Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

An East Ayrshire Council School

March 17, 2023
by EAjoanne.mair2@glow
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PARENT COUNCIL MINUTES – 6TH MARCH 2023

PARENT COUNCIL MEETING

Monday 6th March 2023
 

PARENT COUNCIL MEETING  (6.30 – 7.30)

 

ATTENDING: APOLOGIES:
Gillian Campbell (HT) Nicola Hamilton Grant
Joanne Mair (DHT) Ian Cairns (Treasurer)
Ariana Thompson Sarah
Cheryl Hamilton (Chair) Louise Moodie
Karen Mair (Vice Chair) Lauren McClung
Lyndsay McDonald
Tracy Crawford
Lorna Horne
Lorraine Crawford
Erin Blair
Scott Cairns
Donna Bircham
Natalie
Amy

 

 

Head Teacher welcomed everyone to the meeting.

 
TREASURER REPORT

 
No update
HEAD TEACHER REPORT

 
Shared on Glow via the newsletter
Improvement plan – looking to create an outdoor area for reading.

Family learning has been well attended

We had a good response from the recent parent questionnaire – lots of positive feedback.  It has been decided we will continue with the staggered start/finish times as 68 opted to continue as opposed to 23 who said no.

Mission to the moon has commenced. Pupils have already walked the distance from Hurlford – Edinburgh, Edinburgh – London and London – Paris.

An artist was in school today to help create the set for The Lion King show

Red Nose Day – Friday 17th March.  This year’s theme is Dress for Joy – pupils can wear something which makes them happy.  A £1 donation can be made through ParentPay.

The new school app will be launching at the end of March.  Parents and pupils will be invited to join.

We are looking to plant some seeds before the Easter holidays and have a wish list from Mrs Miller, including packets of seeds, plant shelter and seed trays.  Mrs Miller to purchase what is needed and will be reimbursed.

 
CHAIR REPORT

 
Lion King show – Friday 10th March, 3.30pm-4.30pm and 7pm-9pm.  Booker run was done.  Helpers on the day will be CH and KM for the afternoon performance doors open at 3pm. AT and TC for the evening performance doors open at 6.30pm. LC will pick up 2 boxes of chocolates for prizes for the lucky programme.

Spring Disco – Thursday 30th March. Tickets will go on sale after the Lion King show.  We need 2 members to take ticket money each morning from 9am – 9.15am also need to arrange Booker run and helpers for both discos.

ECC-P3: 6.15pm – 7.15pm and P4-P7: 7.30pm-8.30pm.

Hurlford’s Got Talent – Friday 16th June, 6pm-9.30pm – KM to arrange let form from the community centre.  Auditions will take place on Thursday 11th May. We need 4 judges starting from 9.15am – still to be arranged.

Looking to buy all children in the school and ECC an easter egg again this year.  JM and GC both agreed this is a good idea.  We would need 250 eggs.  JM will confirm the number of children with allergies and we will organise something different for those children.  LC to contact Gillian Glancy at Asda to arrange.

 
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
LC asked if the PC would support the ECC garden project – supply paint, paint brushes and other gardening supplies.  It was agreed this could be done.  LC to speak to IC and Maria in the ECC.

JM said the school would also appreciate some paint for the outdoor reading area.

GC looking for ideas to celebrate the upcoming King’s coronation.  Discuss with the teachers and will come back if they need any support from the PC

It was suggested that the next meeting could be in person as this will be the last meeting until September, possibly in The Thistle.

 
NEXT MEETING: MONDAY 15th MAY

ALL WELCOME!

 

March 17, 2023
by Miss Baillie
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Primary 1 – Week beginning 13th March 2023

Hello Primary 1 😀

Another super busy week in Primary 1 this week. I hope you have all had a fabulous week. Apologies SWAY is not working this week so I will upload pictures from this week in next weeks blog.

This week we were learning about the sound “u.” We joined in with the jolly phonics song and practiced the sound while doing the action of putting up an umbrella. We painted umbrellas this week and built up towers as well as practicing our formation of the letter.

We have also been practicing our adding skills and have been working hard to learn strategies to help us add such as counting on.

This week, we were learning about Vets and how they can help us take care of our pets. We learned what they do in their job and got to role play being a vet and taking care of all of the sick animals in the class.

We had Red Nose Day today and we made Red Nose characters using jam cream biscuits with jam in the the middle as the nose. They all looked fab. We also did a fantastic piece of writing about our red nose characters and what they were up to. The whole school took part in an obstacle course for Red Nose Day and we had a brilliant time doing this (luckily before the rain started).

