Sports Day will go ahead today at 1:15pm. We look forward to seeing you.
Primary 4 Health Week – Day 3!
We are on day 3 of Health Week now and my goodness our class have been busy again today!
To start us off today we looked at mental health and chose some mindfulness colouring sheets to colour in. We put instrumental music on and and chose to work in a place comfortable for us before we sat quietly and coloured. This helped us to calm down and to clear our minds.
10 people had healthy snacks today! Can we make it to 11 or maybe even higher tomorrow?
After break we had so much fun making our own smoothies! We had to make sure everything had been washed (including our hands!) and that the surfaces were clean before we could begin. We were working in pairs or threes and we had to pick 2 or 3 different fruits to put in our smoothie. We could choose from pineapple, mango, banana, pear or apple.
Then we were able to work together to cut the fruit, measure the orange juice and pop in some natural yoghurt! All of this was added together in the blender.
We then blended the fruit together with the help of an adult and watched as it changed colour!
All of our smoothies were slightly different and tasted different too! We each got to have at least 1/2 a cup of smoothie, although some people chose to half less if they didn’t enjoy theirs. Thankfully we mostly had some very happy faces!
After lunch we did some GoNoodle dances and yoga together and we were all very tired after that!
We had a break and then went for Daily Mile which we were running in the sun today!
Remember, it is Sports Day tomorrow so make sure you have your water bottles and are ready to go!
We also have a couple of visitors coming to see us and show us some new activities so be prepared for another update tomorrow!
Primary 4 Health Week – Day 2!
We have been very busy once again for Day 2 of Health Week!
We began our morning by discussing our Emotion Works cogs and identifying which cog the words or phrases on the board came under; emotions, behaviours, body sensations, triggers or regulation strategies. This made way for a lot of discussion and we all had to justify our answers and agree as a class. We decided that some of them even came under 2 different categories depending on the feelings that you had towards them.
We then finished our PE from yesterday out in the sunshine. It was very hard work once we got to the final station!
We are trying to have healthy snacks this week so we are taking a daily picture of our healthy eaters! We had 5 yesterday and today we had 9! Well done guys!
After break we had a brilliant surprise in the hall, where we were looking at our bodies with the Glasgow Science Centre. There were lots of different stations teaching us so many different things from our organs, heat in our bodies and our memory:
to the effects that smoking and drinking have on our faces and our lungs!
It was a brilliant, active and interesting workshop which we all loved!
Then after lunch we had a visit from Active Schools and we did lots of athletics outside. We tried lots of different activities and were definitely tired out when we got back in the classroom!
I cannot wait to see what we get up to tomorrow for Day 3!
P6 health week -day 1
We had a very busy day in Primary 6 today! We all enjoyed our judo session this morning and loved learning lots of new skills. In the afternoon, we went out to practise our skipping. The P7s have been teaching us lots of rhymes and skipping games, which are great for our health and fitness, as well as being a lot of fun!
Primary 4 Health Week – Day 1
Today was the first day of Health Week at PUSCPS and to begin our week strong, we did lots of active activities!
We started off with some spelling activities outdoors to get lots of fresh air. We did a Pass and Spell game,
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hangman on whiteboards in pairs,
and writing and drawing our words in chalk!
Some of us had brought in very healthy snacks today and we are hoping for more people to join in on our healthy snack photo tomorrow!
We all then had a go at curling in the lunch hall. It was quite tricky to throw the curl with the right amount of force so we all had lots of practise throws and then we had a mini competition between our 3 teams for Dojo Points!
Then to finish the day, we participated in the Daily Mile or the Daily Skip,
and then did a bit of PE outside where we are improving our fitness!
I am sure we will have another fun-filled day tomorrow!
Health Week & Sports Day
Dear parents/carers,
Health week will take place next week (4th– 8th June), with a whole range of exciting activities for the children taking place in school. On Monday – Thursday, children should wear sports gear appropriate for indoor and outdoor activities, remembering that football colours are not permitted. Children should wear school uniform on Friday. Please ensure they have a water bottle each day.
Sports day be will on the afternoon of Thursday 7th June, on the playing fields beside the school. It will commence at 1.15pm. Should we have to cancel due to the weather, we will Groupcall you by 10.30am on that day. Please note, due to health and safety, there will be no access to the school for spectators. Due to photograph restrictions, we ask that you only take photographs of your own child/ children.
Kind regards,
Morag Dickie
Acting Principal Teacher
West Lothian Schools Triathlon
A massive ‘well done’ to our pupils from p5, 6 and 7 who participated in the triathlon today! Mrs Dickie was extremely proud of them all! They were a real credit to our school and everyone had a great time. Lots of smiles in the sunshine!
Triathlon Coaching Session
Today, we welcomed a coach from Triathlon Scotland/West Lothian Tri to come into school and coach some of the children in P5-7 who have expressed an interest in the upcoming West Lothian Schools Triathlon. They learned about what to expect on the day and had a chance to practise some transition drills. The children taking part all really enjoyed the session and we have had a message from the coach to say how well-behaved the children were. Well done to all that took part!
Golf Club Children’s Morning
Day 2 at Camp!
Day two has been so busy! The 3G swing, high ropes, and leap of faith have been challenging but it is lovely to see the children developing confidence in trying these new things. Mrs Mooney asked one of our pupils what they thought they’d been learning about at camp. His reply? “Teamwork, communication and friendship” It’s great to see them making friends with people they’ll see again at high school. Lunch today was a choice of chicken nuggets, baguette or baked potato. I’m sure you can guess what the most popular choice was!
