Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

November 26, 2021
by Miss Frew
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P7F Week Beginning 22.11.21

In P7F, we have been researching a famous Scot because we will be delivering a solo talk on them on St Andrews Day (Tuesday 30th November). We began our research and preparations in class and are looking forward to delivering the talks on Tuesday! We are now going to practice our talks at home so we can deliver them confidently.

This week in maths we have focused on 2D shapes and tiling. We used shapes to draw some overlapping tiling patterns with Mrs Barclay and used some ICT to create bold tiling patterns too. We have also been learning about the different types of triangles and what quadrilaterals were. Test us at home!

In literacy, we done some outdoor spelling activities which we really enjoyed. We also started our new class novel called “Carrie’s War” and made some predictions about the book. The book is set during World War II and we are interested to find out more about the terrible thing that Carrie does…

We have also finished our first draft of our Kelpies story. We used lots of imagery, dialogue and each gave our stories a happy ending, sad ending or a cliff-hanger. Next week we are going to type them up and may be able to share some examples with you! We’re really proud of our work.

In topic, we used some primary sources to learn about how Britain prepared for the potential gas attacks and watched a real advert made by the government at the time encouraging people to wear them. We thought the masks looked quite frightening! We are also in the middle of making our own gas masks which we may use for a project later on in the topic…

Here are our posters about the military leaders in World War II that we made last week. We hope you like them!

-Miss Frew and P7F

November 23, 2021
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7 Talking and Listening Home Learning Task – 23.11.21

P7J have been set the challenge of researching a famous Scot and preparing a presentation about them.

The class have been asked to have their talks ready for the 30th November, St. Andrew’s Day!

It would be most helpful if pupils are able to have a practise at home so that they can check timings and develop confidence for presenting to the class.

Please ask your child for more details about the task.

I can’t wait to hear who each pupil has chosen to research and to find out more about some of the great Scots who inspire us, both past and present.

November 19, 2021
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P1L and Mrs Cuthbertson – Fri 19th Nov 2021

We have had another very busy week. We had a 2 minute silence and made our own poppies on Remembrance Day. We watched a lovely video about a rabbit which explained why we have Remembrance Day. We also helped to raise money for Pudsey Bear and Children in Need. We wore our pyjamas to school and took part in some Pudsey activities We had lots of fun making our own dough. At gym time we played team games and Rugby.

We are very proud of our Poppy display and our Scarecrow. We hope you like them too.

Next week we will be exploring Subitising as part of Number Sense. This is when you are able to look at a group of objects and realise how many are there without counting. Our Phonic sound will be ‘g’ and we will make our own Gumball machines.

We will continue to explore Autumn and the animals who hibernate during Winter. We will make Autumn Leaf Hedgehogs. If possible can your child bring to school 6 Autumn leaves. Thank you!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Cuthbertson x

November 19, 2021
by Miss Frew
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19.11.21 P7f blog

We did a interesting experiment about sea rising levels so firstly we had to put two small dishes into the two tubs . Then fill the two tubs up with water to 9ooml.After that put 3 ice cubes into one of the tubes.

Next put 3 more ice cube in the other tub but you need to put the ice on top dish inside of the tub.

Finally mark the water on the tubes before the ice melts then go back to the ice when it has melted and than Len down to eye level and you can see how much the water has raised

By miss frew and P7f. ;]

November 18, 2021
by Mrs Carey
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Primary 2/1 week beginning 22/11/21

This week we have been exploring the book ‘How big is a million?’ The children have been enjoying learning about penguins as a result and have been happy to bring in story books and their cuddly penguin toys. Next week we will be looking at the change of the seasons from autumn to winter.

Language

Nemos Group next week we will be consolidating the words and sounds covered over the last 3 weeks.

diagrpaghs – ay, ea, and ow as in snow.

common words –

day, away, always, today,

each, ask, year, ear,

yellow, grow, again, food

Dory’s group

initial sounds – r, m, d, e, c, k, ck

common words-

am, me, my, did, as, he, can, we, into

If you have time perhaps you can play some activities to revise these sounds such as:

scavenger hunt around the house looking for items that match the initial sounds or look in your child’s books for words with the digraphs.

throw a ball to spell the words

rainbow writing words or hide some words in a drawing and getting someone to find them.

