Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

An East Ayrshire Council School

May 5, 2023
by Ms Wilson
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P6: Week beginning 1st May 2023

What a quick week after the long weekend and another Monday holiday to look forward to.

This week in P6 we have been pushing ahead with our Planets and Space topic. We have learned how the tilt of the Earth causes the seasons to change as the planet orbits the sun. We also looked at the phases of moon and made moon spinners to help us remember the names and order of the phases. Next week we will find out about solar and lunar eclipses.

In Literacy, we used our higher order thinking skills to help us understand the next couple of chapters in our class novel. We also predicted the plot and wrote a character speech as the Demon Headmaster. Our spelling focus was Space topic vocabulary and for listening and talking, we kept up to date with current affairs on Newsround.

This week in Numeracy, we revised key learning for fractions, decimals and percentages. Then we completed an assessment before moving on to our next unit which is Patterns and Sequences.

On Thursday we practised more events for the Sports Championship including the standing high jump and the basketball shoot. After lunch we had our football training session. Everyone put in 100% effort.

Today we are taking part in some activities to mark the up and coming Coronation of Charles lll. These include invitation writing, collage art and reading for research. We’ll continue with more coronation activities on Tuesday.

Enjoy the long weekend.

April 28, 2023
by Mrs Barclay
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P4P – Week beginning 24th April

Good morning!

We’ve had another busy week in P4 and everyone has been working hard. Here’s a peek at what we’ve been up to in class:

In Literacy we introduced our new spelling rule this week with ‘g’ making the ‘j’ sound. Many of us were able to give great examples of words that follow this rule. Your continued support with spelling homework would be most appreciated. In reading, we have been focussing on developing our inference skills through a range of tasks, from picture and challenge cards to inferring what may be happening in our class novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Nearly everyone was able to successfully infer what characters may have been feeling or doing. We also produced some great posters trying to persuade people to reduce their food waste for Food Waste Day. We had some catchy slogans and interesting facts about food waste as well as different ways people can reduce their impact on the planet. Fingers crossed our campaign helps!

In Maths we have been exploring fractions and their place on a number line. We started off being able to count in halves and find the missing numbers on number lines and then progressing to finding out how to display fractions on a number line. We found that we count the number of equal pieces the number is split into tells us what fraction we are counting in. The pupils were excellent at using their new skills to answer the true or false quiz!

In other areas we have been beginning to unpick our new topic of Ancient Egypt. We discovered Egypt is on the continent of Africa and were able to plot significant parts of the country on a map including the Pyramids and the River Nile. We also found out that the River Nile was a valuable resource for the Egyptians. We have also used our ICT skills to type up our persuasive letters from before the Easter holidays. We learned how to change the font and size of our writing as well as being able to save the document on our One Drives.

 

Thank you for all your hard work and have a fantastic long weekend!

See you Tuesday

Mrs Barclay x

 

April 28, 2023
by Miss Baillie
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Primary 1 – week beginning 24th April

Hello Primary 1 🙂

I hope you all had a fantastic week. We have been working very hard this week and for a snapshot of what we have been learning please click the image below.

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Have a wonderful weekend,

Miss Baillie

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