Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

We have had a brilliant time with the stay and play sessions and hope you have enjoyed them as much as the pupils and staff have – it has been lovely seeing you all back in the school building!

We will soon be issuing letters for P1 – P3 regarding our Fun with Phonics sessions with pupils and staff but wanted to give you dates in advance, as we know some parents may require to request time off work to attend.  Dates are as follows:

Primary 1 – Tuesday 21st Feb from 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Primary 2 – Tuesday 28th Feb from 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Primary 3 – Tuesday 7th March from 2.00pm – 3.00pm

Happy Friday Everyone,

It’s been a busy week in P4S with lots of revision of our multiplication facts and using this knowledge to answer column calculations when multiplying 2 digit numbers by a single digit number. We spent time talking through the strategies to use and how to set the calculations out in our Numeracy jotters.  By sharing our knowledge with each other, by helping each other with our understanding, it means that we were able to follow the strategy step by step where it might before have been a bit confusing.  Most of us agreed that this helped a lot.

This week, we have learned about Chinese New Year and the story of the Chinese Zodiac (where all the different animals were chosen by the Jade Emperor to represent a new year in the Chinese Calendar).  To celebrate, we made colourful Chinese Dragons.

We have also been practising our Scots Verse Poem (Street Talk) and are working on a piece of Robert Burns art which will be displayed outside our classroom soon.

In Literacy, we wrote a letter of complaint which pupils completed in a most polite way and gave very strong arguments for their opinions.

It’s been a busy week, have a lovely weekend,

Best wishes,

Miss Steedman

It’s been a quick couple of weeks back, here’s what Primary 4 have been up to:

In literacy, we have been developing our reading skills using our comprehension strategies. We used task maps this week to provide more choice of which strategy we would be working on each day. Our spelling focus for this week has been on the common spelling rule ‘wa’ as in wall. In writing we have been building our knowledge on description and used our description bubbles to help us describe images on the board, as well as developing an adjective word bank. We hope to use this knowledge next week to help us describe a character.

In numeracy, we have started to look at multiplication. Recapping previous learning from P3, we have started off looking at the 2,5 and 10 times table. Completing various activities to help us recall our prior learning.

In HWB, we have been looking at medicine safety. We had fantastic discussions around who should give us medicine? Why we take it? Where it should be kept? and what we should do it if we find any medicine. We then completed a quiz to demonstrate our learning.

We had great fun in our STEM session with Mrs Ferguson where we were looking at fingerprints and noticing that each print was unique and different.

Hope you have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Barclay x