Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Hello and happy Friday 🙂

Here’s what P3 have been up to this week.

In literacy we looked at the sound oa and did some spelling activities. We started with our reading books again and our routine for hearing the reading will be on a Tuesday and a Thursday. Reading books should be in bags every day, as we use them for tasks in the classroom.

We started a new class book – The Twits by Roald Dahl, and we used the description bubble to write character descriptions of Mr Twit.

In maths we have been looking at odd and even, noticing what makes a number odd/even. We have also been looking at doubles and near doubles.

We’ve been finishing off our activities on The Dot this week and also talking about growth mindset. We looked at how changing our words can change how we and our brains work. We also looked at the power of ‘yet’.

Lots of hard work going on again, well done P3. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Mrs McMillan

Happy Friday!

Hope everyone has had a good week. Here is what we have been up to in P5:

In literacy we were discussing fact and opinion and played various active games to explore the difference. The pupils really enjoyed the blether station activity where they had to find cards in the playground and identify the statements as either fact or opinion.

Pupils have also been working on their spelling and handwriting and completed a number of tasks to practice their words and letter formation.

In maths this week we have begun to explore place value and worked to complete work focusing on ordering 4, 5 and 6 digit numbers. We played games on Education City, worked with partners and done an independent task to demonstrate our learning.

In other areas, we have been exploring our rights and discussing how we feel when we have our rights met. We then wrote an acrostic poem about our rights. We have also been discussing resilience and how to become more resilient when faced with challenges. We also started our new topic “The Circulatory System” where we will focus on learning how our heart works.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Miss Frew x

Good morning,

It’s been another busy week in P2 with the pupils settling in well to the routines and enjoying working with their friends again.

This week we had our first Thinking Time Session where the children work in mixed year groups in their house colours offering a great opportunity to discuss and learn about the school community on a variety of topics. Wednesday also saw our first WOW session which the children all thoroughly enjoyed and the bonus this week was,  we were lucky to have some fabulous weather for this event.

In literacy, we have been working to develop some common words in fun and interactive ways using sand, dough and dabbers to name a few. We are also currently revising the initial sounds s,a,t,p,i,n. In addition we have been looking at our new reading scheme Rising Stars.

In maths, we have been doing some secret counting to reveal the even numbers to 20. Counting in 5s and 10s to 100 and looking at the number of the day. As yesterday was the beginning of a new month this gave us the opportunity to explore the seasons and the months of the year. We will be doing lots more work on this in the months to come.

For health and wellbeing, we are continuing to look at SHANARRI and this week we had a focus on friendship, the importance of kindness and supporting one another  with a view to developing our Classroom Charter.

The children are all working hard and developing friendships which in turn, helps them be highly supportive of one another in class.

The lovely weather this week allowed us to go outside with Primary 1 yesterday afternoon and the children enjoyed playing together and had lots of fun with hoops and balls.

Have a lovely weekend and thank for your support.

Mrs Carey