Families Reading Together – 07/06/18
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,
, 
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!
P5 Visit Dynamic Earth
Primary 5 wrote a recount describing their trip to Dynamic Earth. Here are some examples of their writing.
https://vimeo.com/272671680
Developing the Young Workforce Week
Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is a programme organised by the Scottish Government  that aims to better prepare children and young people aged 3–18 for the world of work. Last week we held our annual DYW Week in order to share with our children different a range of types of jobs/ carers and the skills, qualifications and values you require to fulfill these roles.
This year we had a range of speakers and visitors from our local community and beyond. We also used a website called Founders4Schools and our contact Arlene Nicol from West Lothian DYW to find people to visit us.
Our visitors included:
- Mrs Edwards ~ Team Building Skills
- Mr Walker ~ 35 Cycles
- Mrs Gent ~ Community Midwife
- Mr Cecil ~ STEM East
- Ms Haston ~ Archaeology
- Alison & Rachel ~ Narnia Hair Design
- Mr Fish ~ Fire fighter
- Mr Wilson ~ Postman
- Ms Szawlowska ~ Carer/ student
- Mr Mitchell ~ PBC Foundation
- Kristy & Dawn ~ Dawnfresh
- Applied Science Students ~ West Lothian College
- Mr Russell ~ Wright and Maclennan Ltd
- Jenny Cambell ~ Resilience Engine
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who visited us and helped to make it such a huge success. Ms Haston organised for WL Courier to visit us … So watch this space!
The learning outcomes we explored during the week were:
Nursery – P1:
- I can communicate with people about the different jobs they do in my community.
- I can discuss some of the rewards that a job brings
- I can role play different job roles.
- I can develop ideas and take part in projects to make things.
P2-4:
- I can describe different jobs in my community and some of the skills needed for these.
- I can learn about the world of work from visits, projects and my experiences.
- I can talk to employers about myself and about their workplace.
- I can recognise that there are different ways to get a job.
- I can talk about the types of jobs that interest me
P5-7:
- Â I can discuss the relevance of skills to the wider world and make connections between skills and the world of work.
- Â I can explain to others my ambitions/what I would like to do and look for ways to achieve them/that.
- I can recognise the skills I have and need for work.
- I can apply my skills to get more information about jobs/careers.
- I can identify different types of enterprise opportunities and engage in them.
You can find out more about our DYW Week by visiting our blog.
Share a Story
As part of Digital Learning Week P1m took part in an early years collaborative story.
We received the story on Wednesday then we had the exciting job of creating an ending for the story that other classes in the authority had created.
We worked in pairs to decide what we thought should happen to the characters who’d got lost at the zoo.  There were lots of fantastic of ideas and we managed to bring most of them into our ending before we saved it onto the online group. We are looking forward to receiving the finished story soon.
Families Reading Together – 17/05/18
The Nursery Have Been Learning French
We have been learning French words and phrases in nursery over the last term. We can answer “what is your name?” by replying “je m’appelle…..”. Count to ten and we know lots of colours. This term we have asked to learn “All about me” We will learn about all our body parts from our heads to toes and will be singing our favorite song in French ” Head, shoulders, knees and toes” In French we sing “Tete, epaules, genoux, pieds”.
We can also answer yes or no in French when asked questions and can say how old we are. We are beginning to learn the days of the week and know that French is on “Vendredi” (Friday)
Mrs Montgomery will be sending home some French words that you could help us learn or learn the words with us.
Families Reading Together – 10/05/18
Lay a little egg for me!
P1 had a fantastic suprise when they arrived at school this morning. A mummy hen has left us 10 little eggs to look after. Two of the eggs had already hatched before we got in and there was another arrival after school today! They are desperate to say hello but Hopefully we get to see some pipping and hatching tomorrow. We have a boy and two girls so far. P1 had lots of super questions about the chicks.
More from ‘Chick Cam’ tomorrow …
Primary 2 Listening & Talking Homework
Last week, Primary 2 were set a listening and talking task (to be completed for Thursday 17th May).
Just in case your child has lost, misplaced or wasn’t given their letter, please find a copy below. It has all the details you need, but if there is anything you would like to know, please come and ask!
Enjoy the long weekend!
Miss M 🙂
