Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Good morning, thankfully another lovely sunny Thursday afternoon, but perhaps a touch windy which meant we could get out and enjoy learning with Primary 1. The children have settled well in their new groups and enjoyed throwing and catching, playing with hoops and getting very confident at hitting the target, even some targets set with hoops being held up in the air! Being a nice day also meant time in the Ozone – climbing and exploring. All great fun! Please could you make sure the children are warmly dressed in their wow clothes and also with a jacket in case it is a little wet. Thanks.

In literacy we are continuing to revise and learn our initial sounds and this week we have begun the next set of sounds with the letter Ll. This gave us the opportunity to look at ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’ such a well, loved story. Extending the work, we did last week on Gg building caves for the Gruffalo with gates to stop any uninvited guests, we built castles with portcullis gates with padlocks for l locks. We also created a zoo with construction building enclosures for the gorillas and lions. Hopefully this will help them embed the sound ‘g and l’. The children have enjoyed being word detectives skimming and scanning some super books for this week’s common words using finger torches. They were also noting down words beginning with l.

Please could you support your child with their reading. The children are continually learning skills in blending letters together to read words they are not familiar with by using their knowledge of the initial sounds. Thanks this will be really helpful.

In maths this week we were looking more closely at 2D shapes and patterns and symmetry.

The children have loved these activities and I have tried to upload some photos of their work, however, there seems to be not enough space to show them all, so once this is resolved I will upload the rest. Apologies.

The children are often confusing 3D shape names with their 2D faces so if you get any deliveries this week in boxes can you be sure to look at them and discuss if they are cubes or cuboids or indeed if you see any containers around the house which are cylinders, cones, pyramids or spheres as well.

For health and wellbeing, we are continuing to explore social wellbeing through Elmer stories. This week we shared the story about Elmer and the butterfly to understand the importance of being helpful. Our theme, within the class this week continues to be being kind and helpful. The children have all been involved in lots of teamwork games and activities to support each other’s learning in this respect. These activities are successfully helping to the development of good listening skills for learning and being responsible citizens and overall demonstrating kindness towards others in all that we do.

Thanks again for supporting your children with their homework tasks and all that you do at home to help them learn.

Wishing you a lovely relaxing week ahead.

Mrs Carey.IMG_1434

We’ve had another busy week in class this week! Here is what we’ve been up to:

In literacy, we have been learning how to write information leaflets and have created leaflets on how to be a good friend. This also challenged the pupils to include their knowledge from health and wellbeing as well as use the relevant skills for writing. We also explored the “oo” phoneme and looked at it’s representations before completing our spelling test today.

In maths, we have continued to explore measure and have focused on the accuracy of our measurements. The pupils are getting better at this and have made some significant improvements. We also learned how to convert measurements from centimetres to metres and centimetres eg 113cm= 1m 13cm.

In health and wellbeing, we have enjoyed learning about relationships and how to have positive relationships with other people. Pupils understand that positive relationships can affect their own mental wellbeing and can describe the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships.

For Disney this week, we continued to practice our song “One by One” and nearly know it all off by heart! We also learned a new dance section for “Just Can’t Wait to be King” which the pupils really enjoyed. We are all really excited to get our roles and start learning our lines!

P5 had an exciting opportunity for STEM as we got to visit a dairy farm to investigate how the cows were looked after and the milking process. All of our pupils had a fantastic time and enjoyed learning lots of information about the farm and agriculture. Click on the sway to see our photos:

As always, thanks for your support at home. Have a great weekend!

-Miss Frew