Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Happy Friday! We’re nearly at the end of term, it’s flown by!

We’ve had another busy week in P4F, here’s a peek at our week:

In Literacy, we have been continuing our work on our class novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and building upon our comprehension strategy skills. We used a variety of skills to complete some easter literacy challenges with Mrs Ferguson including rearranging word patterns and putting words into alphabetical order.

For Numeracy, we have continued to explore the concept of division and using different strategies to help us (number lines were popular!). We are looking at how to solve word problems and strengthening our knowledge of fact families which should help us with our assessment next week. We have also been looking at time and are becoming more confident in telling the time.

For RME we have been looking at the story of Easter and yesterday decorated some boiled eggs that represent the stones being rolled away from the opening of the tomb. Pupils had great fun and were creative with their designs!

In IDL, the class looked at the journey of chocolate and how far the cocoa beans have to travel before they are made into the chocolate bars we know and love. The class were then able to create a poster demonstrating what they had learned. We hope to finish them today. We also put our art skills to the test and created some colourful mugs filled with hot chocolate using chalk pastels. YUM!

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Barclay and Mrs Ferguson x

It’s almost the Easter holidays!

We have all worked so hard this term and are looking forward to a relaxing break. Here is what P5 got up to his week:

In literacy, we have focused on inference and making our own inferential questions. This has been challenging but we have worked really hard to improve our understanding. We also have been developing our cursive handwriting and are making good progress.

In maths, we have been continuing to learn our tables and have been working on the written method of multiplication. We all demonstrated our ability to multiply 2/3 digit numbers by 10, 100 and 1000 and know the rule to help us. We will continue building on our understanding of multiplication next week.

In other areas, we performed at both Dance Fest and Scottish Opera this week and had a fabulous time! We are all really proud of our pupils hard work and determination and I’m sure you will agree that it all paid off! We also discussed internet safety this week and have been investigating how to keep ourselves safe online.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

-Mrs McDonald x

Happy Friday Everyone,

It’s been another busy week in P4S where we have been completing multiplication and division assessments in Numeracy, using our strategies to help us.  We have also started to learn about Data Handling and how to gather and display data after taking a survey.  Next week, we will take this further and create our own surveys.  On Thursday, we spent our Numeracy lesson solving different problems which meant we had to think out of the box and work out which of our many amazing Numeracy skills to draw upon.  Some of the puzzles were quite challenging.

We had some fun using chalk to draw warm, cosy mugs of hot chocolate, it was messy but we all had fun and the colourful creations were a delight to behold.

In Literacy we wrote a piece of Persuasive Writing entitled ‘No More Homework’.  There were some interesting reasons and strongly worded opinions showing that the children have very persuasive skills indeed.

In RME we have been learning about the Easter Story and began by looking at What is Lent? and the story of Palm Sunday which we found really interesting.

It’s been a busy week and a relaxing weekend ahead is much needed by all.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Best wishes,

Miss Steedman

Loudoun Easter Programme 2023

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