REMINDER for reading books (for those that have one) if they could be read as often as possible to give the class more exposure to blending CVC words and their common words. There are helpful tips inside the front and back covers for how to read with your child. Please remember to put the books back in their bag every day as we need them in class. Thank you for your support with homework and reading, it is really appreciated as I know home lives are very busy.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Baillie

March 17, 2023
by Mrs Barclay
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P4F Weekly Blog w.b 13.3.23

Good morning, we have put our creativity to the test week with a range of challenges! Here’s what we’ve been up to:

In Literacy, following on as part of challenge week we were using the power of persuasive language to help us create an advert for the chocolate bars we created. We used appealing language to try and entice customers to buy our bars. Pupils were also tasked with coming up with a catchy slogan to catch customer’s attention. Some of us struggled with this aspect, but came up with some amazing ideas to bring their adverts to life through drama and music with one advert having their chocolate bar exploding to mimic its taste explosion flavour!

In Numeracy, we have been working hard on recall our multiplication facts of the 2,4,5,8 and 10x tables as well as moving onto the concept of division. We are trying various strategies to see which one works best for us to help us solve calculations. We have dipped our toes into looking at bar models and the majority of pupils really liked this method when trying to solve division sentences. We have also been using our knowledge of fact families to help us.

In other areas, yesterday we looked at the journey of chocolate and how it starts as a cacao pods months and even years before it gets to be the bar of chocolate you buy in the shops. We looked at how our choice to buy Fairtrade products can have an impact. Following on we then created posters to display what we had learned about the journey of chocolate.

We put our imaginations to the test when we designed rocket launchers with Mrs Ferguson during our STEM time. Pupils had great fun and worked really hard to create their rocket launcher using different materials.

It’s Red Nose Day today and we are wearing things that bring us joy! We’re looking forward to our obstacle course outside (fingers crossed it stays dry!).

Have a lovely weekend

Mrs Barclay and Mrs Ferguson x

March 17, 2023
by Miss Steedman
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P4S W.C. 13.3.23

Happy Friday Everyone,

Last week, our classroom was a hive of activity when we were designing and advertising our chocolate bars, even composing the odd musical tune to accompany our adverts.  Filming took place on Friday and we had a screening on Tuesday this week of all the amazing efforts across the whole of P4. Sadly, the adverts are too large to upload onto this week’s Blog (I had said last week that, if Technology was willing, I would be able to share the adverts with you but the file sizes are just too big, apologies).  Children had a wonderful time creating their masterpieces and we had a short awards ceremony on Wednesday to award a Best Actor/Actress, Best Soundtrack and Best Advert.

Our Writing lesson this week involved a recount of the different activities which we took part in last week.  It was interesting to read what had been remembered and also to read about how much enjoyment (or not) pupils took from the exercise.  On the whole, it seems that Challenge Week was a popular choice.

In Numeracy this week, we have been taking our learning of division much further and looking at Remainders, which is not an easy concept.  We are taking our learning slowly, using different strategies and concrete materials to help us.

Our Classroom Reading Corner is taking shape with our colourful sign now proudly displayed and some comfy cushions donated to us by Miss Mair.  Thank you Miss Mair.

Have a wonderful weekend Everyone,

From,

Miss Steedman

March 17, 2023
by Miss Frew
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P5 Week Beginning 13.3.23

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Good morning and Happy Friday!

Here is an update on what we’ve been up to this week in P5:

In literacy, we have been exploring inference for reading and have realised that sometimes authors can use clues to create an image in the readers mind without having to say it outright. We enjoyed investigating a carousel of items and having to infer who might own them by the clues. We then had to read passages of text and infer where the setting was. For writing this week, we linked it with our learning about Fairtrade coffee and wrote instructions on how to make a good cup of coffee. Maybe the pupils could put this to the test at home!?

In maths, we have begun to look at multiplication and the pupils were fantastic at recalling their knowledge of the 2, 4, 5 and 10 times tables this week. We learned how to play Around the World to challenge each other and also enjoyed a few games of Fizz Buzz. We will be continuing to learn our times tables for the rest of the term so please practice at home!

In other areas, we have been continuing to learn about Fairtrade and the countries that produce coffee. In pairs, we had to research the coffee countries by finding them on a map, plotting the capital cities and finding out the population of that country. The pupils were able to utilise their skills in ICT as well as map reading to be successful in this task. We also attempted to “paint with coffee” to create a picture of a landscape. This was good fun and our classroom smelled of coffee for days!

