Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

December 10, 2021
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P1L and Mrs Cuthbertson – Fri 10th December 2021

I can’t believe its Friday again! Time really does fly when you are having fun, and we have certainly had lots of fun this week. Our Elf has been busy getting up to mischief.

Monday – Elf covered himself in our stickers.

Tuesday – Elf made a ball pool with our pom poms.

Wednesday – Elf had a snowball fight with our class toys.

Thursday – Elf decorated our Xmas tree with Haribo.

Friday – Elf climbed on a rope up our dolls house leaving a trail of Batman Christmas gold chocolate coins.

He did share all of the Haribo and chocolate coins with us.

Literacy – We have focused on the phonic ‘f’ and made beautiful poinsettia flowers. Our common words were it, for, on and we will continue to focus on these words next week. We use ‘break and blend’ to help us work out new words. We also read a lovely story called ‘The Puppy Who wanted a boy’. We talked about the characters and setting in the story and created fantastic story maps.

Next week our phonic is ‘O’ and our common words are it, for, on. We will read the story ‘Stick Man’ and will create story maps.

Numeracy – We took part in lots of number sense activities focusing on different ways to show a number. We used dominoes, ten frames, dice, fingers, pictures and a variety of goldfish bowl resources. We are so clever when taking part in these activities. Ask your child to talk about it and you will be impressed.

Next week we will continue to explore numbers. We will focus on number sequence, teen numbers and counting in 2’s and 10’s.

We also explored the traditions associated with Christmas and the Nativity story. We read the story ‘Santas Underwear’ which is so funny! We made beautiful snow globes to decorate our classroom.

Next week we will explore Xmas around the world and how different countries and religions celebrate Christmas. The children are keen to make Xmas cards and Santa Puppets.

Your children work so hard in Primary 1 and they continue to impress me every day! They are super excited about Christmas and love to complete our Christmas activities. I am sure they will be even more excited next week and it really is lovely to get caught up in it all.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Hugs from Mrs Cuthbertson xx

December 10, 2021
by Ms Wilson
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P6 Week beginning 6th December

Friday again, what a quick week.

We have been very busy this week working on lots of activities. In literacy, we planned and wrote a diary extract from a Victorian character’s viewpoint. We enjoyed reading our work out to our peers. For our talking and listening task, we created interview questions to ask a Victorian working child about their job. We had fun acting out our interviews and taking turns to be the interviewer and the interviewee.

In Numeracy and Maths, we learned how to record fractions in two different ways and in maths we explored the properties of quadrilaterals.

It was our final skiing and tubing session on Thursday. Most of us enjoyed the chance to ski on the big slope. Although it was scary, we all made it safely to the bottom.

We are still working hard with our Aladdin rehearsals and are really good at the first three songs. Miss Frew and Mrs Wilson were very impressed with the quality of our singing.

Next week, we will be focusing on the meaning of Christmas, who the real Santa Claus was and learning about Christmas in Victorian times.

December 10, 2021
by Miss Baillie
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P4 – Week beginning: 6.12.21

Hello P4,

We have had a very interesting week! Our naughty elf has been causing mishief as usual and even went as far as to rip up Miss Baillie’s plans on Thursday (she was not very happy) and declare we had a digital learning day! No pens/pencils were allowed to be used all day! We took part in Vetastic Adventures where we joined a teams meeting with a vet who told us all about his job, answered lots of our questions and played fun quizzes with us! A lot of schools were involved and we got to see their questions and hear their thoughts too!

We also had an amazing opportunity to take part in an Ancient Egyptians workshop with Nation Museums Scotland learning about mummification and the afterlife. This included learning about the mummification process, looking and discussing different ancient artefacts and working out words from the hieroglyphics. We had a lot of fun and learned some new things about our topic!

We have also been writing letters to Santa and learning about how we celebrate Christmas.

Have a nice weekend,

Miss Baillie & Mrs Ferguson

December 9, 2021
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J – 9th December

This week we have been working hard on our World War 2 display. We have been drawing Spitfires (aircraft used during the war) and making model gas masks. Designing and making our own gas mask boxes was a challenge; we had to do accurate measuring and draw our own nets. Our gas masks had to fit and we also had to have a strap to carry the box. At the end we tested our designs to see if they would work.

Some of the work we completed with Miss Little is on display now too. Here is our Remembrance display of oil pastel poppies and poetry.

… and our Victory Gardens.

In maths, we had a fastest finger first challenge using MSTeams for mental arithmetic. It was fun!

We have also been learning about the properties of squares.

Today, we took part in an online workshop called Vetastic Adventures; it was really fun and interesting learning about work as a vet.

December 8, 2021
by Mrs McMillan
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Primary 3. 7th December

We are getting super excited for Christmas. The class tree is up, there is chocolate in the advent calendar and we have been following the adventures of Palmer and Santa on Santa’s South Pole journey. This has also helped to remind us of things we can do to help our planet.

Our new phonemes for this week are e – e and au. Keep practising these and your tricky words. They are in your diary and there are lots of ways to practise before Friday’s spelling test.

Diary 6.12.21

Last week we learned about St Andrew and how he became Scotland’s patron saint. We also learned about the Scottish flag.

We finished our class book The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and it earned a round of applause in the last chapter when Plop discovered he really was a night owl. We learned lots of interesting facts about barn owls and made our own factfiles.

