Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

An East Ayrshire Council School

March 20, 2022
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P1L and Mrs Cuthbertson – 20/03/22

Good afternoon!

I hope you are enjoying this beautiful weather. It’s so good to see the sunshine at last. We have had another fun week in Primary 1. We wrote stories about Goldilocks which were super. We were learning all about ‘ee’ and were able to look through our story books to find words with ‘ee’ in them. We made sheep for our new Spring display .

       

We have been working hard learning all about subtraction and addition and this week we explored symmetry too. The children brought some symmetrical items from home and were able to explain what made them symmetrical. We looked around the room for symmetrical things too and played fun games on the whiteboard.

            

Our favourite activity this week was ‘gym time’. We used some of the large apparatus and had fun  jumping, balancing, climbing, sliding and crawling.

        

Next week our new sound is ‘sh’ and we are still working hard learning our common words. When you are looking at the common words card at home ask your child if he or she can put each word in a sentence. We will continue with addition and subtraction using lots of games and equipment. In the afternooon we will plant seeds and learn all about how plants grow.

We will pop outside for some outdoor learning too, which I am sure the children will love.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend

Mrs Cuthbertson xxx

March 18, 2022
by Ms Wilson
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P6: week beginning 14th March 2022

It’s Friday again, what a quick week. P6 have been working very hard.

In numeracy we have been learning how to use function machines to calculate input and output numbers. It was a little bit tricky but we got the hang of it.

This week we finished our class novel, ‘The Last Wolf’. Although it had a sad ending we all agreed it was an enjoyable and heartwarming story. Next week we will write a book review.

For our Space topic we learned about the Space race of the 1950s and 60s.  We then worked with a partner to create a moonscape showing the first moon landing in 1969.

Today was Red Nose Day. We played some online games, did lots of puzzles and designed our own noses. It was great to see everyone wearing red.

We’re looking forward to getting out in sunshine over the weekend.

March 16, 2022
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Big Walk and Wheel 2022

Our Junior Road Safety Officers are delighted to announce that we have registered to participate in the Big Walk and Wheel 2022, please click on the SWAY below for further information.

Pupils should be encouraged to walk, scoot or bike to school (wearing a helmet) and use the new racks available to store their bikes/scooters through the day.

We would also encourage park and stride, using the car parks at the Co-op or the Chinese and then walking the remaining distance to school.

Our JRSOs will be out with our parking buddies and golden tickets so please park in a safe space.

Go to this Sway

March 15, 2022
by Miss Frew
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Recent Work in P7F

Over the past few weeks, P7F have worked really hard to develop their skills in all areas of the curriculum. Here is a quick update on some of the things we have been working on!

 

Maths

In maths, we have been focusing on our knowledge and understanding of decimals. We have learned to identify the value of these numbers and also can add and subtract them using the written method. Here is an example of some work:

We have also started to look at our times tables. We learned the stations in our 2 times table then created an outdoor learning game to practice. Luckily it stayed dry for us!

This week, we will be continuing to learn our times tables and will also start to look at fractions.

 

Literacy

We are doing a block of instructional writing this term and have explored the features of the genre. Each week, we will pick out a board game from our class collection, learn how to play it and then write our own instructions for that game. Last week, we spoke about Connect 4, and discussed various strategies and tips to win the game. We then wrote our instructions which were detailed and included top tips.

For reading, we are taking a break before beginning our new class novel in Term 4 and are instead focusing on using Giglets. This is a website which can be accessed at home and can help pupils practice their fluency and understanding.

 

IDL

At the end of February, we were learning about the Christian celebration of Mardi Gras and how it was celebrated throughout the world. We learned that Mardi Gras was the same as pancake day but learned that in some parts of the world, it was celebrated by having a huge parade and eating King Cakes instead of pancakes. Jazz music was also a huge part of Mardi Gras. To demonstrate our learning, we worked together to create a wall display, made Mardi Gras masks and also had the chance to bake and eat some King Cakes. Yum!

We are learning about China as our new topic. So far, we have explored where China is in the world and its neighbouring countries and have compared how China and Scotland are similar and different. We also done some research about China and made some information leaflets which we are really proud of.

 

Thank you for reading our class update!

Miss Frew and P7F

March 14, 2022
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J – March 7th -11th

Last week in P7J we had lots of different learning experiences.

We completed our work on Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ music by composing some tunes of our own.  Each group had a selection of instruments and were tasked with creating an 8 beat tune, inspired by winter.  This was good fun and everyone worked well as part of a team to count beats and come in at the correct time.

Our numeracy focus was on adding and subtracting fractions.  We had to use our prior learning, from last week, about mixed and improper fractions to help with these calculations.

Continuing with our study of poetry, we looked at limericks.  These are funny, five line poems which rhyme. Here is Codey’s for you to enjoy!

There once was an unusual parrot,

Who for some reason loved to eat carrots,

The bigger the better,

He said in his letter,

Oh, what an unusual parrot!

 

As part of our topic on China, Miss Little set the challenge of researching the giant panda.  Notes were collected and then used to write non-chronological reports.

 

John Muir Award and Outdoor Learning

We started a four week rotation for outdoor learning on Thursday.  We were so glad it wasn’t raining!

Group one was helping P3/2 pupils to make bird feeders out of plastic milk cartons. Group 2 was weeding the raised bed and sowing seeds: we planted lettuce, sweetcorn and courgette seeds this week.  Group 3 was hunting for animal tracks hidden around the playground and trying to identify them.  Group four was given a S.T.E.M challenge to build a bird’s nest; this was not as easy as everyone first thought! Lots of problem solving was going on, testing designs and improving them. 

We’re looking forward to another interesting week this week.

Remember to look out for the homework folder on educationcity.com.

March 13, 2022
by Mrs Carey
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Monday 14th March 2022

Good morning, I hope you enjoyed the sunshine this weekend and let’s hope there is more to come. We had a very busy week in P2/1 last week, measuring, taking on the role of being palaeontologists, and also running our busy cafe in the home corner. The children had lots of fun. I’ve listed below some things you can perhaps participate in with your child over the next week.

Language

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

said could her before

plus, phoneme diagraphs  ck, ai, oy, oa, qu

Dory – key words for this week :

much of or

plus, phoneme diagraph ch

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

We are learning to count back to take away.

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

Number stories  find pairs that make 10 and 20 .

In addition, last week and this week, we will be continuing to work on measure. Perhaps 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 might be surprised at what you find out. You can measure the sand with plastic cup 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 read and write some of the words on your word list too.

Thanks for your continued support.

Have fun week.

Mrs Carey.

 

 

 

March 11, 2022
by Ms Wilson
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P6: Week beginning 7th March 2022

Primary 6 have been working very hard and the week has flown by!

In our Space topic, we have enjoyed learning about the phases of the moon and solar and lunar eclipses. Next week we will be finding out how space has been explored.

The focus in numeracy has been finding and using the link between fractions, decimals and percentages. In maths we have been exploring the nets of 3D shapes.

Yesterday, at PE, we were practising our badminton skills. We can all serve the shuttle over the net and sustain a short rally.

Today, our literacy task was to write an acrostic poem based on Space. We all did a fantastic job and enjoyed sharing our ideas with our peers. We also drew amazing observational drawings of space exploration equipment.

We are now looking forward to a relaxing weekend!!

 

 

 

 

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