Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

Here is a little update on what we’ve been up to lately in P7.

Last week we looked at a famous piece of Japanese artwork called The Great Wave; this links in with our novel study ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ which is about a boy who is washed overboard a yacht and then finds himself on a desert island.  We discussed the artwork and then used wax and paint to create our own ‘Great Waves’.   This art work also inspired us to try blackout poetry in writing, where you select certain words from an existing text to create a new poem.  Look out for photos of our display coming soon.

Miss Gibson has been leading an exciting STEM project with the class, exploring the use of drones.  This week pupils had to work in groups to plan an obstacle course to fly the drones through and this afternoon saw the obstacle courses come to life in the gym hall and piloting skills put to the test.  I was lucky enough to see some of the action from the balcony and was so impressed!

Today we also took part in an online Live Lesson about Harvest where we learned about ‘Carbon Crunching Carrots’ – do you know what a nematode is? Ask your child all about them and the role they play in helping plants to grow!  We also set up an experiment in our classroom to investigate which type of soil is best for carrots to grow in.  Which do you think will work best: compost, compost with added fertiliser, sand, soil from the school garden or cotton wool?  To keep the experiment fair we will water each container with the same volume of water, at the same time each day and we will keep all the containers on the same window ledge to make sure they have the same amount of sunlight.  We can’t wait to see which ones start to grow first!

Next week, we will be learning more about how to effectively describe a setting, continuing with our online course to becoming Health and Wellbeing Champions and using rounding and estimating skills in Numeracy.  Please also keep a look out for Homework Jotters with various tasks to spread throughout the week.

Have a lovely weekend!