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There are still tickets available for our Scottish Celebration Assembly on Friday 25th January at 9:15am. These can be collected at the office or requested by returning the slip on the recent letter sent home. We are now opening the tickets to more than two per family if requested.
Station 1
The children used their design skills and imagination to create their own tartan. They could chose if they wanted to use a netbook, iPad ror draw a tartan. Some children used the lines on paint on the netbooks and some used the doodle buddy app.
Station 2Â
At this station the children use their research skills to find out key facts about Robert Burns in pairs. They then used a Glow form to share their information by answering questions about his life.
Station 3
The children brainstormed Scots they already knew and used their research skills to learn some new Scots words using the iPads or netbooks. They made a video to share their learning.
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Station 4
The children looked at maps of Scotland and decided which towns and cities they would like to visit. They used cones to make the cities and then programmed the Sphero robots to travel to different places in Scotland. Reflecting on their learning, they felt they are getting better at being able to make more accurate movements with the Spheros.
P1 were set a challenge last term at the end of their toy topic.  The classroom needed toys for its toy workshop. Children had to design and make a toy from the past. They had to choose their materials carefully and talk about what their toy can do and how it is made.
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On Friday we held our annual Christmas Fayre, organised by our Parent Partners. We started in the fayre in our PUSCPS tradition of the school choir singing.
All our classes, including Cosy Corner and Club Wild contributed to the fayre through their learning in enterprise. They also created posters to help advertise their products.
Some pupils even set up their own stalls.
Our Parent Partners set up a range of exciting and fun activities including a treasure hunt, guess the Legos, guess the reindeer birthday, refreshments, face painting and outdoor games.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our school fayre, whether it was donating something, helping to set up, visiting or helping out on the day, we really appreciate everyone’s support. Also thank you to our P6 and P7 helpers who suported the fayre on the day. There was a fun, festive community feel on the day.
A special thank you to our Parent Partners and staff, who helped to organise such a successful event to raise funds for our school. Mrs Thom is busy counting up the money and we will let you know the total as soon as possible.
The Christmas raffle tickets are on sale until the end of term.
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Primary 2S have been busy today selling tickets for our Circus show next Friday. The Primary 1 children now all have their tickets for the performance and we are all very excited!
As part of our Jacobites topic, Primary 6 have been learning about the equipment used by a Jacobite soldier in battle. We used our research skills to find information online and then worked in pairs to create a poster with drawings and facts about the items we had found.
We were surprised to find out that a Jacobite’s Claymore sword would have been almost 5 feet long!
Our next step is to design and create a model of a Jacobite shield or targe.
In Maths this week, we have been learning how to tell the time. We have been looking at how to convert between digital and analogue times and between 12 hour and 24 hour times.
What were we learning?
To build up the story of a group of people from the past.
How would we know if we were successful?
What did we do?
We will soon be learning to write diary entries like William’s, but for our own characters!
Until next time…
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂
