Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Yesterday we had a real treat when we went to the dress rehearsal of the Lion King at the community centre. The children absolutely loved the performance which was just fabulous. We now all have Hakuna Mutata in our heads along with the Circle of Life.

In literacy this week we have been learning about the letter yY and using construction and role play to build yachts, shared yogurt and even had yaks on our farm! The children have been preparing and writing sentences with more independence.  Our play activities are helping  to develop some tricky words and as part of our homework for next week your child will be writing these tricky words in a pyramid format . As our reading texts become more challenging please encourage your child to break the longer words into syllables to help them decode these more complex words in the Rising Stars reading books.  At the moment we are having difficulty gaining  online access to the reading books from this scheme. Thanks for your support with reading and helping your child to gain confidence and fluency. Your children may try to find our key phonemes at home, in books, or when out an about. Hope you spot some.

In maths, we are learning to count on to find the missing number in our calculations now. and extending our skills in addition.  We are at the moment linking counting on to 20 to counting back from 20 before the introduction of subtraction. We are gradually moving from concrete items to count and add to more abstract resources such as using ten frames and counters. Counting quickly in 2s, 5s and 10s. Please see Education City for some activities to support our class work.

This week for health and wellbeing we will have being exploring the children’s understanding of how to keep safe online. We began this week with a story about a little Penguin that got a tablet for his birthday. This story has highlighted for the children when to alert adults to content or pop ups that appear to seek help in tackling any potential scams and the importance of keeping their identity safe.

Thanks again for supporting your children with their homework tasks and have a good weekend.

Wishing you a lovely relaxing week ahead.

Mrs Carey

Primary 2

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Happy Friday!

Things just keep getting busier in the classroom and around the school and Term 3 has certainly provided us with many learning opportunities.

In literacy, we have been developing our persuasive writing skills and have focused on expanding our ideas and giving strong reasons and evidence to back up our opinions. The pupils have worked hard to include rhetorical questions and persuasive phrases in their writing and are improving on how to use paragraphs. We have also finished our “The Butterfly Lion” novel study, just in time for World Book Day! The pupils said that they loved this book as it was set back in time and they loved that it was animal themed. How will we top that story!?

In maths, we have completed a block of data handling and to demonstrate their learning, pupils made posters of the schools favourite African animal. In teams, P5s created a survey, collected data in a tally table from a specific class and displayed that data in two different ways. All of their information was then displayed on a poster which you may be able to see if you come and see our performance of The Lion King!

In other areas, we’ve had a visit from members of the East Ayrshire Fairtrade group who gave us a talk all about Fairtrade and focused on Fairtrade coffee. We will be continuing to explore this theme next week. It’s been all systems go for our Lion King performance! We have tried on our costumes and our scenery is all ready. The pupils are super excited about next week and I’m sure you will be blown away by their talent, confidence and determination to make this show the best they can.

It’s beginning to feel a bit more spring like, here’s hoping the sun shines over the weekend!

-Mrs McDonald x