Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Good morning everyone!

I hope you all had a great holiday and we’re off to great start for the last term of Primary 4. Here’s a peak at what we’ve been up to:

In Maths we have been starting to look our new focus of fractions. We have done some revision on what fractions are and tested our prior knowledge on halves and quarters. We have found that fractions is linked to our multiplication and division knowledge and so continuing to practice our times tables in class and at home is important!

In Literacy we have been continuing our novel from last term “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and developing our metalinguistics skills and how we can find the meaning of new or unfamiliar words. Yesterday we got our hands dirty and planted our sweetcorn seeds, which provided a focus for our instruction writing. Everyone worked really hard to provide extra details to make sure their instructions were easy to understand.

In other areas, we have found out our new topic is going be the Egyptians! Everyone was really interested in different areas of the topic including finding out how they built the pyramids, what their daily life was like and how they made mummies. Now everyone has had a chance to say what they would like to learn about, we hope to dive in next week. We have also set ourselves some good targets to achieve this term, I’m sure we can do it!

For Outdoor learning we took part in the Mission to Moon competition and joined forces with P4S to design and build a rocket out of natural materials found outside. Pupils gathered sticks, grass and rocks and used their critical skills to help them create their designs. Great job and fabulous fun!

We’re off to a great start, can’t wait for the rest of term!

Have a great weekend

Mrs Barclay x

Welcome back to Term 4!
I hope everyone had a lovely Easter holiday and you’re ready for the last term of P5, can you believe it!?

This week has been all about settling back in and having a fresh start, which means new topics, new class novel and new challenges! Here’s a summary of our week:

In maths, we have been continuing our learning on times tables. So far we have covered the 2, 4, 5, 10 and 3 times tables. Please continue playing games to practice these at home this will help with the work in class! We also began to investigate compass points and directions and enjoyed using our knowledge to locate places on a map of Scotland.

In literacy, we started our new novel by Michael Morpurgo called “The Last Wolf”. We used the cover and blurb to make predictions about the book and read chapter 1. We discovered that part of the story is set in the Highlands of Scotland and are intrigued by the mysterious setting! Chapter 1 also mentioned family trees which the pupils found interesting. I wonder what will happen next!? This week we enjoyed doing some free writing to explore our creativity. The pupils love doing free writing as it allows them the chance to put their learning into practice but using their own ideas.

In other areas, we started our topic about “The Scottish Wars of Independence.” We asked our Big Questions and then used maps to investigate significant places for our topic. We also explored timelines and created a timeline of significant events. This week we also learned about the composer Rachmaninoff and discussed his style of music. We have also been finding out about the Eat Well guide and looking at the different food groups in our diets.

The sun has been shining and we’ve had a lovely first week back. Hope you all have a super weekend!

-Mrs McDonald x

Happy Friday Everyone,

I hope that all is well and that you are looking forward to the Easter Holiday.

This week in P4S we have been learning about Easter and Holy Week, the week running up to Easter Sunday.  Pupils have had an added interest in the story of Easter because some of the class were involved in yesterday’s Easter Assembly.  Children put together the story in a sequencing activity which was trickier than they thought it would be but everyone did really well to complete the task.

In Numeracy this week, we have continued our learning about Data Handling which involved creating our very own surveys and asking pupils from around the school what their thoughts were on different topics such as favourite desserts, colours and shops to name a few. Pupils have been able to put the data in to Tally Charts and Bar Graphs and some Pictographs were also created.

Our Writing lesson involved Persuasive Writing and why it is important to use the Green Cross Code to stay safe whilst crossing the road. There were some very interesting pieces of writing this week which had very convincing arguments.

Yesterday, everyone made a 3-D Easter Hen and went home with a shiny egg inside it.  Sadly, I was so busy helping with Sellotape and staples that I didn’t have an extra pair of hands to take photos.  I’m sure though, that the finished articles when brought home gave you a good idea of the fun we had creating the models.

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a lovely and peaceful Easter,

Best wishes,

Miss Steedman