Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

This week we have been finding out about the meaning of Advent.  We looked at Advent wreaths and crowns and learned that the five candles represent Hope, Peace, Love, Joy and the Birth of Jesus.  After that, we had fun making our own Advent calendars to hang up at home.

For literacy, we have been writing recounts. This week our task was to write about the day in the life of a Victorian kitchen maid.  Some of us even wrote in Victorian style handwriting.

In maths we have been finishing our unit on multiplying and dividing and will be moving on to Fractions and Decimals.  Our tables facts are going to come in very useful!  We have also been learning all about the properties of 2D shapes with Miss Baillie and Mrs Canning.

On Thursday we had our second-last skiing and tubing session.  It was great fun learning how to change direction using the snowplough technique. In the afternoon we learned a new song and all the actions during our Disney Aladdin rehearsal.  We are definitely one jump ahead…

Please note pupils should come dressed in their party clothes on the day of their party.

The school will provide the food for party food and prizes. No money is required.

Flyer Final (1)

Please click on the link above to see what the plans are for the are at the co-op and Academy Street.    The P7s were involved in the consultation – now it is open to the community, please make your views and opinions known.  The feedback is much appreciated.

Thank you.

Hello everyone, I hope today is the start of an exciting, action packed week on the lead up to Christmas. Last week we continued to wrap up our work on COP26 and How big is a million. The children have been busy recycling and reusing and have become very conscientious about taking care of the planet. It’s great to hear their enthusiasm for reducing climate change in any little way they can. In addition we have been looking at the season Autumn and this week will study Winter and the impact these seasons have on our way of life and that of animals and wildlife around us.

Language

Nemo’s group

Key words for this week are:

blue, best, number, other

The digraph sound that we are working on this week is ue like blue.

Dory’s group

Key words this week:

go, got, get

The initial sound will be g.

If you can please play with these words throwing a ball, making them with buttons, drawing them or anyway you like. Try to spot the words and sounds in your own books or anywhere around you.

Maths

We will continue to look at number patterns, sequences and counting. We will also look at estimation.

if you get the opportunity can you use coins to practise the number bonds to 10.  The children in class use a plastic cup with 10 double sided counters to do this. if you put coins in the cup and tip them out count how many land heads up say 6 and the ones that land tails up say 4 then that would be:

6 + 4 = 10

I will add some more activities to education city your child  to try.

Have a good week.

Mrs Carey