Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

This has been a very busy week with lots happening.  The children enjoyed having family members in class and sharing some of their learning. It has been a great experience and hopefully informative and helpful at providing an insight into some of our approaches in literacy and maths.

In literacy this week we have been learning about the letter wW and using construction and role play to re-tell the story of Sleeping Beauty. This is something we are developing across the curriculum through the aid of Bitz and Bob and Princess Purl who just like Sleeping Beauty had a spell cast upon her to make her sleep. The only way that she could be woken up was by ringing a very large bell which had to be winched up on a pulley in order to make it ring and awaken Princess Purl. Next week we are planning to make a pulley and test it. In addition, we will have our takeaway menu in our home corner. As you can see our play activities are helping  to develop decoding skills and some 4 letter words. We will also use syllables and decoding skills to look at more complex words through our Rising Stars reading books. I hope to shortly provide you with online access to reading books from this scheme. Thanks for your support with reading and helping your child to gain confidence and fluency. Your children may have shown you how we use finger torches in class to find our key phonemes and key words each week.

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 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 fun being Doctors and Nurses looking after the dolls in class writing prescriptions taking care of medicines in role play alongside  sharing, caring and development of good social skills.

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

Wishing you a lovely relaxing week ahead.

Mrs Carey