Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

January 31, 2022
by Mrs Miller
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Monday 31st January

Happy Monday!

Hope everyone had a good weekend.
*Please remember to check your child’s bag for letters, work to keep at home, word cards and homework tasks in their diaries*

Your child has a Scots verse poem to learn at home. Primary 2 are learning ‘Mince and Tatties’ and Primary 3 are learning ‘Nessie’

We are working on these in class but children should be learning them at home too. We will be choosing 3 finalists per stage this week for the competition on the 10th of February.

If you’ve had the chance to talk about an exciting idea that your child has come up with for our engineering competition, help them to draw a labelled diagram and bring it in before the end of March.

This week we will be learning about Chinese New Year, finishing off our block of work on fractions, continuing work on phonemes and blending, adding to our dance routines in PE and lots more!

Here are some highlights from last week…..

January 30, 2022
by Mrs Carey
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Last week we had a very busy week exploring the T-Rex and Triceratops acting as palaeontologists and built a dinosaur skeleton, although it was very tempting to eat some of the midget gem joints. We are also continuing to prepare for the Scots Verse competition with our poem ‘Roguey Poguey’.

Language this week – words and sounds

Nemo – round, found, with , men, who, after, hand, right plus sound igh

Dory – have, just, to and sound j

I have put some activities on Eduction City to support these words and sounds.

In maths we are continuing to count on using a number line to add, we have also looked at adding by bridging 10. See example

9 + 5 =

9 + 1 = 10 then 5 -1 =4 so 10 + 4 =14

Have a good week. Thanks for your continued support with reading and all the above tasks.

Rosie Carey

January 29, 2022
by EAjoanne.mair2@glow
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STEM P7J

P7 use their lunch break to plan, build, try, amend, improve and extend. The design process in action!
Great teamwork and fun as a bonus! #STEM IMG_3541

January 28, 2022
by Ms Wilson
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P6 week beginning 24th January 2022

Well done Primary 6, we have made it to Friday and we have all been working very hard.

We are really enjoying our new topic on Space and this week we have been learning about the Universe. It was difficult to get our heads round the vastness of space but we did a good job of using higher order thinking skills to discuss the Universe and answer some tricky questions. We have also been learning about the different types of galaxies ; did you know our planet is in a spiral galaxy called the Milky Way? Today we were looking at pictures of star constellations and we made our own pictures using marshmallows and art straws…sticky but fun!

Our maths focus has been multiplying and dividing whole numbers and decimals by 10 100 and 1000. It was quite easy in the end as long as we were careful with the place value!

Yesterday we read more of our class novel ‘The Last Wolf’. In it, the main character Robbie meets an orphaned wolf cub. Our writing task was to predict what was going to happen next and continue the story. We all did a great job and enjoyed reading our work to our peers.

We are still doing well with our Aladdin rehearsals and have been practising our last big number – ‘Prince Ali’. There’s a lot to remember but we’ll get there!

January 27, 2022
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J Week Beginning 24th January

This week we have had a wide range of learning experiences taking place, read on to find out what we have been up to in P7J…

The week started off with us taking our interdisciplinary work outdoors. We were learning about the Battle of Britain and had to use reading strategies, teamwork and problem solving skills in a crossword scavenger hunt.

Also relating to our World War 2 topic, and because it is Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27th, we found out about Anne Frank who was a Jewish teenager who lived in Amsterdam during the war. We imagined what it would have been like to have to go into hiding and wrote our own diary entries.

We also used our ICT skills to create word cloud art images to show words which symbolise the type of world we would like to live in.

Our maths work has been focussed on using tables to help identify linear number patterns. Then we had to explain the rule using a formula, it was quite challenging but everyone made a great effort.

Everyone has made a good start to learning ‘To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns. If you would like to enter the Scots Verse competition you need to be able to recite verses 1,2, 4, 7 and 8 by the end of next week. Good Luck!

Have a lovely Friday and great weekend when it arrives.

Mrs J

January 27, 2022
by EAjoanne.mair2@glow
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P7 TRANSITION TO LOUDOUN

Message for P7 Parents / Carers only

Dear Parent / Carer,

In order to assist the move from Primary to Secondary school, Loudoun Academy will be holding a P7 Parents Evening on Wednesday the 2nd of February at 6:30pm. The purpose of this meeting is to ensure that you are made aware of the essential information that will support pupils in transitioning to Loudoun Academy.

Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, we will be holding this session virtually – on Microsoft Teams. Below are joining instructions…

We ask PUPILS to join the Microsoft Team. Please do not join as a parent.
Log into Teams – preferably on the app, however the web browser version also works.
Click “Teams” from the List (usually located on the left hand side of the page)
Click “join or create team” (usually located on the top right)
Select “join team with a code” and enter the following code 2no140s
There should be a purple meeting bar within the Team at 6:30pm. Click join and this will allow you entry to the meeting.
We kindly ask you to mute your microphone and turn your camera off once you enter the meeting.
We will also recommend that pupils log in well in advance of the meeting in order to iron out any technical difficulties.

Please note the meeting will start promptly at 6:30pm.

Many Thanks

Neil Henderson

Depute Head Teacher (Acting)

January 21, 2022
by Mrs Miller
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Friday 21st January

It’s been a busy week in P3/2 with lots of great learning.

For our engineering competition, the children were asked, “If you were an engineer, what would you do?”

The challenge is to think of a problem and how you could create something to solve it. We looked at big examples, like bridges and how they solved travel problems. We looked at the telephone and how it solved communication problems. If you want to, you could chat with your child about a problem that happens for them, or something in the wider world. If they come up with a good idea, can you help them draw a sketch of it and bring it in to enter into the competition.

We have been doing fractions work in maths. We started by halving shapes and moved on to halving quantities and looking at how to write a half. We will be continuing this work next week.

The children are continuing to work hard on their phonic knowledge and reading strategies. Please keep reading and spelling with your children as much as possible at home.

We have been learning about electricity in science and the children will be having a go at making simple electrical circuits next week. They may have talked to you about the dangers of electricity, we will be making safety posters next week to consolidate this.

Have a great weekend. I look forward to hearing about it on Monday!

January 21, 2022
by Miss Frew
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P7F Week Beginning 17.1.22

This week for maths, we have been working on calculating the perimeter. We found it quite challenging at times and are continuing to practice our addition skills to help us with this. Next week we will be moving onto learning about the area of a shape.

We are coming to the end of our novel, “Carrie’s War.” We have been practicing reading aloud and focusing on reading with expression, using the punctuation to help us, and also using strategies such as using syllables to read unfamiliar words. Next week we hope to finish the novel and find out Carrie’s big secret!

We are also coming near the end of our World War 2 topic. This week we have learned about The Battle of Britain, D-Day and VE Day. We also learned about spies and espionage and spent time today learning about different coding techniques and trying to break codes. We really enjoyed using morse code, anagrams, ciphers and messages with patterns! Next Friday we will have an end of topic assessment to see how much we have learned during this topic.

We have been participating and preparing for the “If I were an engineer” competition and this week we developed our inventions and wrote a letter explaining how they work and why they should be chosen. We are really proud of our work and will be sending the entries off soon… Fingers crossed!

January 20, 2022
by Mrs Johnstone
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Week beginning 17.01.22

by Taylor and Ethan

This week we had fun with the primary engineer competition where we had to create our own invention to help solve problems around the world.

We also wrote a letter to an engineer and it was fun.

It was fun when we worked in groups to create a WW2 Air Raid Poster.

This week we learned more about negative numbers in maths.

This Wednesday with Miss Baillie we painted to make a Chinese new year drum.

Remember to log-on to educationcity each week to complete the homework tasks. It would also be most helpful if all pupils can log on to their Glow account /team page regularly, from home, to help commit passwords to memory.

Next week, our Scots verse poem will be given out to begin learning for our in-school competition. Look out for the sheets coming home. Our poem, ‘To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns will also be on the Team page.

Have a great Friday and lovely weekend!

Mrs J

January 19, 2022
by Mrs Miller
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January in p3/2

This term, we’ve started with a focus on Engineering and STEM (science.technologhy.engineering.maths)

As a school, we’re taking part in a competition with Primary Engineer. The children have to come up with a problem that they can solve with a design of their own.

To encourage the thinking that could help, we’ve been doing a range of challenges in class. Creating, counting, building, experimenting and designing. The children have been enjoying these activities and working really well with their peers.