We have continued to work on telling the time using analogue clocks and digital clocks and are linking them together. We have focused on o’clock, quarter past/to and half past. Next week we will be looking at 5 minute intervals with digital clocks. Please continue to work on times tables at home!
Literacy
This week, we wrote discursive essays that explored the issue of social media. The pupils were very enthusiastic about this topic and worked hard to write a balanced argument. We have also been enjoying our novel “Divided City” which explores the themes of friendship and discrimination in Glasgow.
IDL
We have enjoyed learning about how exercise, sleep and diet link together and contribute to a healthy lifestyle. In PE, we competed in our Sports Championships and are looking forward to seeing the final results! We have also started a block on gymnastics in PE and were focusing on balances this week. P7 will be asked to hand in a personal project on the 25th May. We started our thought process and research today in class.
Hello, I hope you managed to enjoy a lovely weekend and hope the sun will soon return. We have a busy week ahead learning about ‘Cool in school’ and we will be looking at magnetism. Here is some of the work we are covering in language and maths:
Language
Nemo – key words to focus on to support our reading and writing are:
their some then last
plus, phoneme diagraphs ue
Dory – key words for this week :
play no look
plus, phoneme diagraph ue
Games that you can engage in to support learning the words and phonemes are outlined below:
spot the word in your books
count the phonemes you see in your reading book or in your favourite stories.
Play eye spy
Go on a scavenger hunt to find things that begin with the phoneme
Write your words backwards
Make a pairs game for all your read and write words that you got home with your reading book
Maths
This week we are beginning to develop awareness of counting in 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s
as repeated addition and the introduction of multiplication.
Multiplication
Counting forwards and backwards in 2s
Counting in 5s
Counting in 10s
Making Equal Groups
Doubles numbers to a total of 10 mentally – partitions numbers equally and not equally – recognises it doesn’t affect the total
Make equal Groups – grouping items equally in smaller groups
Make equal Groups – Sharing out items equally in smaller groups
Introduction of Repeated addition of equal groups – show addition and multiplication formats together X meaning groups of
Also look out for all our activities on Education City. Remember you can do activities more than once to reinforce your previous learning .
Please continue to read your reading books and practise your read and write words from your word lists too.
This term is a very busy, please read the following information carefully.
We are delighted to be able to re-introduce some of our usual events, particularly Sports day on Friday 10th June at 10.30am, Blair Park ( weather permitting) and Prize Giving on Tuesday 21st June at 9.30am, Hurlford Church. We hope you can join us on these dates !
P5 and P6 will perform ‘Aladdin’ on Friday 20th May, 22 at the Community Centre. There are 2 performances : 3.30pm and 7pm. Our pupils and staff have worked very hard on this project over the session, in conjunction with Scottish Opera. They are AMAZING!! Tickets go on sale from 9th May for the school community. Tickets are available from the main office £2.50. Please feel free to bring along members of the wider community.
Please note Parent/Carer appointment e-forms will be sent to you via the app in due course. An appointment slip will be sent home prior to your appointment confirming your telephone call time.
Trip payments can be made on Parent pay. Please pay as soon as possible. Any issues, please contact the main office.
Happy Friday! Here is what we’ve been up to this week in p7F.
Maths
This week we have focused on telling the time.
We have been looking at analogue clocks with five minute intervals and are continuing to work on our understanding. We have also been learning how to multiply 2/3 digit numbers by 1 digit and will also be continuing this next week.
Literacy
We have explored themes this week and have really enjoyed discussing novels and movies with specific themes.
This has been useful information as we started our class novel, Divided City. This has grabbed our attention and has many interesting themes.
IDL
This week we enjoyed some STEM with Miss Steedman and had to design an experiment that could sent into space!
We have been discussing the benefits of exercise and its effects on the body for HWB.
We have also been practising for our sports championships which we will be completing next week.
We are also excited to do rugby training on Fridays.
Thank you for reading our blog, have a nice long weekend!
Here are some photos of our outdoor learning session last Friday afternoon. It was great to be outside in the sun but the wind played havoc with some of our resources!!
NUMERACY
We have been learning about data handling this week in Numeracy. We talked about our favourite colours and flavours of ice cream and sorted the class answers into pictograms. We went on to learn about counting in 5’s using tally marks.
We then talked about ordinal numbers and did some work on these. The children found it tricky to remember the notations for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. All the ‘th’ ones were easier.
We went back to data handling in the middle of the week and have learned about Carroll diagrams for sorting. The children were good at suggesting their own criteria for sorting in a range of ways.
Then we learned about Venn diagrams, another way to sort!
LITERACY
In literacy this week, we have continued using our new reading books in class. The children are engaging very well with these and are enjoying the stories and the challenges of the follow up tasks. They are all getting very good at using the book to help them find and prove an answer to a question.
