Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

An East Ayrshire Council School

October 5, 2020
by Miss Frew
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How To… Find Your Child’s Home Learning Tasks

Good morning! I hope you’re all well and have had a relaxing weekend.

Today’s post will be about how to find your child’s work on the GLOW blogs. Our staff have been posting weekly on the blogs to keep you up to date on the work being done in class and are also providing home learning challenges to help develop the skills we’re working on in school.

 

Firstly, you can access the GLOW blogs by either:

  • Clicking on the “news” section on the school app.
  • Googling “Hurlford Primary Glow Blogs” and following the link.
  • Having your child log into GLOW and accessing the “GLOW Blogs” tile on their Launchpad. They would then need to click on “My Sites” and find “Hurlford Primary”.  

 

Once you have access to our blog page, you will see tabs at the top. If you click or hover over the “classes” tab, a drop down menu will appear and you can select your child’s class from the list.

As an example, I clicked on Primary 1L. When you’ve selected a class, scroll down the page and you can find all of the blog posts that have been posted.

On the left hand side, you will be able to see when the blog was posted and who it was posted by.

You can click the orange title of the blog to open it up further and read it all.

You can also leave comments on posts if you wish.

 

I hope this has been useful! Again, if there are any more questions about GLOW blogs or you have any suggestions for “How To..” posts, please comment below and I will do my best to assist with that. Have a great week!

Miss Frew

October 5, 2020
by Mrs Campbell
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Hallowe’en – Friday 30th October, 20

We recognise that Hallowe’en will be different this year as they can’t visit different houses.
This year, we invite our pupils  and ECC children to come dressed up in  a Hallowe’en costume, if they wish on Friday 30th October. Children will enjoy some Hallowe’en activities in their class.

We would ask that costumes are appropriate for the eyes of younger children!!

There will be a  prize for the winning ‘home-made costume’ in each class.

October 2, 2020
by Miss Walley
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P1L and P1R week beginning 05.09.20

Hello everyone 🙂

Can you believe we are into our last week of term 1 already? You have all worked so hard and settled in very well to primary 1.

This week we started looking at the characters that are in the stories we are going to be reading – Biff, Chip, Kipper, Floppy, Mum and Dad.
We have also been learning about odd and even numbers.

For this week’s task, you should look for some objects around your house that begin with the sounds ‘s, a, t, p, i, n’ just like Geraldine the Giraffe does!
eg.
s – slippers
a – apple
t – tap
p – pear
i – ink
n – noodles
Talk about the sounds you hear in the words, is there more than one that we have learned? eg. slippers

Have fun on your sound hunt and we hope you have a wonderful holiday!

Mrs Carey and Miss Walley 🙂

October 2, 2020
by Miss Steedman
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P5 Week beginning 5th October 2020

Happy Monday Everyone,

Welcome to another fun week in P5, our last week of Term 1.  Can you believe that we are almost at the end of our first term together?  What a Term it has been.

We have achieved so much in the areas of Numeracy, Literacy and Interdisciplinary Learning including lots of time looking at our own Health and Wellbeing whilst enjoying time outside in our newly decorated playground.  Well done one and all.

Over the last week, we completed a few more experiments about sound where we demonstrated how sound moves through the air (a gas) and through water (a liquid).

This week, we will be moving on to the Light section of our topic, fingers crossed that we can have a few bright, dry and sunny days.

Last week’s blog had a few technical hitches, so this week, I am going to attach a Word Document linking your homework for the week.

Your phonemes this week are ai and ay and in Numeracy, your challenge is to learn the 9x table – there are lots of great tricks to help us with this table, which I am sure that you will enjoy learning about.

05102020 ai ay and 9x table

Click on the link above to open up and find out more about this week’s Homework Challenges.

Stay safe and take care,

Miss Steedman

October 2, 2020
by Miss Frew
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P4 Weekly Blog 2.10.20

Happy October! We’re almost at the end of term one already and it seems to have flown in.

This week P4 have been continuing their number work and are becoming more confident when faced with place value tasks. Keep up the good work guys!

We have also been focusing literacy a lot this week. We have been working hard on our spelling, reading and grammar and are still focusing on capital letters and full stops.

In other areas of the curriculum, we have been learning about Christian weddings, doing various artwork and learning about animal adaptations.

Your home challenge this week is to choose one of the following animals and use the writing frame to help you write about the adaptations! You can use the following website to research animals:

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/category/discover/animals/

October 1, 2020
by Ms Wilson
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P6W: week beginning 28.09.20

Hello P6W,

What a quick week this has been.  Time flies when you’re having fun!!!  Speaking of time, the class has been learning about the 24 hour clock.  Some of us found it quite tricky to convert 12 hour and 24 hour times but we stuck at it and are getting the hang of it now.  We had to remember to have a growth mindset and not give up!

In Literacy we were looking at the features of adventure stories and had a go at writing our own.  Our spelling focus this week was making plural nouns by adding s or es and in our science topic we have been investigating the effects of friction.

HOME CHALLENGE: Have a look around your house and garden and find 3 examples of surfaces that would produce LOW friction and 3 surfaces that would produce HIGH friction.  You could test out your findings with a toy vehicle.  If possible make a list or draw and label what you find and send a photo to my email address.  Good luck!

Enjoy your weekend,

Mrs W

October 1, 2020
by Miss Baillie
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P2B – week beginning 28th October

Hi P2B,

We have had another fantastic week. We have been working hard on our place value and addition and revising hibernation and looking at what animals hibernate. Next week we will be looking at extreme weather and we will be doing some science experiments. If possible and if you have any, could you please bring in a large water bottle (1 or 2 litres). This would be a big help thank you.

This week we have been revising “th” phoneme and some common words can you practice these at home using the following activities.

RED group – maths     three    think   thank   this   that   then

BLUE group –  moth   bath  thin   with   it   in   I

Home learning task – Our topic is weather and we are going to look at waterproof materials. Find a range of materials at home and test if they are waterproof.

Have a great day and I will post some of our season tree artwork tomorrow as a few are still to finish,

Miss Baillie 🙂

 

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