Hurlford Primary School and Early Childhood Centre

An East Ayrshire Council School

November 5, 2021
by EAjoanne.mair2@glow
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Hurlford Primary School to see artwork displayed in front of world leaders at COP26

We are delighted to announce that:

  • Hurlford Primary pupils have been announced as winners in Royal Bank’s MoneySense ClimateSavers Top Trumps competition
  • Both 11 year-old’s design to be exhibited in front of delegates and world leaders throughout the COP26 Conference

Two pupils from Hurlford Primary School will see their artwork exhibited on the world stage at the COP26 climate conference after being announced as  winners in Royal Bank of Scotland’s MoneySense ClimateSavers Top Trumps competition.

 In the run up to COP26, the bank’s MoneySense Climate Savers Top Trumps competition tasked school pupils with designing an exclusive set of the iconic playing cards promoting sustainable behaviours.

 Across the UK and through its NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank brands, entrants were asked to use their creativity to design their own versions of the cards that show the everyday actions young people can take such as switching to a reusable water bottle or cycling to school.

 Alfie and Cara  saw off competition from over 2,000 entrants and impressed judges with their entries.

 Alfie and Cara will be two of 26 winners to have their cards featured in the new Top Trumps deck, shown to delegates and world leaders throughout the COP26 Conference in Glasgow.

Alfie and Cara were each sent a goody bag containing prizes including a pair of Adidas Parley trainers – made from recycled ocean plastics, a Top Trumps bundle and 30 sets of the competition cards to share with their friends and family.

November 5, 2021
by Ms Wilson
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P6: Week Beginning 01.11.21

It’s been another busy week! The focus again has been on climate change linked to the COP26 Conference in Glasgow.

This week we have been learning about saving energy, our carbon footptint and the problems of plastic waste.  We worked in trios to find information and share our learning with our peers.  It made us think about the small changes we can all make to reduce our waste by reusing and reducing as much as possible. We also took part in quality discussions about Climate Actions which gave us the opportunity to express our views and opinions.

Yesterday, we had great fun at Newmilns ski slope.  We learned how to change direction by using the snowplough technique.  The instructors set us a challenge to ski through the gap between two marker cones.  Some of us found it quite tricky, but we all gave it a go.

We were very excitied yesterday at our Disney Aladdin rehearsal as we found out which parts we would be playing.  We can’t wait to start learning our lines, songs, dance routines and stage directions…it’s going to be a whole new world!!

November 5, 2021
by Miss Frew
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P7F Week Beginning 1.11.21

What a busy week in P7F! Mrs Barclay has joined our class this week and we have wowed her with our hard working attitude . In maths we have been focusing on rounding and have pushed ourselves to round up to the nearest  million.

COP26 has been a focus again this week and we  have deepened our understanding of climate change. We were lucky enough to take part in a Creative Minds workshop and will be using this knowledge to write our own myths about the Kelpies.

October 29, 2021
by Ms Wilson
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P6 Week beginning 25.10.21

Primary 6 have been working very hard on a range of lessons and activities relating to the up and coming COP26 Conference.  We have been finding out about different climates around the world.  There are six main climate zones – did you know that Scotland is in the Temperate Zone?  In art we  used visualisation to help us create a collage on how we see climate change.

In another activity we had to use our detective skills to find evidence of climate change in a range of photographs, graphs and data – it was quite tricky but we helped each other look for clues.

Today was very exciting as it was Hallowe’en also known as Killieween!. We enjoyed coming to school dressed up and taking part in lots of Hallowe’en activities and games in the classroom.

October 28, 2021
by Mrs Campbell
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Child Disability Payment from 22nd November 2021 in Scotland

Child Disability Payment from 22nd November 2021 in Scotland

Scotland’s Child Disability Payment opens for new applications across Scotland from 22 November 2021 following a pilot launched in July in other areas of Scotland.

This is the first of the application based disability benefits to be introduced by the Scottish Government and replaces the UK Government’s Disability Living Allowance for children.

Any new claims from 22/11/21 will be for Child Disability Payment for children with a Scottish postcode.

Existing claims of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for children aged 15-17yrs will gradually be transferred over to Child Disability Payment by spring 2022.  The remainder of claims are expected to be transferred by spring 2023.

Parents/Carers will be contacted at the time when this process will be carried out for their child.  You will not need to re-apply at this time and payments will remain the same during transfer.  Your payments will be from Social Security Scotland instead of the Department for Work and Pensions.

For further information go to –

https://www.mygov.scot/child-disability-payment/applicants

 

Or contact Julie our Financial Inclusion Officer for assistance.

Julie McCall

Tel: 07584 490 511

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

 

October 28, 2021
by Mrs Johnstone
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This week in P7J…

by Alfie and Macy
‘This week we did a lot such as:
 Halloween writing and art,

Our focus was on including shading and tone to create atmosphere.  We did this by adjusting how heavily we leaned with the pencil and by using cross-hatching.

 

 Adding and subtraction of decimal numbers,

We have been practising the column method of written working for these calculations.

 a lot of stuff for COP26,

 Spellmadoodle.🐢🐢🐢🐢’

October 23, 2021
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Primary 1L – Money week

 

The children in Primary 1 have been learning all about money this week. We can identify coins from 1p up to £2. We talked about where our money comes from and why we need it. The children enjoyed taking part in our ‘needs and wants’ activities and were able to identify all of the things we really need in our lives. Our story was ‘The Old Man and his money’ which you can find on you tube.

The children created some fantastic story maps to retell the story. The children were really interested in the pictures on each coin and were fascinated with the story about the Portcullis on the 1p. Ask your child to tell you all about it.

 

 

Mr Robertson from Loudoun Academy came to visit us. He really enjoyed watching the children engaged in Phonics activities and was keen to join in!

As a school we will be focusing on different contexts raised during COP 26 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference , being held in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November. Primary 1 Have been learning all about Commotion In The Ocean, and all the different creatures living in the Sea. We will now investigate Plastic Pollution in the Ocean as part of our COP 26 focus. The children have created a fantastic Ocean display in our classroom and will now see what happens when we introduce lots of plastic to our Ocean.

Homework task – can each child please bring a small piece of plastic ie. yoghurt pot, food tray, carton. We will explore how each piece of plastic can have a negative effect on our Ocean and the creatures living there.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

From Mrs Cuthbertson x

October 22, 2021
by Miss Baillie
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Primary 4 – 22.10.2021

Hello Primary 4,

We have had a fantastic start to Term 2 this week. The whole school has been participating in finance week and learning all about managing money. We have completed lots of challenging tasks and worked very hard to learn more about different types of money and budgeting.

I think our favourite activity this week was our Fun Fayre. The class were split in half and had a chance to run stalls and got a chance to be costumers at the stalls as well. We all worked brilliantly together and showed amazing teamwork skills to make this a very fun day.

Our stalls included:

  • Hook a duck
  • Face painting (colouring a Dia de los Muertos skeleton)
  • Beanbag toss
  • Roll a penny
  • Laptop time
  • Jukebox (choosing a song for the Fayre)

Here are some pictures from our class Fayre.

We also created our own notes and coins and worked within a budget while shopping on Smyths website which we really enjoyed doing. We discovered just how expensive toys etc are.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend,

Miss Baillie

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