This afternoon, we are going to write some imaginative stories with an ‘Under the sea’ theme so hopefully we can share some with you next week.
The Apples and Bananas groups have been learning words that end with le this week. Some of these have been quite challenging but the children have been able to suggest lots of words with the sound and have worked hard on spelling them.
FRENCH
We are all enjoying working on the colours in French. Here is a song you could listen to with your child if you’d like to learn them too!
PE
We have been working on shapes and jumps in gymnastics. The children have been very enthusiastic about using the equipment and also very brave! We will be working on various rolls and balances in the next couple of weeks.
IDL
We are coming to the end of our Ocean topic. There is still so much we could learn but we have also covered a lot of information. I’ve been very impressed with the children’s recall of Ocean names, facts and drawings of coastlines this week.
Hopefully the children have all started their homework challenge to create a shoebox diorama of an under the sea scene. If they need anything from school to make it, they’ve just to ask. (paint/pipe cleaners etc) Here is an example:
HWB
Having planted Kale seeds, and hoping to grow a decent crop over the summer, we looked at some kale from the supermarket and made a delicious kale smoothie. The children all did well to taste it and the majority of the class enjoyed it. Well done to them all for trying something new! If you want to make it at home, we blended a handful of kale, a banana, some frozen tropical fruit with some milk, water and a splash of maple syrup!
Have a great long weekend everyone! See you on Tuesday!
In literacy, we have been working on our reading skills, writing instructions to make our favourite sandwiches and learning about compound words.
In numeracy, we have been learning a new subtraction strategy. We found this strategy was quite tricky at first but now we are feeling more confident using it to help us subtract. We have also been exploring patterns.
We have been using our technology skills to create a PowerPoint slide to create a display on our knowledge of dried fruit: where and how it is made. We have had lots of fun exploring the fonts/background styles for the PowerPoint slide. Primary 4 don’t know this yet but next week, we are going to use raisins to make yummy oatmeal raisin cookies!
Good morning, I hope you all enjoyed a lovely long relaxing weekend. I can’t quite believe that we are now in May and our final term.
Last week we were still busy looking at money in particular thinking about what coins and notes we use, how we get money, what we use money for – our needs and wants!! This week we will be looking at how to budget and save. As well as all this, if you could possibly look at coins and notes with your children and play little games. Exchanging coins for example how many 2p coins make 10p coin.
Starfish could look at exchanging to 50p and change from 50p
Octopus could exchange to 20p and change from 20p
We will be looking at giving change in class and if you have a collection of 1p coins at home this would be really useful to help reinforce giving change and checking change. It’s always good to count on to give change using 1p coins, like shopkeepers would have done in the past.
I have 20p and buy a comic at 15p so how much change would I receive? I would then count on from 15 and place 1p in your child’s hand till they have 5 pennies change. Thanks for your assistance with this.
In addition, I have also put 2 games on Education City to support some maths going on in class. They are:
Hang Tenths and Bumper Cars.
Language this week:
common word and phonemes covered are :
Nemo – very, took, fast, there diagraph aw
Dory – law, paw, draw, straw diagraph aw
Please also try the Education City games
Canopy Clues and Make a Wish
For topic this term we are looking at planting seeds and looking after them and where some food comes from and farming.
Thanks, as always for your continued support and I look forward to speaking to you over the course of the next 2 weeks.
We have had another busy week making whales (for wh), 2D shape pictures and birthday messages for the Queen. The children have become really creative and make things completely on their own now. The never fail to amaze me.
We have started to learn all about People Who Help Us and are focusing on the emergency services. The children love Art Hub on you Tube and selected a Police Officer art lesson. The results were fantastic.
We have been continuing with addition and subtraction and the children select their own strategies to help. Their favourite things are jewels and boards, bead strings, cubes and pegs.
Next week is a shorter week. Remember we are off on Monday and Thursday as this is an in-service day for teachers.
Literacy – we will continue to consolidate ch, sh, th, wh and some initial sounds. We will continue to develop our storywriting skills and will explore words that rhyme.
Numeracy – We will continue with addition and subtraction and will consolidate 3D shape.
Topic – investigating the roles of the emergency services and the equipment they need.
Our Gym time will now return to a Monday for the rest of the term and we will be taking part in gymnastics using a range of large and small equipment.
The weather has been good, and although the temperature is slightly down at 15 degrees, our children are definitely feeling it more like 20 degrees! They very quickly take off jackets and jumpers in the playground then forget to bring them back in. Most jumpers are easily returned as names are on them. Please remember to put names on jumpers and cardigans to ensure your child gets theirs back
Finally, I am looking forward to taking to you on parents night so don’t forget to make your appointment.
