Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

We have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians and have been learning about the importance of the River Nile. We learned that the Egyptians used something called a shaduf to lift water from the Nile to water their crops. In teams we used material available in our classroom to problem solve and build our own working shaduf.

P6 have been very busy over the past two weeks.  We were invited to be Taste Testers for East Ayrshire school meals chefs.  We were the first to try out new recipes and dishes which might be included in our school lunch menus. The crispy salmon bites went down a treat!

We have also started our new topic on Europe.  So far we have been using maps and atlases to locate and identify the different countries that make up the continent.  We also made European flags for our display.  Today, Julia led the learning and invited the class to choose a European tourist attraction and produce a line drawing of it.  We hope to finish our drawings next week.

Multiplication

This week we learned about multiplication. We found out that the symbol is an x and it means ‘lots of’. We used arrays and  repeated addition to find the answers to our calculations.

We looked at multiplying by 2 and discovered it was just the same as doubles, We also investigated multiplying by 5 and 10.

Vikings

As part of our Viking topic we have been learning a lot about Viking houses. We know what materials they used to build them and what they looked like inside – they were very different to our houses! We worked in pairs to design the inside and outside and made our own Viking houses.

We also learned about Viking gods like Thor, Loki, Odin and more!

This week P5/4 have been writing our own fantasy stories using Charlie and the chocolate factory for inspiration. We can make new links 3, 6, 9 times tables to find 1/2 and 1/3 of a number. We are also excited about learning about ‘The Egyptians.’

This week we started our new Social Studies topic on Europe.  We looked at the position of Europe on a world map and compared its size with the other continents.  Then we located some of the countries in Europe.  A few pupils could identify Italy, UK and France from the shape of their outline.

We have also been practising for the Sports Championships which begin on Monday.  Good luck to all P6s and P7s.