Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

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

September 2, 2022
by Mrs McMillan
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Primary 3 ~ 2.9.22

Good morning, its the end of the second full week at school, and P3 have had another busy week.

Have a look and see what we’ve been up to.

Go to this Sway

September 2, 2022
by Mrs Miller
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p3/2 Friday 2nd September

Go to this Sway

September 2, 2022
by Miss Steedman
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w.c. 29.8.22 P4S Class Blog

This week in P4S we have been thinking about what a Growth Mindset is and how we can adapt our own learning to grow even when we may be puzzled by an activity in class.

We have also been writing about an exciting activity which we enjoyed over the Summer. There was a lot of description in our writing which was wonderful to read about.

In Numeracy, we were revising and learning more about Rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and we learned a wee rhyme to help us. Perhaps we could teach the Grown Ups the wee rhyme at home to help us remember it.

Our Interdisciplinary Topic this term is Wildlife and Habitats so we have been discussing what animals need from a habitat and also what different types of habitats can be found all over our amazing planet.

Wishing you all a fantastic weekend,

Miss Steedman

September 2, 2022
by Ms Wilson
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P6: week beginning 29th August 2022

It’s Friday again, what a quick week. Primary 6 have been working very hard and are looking forward to the weekend.

We have been continuing to revise work on whole numbers in numeracy with the focus being on place value and partitioning. We learned a new strategy during our Number Talks session called addition grids. Everyone got the hang of it very quickly.

In Literacy, we have been focusing on common words for our spelling. Yesterday, we continued to write an adventure story which we’ll edit during our next writing session. The class have enjoyed sharing their stories with their peers.

On Tuesday we used our observation skills to draw a variety of classroom objects. Mrs Wilson was very impressed with our pictures as they were so detailed and realistic. Also on Tuesday we had great fun making hedgehog hotels for our STEM activity with Mrs Ferguson.

On Wednesday with Miss Gibson, we focused on creating a display for our class charter. We wrote our statements on leaf shapes and signed our names on flower designs.

We have made a start to our Term 1 topic. We will be learning all about Forces and Friction. Our science groups investigated the forces we use in the classroom and in the playground.

The Vice Captain speeches have now been filmed and we are all excited to find out who will be voted in!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

September 2, 2022
by Miss Frew
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P5 Weekly Blog 2nd September 2023

Happy Friday!

It’s been another busy week in P5 where the pupils have been settling in well to their new classroom and routines.

This week we had our first Thinking Time session and WOW session which the pupils greatly enjoyed! We also got our classroom jobs up and running which helped our classroom run smoothly.

In literacy, we have been spelling the months of the year from January-June and have still been investigating non-fiction texts.

We had a tricky job in maths this week but the pupils showed resilience and were able to complete their work to a good standard, well done everyone!

In other areas, P5 have been learning strategies to use when stuck on their work and discussed people who were their “helping hands”. The pupils also learned how to send emails this week so Miss Frew’s inbox is currently very full! We had good fun sending emails to each other.

Well done for all your hard work and effort this week P5! Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Frew x

September 1, 2022
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7 Week beginning 29.08.22

We have had a great couple of weeks settling back into school life.

This term has started off with lots of opportunities to work co-operatively and build a positive classroom ethos. Yesterday there was some excellent team work and creativity on display as each group was challenged to create a team name, motto, logo and mascot. Everyone had a role to play from being the time keeper to managing the materials being used to checking the quality of work. There were some super ideas and everyone worked really well to create posters and 3D mascots out of plasticine. The themes chosen by the groups were: seahorses, red pandas, cats and bears.

In numeracy we have been revising place value of numbers up into the millions! We have also reminded ourselves of some of the multiplication facts and how to order decimal fractions.

Our novel study for this term is ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ by Michael Morpurgo. This week we read the first chapter and completed a visualiser about the main character Michael; so far we think he is loyal, brave, adventurous and energetic based on evidence in the text.

We have lots to look forward to this year in P7! This term we will be learning about plants and living things, Mrs Ferguson will be working with us for some STEM and food technology sessions and we will begin to think about the John Muir Award.

Have a lovely weekend when it arrives!

Mrs Johnstone

August 31, 2022
by Mrs Campbell
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Take A Bow Classes 22/23

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