Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

As part of Inclusion Week the Primary 7 pupils liaised with staff and pupils and selected some resources that they thought would support pupils in their learning.  These resources include fidget aids, spellcheckers, ACE dictionaries, ear defenders, coloured overlays and reading rulers.

These resources were then all put together as a Helping Hands pack and issued to P4 – P7 classes.  It has to be reiterated that these are learning aids and not toys.

A thank you to Mr and Mrs Milligan who donated £100 to the school to purchase spell checkers – they are an invaluable support to some of our pupils.

Nikki Manson

Our pupils really enjoyed Nikki’s visit to the school this afternoon.  They participated in the circuits activity (looking very red faced) and then participated in a question and answer session using TEAMS.  It was such an honour to have a Scottish record holder in the school and we wish Nikki all the best in her future competitions.  Please click on the link above for more information about Nikki.

Thank you so much to all who fund raised – Nikki received £1400 and the school £2100 – a fantastic amount!  Thank you.

Have a lovely week.

October holiday – School closes Friday 8th Oct, at normal times.
Pupils return Tuesday 19th October

https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/Resources/PDF/S/School-Holidays-2021-22.pdf

Good morning, I just thought I would post an update about what your children have been working on in class recently.

Primary 1

We have been developing the sound that the letters of the alphabet make and have learnt about the first 6 initial phonemes. We have explored action songs and looked at things that begin with the letters a, t, s, i, p and n. We have also looked at the position they hold in the alphabet rainbow. In addition we have been using these letters to make words like a, at, sat, sit, pin, pan. We then blend these letters together to decode and read these words. I hope you have been enjoying sharing the wordless books and discussing them with your children. Thanks for also supporting your child with the first set of key words on the hedgehog – a, at, the, I, in , it, an, is, and,

In maths we have been exploring numbers to 10. Please enjoy learning with your children by counting things around your house or if your are out about perhaps you can do some number spotting. We count from zero to 10 forwards and backwards. if your climbing the stairs that could be a good opportunity to do some counting. Have fun.

Primary 2

In primary 2 we have been exploring the diagraphs;

sh, ch, th, ng, wh, ph looking at stories that contain these sounds and identifying words with these sounds within them. The children are becoming familiar at looking for these sounds in words in stories as well as looking for words that begin or end with these sounds.

We have been developing strategies to spell the following common words:

have, your, only, by

are, come, of, new

To help learn to spell these words the activities that we have been doing are – rainbow writing, word walls, drawing a spelling story and pyramid writing.

In maths we are sequencing numbers from 0 to 20 , exploring number  before, after and between. Counting in 2s to 20, 10s to 100 both forwards and backwards.

Thanks for supporting your children with their work.

Have a good week.

Rosie Carey