Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Happy Friday!

This week in literacy, P5 have been continuing their novel “Horrid Henry” and read the story “Horrid Henry’s Dance Class.” The pupils have been enjoying the humorous stories and have been developing their comprehension, visualisation and metalinguistics. In spelling, we all investigated the “ee” phoneme and it’s representations.

For writing we wrote an explanation about how the circulatory system works. This was incredibly tricky but using the success criteria, the pupils were able to produce some excellent work:

For maths, the pupils have been building their confidence and knowledge with place value and rounding and completed an assessment to demonstrate their understanding. Pupils were asked to roll numbers up to 7 digits, read, write and order them, partition them and then round them to the nearest 10 and 100. Wow! Lots of skills to demonstrate!

In other areas, we tried a new team game in PE where we had to pass a pool noodle using our feet to try and get it to the other side of the hall. We had to work as a team and had brilliant fun! We also done lots of STEM this week to create models that represented the circulatory system and respiratory system.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

-Miss Frew x

What a wet week!! Here’s hoping for a dry weekend.

Primary 6 have been working very hard on a wide range of subjects and activities.  Here’s a round up of the week.

Monday: We continued to focus on plural nouns for spelling and in numeracy we learned what multiples were and how to find multiples of numbers.  In our science topic we investigated the effects of friction by testing how far wooden toy vehicles travelled along different surfaces.

Tuesday: In numeracy we learned how to find the lowest common multiples of 2 and 3 numbers. Our reading task was using metalinguistics strategies to help us find the meanings of tricky words in a text.  We also took part in a group challenge for part of our Leadership Programme. We had to create and plan a PE game for younger pupils.  The next step is to teach our games to the children in the ECC.

Wednesday: We had our Leadership session with Lindsey then Maths and STEM with Miss Gibson.  We enjoyed our WOW session in the afternoon.

Thursday: For Literacy we continued to focus on Narrative writing.  We enjoyed choosing a style of narrative writing and worked from a list of titles. Our next steps are to self-check, edit and improve our work.

Friday: Today we are looking forward to going to the Dick Institute to take part in a Quentin Blake art workshop. Ask us all about it when we get home today!

Have a lovely weekend .

Happy Friday, although with the horrible wet weather it has meant that the children have been inside a lot this week. Hopefully we can get some rain free days over the weekend.

The class have been talking about signs of autumn with Mrs Muir and there are lots of conkers from our big tree in the playground.

Have a look at the sway to find out what’s been happening over the last couple of weeks.

Have a good weekend when it comes ~ Mrs McMillan

Primary 3 ~ Our Updates

Here are some updates of what’s been happening in our class in the last couple of weeks.

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Good morning, Friday again after another busy week which unfortunately has been very wet so meant we had no outdoor learning this week, but instead had some dance and indoor gym fun. Next Thursday let’s hope the sun is shining and we get back outside. Please could children come dressed in their wow clothes that can be easily washed and also with a jacket in case it is a little wet. Thanks.

Now to some of  the things that we have been doing this week.

In literacy we are continuing to revise and learn our initial sounds and I hope you have had fun looking around your house for things beginning with p,i, and n. Keep looking if you are out and about please, or in your books. Watch out you could see them anywhere! We have been working hard using deciphering and decoding skills to learn new words by sounding out the letters and blending them together, the children may call this robot words. In class we have had fun being word detectives looking in books for the tricky words in our homework jotter. For homework this week I’ve asked the children to rainbow write the words an, is and. This requires the children to write each letter of each word in a different colour.

In maths this week we are continuing to investigate the odd numbers between 11 and 20 using Numicon, cubes and ten frames.In addition we have started to look at number patterns in the 100 square, count in 10s to 100 and 5s to 50.

For health and wellbeing, we have been looking at being active in school and had lots of opportunities this week to be very active in the gym on Monday, at Work out Wednesday and during outdoor learning on a Thursday. We are continuing use games and activities to establish good listening skills for learning and being responsible citizens.

Wishing you a lovely relaxing weekend and thank you for supporting your children with homework tasks.

Mrs Carey.

Some updates from the last couple of weeks

Primary 3 ~ Our Updates

Here are some updates of what’s been happening in our class in the last couple of weeks.

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