We also tried sharing what we knew and had learned about COP26 with a talk partner. Lots of information and views and opinions were discussed. P3 really learned a lot about climate change, greenhouse gases and carbon footprints.

This week we will be using a new strategy in maths to do subtraction. We are using grids and partitioning the calculation into tens and units to help us subtract.

Here are some things that we learned last week.

Mrs McMillan

December 7, 2021
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Tuesday 7th December 2021

Hello everyone,

We have put the Christmas tree up in P 3-2 and we are taking turns turns opening the advent calendar. Last week we learned about St Andrew’s Day and we made thistles and tasted porridge. We also added fruit into the porridge and loads of the children really enjoyed trying honey in it too. We wrote a story about a Christmas tree and we have been learning about safe and unsafe substances and how to keep ourselves safe in different situations.

This week the common words are ;

apples- our, down, off bananas -was, just ,are pears- the an is. Remember to practice reading the common words on the card in your reading book.

The new phoneme this week is oy .See how many oy words you can share with a grown up.

In Numeracy we have been working hard on addition and place value of the numbers up to 100 as well as data handling.We can count in ones really well but counting backwards from a number is much harder. See if you can practise counting backwards from 20 to 0 or from e,g 40-30 or 30-20. Counting in 10’s helps us to add and subtract 10 from a number quickly.

Today was gym day so here are some photos( tried to get everyone in !

Mrs Muir and primary 3-2

December 6, 2021
by Mrs Campbell
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Tuesday 21st December – Santa comes to Hurlford !!

As we are unable to have Santa visit our school this year, Santa has agreed to come into the Community to wave to our children in our ECC and Primary.

On Tuesday 21^st December from 5pm to approx. 6pm, Santa will be driven along the following route to wave to our pupils. Staff will also come along too and join in the fun!

Why not come out into your garden or pavement and wave to Santa as he goes by? If Santa, is not visiting your street, please find a safe place to stand along the route and wave. Please note that Santa and staff will not be able to stop.

It is very important that everyone remembers social distancing and only stand in your family bubble.

The route is as follows:

SANTA ROUTE MAP

Depart Hurlford Primary, Union Street at 5pm
Turn left onto Riccarton Road
Turn left onto Dewalden Road
Then onto Morris Crescent
Turn left onto Blair Avenue
Then right onto Mauchline Road
Then along Kerrmuir Avenue
Turn right up Drumleyhill Drive
Then right onto Richardson Avenue
Then right onto Kerrmuir Avenue
Then right onto Liffnock Avenue
Right onto Mauchline Road
Left onto Academy Street
Right onto Union Street
Arrive Hurlford Primary.

This event has been carefully risk assessed and has been organised by the school, in discussion with East Ayrshire’s Events & Resilience Officer.

We hope that this event will bring some festive cheer to the community and that you will enjoy waving to Santa!

December 6, 2021
by EAjoanne.mair2@glow
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P7J

Good Morning,

If you are at home you can access learning tasks via TEAMS. If you are unsure of your password, please phone the school and we can reset.

Thank you.

December 6, 2021
by Miss Baillie
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P4 – Week beginning 22.11.21 & 29.11.21

We have been very busy in P4 the last couple of weeks. For Children in Need we had an extremely busy day as were called upon by the police to help them solve a missing persons case. Poor Pudsey Bear got lost on his way home and we were asked to help find him. They gave us copies of the clothes he was wearing and the class made missing posters using lots of fantastic adjectives to describe Pudsey so that people knew who to look out for. And thanks to the marvelous posters Pudsey was luckily found! Phew! 🙂

We have been working hard on adding this Term and learning new strategies to help us add big numbers. We have also been learning how to tell the time and could practice this at home.

We also said goodbye to Mr Ballantyne last week as his short stay with us is over. We had lots of fun getting to know him and he taught us lots of new things. We will miss him and wish him well in the future! He said that he really enjoyed his time with Primary 4 and is sad to be leaving.

We are now in the run up to Christmas and will be doing lots of Christmas activities to get ready to celebrate the holiday.

Have a fantastic week everyone,

Miss Baillie & Mrs Ferguson.

December 5, 2021
by Mrs Carey
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Monday 6th December

Hello everyone, I hope you all had a lovely weekend and that all your Elves are behaving. Last week it was exciting opening our advent calendars, putting up the decorations and exploring things we like to do in winter. For health and wellbeing we enjoyed the story, ‘Zog and the flying doctor’ by Julia Donaldson and will examine the use and safekeeping of medicines. Our role play this week will be a doctor’s surgery to support our study of medicines.

Language this week:

Nemo Group

common words – very, took, fast, there

digraph – aw like crawl, hawk

Dory Group – There will be a new word list with reading books also to learn.

common words – if, for, on

phonemes f and o

Please try to play some games with these words and maybe do a scavenger hunt to find items with these sounds. I will add activities to support this week’s work on Education City.

Thanks for your help with all language work, it really supports the work that we do in class.

Maths

We are continuing to explore place value, number patterns and sequences. The children last week were working very hard to double and half numbers.

Octopus Group – continue to work on numbers to 20

Starfish Group – continue to work on numbers to 100

Please have fun counting in 2s, 5s and 10s anytime you get the opportunity, climbing the stairs is always a good place to do this.

Can you spot numbers in your street?What do you notice about the patterns of house numbers on either side of the street?

Have fun this week.

Mrs Carey