Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

February 3, 2023
by Mrs Barclay
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Week Beginning 30.1.23 P4F

Happy Friday and another busy week in Primary 4F, here’s our highlights:

In Literacy, we have been looking at non-fiction texts and their features and how they differ from fiction books. Our reading books were all about Wild Weather and Night Animals which pupils really enjoyed learning some facts about! We had a revision week for spelling, practicing the phonemes we have learned over the last few weeks.

In Numeracy, P4F have been very busy working on our multiplication skills and using different strategies including arrays, repeated addition and equal groups to help us. We created Cityscapes using our knowledge of arrays for the 2, 5 and 10 times tables. Some pupils were able to apply their knowledge of arrays to different tables we’ve not yet looked at which was fantastic! We have also been working time with Mrs Ferguson learning about o’clock and half past the hour.

We started our new IDL topic of Chocolate and Fairtrade this week and begun by looking at the history of chocolate. Pupils has to use their teamwork and problem solving skills to unjumble the timeline created using the key events they had learned about. We had great discussions taking place. I’m excited to see where this topic will take us!

A quick reminder homework is handed out on a Monday to be returned on a Friday. Your support with this is much appreciated and supports the work children are completing in class.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Barclay x

February 3, 2023
by Ms Wilson
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P6: week beginning 30th January 2023

It’s been another busy week and we can’t believe we’re into February already! Here’s what Primary 6 have been learning this week.

In Literacy we were discussing and writing some facts and our opinions about items in the news. For spelling we focused on words with a soft g, as in general. Our writing task was to use evidence in our class novel to write a diary entry for one of the main characters. Our next step is to check, edit and improve our work. We also focused on identifying and using pronouns to avoid repetition in our writing.

For Numeracy this week we revised the key learning in fractions and completed an assessment. We also practised our division strategies and began new work on decimals.

We enjoyed investigating animal camouflage as part of our Africa topic. Did you know there are at least 4 different types of camouflage? Ask us all about them. We applied our knowledge and understanding to create our own camouflage pictures and designs.

Our Lion King rehearsals have been very productive. The singing, dancing and acting skills are amazing and the Production Team has been very busy making scenery and props. Everyone played to the best of their abilities.

Enjoy your weekend!

February 3, 2023
by Miss Frew
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P5 Weekly Blog Week Beginning 20th February 2023

Hello!

It’s nice to be back after the February weekend! Here is an overview of what we have been doing the past few weeks:

In literacy, we have focused on the “oo” phoneme for spelling. We were able to read a phoneme story and identify all of the “oo” words within it. We also practiced our spelling with our common words. We have been developing our vocabulary by using a thesaurus. We learned that words with a similar meaning are called synonyms and we have been using our understanding of this to up-level our sentences. For our writing, we focused on persuasive writing and found it quite a challenge! We wrote a first draft, explored strong examples and identified the features of persuasive writing and then used this to re-draft and improve our own work. This week, we will be writing a persuasive piece trying to convince people to come and see our show, The Lion King!

In maths, we have began a unit of work based on data handling. We began by exploring tally charts and are able to read and write tally marks, knowing what to do when we reach a multiple of 5. We also explored bar graphs and pictograms and will be using our understanding of these to create a poster displaying the school’s favourite African animal.

In other areas, P5 have been developing their digital literacy skills and have been creating a powerpoint all about Africa to showcase our learning. We were all able to choose appropriate designs and fonts and could insert pictures from the internet into our powerpoints. We have been chunking the challenge and have all completed this task well! We have also been learning about the effects that smoking has on our bodies and enjoyed looking at various models to support our learning.

Thank you for your continued support, we have a very busy few weeks coming up! Keep your eyes peeled!

-Mrs McDonald x

February 3, 2023
by Mrs McMillan
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Primary 3 Friday 3rd February

Here are some updates from P3 over the last week. Click on the sway link to see what we’ve been up to.

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February 3, 2023
by Miss Steedman
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w/c 30.1.23 P4S

Happy Friday Everyone,

We have had another busy week in P4S but I also want to mention an activity which we gave over much of last Friday to which was a research project that the children worked very hard to produce amazing results. In pairs, pupils were asked to choose a famous Scottish personality. Then, they used their extraordinary internet research skills to find out all about that person and create a poster with their findings. After that, the children were asked to present their posters. All in a day’s work and a very, very good day it was.

This week, P4S have been equally as busy as last week, revising their multiplication tables knowledge and using this to complete column calculations by multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers by a single digit. Pupils are handling this knowledge superbly and take each new challenge in their stride.

We have also begun our new Class Novel which is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, we have delved into the author’s amazing use of description in the first few chapters which has been inspiring. Linked to this is our new topic – Chocolate and FairTrade – and we have been learning about the History of Chocolate this week too. It’s all very mouth watering stuff!

Have a wonderful weekend Everyone,

Miss Steedman

February 2, 2023
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7 Week beg. 30.01.23

What a quick week it has been in P7!

We have completed our World War 2 topic by learning about VE Day and VJ Day and designing medals of bravery. We also finished listening to the book, ‘Friend or Foe,’ by Michael Morpurgo which is about two evacuees. We enjoyed trying to predict what would happen next.

Everyone did really well with identifying singular and plural words and deciding where to place apostrophes to show possession. This can be tricky, especially when some plural words just add s (e.g cats) and others change (child- children).

We have revised the concept of division and some of us had a go at using numicon to help visualise the calculations. This will be developed further next week.

There were some fantastic writing skills on display when creating a character called The Jar Wizard, with lots of similes and metaphors being used to add detail.

Mrs Ferguson turned P7 pupils into forensic scientists on Tuesday by investigating fingerprints and the best materials for capturing them. They tested lots of different materials, such as flour, whiteboard pens and cocoa powder.

Here are a few photos showing some of last week’s work about Robert Burns and Chinese New Year.

Please hand in homework jotters on Friday and remember to visit the educationcity.com homework folder.

Keep practising for the Scots Verse Competition too as finalists will be chosen on Wednesday.

February 1, 2023
by EAjoanne.mair2@glow
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PRIMARY SCHOOL COUNSELLING SERVICE

Here is the link for the January Primary School Counselling Newsletter – https://sway.office.com/UEHb7r35CnGE3mg7?ref=Link

For any further information and / or guidance regarding referrals please contact Ms Joanne Mair (DHT) at the school.

January 31, 2023
by EAjoanne.mair2@glow
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FUN PHONICS

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

January 31, 2023
by Mrs Campbell
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