Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

We had Sports Day this Wednesday. Our races were the flat race and the skip and beanbag race. The girls raced the girls and the boys raced the boys. Sports day is a competition between the houses. We wear our house colour and support our team in their races.

Neve came 1st in the flat race for the girls and Keira came 1st in the second race.

In 2nd place for the girls were Kammy and Millie.

In 3rd place for the girls were Lailah and Paige.

Adam S came 1st in the flat race for the boys. Aiden won for the second flat race for the boys.

In 2nd place for the boys were RJ and Layton.

In the skip and beanbag race, our 1st place winners were William, Adam B, Keira and Chloe.

Overall, we all had great fun but Portland was the winning house team.

In other news, we were finishing our topic on Vikings by learning about the Gods and Goddesses. In maths, we have been learning about fractions. We played some good games on Topmarks. At assembly RJ got star worker for great knowledge and questions at the pharmacy trip.

Our new topic is minibeasts. We can’t to learn all about them!

This week in P6 we have been very active preparing for Sports Day 2019.We did the sack race which was very hard! The techniques we learned was The Bunny Hop and Jogging . Most of us preferred the bunny hop because we could go a further distance. On Friday we had the a talk on puberty and how our bodies  change from child to adult. It was very interesting to learn. Most of us thought that it was important to learn so we know in later life.

We had fun doing different activities for our topic this week! Here our some of our activities and things we

made:

On Thursday,  Speech and Language came into our class to deliver Buddy training to all P6s.   We learned how to  to communicate with wee ones by using  the OWL technique (observe, wait, listen) and the type of words and phrases we should use.  We enjoyed playing the warm up games and learning new skills.

As part of our Europe topic, we have been using Microsoft Publisher to create a tourist information leaflet on a European city, landmark or tourist attraction.  We learned how to access and retrieve information and how to create and modify text and images.

On Thursday 16th May, P6 went to New Farm Community Centre to take part in Danger Detectives.  It started off with a presentation from the Fire Service about fire safety in the home. Then an officer from Police Scotland showed us a clip about internet safety.

Next we were split up into groups and taken round the different workshops and scenarios.  These included Hazard House, Road Safety and Scottish Outdoor Access Code.  Our job was to find and identify the dangers and hazards and how to prevent accidents.  We enjoyed the hands-on activities and answering all the questions.

Today, as a follow up, we made posters to share our learning with the rest of the school.