On Friday we ‘dressed to express’ to raise awareness for children’s mental health week.
Dress Down Day – 05/02/21
Children’s Mental Health Week: Parents/ Carers
The theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is Express Yourself.
Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. It is about finding a way to show who you are, and how you see the world, that can help you feel good about yourself.
As parents and carers, you play an important role in your child’s mental health. Check out our free resources below.Â
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/parents-and-carers/
Whole School Challenge Week 1
Primary 7 Investigate Children in Need
We started with a general knowledge quiz, using one of our favourite apps – Kahoot!
Primary 7 decided if they wanted to work on their own, with a partner or in a small group. They also decided if they wanted to do a digital or paper presentation. They used a range of different devices to support their learning and presentation.
They researched by using links on their class team and searching Google to find the answers to the key questions.
They used their class Team to share their finished presentations – some are still a work in progress!
Here are some of the finished presentations:
Emotion Works in P2/1
We have been busy since Term 1 exploring our lockdown memories and the 5 cog model for our emotions. We have made a little video to show you some of our learning.
October Football Camp (Austism)
P7 Responsible Roles
Primary 7 were super excited to find out their new Responsible Roles today! Although the roles may look a bit different this year, they still have an important leadership role to play in our school.
During school closures they completed an online form job application to apply for the role they would like to be considered for, stating the reasons why.
Their Responsible Roles in the playground  are:
- Magical Mediators
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Playful Pals
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Safe Security
The children will start their rota on Monday supporting P1 and 2. We will establish new job descriptions to keep everyone safe and keep to our class bubbles.
P.E. Kit & P.E. Days
First of all I would like to express my thanks to you in ensuring your child is wearing the correct school uniform. As you know at PUSCPS we take great pride in our school colours and school uniform as it makes us feel part of our PUSCPS family.
As you are aware the current guidelines are children are not to change into P.E. kit. In order to ensure your child feels comfortable on their P.E. days, we would request that that they wear to school on that day:
- white polo shirt/ t-shirt – with school logo or plain
- blue sweatshirt/cardigan – with school logo or plain
- P7 – black sweatshirt/cardigan
- plain black tracksuit bottoms/ joggers
- black trainers
- girls who are wearing a skirt over their leggings can remove their skirt on P.E. days
- we would recommend that they don’t wear their shirt and tie on their P.E. days
In order to continue with our inclusive ethos and promoting our school identity we would request that children don’t wear branded clothing. Please don’t feel that this needs to be actioned immediately, in the meantime children can continue to wear their normal school uniform on P.E. days until you are able to purchase the extras. If you require support with purchasing this kit please let the school know. We also have nearly new school polo shirts and sweatshirts that can be purchased for a donation.
We would request that on non P.E. days children wear their normal school uniform.
Term 1 P.E. Days:
- Primary 1 – Mon/Wed
- Primary 2/1 – Mon/Thurs
- Primary 3/2 – Tues/ Fri
- Primary 4/3 – Mon/ Tues
- Primary 4 – Mon/Wed
- Primary 5 – Tues/Wed
- Primary 6 – Mon/Wed
- Primary 7 – Mon/Wed
Thank you for your continued support with our uniform guidelines and for bearing with us during this slightly different start to the school year.
