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P6 Scottish Focus
For our Scottish focus this term, we learned and analysed two poems by Robert Burns – My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose and To A Mouse. Â Scots dictionaries were used to translate the Scots words we were unfamiliar with. Â We looked at features of poetry such as simile, metaphor, imagery and personification. We then used what we had learned to write our own poems.
Research skills, group work and presenting skills were put to the test through researching the life and work of Robert Burns.
Well done P6!
Learning & Teaching Workshop: One Plus Two
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/learning-teaching-one-plus-two
Primary 1 – Scottish Focus
Last week the children in P1 have been learning some Scottish words and poems leading up to Burn’s Day.  We had a very hard decision choosing 2 performers for the Scottish Assembly on Friday as lots of children had done so well learning and practising a poem.
Well done to the two P1 performers reciting ‘Twa Wee Birdies’ and ‘Twa Leggit Mice’.
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P2 Poetry Home Learning
Poems will be sent home on Wednesday 8th January
Scots Focus Homework – due Friday 17th January
As part of our Scots Focus in school, your child has been asked to choose a Scots poem to learn for homework. There is a choice of a longer or shorter poem.
The children will get a chance to recite their poems in class on Friday 17th January and a boy and girl will be selected to go through to our school final on   25th January.
The Sair Finger by Walter Wingate
You’ve hurt your finger? Puir wee man!
Your pinkie? Deary me!
Noo, juist you haud it that wey till
I get my specs and see!
My, so it is – and there’s the skelf!
Noo, dinna greet nae mair.
See there – my needle’s gotten’t out!
I’m sure that wasna sair?
And noo, to make it hale the morn,
Put on a wee bit saw,
And tie a Bonnie hankie roun’t
Noo, there na – rin awa’!
Your finger sair ana’? Ye rogue,
You’re only lettin’ on.
Weel, weel, then – see noo, there ye are,
Row’d up the same as John!
Mince and tatties by JK Annand
IÂ dinna like hail tatties
Pit on my plate o mince
For when I tak my denner
I eat them baith at yince.
Sae mash and mix the tatties
Wi mince into the mashin,
And sic a tasty denner
Will aye be voted ‘Smashin!’
K. Annand
Author Visit from Will Wood
As part of book Week Scotland we had an author visit from Will Wood, the author of The Fairy with the Broken Wings. He worked with P4, 5, 6 and 7, exploring his novel and sharing how he became an author.
Thank you so much to Ms Cook for organising this visit and to Mr Wood for his time.
He sent us this very thoughtful and inspiring message:
Deep in the heart of West Lothian is a small town named Livingston. On the very edge there is two smaller areas, Pumpherston and Uphall Station and in their midst they share a building. The building itself is not very big, but what it lacks in size it gains in potential, for within its walls it contains something very special.Â
Future Doctors, Scientist, Medics, Nurses, Fire and Police men and women. Movie stars,singers and dancers, musicians, Olympians and sports idols. Prime Ministers and MP’s, soldiers, sailors, tinkers and tailors, bankers and backers, the Jacks and Jills of all trades and walks of life.
They are not aware of this yet but the vacancies will be theirs to fill fifteen or twenty years from now. Their responsibility is to learn and fulfill their dreams, their teachers’responsibility is to provide the basic tools and the encouragement they require.Â
I wish you the very best that life can offer, behave, be good, be patient and most of all, believe in yourself.
Remember what you wrote beneath your names and go for it.
Thank you all for having me and sharing a little bit of your life. It was an honour and a privilege. I take with me  a little sample of your imagination, your enthusiasm and most of all your smiles.
All the best in life and study,
Will Wood
Book Week Scotland Assembly
On Friday we had an assembly to celebrate Book Week Scotland.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/book-week-scotland-198894049
We presented the Sum Dog Reading Competition winners with a certificate.
The Literacy Leaders also presented the winning authors with their certificate and book tokens.
We also dressed up as characters from our favourite books.
Congratulations to our Living our Values children.
Primary 2
Primary 2 had great fun last week when Primary 4 came to visit and present them with their Read, Write, Count bags. We had great fun reading the stories and playing the games!
Be a Book Week Author
As part of Book Week Scotland our Literacy Leaders launched a free writing competition – Be a Book Week Author.
On Friday at assembly we announced our winners and presented them with a certificate and book gift voucher.
A big well done to our winners and thank you to the Literacy Leaders, Ms McLaughlin and Mrs Mooney for organising the competition and selecting the winners.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/be-a-book-week-author-results
P4-7 Author Visit
As part of continued Book Week Scotland celebrations, Primary 4-7 are very lucky to have an author visit from Will Wood on Wednesday 27th November.
Mr Wood is the author of The Fairy with the Broken Wings. The Fairy with the Broken Wings is a magical, fantasy adventure, embarked by an eight-year-old as she closes her mind to the surrounding world and its conflicts and opens the door of her imagination.  Join Esperanza as she ventures through the Underground, the Blue River, the Whistle-Blowing Forest and the Crystal Mountain and meet the characters she encounters on the way. This is a story of determination, resourcefulness, love and unconditional trust.
If your child enjoys the book, it is available to purchase on Amazon and we can arrange a signing of the book after.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786232480/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Zda3DbQXM4N18Â
Thank you very much to Ms Cook for organising the visit.
