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Celebrating Successes at PUSCPS

At our in-service day on Monday we looked at ways we celebrate successes and personal achievements in school and if we needed to make any changes. We shared this at our New Year Assembly on Tuesday.

One of our P6 children suggested that everyone used Class Dojo and these points could be used as house points, so we have decided to trial this approach. Children can receive points for living the school values. On a Friday the house and vice captains will collect the house points and we will share them at the assembly. Also if you are the top scorer in your class for your house, each Friday you will receive a Top Scorer card and this will be entered into a termly draw. The lucky winners will receive a voucher. The winning house each term will receive a treat of their choice.

Each term we will have a celebration assembly to celebrate those children with achievements in reading (as it is in our school improvement plan) and STEM (Science Technologies Engineering and Mathematics).  We will also share the house winners and top scorers at this assembly.

At our Pumphie Pals Meeting we discussed what Golden Time should look like in our school and here is what we came up with:

  • The most popular name for it was Fun Time Friday, as it a time on a Friday that we have fun with our friends across the school.
  • We decided that sometimes we want it be structured and suggested activities for this.
  • We also decided we would like shorter amounts of time in class Fun Time Friday. During these times we can take in things from home but no electrical items. There are enough activities for us to do in class but if we choose to take something into school, we have to take responsibility for looking after it.
  • Fun Time Friday should be ready to begin at 11:45am and finish at 12:15pm.
  • Everyone will always have at least 5 minutes of Fun Time Friday.
  • If you have lost Fun Time Friday you will complete a reflection sheet with Miss Burton/ Miss Dickie. This sheet will be taken home to be signed by your parent, carer and returned to school on Monday.

We look forward to earning our dojos and sharing our successes with you!

You will find some of our changes in the PowerPoint below, we will continue to reflect, adapt and consult on the changes.

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebrating-success-86035280

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Road Safety in the Nursery

This afternoon the PM nursery children went out to the local area for a walk. We talked about keeping safe, particularly when crossing the road. The children were able to say that they should look both ways for traffic. They demonstrated that they could cross the road safely with the support of an adult.

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Christmas Service & Sing A Long

This morning we had a festive start to our day with our traditional Christmas Sing a long. The Green Gang organised a Christmas Jumper day and we all joined together to remember The Christmas Story. Rev. Povey also joined us to share the Christmas message.

We announced the winners of the Festive Home Learning task, which you will see below. A big well done to everyone who took part.

Thank you to our P7 narrators and to Mrs Campbell for organising the service. Also thank to all of you who could join us.

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/festive-home-learning-task-winners

 

I would like to thank the children, staff and parents for all making me feel so welcome at PUSCPS. I hope you all have a lovely family Christmas together and I look forward to seeing all the children when we return to school in the New Year.

Miss Burton

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Festive Homework Final Products

A big well done to everyone who took part in the festive home learning task, the results are amazing! It is fantastic to see the efforts families have went to to complete the task.

I have really enjoyed speaking to the children about how they made their designs and what they used. We will share the results at the Sing-a-long tomorrow.

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Nursery Christmas Singalong!

The children in the nursery have been very busy practising their songs for the Singalong. They really enjoyed the experience of performing for parents and carers yesterday. Thank you to all who came along and we hope you enjoyed the their performance!

https://vimeo.com/248136212

https://vimeo.com/248136007

https://vimeo.com/248135517

https://vimeo.com/248135737

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Deputy First Minister’s Maths Challenge: P6

This week Primary 6 will receive the Deputy First Minister’s Maths Challenge.

All Primary 6 pupils across Scotland have been issued with the Deputy First Minister’s Maths Challenge. This is to provide some Christmas holiday maths family fun.

When you do complete one of the activities we would like you to share your answers with us on Twitter. To do this you need to create a Twitter account, take a photo of the completed activity and tweet it to us by typing @PUSCPS.

The solutions and workings will be published at https://blogs.gov.scot/making-maths-count on 4th January.

Good luck!

 

Christmas Holiday Maths Challenge

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RSPB Visit

Primary 4 were very lucky to be the first class to welcome our visitors from the RSPB to our school.

We had lots of discussion about habitats and what we can do to help animals who want to live (or do live) in our school grounds.

We went on a walk around the school to look out for habitats which we have and we got to keep record of how many we have and how many points we scored.

Our school got 119 points and we were only missing 2 habitats! We were very proud of our score and really enjoyed being out to explore our school, even if it was very chilly!

Here are some photos of us all having fun:

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Tinsel Tree

Peppy our elf has been moving around our classroom a lot this week. We have found him hanging from the star, in our house points jar, in our Monday folder and hanging from the door. We were all very excited and we are happy to have him in our classroom.

This week we have also begun to learn a French song. It is called ‘Vive le Vent’ which is the French version of Jingle Bells! We worked out that it actually means ‘long live the wind’.

Jessica – “We were playing moneys with Mrs Struthers. We had to roll two dice and we were given amounts of money. The aim of the game was to collect more money than others”

Darcy – “We worked with Mrs Struthers to complete a maths workbook page. We did really well!”

Primary 4 also were given 12 drummers drumming and 4 calling birds to make for the hall decorations. We used paint and collage materials to create them and they look wonderful.

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