 

Have a lovely weekend!

-Mrs McDonald x

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March 17, 2023
by Ms Wilson
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P6: week beginning 13th March 2023

It’s Friday, it’s Red Nose Day!

What a busy, full on week. Here’s a day by day review of what Primary 6 have been doing.

Mon : For literacy we we working with a learning partner to plan a short talk on a chosen topic. Our spelling focus was words with the suffix _tion, as in production. In Numeracy, we were revising how to record fractions as decimals and looking at mixed numbers. In the afternoon we did a topic review and finished off our African animal art.

Tue: Our Numeracy focus was multiplying and dividing decimals by 10 and 100. We used place value boards and learned how to move the digits to the left or right. Mrs Ferguson took us for an exciting STEM lesson all about air propelled paper rockets. We also started our new topic on Planets and Space.

Wed: It was our second last skiing and tubing session and we had great fun. In the afternoon we continued our Primary Engineer tasks with Miss Gibson and enjoyed our outdoor WOW activities.

Thu: In the morning we read the next chapter of our class novel and wrote a summary. We continued our work on decimals and learned some French vocabulary for breakfast and lunch foods. For our Space topic, we discussed the big bang theory and drew how we imagined it would look like.

Fri: Today is Comic Relief day and we’re looking forward to participating in lots of activities from obstacle courses to comical collages. We hope we raise lots of money for this worthy cause.

Have a great weekend everyone.

March 17, 2023
by Mrs Carey
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Friday 17th March

Good morning,

Primary 2 have had a very busy week and performed lots of problem solving activities. Across the curriculum we have used the context of the story  ‘Goldlilocks and the 3 bears. This has provided us with lots of opportunities for learning this week and will continue next week too. We explored the story and the characters and then wrote about it. We complied group accounts of the story too. Alongside this we have used the story as an opportunity to do volume by filling bowls with rice, peas and pasta to compare how many cups of each item it took to fill bowls. We varied the cup size to see the effect upon the number of cups required to fill the bowls. The children also had to use construction to make beds for the characters which involved large brick construction and Lego small brick construction.

In language our phoneme this week is xX and we examined the 2 sounds that it can make as its name in x-ray and at the end of words like box making sound ks. Again we used boxes to problem solve and reinforce this sound.

In maths we have been counting on and back and looking at concrete materials to assist with subtraction calculations. As well as more complex addition of adding 3 numbers.

We are looking forward to our Red Nose Day obstacle course.

I hope you enjoy our sway below and have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Carey

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March 16, 2023
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7 – 16th March 2023

The P7 pupils have been as busy as ever over the last few weeks, here’s a round-up of what’s been going on.

Literacy & English

Reading and writing has had a focus on non-fiction texts. We have studied explanation texts and reports and followed up by writing our own.  This has also linked into our topic on China with last week’s writing about how kites (which are thought to have originated from China) fly.

I.D.L

More interdisciplinary  learning followed with the class working in groups to make their own kites with dragon themed designs.  There was some excellent team work going on with good talking and listening skills being applied.

Art has also been inspired by China and the beautiful cherry blossoms that you can find there.  We used mixed media to create cherry blossom scrolls: blended pastel backgrounds, ink blown branches and tissue paper blossoms which look amazing on our classroom wall.


Numeracy & Mathematics

This week we have been revising our knowledge of what fractions are and using multiplication and division to find equivalent fractions.

S.T.E.M

Over the last few weeks Miss Gibson has been working with the class on the ‘If I were an engineer…’ project where pupils have had to identify a problem and invent something to help solve it. This week they are writing letters to an engineer to explain their designs. There have been a wide range of creative and interesting ideas put forward by our pupils.

Looking back a couple of weeks, the class were challenged to design and build an earthquake proof structure, having read and written about this type of natural disaster as part of literacy. Materials were limited to 20 straws, a base plate and 1m of tape per group.  The class rose to the challenge and tried their best.  We tested the structures at the end and thought about what worked best or could be improved.

John Muir Award

We have been making bird feeders and planting seeds as part of the conservation element of the award. We used apples and sunflower seeds to make feeders for the playground; hopefully this has helped the birds over the last wee cold snap.

We have planted beetroot, chives, courgette and broccoli seeds and have been keeping the warm and watered beside the window in our classroom.


Next week is the start of ‘Food Fortnight’ and we will also look at Fairtrade.

Homework projects on a Chinese tourist attraction are due in on Wednesday. I can’t wait to see what everyone has been working on!

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