Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Good morning hope you had a lovely weekend. Last week in the gym the children worked very hard in gymnastics and loved and were very proud to model their sequences.  On Friday we also had ball skills and really enjoyed playing a game of football. Please can you send your child with shorts and gym shoes next week on both Thursday and Friday plus remove any earrings or jewellery too, this will be a great help. Thank you.

In literacy last week we were learning about the letter jJ and made jelly then drew and wrote some instructions about how we did this. This week we are exploring the phoneme vV and will have a Vet’s Surgery in our home corner. We will also be peeling and chopping then make vegetable sculptures or faces with to reinforce the v sound. We plan also to have a café and takeaway menu in class as well. Through various play activities the children are working hard to develop decoding skills  and some 4 letter words. I hope you are now beginning to notice the development in your child’s reading and that they are becoming more confident at deciphering 3 /4 letter words. Please could you support your children to with their reading comprehension and this can be addressed using the questions at the back of their reading book. Now that the children have a better understanding of decoding words they don’t know we are now trying to develop confidence and fluency. The children enjoy being word detectives skimming and scanning for words using finger torches in class perhaps you could try something similar with your child’s own books.

In maths, we will shortly be looking at subtraction and counting back however please continue to find opportunities at home for adding number spotting and identifying odd and even numbers.

I have added some new activities on Education City for both language and maths.

For health and wellbeing, we are will soon be completing our work on medicines and develop further skills in sharing, caring and development of good social skills using a programme of work called ‘Cool in school’. This will also involve role play and typical scenarios.

Thanks again for supporting your children with their homework this week it is a maths challenge along with reading and comprehension.

Mrs Carey

Happy Monday everyone,

Primary 6 have been busy over the past two weeks on a range of lessons and activities.

In Numeracy & Maths, the focus has been on decimals. We have been doing lots of learning with Mrs MacLeod finding out the link between decimals and fractions, using number lines and recording place value of tenths and hundredths.

In Literacy, the spelling focus was words with the phoneme ‘ear’ .  We have been continuing our class novel ‘The Demon Headmaster’. We are enjoying reading the chapters together and independently. For writing we have created diary extracts and character profiles.

We are thoroughly enjoying our skiing and tubing sessions on Wednesdays.  Everyone is becoming more confident and learning lots of new skills.

In art we were learning to use charcoal and chalk to create a picture to match our character description of the Demon Headmaster.  We have also been making animal masks as part of our Africa topic.

Our Lion King rehearsals are intensifying as we near the show date.  We have learned all the songs, lines and dances are now fine-tuning our performances. We are very excited today as we are heading to the Community Centre to familiarise ourselves with being on stage and have a run through. We will all be playing to the best of our ability.