Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Good morning, it’s been another week of gorgeous weather and what a busy week it’s been here a peek at what we’ve been up to:

In Literacy,  we have been continuing to develop our comprehension skills through answering find it, prove it, talk about it questions about our reading books. Our focus in writing this week was on explanation texts. We linked our writing to our topic and wrote an explanation on the process of mummification. Pupils had remembered lots of details about how and why the process took place and once finished we are hoping to share our writing and explain the process to another class.

In Numeracy, we have been rounding off our knowledge on fractions and will be sitting our assessment today. Pupils have made great progress and have been using their knowledge of fact families and bar models to support them in finding tenths and fifths of a number. We got very creative showing where tenths and fifths go on a number line. Using items from around the class, some used lego, playdoh and megabloks. While some drew colourful number line and one group took a very active approach doing star jumps. We were all exhausted!

In other areas, our outdoor learning focus was if our school was an island, could we survive? Pupils from both P4’s worked very hard and we had some excellent shelters, colourful menus made from things found in the grounds and inspiring ways to find/collect water. Our main topic this week was done using a jigsaw learning activity. In their groups, pupils became experts on a different aspect of Ancient Egypt using a variety of skills including researching, note-taking and teamwork. They then became the teachers for the afternoon and taught the rest of the class about their area of expertise. Great teamwork and fun had by all!

Enjoy the sunshine and have a lovely weekend. Thank you all for working really hard despite the hot weather!!

Mrs Barclay x

Hello Primary 1 🙂 ,

Can you believe we are reaching the end of the school year. Only 3 more weeks to go! Click the image below for a look at what we have been up to.

Primary 1 – week beginning 5th June

We have completed all of our sounds in the alphabet and have been working very hard this week to consolidate our learning, do assessments and practice blending. Our sound knowledge is very …

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Have a wonderful, sunny weekend everyone 🙂

Miss Baillie

Happy Friday Everyone,

It’s been a busy week in P4S where we began the week with our Outdoor Learning Lesson working out how to survive if our school were an island. There were some very interesting menus put together and some super ideas about how (and where) to find/collect water.

In Numeracy, we have been learning about Fractions and the names of the top and bottom numbers of a fraction.  We looked at tenths and used our knowledge of the numerator and denominator to calculate tenths of a number.

In Literacy, P4S wrote Non Chronological Reports about Ancient Egypt, to share their learning of the topic and use that information to decorate and complete a 3D Pyramid filled with very interesting facts.

Our ICT coding lessons continue with the use of the BBC Micro:Bits which are little devices which can be coded to display pictures and messages.  Hopefully they will all be working properly next time (for we had a few hiccups this week with one or two of them).

Of course, our Big News this week was our LEGO Event which many of you will have attended.  Pupils were so happy to be able to share their learning with you about their LEGO Adventure.

As the weekend approaches, may I wish you all a safe and happy time.  Do take care in the sun,

Best wishes,

from,

Miss Steedman

Good morning! What a lovely, sunny week we’ve had; Summer is well and truly on it’s way! Here’s a wee update on what we’ve got up to this week:

In literacy, we have almost finished our class novel and will be rounding it up by the beginning of next week. “The Last Wolf” has been a challenging novel but the pupils have worked hard to develop their vocabulary and comprehension skills. We have had a focus on creative writing and this week explored how to effectively describe settings. We used a technique called slow writing for this, and will next week be put to the test to write an extended creative piece that focuses on all of the skills we have been using.

In maths, we have continued working on division and the pupils have been making good progress. Keep practicing your tables at home as this will help you! This week we have focused on the standard written method of division and will continue to practice this next week. We also revisited place value but extended our knowledge by investigating decimals. Ask the pupils about tenths and hundredths and how to partition decimal numbers!

In other areas, we have completed our Scottish Wars of Independence topic with a Blooket quiz and by showing our amazing projects!! Well done to everyone who took the time to complete your homework project and bring it in, they were fabulous! We have also chosen a mini topic and worked together to plan it- we will keep this a secret as we might be able to share our learning in a slightly different way! Yesterday we enjoyed an afternoon in the sunshine and took time to really enjoy one of the last weeks of P5.

I can’t believe we’re nearly at the end of session 22/23!! I’m sure the next few weeks will be filled with sunshine and good fun. Have a lovely weekend!

-Mrs McDonald x