupils agreed they had met more of the required success criteria for this genre.  We all enjoyed listening to our stories being read out.  In maths we have been calculating time durations and used stopwatches and egg timers to time different activities.  As part of our Forces topic we used a Newton meter to measure the amount of force needed to pull an object over different surfaces then we designed information posters to explain when friction is useful and not useful.

HOME CHALLENGE

As we are off for a week it would be a good idea to keep practising multiplication tables, in particular the 6x, 7x, 8x and 9x tables.

I have also assigned you some tasks on Education City – homework.  I hope you’ll give them a go.

Another home learning task would be to draw and/or take a note of 2 or 3 occasions when friction has been useful for you and when it has not been useful .

Email your work to me if you can to eaavril.wilson@glow.sch.uk

Have a great holiday!

Mrs W

October 6, 2020
by Miss Frew
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P4 Week Beginning 5.10.20

It’s the last week of term 1, can you believe it!!

It’s been such a busy term settling into new routines and working hard. Well done to all the pupils in P4 for trying their best and showing a positive attitude this term, you’ve been superstars!

For your home learning tasks this week:

  •  Log into Education City and look at homework. I have assigned you a task with this weeks date called “5.10.20“. Complete the all of the games and try to get over 70%! This will practice using capital letters correctly in a sentence and also given you a place value challenge involving 4 digit numbers!
  • This week we investigated living/non-living things. We also looked at things that used to be alive. Can you look in your house or garden and try and find an example of something that is a living thing, a non-living thing and something that used to be alive.
  • We have been learning about the pop artist Andy Warhol who printed pictures that were very bright and eye catching. He printed pictures of celebrities and every day items and repeated the image over and over. Here is an example of his work to remind you:

See the source image

 

In class we started a piece of artwork similar to his. Can you choose an every day item at home and make an Andy Warhol inspired piece! Send in a picture by email if you can to EAaimee.frew@glow.sch.uk.

 

I hope you enjoy your home learning tasks and have a lovely holiday when it comes!

 

Miss Frew

October 5, 2020
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P2M Monday 5th Oct 2020

Hi everyone

It’s October already and nearly the end of Term 1. We have all been working hard on literacy tasks ,reading ,spelling and working on our handwriting. In Maths and Numeracy we have been learning to tell the time and we have been working on subtraction and place value. We have finished our topic on weather and this week we have been exploring floating and sinking .We are making tinfoil boats and counting how many pennies they can hold before they sink .You could try this at home too! Ans as it is Autumn , we have made an Autumn display and looked at how the trees and animals get ready for winter.

For a challenge this week can you draw an autumn tree and cut out 4 leaves. Write each of this weeks common words  on a leaf and stick them on your tree.

Remember to keep reading and  practising your words at home. Happy Spelling ,here is the link to the common words

homewrk 5th oct

Mrs Muir and Mrs Miller

October 5, 2020
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7 Monday 5th October

What a lovely start to October we have had! We are almost at the end of term but have a busy week ahead before we stop for a well-earned rest.

Last week we developed greater understanding of tenths and hundredths in Numeracy and we became budding journalists when writing.

Everyone demonstrated creativity and concentration when making a volcano model  within a time limit, using limited materials. Well done to Taylor, Callum, Katie and Alicia who were able to erupt their models in an experiment to show a chemical reaction.  Can you tell someone at home what gas was produced when the acidic vinegar and alkaline bicarbonate of soda were mixed together?

Home Learning

  • Please complete the S.T.E.M challenge that was set last week.  Thank you for the videos and photos that have already been emailed in!
  • On Wednesday you will be writing another newspaper report, building on what you learned last week about vocabulary, structure and use of quotes.  Choose one of the scenarios below and talk to someone at home about what you could write.  Think of a headline too.

Scenario A:  A mysterious new fossil has been unearthed.

Scenario B:  A rare, precious stone has been discovered.

For your scenario, think about: who made the discovery?  Where and when was the fossil/gem found?   What size is the fossil/stone?  What does it look like?  Why is it an important discovery?  What would the person who made the discovery say?  What impact will the discovery have on the world?

Keep up the super work P7!

Mrs J

 

October 5, 2020
by Miss Baillie
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P2B – Week beginning 5th October

Hello there Primary 2B,

This week we are going to continue working hard on the lead up to the holidays. We are also going to start our new literacy rotations. We are an excellent class for being organised and by the end of the week I think our rotations will be working very well!

We are going to look at the feeling “excited,” and discuss what makes us excited and how we calm ourselves if we get too excited. We are also nearing the end of our Weather topic and will be looking at waterproof materials and extreme weather this week. We will also be conducting some experiments. If possible, could you please send in any big bottles you have spare (1litre or more, if you can) to help us with our experiments.

Home learning activities

If you can spare another bottle you can create a rain gauge to use to measure rain fall over the week. Below is some information on how to do this.

We have been revising the “ch” phoneme this week. Please find below this weeks phonetic words and common words.

Red/Green group

check     children      church     chest

chirp      with            us             so

 

Blue group

chip      chin      much      such

chop     an         is            and

 

Please practice these at home along with reading words and common words that have been sent home in learning packs. Here is a grid of activities that you can do.

I look forward to another fantastic week Primary 2 🙂

Miss Baillie

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