Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Our P4s all had a great time attending the music workshop, delivered by the Benedetti Foundation, at the Grand Hall.  We learned about body percussion and moods of music  – it was super!

We’ve come to the end of another busy week and the end of term one! Everyone is looking forward to the October break.

Literacy

We have been revising the phonemes ou, igh and y this week using practice sheets as well as more active activities including keyboard spelling. . Just a quick reminder, spelling homework is given each week on Mondays with the aim of completing two tasks to be returned on Fridays. Thank you for the support in completing homework, this had helped pupils achieve good scores in their spelling tests. I hope this will increase in Term 2.

For reading, we have new books this week and have been developing our fluency. The class has been developing their metalinguistics skills and comprehension skills using find it, prove it, talk about it. We had some interesting responses for what one group would like to take to a deserted island!

Maths

The class have been exploring place value over the last few weeks and put their skills to the test in their Education City assessment. I was blown away by some of the scores and this gives us a good foundation for moving onto our next block of learning about addition and subtraction.

HWB

We concluded our work on kindness and empathy this week by watching a clip from Inside Out. We had a great, thoughtful discussion around the clip and empathy. Pupils then worked in groups and used their senses to empathise with the character Bing Bong and how he was feeling.

Other Areas

In IDL, pupils learned about the 5 things a plant needs to be healthy and created flowers using these facts for our display in class. We also started drawing animals that we will use a range of media to decorate including oil pastels and paint. We chose our animals based upon our chosen vertebrate for our talk. Just a gentle reminder, vertebrates talks are due to be presented the week after the October break. Pupils who required paper/ booklets have been provided with this. Thank you for your support so far.

We built our hedgehog box yesterday afternoon and hope to attract some hedgehogs into our school grounds. Can’t wait to see if any arrive!

Thank you so much for all of your hard work this term Primary 4! We’re excited for the challenges and hard work next term. We hope you have a lovely holiday.

Mrs Barclay and Mrs Ferguson x

Happy Friday Everyone,

In P4S this week, the children have been working hard to consolidate their Place Value learning with various activities including arrow cards and grids.

We have also been researching more about the animal which we will be talking about after the holidays and have created some collage pictures of our animals for a colourful display.

In Literacy, we were learning about Spoonerisms after Max, the Hodgeheg, had a bump to his head and started to mix up his words.  We found some of Max’s sentences to be confusing but quite funny.

Have the most wonderful October Holiday Everyone,

Best wishes,

Miss Steedman