Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

May 13, 2022
by Mrs Miller
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P3/2 Friday 13th May

Happy Friday everyone!

I’ve been blown away by the amazing dioramas that you’ve all worked so hard on. The children have been so proud when talking about their work and showing it off to the class. A huge well done!

NUMERACY

We have completed some work on data handling this week. The children all made a bar chart and were able to ask and answer questions about their charts. We have also continued working on counting in 5’s and using tally marks.

We have also been learning more about numbers and place value. Talk to your children about how to say 2 or 3 digit numbers and to tell you what they are made of.

For example 26 is 2 tens and 6 units or 20 and 6

345 is 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 6 units or 300 and 40 and 6

This is a skill called partitioning which helps with many numeracy skills including addition and subtraction.

We have also been trying to skip count in 1’s, 10’s and 100’s.

Give your child a starting number and see if they can tell you a number sequence.

Like 21 – count in 10’s = 21 31 41 51 61 etc

LITERACY

The children have worked well on their phonemes this week. Remember to find them in their homework diaries to support their learning at home.

The apples are learning the phoneme sound ‘aw’ as in straw

The bananas are learning ‘wh’ as in when

All groups should continue working on blending sounds to read and write words using their phonic knowledge.

ART

The children have worked really well together this week to create an under the sea collage with a partner. We learned about how all the things in the ocean support each other within the food chain or for shelter. It was great to see the children being creative!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend! Fingers crossed for some sunshine!

May 13, 2022
by User deactivated
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P1 & Mrs Cuthbertson – Friday 13th May

It was so nice chatting to you on the phone for parents night. I love to share the children’s successes with you and it is always great to hear how proud of them you are. And so you should be! They really are a class of hard working, ambitious children who love to learn. We have had another busy week and have been learning all about 3D shapes. We even made our own shapes with straws and connectors.

All of the children worked extremely hard thinking how to make the shape 3D.

Mrs Millar was in our classroom on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. She was teaching us all about money. We played a new floor game, matched Numicon and money and made coin rubbings. It was great fun.

We made animals, robots and unicorns with the numicon tiles. We then added coins and worked out how much each thing would cost.

When the sun was out we did manage to get outside for gym. We love the wheeled seats and even linked them together to make trains. We had hoops out and played football on the grass.

We really did have a lot of fun outdoors and cant wait until the sun comes back out and we can do it all again.

NEXT WEEK

Literacy – Our sounds will be oi (noise) and oy (toy). We will complete lots of activities to help us learn when to use these sounds. We will create a piece of functional writing all about making a 999 call. We are continuing with our new reading scheme in the classroom. Its a new scheme which we are dipping in and out of before they start Primary 2. We are still focusing on the correct use of Capital letters and full stops.

Numeracy – We will continue to explore money and will use our addition and subtraction skills to exchange coins and work out the change from given amounts. Mrs Millar will be with us again on Tuesday and Wednesday morning.

In the afternoons this week we will be learning all about living and non living things. We will look at nature (trees, flowers etc) and decide whether these things are living or non living. We will also make a list of the things that living things need to survive.

I hope the sun comes out next week. Please remember to send your child a bottle of water as it can get very warm in the classroom. Thank you to the parents who have sent in their child’s trip letter, If you have not managed to sign and return it yet can you please send it in next week. We are really looking forward to going to the Farm Park with some of the other classes.

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend,

Mrs Cuthbertson xx

May 13, 2022
by Miss Baillie
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Primary 4 – Week ending: 13.5.22

Hello everyone 🙂

It has been a busy couple of weeks in Primary 4! We have been learning about dried fruit and it’s journey from farm to fork as part of a whole school project. We strengthened our ICT skills working in groups to create PowerPoint slides, we baked delicious oatmeal raisin cookies and we are going to try and make our own raisins from grapes in the classroom. Yesterday we watched a video about Tesco and how they get the raisins that have in their stores. We discovered it is a very long process to make raisins from the grape vines they start as to them being packaged and sold in the store. Something we don’t normally think about as we go and get them from the shop. We then worked in groups and broke down the journey of the raisin and wrote about it (some pictures below although they are finishing the drawings to match and adding a bit of colour this afternoon).

We also worked in groups a few months ago to mummify an orange and we took them out to see what happened to them this week.

We have also welcomed back Mrs Miller, who worked with the class in Primary 2, to help us learn some new multiplication and division strategies.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! 🙂

Miss Baillie & Mrs Ferguson

May 13, 2022
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J Week beginning 9th May

Time flies when you’re having fun, as they say, and this month is flying by!

At the start of the week, we took part in an online workshop on biodiversity. We were shown around some parts of the Scottish Highland Wildlife Park, where they are breeding pine hoverflies because they are an endangered species. We also saw the wolves and heard about how the hoverfly plays a part in their food chain. We were surprised to learn that wild wolves in Scotland became extinct in 1743!

In maths, we have started a block on information handling and have spent time conducting surveys, creating tally and frequency tables, and drawing bar charts.

Literacy has been based around our novel study, ‘Divided City’, which has led to interesting discussions about discrimination and prejudice. We have also been looking at how to bring settings to life though detailed description and figurative language when writing.

Luckily, we also found a break in the rain to go outside and have a trial of the 400m as part of our Sports Day training. We learned that it is important to pace ourselves so not to run out of energy too quickly.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

May 13, 2022
by Mrs Carey
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P2/1 Monday 16th May

Language

Nemo – key words to focus on to support our reading and writing are:

because week keep when

plus, phoneme diagraphs ll, ss

Dory – key words for this week :

make like made

plus, phoneme diagraphs ll, ss

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 continuing to develop our awareness of making equal groups to establish an understanding of repeated addition and then subsequently multiplication and as such we need a good knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s

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.

Thanks for your continued support.

Have fun week.

Mrs Carey.

May 13, 2022
by Miss Frew
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P7F Week Beginning 9th May

Maths

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.

Have a lovely weekend!

May 9, 2022
by Mrs Carey
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Monday 9th May P2/1

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.

Thanks for your continued support.

Have fun week.

Mrs Carey.

May 6, 2022
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J Personal Research Projects – May 2022

Research is well underway for the P7 personal projects.

Pupils have spent time in class gathering notes on their chosen subjects and now have time to complete their research and written projects at home.

Final projects are due in no later than Wednesday 25th May.

The success criteria can be found here: Research Project

I can’t wait to read all the fabulous projects once they’re finished!

Good luck everyone!

May 5, 2022
by Mrs Campbell
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY – TERM 4

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.

April 29, 2022
by Miss Frew
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P7F Week Beginning 25.4.22

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!