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The first thing we did at Pumphie Pals was to identify which jobs and careers require skills and knowledge for each of the STEM areas.
Then we used information from British Science Week to have our own paper planes competition.
LI – We are learning to compare life in another country with our own.
SC – I can identify a number of similarities and differences from a typical school day, between China and Scotland.
This week we watched a BBC video on a typical school day in China. We took notes about their school day then used these to discuss how their school day was different from ours. We then went on to identify similarities and differences between our school day and one in China.
Similarities
In China and Scotland both schools did Literacy and Mathematics in the mornings. All pupils have to do Moral education which is similar to our RME. In both countries Art and PE is taught. In China they had very similar trays for lunch as we do.
Differences
In China they start their morning at 8.00 am with the national anthem and some marching. At break they had no free play but did exercises. At lunch they listened to a story or completed homework. They had around 50 pupils in each class.
On the West Lothian Sumdog Competition Leaderboard so far …
Out of 32 classes:
– P1 is 31st
Out of 909 pupils:
– Gillon in P6 is 49th
Remember you can long in at home and play as well! The competition is running all week.
As part of our STEM focus, Primary 2S have been learning all about different illnesses and medicines this week, how to stay safe around medicines and what makes us feel better when we are ill.
Molly, the P3 class puppet is visiting us and she is poorly. We worked together to diagnose Molly, checking her symptoms against different illnesses and have worked out that she has flu!
Sarah Jane visited the class yesterday to tell us all about natural medicines that can be found in plants and the different ways they can help us feel better when we are poorly. We learned about the benefits of willow tree, ginger, garlic, aloe vera and sage. Thank you Sarah Jane! Â Next week, we are going to go into the school garden to find natural ingredients that will help Molly recover.
We have been learning about baby chicks. We looked at books to find out information about baby chicks. Baby boy chicks are yellow and baby girl chicks are brown. Baby chicks have a special egg-tooth that they use to crack out the eggshell. Baby chicks start to make a cheeping noise to let the mummy hen know they are ready to hatch. We thought the baby chicks were fluffy and cute.
Unfortunately PEEP will be cancelled until after the Easter holidays. Sorry for any inconvenience.
The March Maths Contest starts this Friday, 15th March. Children can play in the contest at school and home. Good luck and we look forward to seeing some PUSCPS pupils on the leaderboard!
At our assembly on Friday, children who had completed reading challenges in our library received a certificate from Moira. Well done everyone!
On Wednesday night, our five finalists from our Burns Assembly joined other children from schools across West Lothian  to compete in the recital competition.Â
Our children did a fantastic job of representing their classes at the competition, a big well done to them all and their families for joining them at the competition.
A special congratulations to Jacob who came runner up in the P1-3 section.
We recognised this achievement at assembly on Friday.
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