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On our walk around the school today for our daily mile, the children from P6 noticed some very peculiar ice formations. We were able to make links between what we found outside and what we have learnt about states of matter in science. Take a look at the pictures Louisa took and see if you can identify water in its liquid form and its solid form.
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We are so happy to be back to school after our holidays. We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New year.
We have been learning about Eric Liddell this week and have been writing fact files about his life.
He won the 400m race at the Paris Olympics in 1924 (Mia)
He won a gold medal and set a new world record for that race in Paris (Oskars)
He was most famous for not running his Olympic race heat on a Sunday because it was a day of rest (Abbie and Bailey)
We know lots more facts about Eric Liddell so ask us about what else we know.
In Maths this week we have been learning how to measure accurately in centimetres and to draw lines to the correct size. We have also begun to estimate measurements of items and lines drawn.
Have a great weekend
From Mrs andison and P2/3
As part of our Scots focus Primary 1/2 and Primary 1 have been finding out about the inventor of the waterproof raincoat, Charles MacIntosh. This week we designed our own raincoats then carried out experiments with different materials to discover which were waterproof. Here is some of what was said:
“The paper and card got really wet.” Olivia C
“The rubber and the plastic were waterproof.” Roman
“ I would like to make my raincoat from rubber.” Layla
We are busy preparing our Scottish poems at home for our forthcoming Scots assembly. We will be performing them next week and the best 3 performers will be perform their poem to Mr Eagleson. He will pick the person who will perform at our Scots assembly. Good luck!
For our Scottish topic we are learning about Robert Owen. The first thing we did was take notes about Robert Owen. Then we had to work with a partner to put our notes into sentences. Well done to Murron and Sam who worked really well together to complete their sentences. Their work was so good they went to show Mr Eagleson it.
Our next step was to use the Internet to develop our skills in reading for information to find out more facts about Robert Owen.
We will now be developing our collaborative group skills as we work together to decide which facts we will pick to present in a short talk to the class to share our learning about Robert Owen.
This week we have been learning Scots poems and researching famous Scottish explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. The poems we have been learning are: ‘Free Boots’ by Douglas Barber, ‘A Red, Red Rose’ by Robert Burns and ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns. We are focusing on using lots of expression and varying our tone of voice.
Here are some quotes from our class about our work this week:
“I didn’t know Livingstone died of malaria until now.”
“It’s surprising that Livingstone had a job at the age of 10.”
“I want to find out how Livingstone travelled from Scotland to Africa.”
“I really like Tam o’ Shanter because it is advanced.”
“I like the Scots language in our poems.”
“Come a’ ye citizens tae oor Scots assembly later this term!”
Please note that our school email address has changed to:
wlpuscps@westlothian.org.uk
Pencil case packed? New shoes polished? We are looking forward to seeing you all back bright and early on Wednesday morning. Enjoy your last few days of holiday.
Steven Eagleson.
Dear parents and Carers,
www.thinkuknow.co.uk is an excellent resource run by The Child Exploitation Online Prevention agency (CEOP) and offers advice to pupils, parents and educators on managing the benefits and risks of social media. The blue link at the bottom of this post will open a leaflet on a video app called ooVoo which parents and carers may find useful. This has also been emailed to those for whom we have addresses.
ooVoo is a video chat app. It lets you make video calls, voice calls and send texts to friends and family. It allows users to communicate with their friends and family via a group video chat with up to 12 people. Like many other sites and apps, ooVoo is used by both adults and children. This means that children can be directly contacted by an adult they don’t know. Ultimately the decision as to whether or not a child under 13 is on ooVoo and similar sites lies with the child’s parent or carer.
I hope you find the attached information useful in keeping your family safe online.
Steven Eagleson
Headteacher
click the blue link to download the leaflet: ooVoo guide for parents
Thank you to everyone who came along and contributed to the success of our Christmas Fayre on Friday. We raised a grand total of £ 1036.47! This money will go to the PSFA and school fund to pay for all sorts of activities and items over the whole year. We hope you enjoyed the afternoon. Here are some of the photos of the event.
Our hard work is really starting to take shape now… The stage is almost completed and we have one full wall up 
Have a look at our photos below…
After Tuesday (we will be out on Tuesday afternoon as well as the usual Monday), we will be taking a break from our outdoor project until the New Year. The poor grass needs some time to settle, as it appears to be the consistency of cold custard at the moment!
We have also made our distance slab, which Romans used as a record of which Legion created something and the year that they did it.
Unfortunately, Miss McLaughlin broke it when trying to pick it up! We’ll just class the cracks as wear and tear…
Until next time (and year!)
Primary 4 & Miss M
