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September 21, 2019September 22, 2019

Primary 6 Endangered Planet

This week, Primary 6 turned into wildlife investigators!

In Science lessons, we have been discussing the words ‘extinct’ and ‘endangered’. Miss McLaughlin set us an investigation task to research ‘endangered’ animals. We could choose to show our information as a video clip or poster.

We structured our investigations around three themes:

information about the animal
what makes it endangered
what the WWF are doing to try to stop this.

Miss McLaughlin combined our presentations into a wildlife ‘documentary’. She has added 5 dojos to everybody’s score for their hard work.

Click on the link below to watch (apologies, as some sections are quite quiet).

Check in with us again soon to see what else we have been learning!

Until then…
Primary 6 & Miss M 🙂

June 22, 2019

Celebration Assembly Term 4

On Friday we had our final celebration of the year.

Celebration Assembly Term 4 from PUSCPS

Anna and Holly past pupils from PUSCPS, currently at Broxburn Academy, joined us to tell us about their achievement journey. It was fantastic to hear about all the opportunities that Broxburn Academy gives to children. We are very proud of all Anna and Holly’s achievements, thank you for joining us.

Congratulations to our Top Scorers!

STEM Superstars are those children who have made fantastic progress or achievements in science, technologies or maths.

Awesome Authors are those children who have made fantastic progress or achievements in writing.

Ross Logan our Active schools co-coordinator joined us to give out some medals. First of all to those children who attend our after school clubs, the coaches nominated them for an award.

Secondly he gave medals to our fantastic basketball team for the progress they have made this year.

Jack received Most Valuable Player because of his determination, positive attitude, willingness to work hard and because he has been a great team player. Lauren received Most Improved Player, for being to shoe great basketball skills and a positive attitude towards training. We also presented Mrs Hamilton with a gift for being such an inspiring coach.

IDL is a new literacy programme, some children have been using this session to support learning in literacy. Children who have reached milestones in this received certificates.

We recognised those children who took part in the West Lothian Triathlon.

We presented Eve with an award for her piece of writing which is now representing our cluster at the West Lothian Stellar Awards.

Mrs Montgomery received a West Lothian Leadership Award for completing her Early Years Officer course.

This week was the West Lothian Sumdog Competition. P3, P6 nd P5 ranked in the score board and some of our children ranked within the top 100 out of 2097 children!

Finally the house winner of the term was … Almond! Congratulations! We will organise a house treat for the last week of term.

June 10, 2019June 10, 2019

Roots of Empathy in Primary 6

This week was our last Roots of Empathy session. We had a final visit from baby Alfie and his mum and we all received certificates as recognition of our learning achievements over the course of the programme. We also presented Alfie with letters and wishes for the future that we had written for him to read when he is older. We have really enjoyed watching him develop and grow and we have learned so much about caring for a baby.

In Science, we have been learning about buoyancy. We tested a number of different materials to see how well they floated. We discovered that the buoyancy of an object depends on its shape, weight and density, along with the depth of the water.

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019

Primary 1 Life Cycle Topic

April 5, 2019April 5, 2019

Dynamic Earth Trip and Space Topic

P2C have greatly enjoyed their recent learning on our Topic of Space and the trip to Dynamic Earth was the cherry on the cake!
Thank you to the classes for outstanding behaviour and thank you to all the helpers who came along.
To view pictures and videos of our learning from our Space Topic and to pictures from our trip please follow the link below:

April 4, 2019

P2S Trip Dynamic Earth

Primary 2S had lots of fun today on our trip to Dynamic Earth. Mrs Strachan was very proud of us for our excellent behaviour, manners and interest in all the activities . Well done boys and girls!

April 3, 2019April 3, 2019

P5 Science and Robot Trip

P5 had a fantastic trip to the National Museum of Scotland to see the Science and Technology exhibition and the new Robot exhibition as part of their STEM topic.

March 29, 2019

Term 3 Celebration Assembly

We welcomed along Dr Peter Hughes (OBE) to our Celebration Assembly this morning to share with us his achievement journey. As the past President of the Robert Burns World Federation and former Chief Executive of Scottish Engineering he had lots of stories to share. His enthusiasm and passion for all things engineering was inspiring and he reminded us to work hard and never give up. he even played some instruments and sang for us as well! Thank you very much to Dr Hughes for joining us!

Congratulations to our Top Scorers for Term 3!

Congratulations to the children who received a STEM Superstar Award for their learning in Maths, Technologies, Engineering and/ or Science.

Congratulations to the children who received an Awesome Author Award for their learning in writing.

We recognised the children who represented the school in the recent P6 Euro Quiz.

We recognised the children who represented the school in the recent P7 Rotary Quiz.

Our Primary 6s who took part in skiing received a certificate in recognition of all their perseverance and efforts.

Primary 6 came 59th and Primary 7 came 40th out of 152 schools in the recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition.

We recognised our children who took part in the west Lothian Burns Competition, and their certificate arrived just after the assembly!

All the children in Primary 7 who went to Dalguise received a certificate, and some were nominated by the staff for a special award. The staff were also nominated for awards!

All the children in Primary 5 who went to Lendrick Muir received a certificate, and some were nominated by the staff for a special award. The staff were also nominated for awards!