Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Good morning, thankfully we had a lovely sunny Thursday afternoon, so we were able to get outside and enjoyed learning with Primary 1.  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.

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 r,m and d. The children have enjoyed being word detectives skimming and scanning some nice books for this week’s common words. Watch out you could see them anywhere! Please could you support your child with their reading. The children have been learning skills in blending letters together to read words they are not familiar with by using their knowledge of the initial sounds. This would be a super benefit to your child and be really supportive of the work we do in class.  The children  have had fun being word detectives looking in books for the tricky words in our homework jotter.

In maths this week we were looking at number patterns on the 100 square and in particular looking at the 10s numbers. We have had great fun using dominoes to complete a problem-solving activity .

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 shared the story about Elmer the elephant to understand the importance of feeling included. The children have all been involved in lots of teamwork games and activities to support each other’s learning.  These activities are successfully helping to the development of good listening skills for learning and being responsible citizens.

Wishing you a lovely relaxing week ahead and thank you for supporting your children with their homework tasks.

Happy holidays.

Mrs Carey.

We’ve made it to the end of Term 1! Everyone is looking forward to the October holiday.

This week has flown in, here’s what P6 have been up to.

In Literacy we edited and improved our ‘problem and solution’ story from last week then we did a paired writing task. We planned and wrote an adventure story suitable for 7-10 years. We added illustrations and a front cover to create a mini book. We have also been practising our handwriting skills and used pens to copy an autumn poem as neatly as possible.

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to find factors of numbers and used a strategy to work out the highest common factor of 2 and 3 different numbers. This has helped to sharpen up our multiplication tables. We enjoyed exploring 2D shape tessellation with Miss Gibson.

We took our learning outdoors for our Forces and Friction topic and investigated the effects of air resistance and streamlining. Mrs Wilson was impressed with our participation and enthusiasm!

For art this week we looked at autumn colours and tones. We mixed yellow and red paint to create the background for an autumn picture. On Thursday we used pastel and charcoal to make silhouettes of stylised trees for the foreground. It was quite tricky but we persevered.

In PE we finished our basketball sessions with lots of 5v5 games. It was very exciting to use all the skills we’ve been practising.

We’re looking forward to a well earned rest.

Have a lovely holiday everyone!

We’ve reached the end of term one! What a busy time it has been. P3 have worked really hard this term.

I hope everyone has a well deserved break and the weather starts being a bit kinder. Happy holidays

Have a look at our updates to see what’s been happening this week.

Primary 3 ~ Our Updates

It’s been another busy week in Primary 3 – and disco fever has certainly taken hold!

Go to this Sway

Can you believe that we’ve reached the October holidays already!? This term has flown in and it’s been lots of fun. Here is a summary of what’s been happening in P5 in term 1:

Literacy

We have been focusing on learning our spelling using phonemes. Thank you for all your support with spelling homework as this has really helped the pupils to achieve good scores in their spelling tests. We will continue this approach in Term 2.

Our focus for writing has been on poetry, explanations and creative writing. P5 have a better understanding of using adjectives to make their writing more interesting and are still focusing on their proof reading skills.

For reading, we have been reading a novel as a class and practising the skills of metalinguistics, visualisation and improving our comprehension. Some groups have also been developing their fluency when reading aloud by working with Mrs McNaughton.

Next term we will continue to work on our spelling using phonemes, get a new class novel and focus on new reading skills and will be looking at creative writing as well as newspaper reports and recounts.

Maths

In maths, pupils explored place value. This helped them to investigate larger numbers and most pupils can work with up to 7 digit numbers now. P5 can read, write, order, partition and round these numbers to the nearest 10 and nearest 100.

We also completed some tasks based on coordinates. We really enjoyed playing battleship together!

Next term, we will be focusing on measuring length in cm and m and addition and subtraction.

Other Areas

Our topic this term was “The Body” with a focus on the circulatory system. P5 explored the vital organs and investigated the circulatory system, respiratory system and the digestive system. We will finish this topic at the beginning of term 2 before moving on to our new topic which is a surprise!

In Health and Wellbeing, pupils gained an understanding of mental wellbeing and having a growth mindset. They were able to illustrate comics that had a character that demonstrated a growth mindset. We also begun learning about friendships and will continue this into term 2.

For music, we have been discussing the beat and rhythm of music. We also got the chance to experiment with different instruments, including lots of percussion instruments! Challenge your child by asking them how people play different families of instruments such as percussion, brass, woodwind and strings.

Thank you for all your hard work in Term 1 P5! I’m excited for even more challenges next term, I’m sure you’ll be amazing! Have a great holiday!

-Miss Frew x