Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

February 20, 2023
by Ms Wilson
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P6: week beginning 13.02.23 and 06.02.23

Happy Monday everyone,

Primary 6 have been busy over the past two weeks on a range of lessons and activities.

In Numeracy & Maths, the focus has been on decimals. We have been doing lots of learning with Mrs MacLeod finding out the link between decimals and fractions, using number lines and recording place value of tenths and hundredths.

In Literacy, the spelling focus was words with the phoneme ‘ear’ . We have been continuing our class novel ‘The Demon Headmaster’. We are enjoying reading the chapters together and independently. For writing we have created diary extracts and character profiles.

We are thoroughly enjoying our skiing and tubing sessions on Wednesdays. Everyone is becoming more confident and learning lots of new skills.

In art we were learning to use charcoal and chalk to create a picture to match our character description of the Demon Headmaster. We have also been making animal masks as part of our Africa topic.

Our Lion King rehearsals are intensifying as we near the show date. We have learned all the songs, lines and dances are now fine-tuning our performances. We are very excited today as we are heading to the Community Centre to familiarise ourselves with being on stage and have a run through. We will all be playing to the best of our ability.

February 20, 2023
by Miss Steedman
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20.2.23 P4S Weekly Class Blog

Good Morning Everyone,

Welcome to Monday! A new week!

Over the last couple of weeks (before and after our mid-term break), P4S have been very busy indeed.

In Numeracy, we began to learn about the concept of Division using language such as ‘share equally’, ‘equal groups of’ and also ‘array’ strategies to help us. We learned about how Division is the opposite of multiplication and how knowing this can help us to build Fact Families. Division is a tricky concept for us all so we are taking small steps so that we can understand the basics to begin with and knowing our Multiplication facts has really helped us so far.

In Literacy, we continued to read our new Class Novel – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl. We met some new characters who are the lucky finders of some of Mr Wonka’s Golden Tickets and began to look at the personalities of these children. Grandma Josephine was certainly not too impressed. 🙂

Our IDL topic this term is Chocolate and Fairtrade where we have so far been learning about where chocolate comes from and how it is made. Who knew that chocolate comes from the seeds of Cacao tree pods and that Cacao trees only grow in very hot countries close to the Equator?

In our Classroom, we now have a cosy Reading Corner which we are making the most of and which we have started to decorate. It will be most colourful when we have finished.