Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

P5 have been exceptionally hard working the past few weeks! Here is what we have been up to:

In literacy, the pupils have been working on their creativity when writing different types of poems. After exploring acrostic poems, the pupils looked at concrete poems and wrote about Autumn. They had to use a variety of adjectives to describe what happens in autumn and had to use their understanding of concrete poems to create leaf shapes. Here are some beautiful examples:

We also began our class novel this term which is Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon. During the novel study, we will be developing confidence in reading and improving skills in visualisation, metalinguistics, prior knowledge and comprehension. The pupils are enjoying their novel so far.

For spelling this week we have been focusing on the “ay” phoneme and some groups have investigated all the representations of “ay”. We completed some active spelling tasks to help learn our spelling words. We also have homework to help us build our confidence with our spelling words.

In maths, we have been continuing to develop our understanding of place value. We are now able to read, write, order and partition up to 7 digits! This week we focused on numbers before and after and rounding numbers to the nearest 10. The pupils enjoyed their active games to explore this concept.

In other areas, we have been enjoying learning about the circulatory system. Mr Allen set up the class like the heart and the pupils re-enact how the circulatory system worked. The blue balloons represented the de-oxygenated blood and red balloons represented the oxygenated blood. This was a really fun challenge!

We also coded some microbits to create a heartbeat which was really cool!

We have also started homework this week. Every Monday, our pupils will be given homework to complete for Friday. This will consist of a spelling task, a maths task and a “talk for writing” task. As this was our first week, only spelling was issued on Monday in their homework jotters. Thank you for your support in this matter.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Frew x

Good morning and I can’t believe it is Friday again after another busy week.

Here are 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 s,a and t. You might even see things when you are out and about at the park, going to the shops or in your books. Keep looking! We have been working hard to decipher words by sounding out the letters sounds and blending them together to make words. Our lovely new reading books are a phonics based scheme so this skill of blending sounds together is very important in the development of our reading.

In maths this week we have been investigating the odd numbers between 11 and 20 using Numicon, cubes and ten frames. We have learned how to use the Numicon pieces and these manipulatives to test if a number has a bump in its head. If it has a bump in its head, it is an odd number. Why not ask your children to show you how to test a number for a bump in it’s head by using coins? To do this the children will lay out the coins in rows of 2s until they make the number and if it is an odd number the last coin will not have a partner.

Below is an example for number 5.

The number 11 has a bump in its head so is odd. Have fun trying this.

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. Outdoor learning has been lots of fun with  Primary one on a Thursday. Please can you always have an outdoor jacket for a Thursday especially as we move into the autumn.

Wishing you a lovely relaxing weekend.

Mrs Carey.