I will also put more related language activities on Education City.

Maths

In maths this week we have been looking at sequencing numbers

0 to 10 forwards/backwards

counting 0 to 20, 2s to 20, 5s to 50, 10s to 100

Again I will add some activities for your child to try on Education City.

Have a lovely weekend. Mrs Carey

November 18, 2021
by Mrs Johnstone
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P7J Thursday 18th November

By Reece Mc and Jay-J

Maths

This week in maths we’ve been doing something called factors of a number and prime numbers. Prime numbers have exactly 2 factors and normal factors are numbers that can be divided equally into a whole number. An easy way to find factors and common factors (numbers like 1 and 2 can be common factors because they are factors of multiple numbers) is by drawing a factor rainbow.

STEM

In science we started to create crystals which will hopefully be finished in at least a few weeks with Miss Steedman.

We had to make a saturated solution by adding as much salt as possible. Then we suspended a paperclip into the solution using a straw, string and an elastic band. We can’t wait to see if crystals start to form!

Also, with Miss Little we tried dissolving a solid, trying to find which was faster: hot water or cold water. Hot water was overall quickest when dissolving salt.

In other areas of the curriculum we have also been very busy.

In Literacy, we have been learning:

how to use apostrophes to show possession in singular and plural words,
about consonant and vowel suffixes and their spelling rules;
how to write a newspaper report.

Miss Little also introduced our new topic on World War Two by discussing why it happened and we looked at maps to see which countries were involved.

November 17, 2021
by EAjoanne.mair2@glow
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SOCCER ACADEMY

November 15, 2021
by Miss Baillie
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Primary 4 – Remembrance Day

Primary 4 were working hard last week and learning all about Remembrance Day. Mr Ballantyne taught us all about the significance of poppies and why we have a 2 minute silence on the 11th of November. He helped us make a beautiful poppy using coffee filters, paint and crepe paper and they looked wonderful and we had so much fun (and a lot of mess) making them.

Here are some pictures of the finished products:

November 14, 2021
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P1L and Mrs Cuthbertson

Good morning,

We had a very busy week. In literacy we were learning all about the phonic ‘c’ and how to to make and break words before blending them together. We are really good at this. We have been investigating time, clocks and our daily routine. We can now tell the time of ‘o’clock’ on both digital and analogue clocks. In the afternoons we read the books ‘The Scarecrows Hat’ and the ‘Scare-go’. We made our own scarecrows which look fantastic in our classroom. At gym time we have been learning Basketball skills and played games of Basketball in teams. We had such a lot of fun.

I really enjoyed talking to the Mums and Dads during our telephone appointments. I am sure you are as proud of the children as I am.

Next week we will be focusing on Number Sense, the phonic ‘k’ and ‘ck’. In the afternoons we will be investigating Autumn and the changes around us.

Mrs Cuthbertson x

November 14, 2021
by Mrs Carey
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Monday 15th November

Good morning,

`I hope you have all had a fun weekend. Last week we were learning about recycling, being responsible about our use of plastics and climate change to support COP26. This week we will be exploring the habitat of penguins through the story, ‘How big is a million.’

Thank you for supporting your children with the maths scrapbook tasks.

Language – Dory Group

This week we will be learning about the phoneme c , why not have a look around your house for things beginning with this sound. We will also be learning to read and write the words:

can, we, into

Please can you also discuss your child’s word and sounds cards and reading book.

Language – Nemo Group

This week we will be learning the sound ow, as in snow. Can you spot this phoneme in any words of your books at home. Take care not to mix this sound with ow as in clown. Keep looking. The words we are learning to spell, read and write are:

yellow, grow, again, food

Please also prepare and discuss your reading book and word card.

I will send home this week the Education City log on details and there are homework tasks for your child available if you get an opportunity to carry them out.

Thanks have a good week.

Mrs Carey.