Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Well today is the last day of Term 1 and the class have continued to work exceptionally well this week.  The class wanted you to know a few things about our learning this week.  They are:

Skiing – a huge hit as always!!! It is definitely not easy BUT the skills they are learning and how much they have learned is incredible and are sure to help develop their other sports and be better at them!!  Tubing is crazy and fun.  The slope was very fast due to the amount of rain. We only have 3 more weeks left after the October week! By Josh

Maths – step division. Bus Stop sums… long division.  It was easier as they did more work and had more practice!  The needed to check that the number they were dividing was in that times table so there were no remainders. By Josh

Topic – So I wanted to tell you about the work being completed on Forces and Friction.  I wanted to say about low and high friction and some examples of them.  Rough surfaces can be high friction because it will slow you down and low friction is when it speeds you up.  So that would mean a wet surface or a slippery surface you would have low friction.  The opposite is a rough or a bumpy surface which would give you high friction.  By Logan G

Writing – We did a story for our fab files.  It had to be really detailed and quite long because it was the first story of P6 and was being kept in our files.  It was our own choice to write about anything you wanted.  We also did a reading task.  We read the passage twice and then answered questions about the passage.  The easy part was reading it and the hardest part was thinking it through questions. BY Amber.

Have a lovely holiday everyone.

Mrs Fx

Term 1 has flown by in P7.  Everyone has worked hard and we’ve had lots of fun along the way! Here is a round-up of what we’ve been up to.

Maths & Numeracy:

-we have developed understanding of place value up to and beyond a million.

-we have used rounding to estimate answers to calculations and looked  at rounding decimals.

– telling the time has been revised and we have been practising how to calculate time durations.

Literacy

-Our novel study has been ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo and we will complete this after October break.

-In writing, we have learned about similes, metaphors and personification and used them to write descriptively.

Learning Across the Curriculum

Here are some photos showing some of our Science, RME and food technology work.

We really enjoyed our 3 way times table work.  We really liked learning new skills in numeracy.  We also looked at ‘smile’ multiplication and Aalayha felt it as easy to understand.  We were doing vertical multiplication and it was good because we could do loads of times table sums.

The spelling test was fun on Friday after Assembly.  Darren says he likes to be challenged and tested on things he has learnt in class.  The words this week were Autumn themed and some of us really liked this.  Actually, most of the children said they liked to be challenged with their test.  One task we used to get a deeper learning to our words was to complete a dictionary challenge.  A lot of us liked to do that.

In skiing we like to learn new skills in sports we haven’t tried before. This was the 6th week of skiing and everyone has done so well.  Some people are working on stopping effectively and some people can now turn.  Skylar was super impressed that she only fell once and she is making huge improvements – more than she thought she could do!

In IDL we were investigating shoe grips. We had a bit of paper and we had a shoe, we used a pastel to rub on the sole of the shoe so that you made a print.  This print told us who had the highest friction and who had the least amount of friction on their shoes.  If you had more friction we wouldn’t slip and it would be stickier on the ground.  Matthew thought it was cool to see who had the most grip on their shoe.

Today for our HWB – we made a poster about Friendships. Previously in Circle Time we had chatted about changing friendships – maybe we had moved or stopped a club.  Our poster was to show how to: mend a friendship, build a new relationship and/or what to do if you are growing apart. Caden thought making the poster was fun because he likes doing Art.

In STEM the week before was made compasses out of magnetising a paper clip and floating it on a leaf in a bowl of water.  All of our groups were successful.  Then we dismantled our compass, went outside, rebuilt them and tried to find north again.  We were all super at this.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 1 week to go before our holidays!