Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

An East Ayrshire Council School

November 4, 2022
by Mrs Carey
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Friday 4th November – P2

Good morning, thankfully we had a lovely sunny Thursday afternoon, so we were able to get outside and enjoyed learning with Primary 1. The children enjoyed their new groups playing with balls, throwing and catching, playing with hoops and getting very confident at hitting the target. 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.

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 this week we have begun the next set of sounds with the letter Gg. This naturally gave us the opportunity to look at ‘The Gruffalo’ such a well, loved story. The children have been building caves for the Gruffalo with gates to stop any uninvited guests, building pens on the farm for the goats and building enclosures at the zoo for the gorillas. Hopefully this will help them embed the sound ‘g’. The children have enjoyed being word detectives skimming and scanning some super 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 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 supportive of the work we do in class.

 

In maths this week we were looking at number patterns on the 100 square and in particular looking at the 10s numbers. The children are beginning to identify the patterns in the rows and columns of the 100 square.

In addition, we have started to look at number patterns in the 100 square, count in 10s to 100 and 5s to 50.

Running alongside our number work we have begun looking at shape both 3D and 2D. They have done this through a variety of activities helping them to understand the relationship and difference between 3D and 2D shape.

For health and wellbeing, we are continuing to explore social wellbeing through Elmer stories. This week we shared the story about Elmer and the lost teddy to understand the importance of being kind. Our theme, within the class this week is kindness. 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.

It was lovely to meet many of you face to face last night. 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 weekend.

Mrs Carey.

 

 

 

 

November 1, 2022
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7 – Wk. Beg. 31st October 2022

It was lovely to welcome everyone back to Term 2 after the October break, and what a busy week it was!

In Numeracy, we were looking at different methods to help develop mental strategies when adding and subtracting.  We found partitioning most helpful for additions and using an empty number line to ‘count back’ or ‘add on’ to solve subtraction calculations.

This week we have moved on to revising how to use the standard written method for addition and subtraction by talking through the processes of exchanging and carrying.  We have also used concrete materials to visualise what is going on when we solve a calculation in this way.

Our Literacy focus has been on descriptive language and how to create atmosphere when describing a setting.  Halloween was a perfect context for this and everyone made a great effort to write their own ‘Haunted House For Sale’ advert.  The big challenge was remembering to include some figurative language, such as: a simile, metaphor or alliteration, to help create a more detailed image for the reader.  We will use what we have learned over the next few weeks to write some creative poetry too.

Everyone is being encouraged to remember to use capital letters and punctuation in their writing and this term we will look at some of the different punctuation marks that can be used.

In reading, we have been moving forward with our class novel, ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’, and used reading strategies to draw conclusions about the main character, Michael.  We only have a few chapters left until we reach the end… will Michael be saved from the island?  What will happen to Kensuke?

In other areas, Miss Gibson has continued to work with the class using the drones which looks like great fun!

We also completed the Wellbeing Champion training today with the whole class learning about ways they can support other pupils who may be upset or worried about something. The class worked in small groups to create a name, logo and slogan for our Wellbeing Champions Team. They also learned about the, ‘R U OK?’ programme and were introduced to ALEC  (Ask, Listen, Encourage action, Check-in)  as a way of helping others.  There was a lot to take in and everyone did really well with listening and taking part, well done P7!

 

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