Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

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

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.

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

Friday 17th March – P2

We have been exploring the sound x and as you can see we have been making words that end with the sound x making ks. We have also made boxes with construction and set a provocation. Our pro…

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Its Red Nose Day!

Have a look at the Sway to see what P3 have been up to this week.

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Happy Red Nose Day 🙂

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