Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

December 21, 2021
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J – Feeling Festive

Well done to everyone today for using SCRATCH coding to create this animated message!

December 19, 2021
by Mrs Carey
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, enjoy all the festivities. The children certainly had lots of fun on Thursday with the screening of the pantomime ‘Aladdin’ and our Christmas Party. A great time was had by all. This week we will be continuing with our Christmas activities and your child will come home with some Reindeer dust to sprinkle on Christmas Eve to help Rudolph and his team find their way to your house. I hope all your elves will be behaving this week as excitement mounts.

Thanks for all the support this term with learning keys words, phonemes, number awareness and number bonds. It is all really appreciated.

I would now like to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2022. Have a great holiday when it comes.

With kind regards,

Rosie Carey.

December 17, 2021
by Miss Baillie
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Primary 4 – Week beginning 13.12.2021

WOW! The end of the last full week before Christmas! We are nearly at the holidays! Primary 4 have had a very fun but very busy week as we did lots of Christmas activities and had a few treats along the way!

We worked on a challenging tessellation activity with Miss Steedman where they had to fit the 9 Christmas trees together and did a fantastic job!

On Monday we had a blast at our Christmas party! We all looked fabulous while playing games and dancing.

We sadly could not go to the Panto this year however, we watched a live recording of it on Thursday and even had an ice pole as a treat! We pretended we were in the Palace Theatre and loved watching it!

The whole school were given ornaments made by a pupil’s grandfather and we enjoyed painting our designs on them. Here are the finished products!

As you can see we have had a very busy, Christmassy week and we will be enjoying lots more Christmas treats/activities next week.

Have a jolly weekend,

Miss Baillie & Mrs Ferguson

December 17, 2021
by User deactivated
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P1L – Friday 17th Dec 2021

We have had a very fun filled week in Primary 1. The children have steadily become more and more excited this week! We have made fantastic Snowman cards, holly wreaths, Santa puppets and paper chains. The children have become very creative, independent and are so well organised for any task they take part in. Sometimes it’s hard to believe how young they are.

We watched the story ‘Stickman’ by Julia Donaldson. We really enjoyed it and made story maps to retell the story. We investigated different ways we could use a stick and the children came up with some amazing ideas.

We had a very different Thursday this week . We watched the Pantomime Aladdin in our classroom. We had delicious ice poles and sweets and laughed a lot at Wishy Washy. After lunch we had our Christmas party. We played the games corners and musical statues and danced to The Macarena, 5,6,7,8 and Cha Cha slide. We had lots of delicious party food as well. We were all very tired at home time. The boys looked so handsome in their party outfits and the girls looked like Princesses. Well done Mums and Dads for all your effort helping the children to look so amazing.

Next week is a short week but we will keep busy with Christmas Phonics, ‘Christmaths’, stories, art and crafts, fun games and challenges. I am certain the children will become even more excited as we get closer to the holidays. Thank you so much to all of the children for working so hard and for constantly making me smile and giggle.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Hugs from Mrs Cuthbertson xxx

December 17, 2021
by Ms Wilson
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P6 Week beginning 13.12.21

What a Christmas cracker of a week!

Primary 6 have been busy doing a range of activities from festive fractions to Christmassy crafts.

We have been finding out how people in Victorian times celebrated Christmas. Did you know that sending cards, pulling crackers and decorating a tree were all started by the Victorians?

In class ,we have been making cards, crackers, table and window decorations and painting clay ornaments. We hope you like them.

On Tuesday afternoon we had great fun at our Christmas party. We played games such as Santa’s Statues, Pass the Present and Christmas Corners. We also danced to some old favourites like Cha Cha Slide, Superman and Agadoo. We were all glad to sit down for a rest and enjoy our party food.

Yesterday, we got the opportunity to watch the Palace Theatre’s pantomime, Aladdin. It was very to different to the Disney version but we enjoyed it very much!

December 17, 2021
by Miss Frew
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P7F Week Beginning 13.12.21

We can’t believe this is our last full school week of 2021! Time has flown.

This week has been Christmas fever- we have done Christmas themed spelling words and created Christmas stories for P2/1. We made them into PowerPoint story books and read them over Teams. We hope they enjoyed them!

Thursday was our busiest day! We watched a live stream of the Pantomime and got ice lollies during the first Act. We really enjoyed the experience! In the afternoon, we have our class party and had lots of fun games and activities.

#KilliePanto

Thank you for all your help and support during Term 2. We hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Love Miss Frew and P7F

December 16, 2021
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J Week Beginning 13.12.21

It has been a fun and festive week in P7J this week!

Fantastic problem solving skills were on display when P7J were challenged to complete some Christmas themed sudoku puzzles. We started with a puzzle that contained 6 pictures on Monday and worked up to a really tricky 9 on Wednesday.

It was also time to check on the crystal experiment that Miss Steedman had set up with us a few weeks ago. It was really interesting observing what had happened! Take a look at our crystals…

Everyone has been very creative this week too. We had fun learning how to thread a needle, do a running stitch and sew on a button. After some practice, we were able to put our new skills to good use by making some tree decorations. Everyone did brilliantly!

Today we were treated to a viewing of the Palace Theatre’s pantomime, Aladdin. It was great to be able to watch the show from our classroom.

We followed this with our Christmas party. We played corners, musical statues and musical arms, and danced to the Macarena, Cha Cha Slide and the YMCA (which we changed to XMAS) to name but a few. After all that energetic dancing, we enjoyed some yummy pizza. So, it’s been a very festive and fun day today!

Spot the Elf on the shelf, Christmas trees with gifts and Santa with his sleigh!

Enjoy the rest of the week and the weekend when it arrives.

Mrs Johnstone

December 15, 2021
by Mrs Campbell
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Are you struggling to keep your home warm?

If so, please contact our Financial Inclusion Officer. There are some provisions, and services that could give advice and support if you struggle with gas/electricity supply etc.

Child Winter Heating Assistance- an automatic annual payment where a child/young person has high rate care on either Disability Living Allowance/Child Disability Payment, or enhanced daily living component of Personal Independence Payment.
Cold Weather Payment- Automatic payment for people on certain types/levels of benefit entitlement when average temperature over a period of time is zero degrees Celsius or below over 7 consecutive days and can take account if you have had a baby or a child under five lives with you.
Warm Home Discount– Gives money off your electricity bill, or if your supplier gives you both gas and electricity, money off the gas bill. It is a payment for those on Pension Guaranteed Credit or certain others on low income who meet the criteria through your supplier.
Winter Fuel Payment-Currently for those born on/before 26 September 1955, with some exceptions, to help pay for heating. Paid annually. You usually get a Winter Fuel Payment automatically if you are eligible and you get the State Pension or some other social security benefits. If you are eligible but do not get paid automatically, you will need to make a claim.

Or contact Julie our Financial Inclusion Officer for assistance.

Julie McCall

Tel: 07584 490 511

Email: julie.mccall@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

December 15, 2021
by Mrs Campbell
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