Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

An East Ayrshire Council School

March 25, 2022
by Emma Ferguson
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P4 week ending 25/3/22

Happy Friday night everyone!  What fantastic weather we have had this week!!

 

P4 have been busy again this week.  We have continued to work on our Ancient Egyptian Art and it is almost finished.  The death masks are very colourful using the collage paper.  Painting skills are definitely improving and you will see this soon when the work comes home!!!

 

Spelling words were ‘ie’ sounding ‘i’ or ‘j’ and the kids had very active learning stations.  We used stampers, magnetic letters, scrabble tiles and Play doh to learn our spelling words.

P.E has been Creative Dance again this week and the children chose to look at ‘The Firebird’ as it related to work previously covered during ‘Making Thinking Visible’ tasks.  They are super fun and you can see by the photographs they are trying very hard and concentrating on the task.

They had to play in the secret garden and throw the golden apples to each other.  They did very well!!!

 

 

We started to research Ancient Egyptian Gods.  We had some personalisation and choice within this task.  We used the internet and books to find out facts and we are creating our own Leaflets.  You might hear about ‘Digging a Little Deeper’ with research.

 

We had some fun in writing last week as we had to write persuasive letters.  I decided we should write letters to Mrs Campbell requesting a school trip but this was a school trip with a difference – it was to Egypt!!! The kids wrote fabulous persuasive letters arguing their case to go to Egypt to learn more about the Ancient Culture – they were extremely persuasive but sadly Mrs Campbell says there’s not enough money in our school budget!!! Maybe the Parent Council can raise some funds!

 

The class have had a wee change recently to their reading books as they have been reading Play Scripts.  They thoroughly enjoy them and they have been lots of fun!!  We did some more acting this week as we found old school assembly scripts about Ancient Egypt so there’s more acting to come in P4!!!!

 

Maths has been slightly different too as we have been looking at rounding numbers up to 4 digits to the nearest 10 or 100 or 1000.  This is a work in progress but a great start made by all!! We have also been chatting about fractions specifically looking at 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8s.

 

Have a smashing weekend everyone and enjoy this nice weather!

Take care, Mrs Fx

March 25, 2022
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J March 14th – 25th

The time has been passing quickly over the last couple of weeks and it’s hard to believe we’ve almost reached the end of term 3!

Here’s a round-up of what we’ve been up to in P7J.

Interdisciplinary Learning

We have been learning about China.  In Literacy, we have identified the features of information leaflets and created our own leaflets on some of China’s main cities.  We have also been researching tourist attractions and worked in pairs to create and present PowerPoint slideshows. The paints have been out for art, as we looked at Ming vases and designed our own; these are looking fantastic on the classroom wall display.

For STEM, we were challenged to build a section of The Great Wall of China, with a zip-line linking two towers.  This was quite tough, and relied on teamwork and resilience.

We have even been learning some Mandarin!

Numeracy and Mathematics

Lots of effort has been going into learning about fractions and the various related calculations.  Some super posters have been made to demonstrate what everyone has learned so far about improper and mixed fractions, equivalent and simplified fractions and finding fractions of a quantity.  The next focus is on making links between fractions, decimals and percentages.

Please remember to return your home learning scrapbooks to school before the holiday.

Literacy and English

This week the focus has been on identifying the features of a balanced argument and writing our own.  As it has been Eco-week, we looked at the question: should fines be given for dropping litter?  Next week, we will develop what we have learned into having a debate about another environmental issue.

Eco-Week

On Monday we participated in a live lesson, by ‘Keep Scotland Beautiful’, about waste and litter.  There were three workshops to take part in and follow-up activities too: we designed litter monsters, made yarn dolls and set up an experiment to observe how different materials break down in compost.

We were also weeding the raised beds and planting tomato seeds.

 

 

March 25, 2022
by Miss Frew
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P7F Week Beginning 21.3.22

Literacy

We have continued to work on writing instructions this week and we wrote instructions for “How to Play Jenga.” We had to focus on the layout of our text and having clear instructions. Here are some examples of our work:

Well done!

Maths

Maths has been challenging this week as we have focused on fractions. We learned how to convert fractions into decimals and investigated the link between fractions and decimals. We are also continuing to learn our times tables. Please check teams on a Monday for homework for that week as this will help practice the skills we are developing in class.

IDL

We have continued to learn about China and were given a STEM challenge to build a section of the Great Wall of China using various construction materials. We have to work as a team and investigate how best to make the wall strong enough to stand on its own. This was great fun! 

P3/2 March Learning

March 23, 2022 by Mrs Miller | 0 comments

In PE, we have been working on a block of racquet skills. We are developing our hand and eye coordination. It’s been hard work but we are improving!

Here are some pictures of our measure work. We have measured weight, capacity, length and area.

We enjoy our active spelling activities. We do these three times a week to help us learn our spelling words. Ask your child which activities they enjoy, they could do these at home to help when working on their spelling words. Remember to help your child practise their phoneme words and common words that are written in their diaries.

 

 

 

 

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March 23, 2022
by Mrs Campbell
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P1-P4 Trip to Ayr Farm Park

I am very excited to inform you that this summer we will be able to take our pupils on a trip.

Stage: Primary 1-4

Date: Wednesday 8th June, 2022

Destination: Ayr Farm Park

Cost: £10

Please check your child’s bag for Parentpay letter for activation letter.
Please activate as soon as possible.

The transport costs will be paid for by the school.

The amount has to be paid by 20th May 2022.

March 22, 2022
by Mrs Campbell
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

EASTER HOLIDAY
School closes on Friday 1 April at  2.20pm (P5-P7) and 2.30pm ( P1-P4)
Pupils return on Tuesday 19th April, 22

Other Dates for your diary – Term 4:

  • Monday 2nd May – May holiday
  • Thursday 5th May – Inservice day
  • Thursday 2nd June – Local holiday
  • Friday 3rd June – Local holiday
  • School closes – Wednesday 29th June at 1pm

Link to school holidays – 21/22 and 22/23
please click on the link

March 20, 2022
by Mrs Carey
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Monday 21st March P2/1

Good morning, I hope you enjoyed the lovely weather this weekend and looks like we are set to have a nice week.

Language

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

day,  away,  always,  today

plus, phoneme diagraphs  oi, oy, ay, ai

Dory – key words for this week :

this, that , then, with, us, so,  much,  of , or

plus, phoneme diagraph ng

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 these phonemes

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 how money is used and recognise a range of coins. We will set up a class shop and use money to pay for items and then work out how much change is needed.

Count forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s

Number stories  find pairs that make 10 and 20 .

During outdoor learning we will be continuing to work on measure.  We will be developing the concepts capacity and volume. If you can, get out into the garden and measure some things around the garden using stones or if you have a sandpit find out how much various containers hold. You can measure the sand with plastic cups keeping it the same size to create  comparisons between items.

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.

 

 

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