This week is West Lothian’s Sumdog Competition and children might want to take part in this as their home learning choice board.
Out of 43 classes:
- 38th – Primary 5
Out of 1150 pupils:
- 25th – Lucy M in P1
P1 – Updated Sways
West Lothian Gardening Awards Success!
Sarah-Jane and Miss Burton attended the West Lothian Council Gardening Awards on Friday 25th October. Our school received two awards:
- Best Container Gardern
- Best Decorative Garden
We received the beautiful plaque below and a gift voucher.
These awards for a fantastic recognition for all the work Sarah-Jane and our Gardening Club have done in the past year.
Term 1 Celebration Assembly
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-1-2019-2020
On Friday we had our end of term Celebration Assembly.
We acknowledged our Awesome Authors, those children who have made excellent progress or achievements within writing.
We also recognised our STEM Superstars, those children who have made excellent progress or achievements within Science, Technologies or Maths.
We recognised our P6 and 7 children who helped out at our recent parent consultations.
We found out that our school has received the Silver Sports Scotland Award. A huge congratulations to our Sports Stars and Mrs McConville.
Our House and Vice Captains set a Maths Weeks Scotland Poster Challenge, and the winners received a prize!
We took part in the National Maths Week Sumdog Competition. Some of children completed all 1000 questions! Primary 3 scored the highest for the school, and Tyler came 207th out of almost 75000 pupils.
Thank you to our Sumdog reps who reminded up about the competition!
We watched a video that showed us all about our learning during Maths Week Scotland.
https://vimeo.com/364169052
Congratulations to Calder for winning the house points this term.
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).
https://vimeo.com/361492621
Check in with us again soon to see what else we have been learning!
Until then…
Primary 6 & Miss M 🙂
Celebration Assembly Term 4
On Friday we had our final celebration of the year.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-4-151247955
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.
Primary 1
It has been a busy week in P1.
In topic, we have been busy creating our own 3D aquariums using craft materials. Â Our polar books now have a front cover and 2 information pages.
We had a digital learning visit from Three Mobile who showed us how to create our own cartoons using an app called Toontastic. Â Everyone worked very well with their partners to create new characters.
Well done to Kiannah, Iona, Grace and Millie who presented their Marvellous Me boxes to their peers. Â They were all super and beamed with confidence!
Sumdog Contest
The West Lothian contest starts this Friday. Â Can anyone make it into the top 50?
Stellar Young Writer Awards Assembly
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/star-writer-awards
Thank you to our Literacy Leaders for leading the Assembly.
Congratulations to the winning entry at each stage.
Congratulations to this Primary 4 whose story will be entered to represent our school at the Stellar Awards.
You can hear the winning entries below, thank you to our Literacy Leaders and senior children for recording the stories for a surprise at the assembly.
https://vimeo.com/340488128
https://vimeo.com/340488019
https://vimeo.com/340488030
https://vimeo.com/340546095
https://vimeo.com/340547089
https://vimeo.com/340550042
https://vimeo.com/340552174
P5 Investigate Natural Disasters
We created 3D structures to represent our farms in the Scottish landscape. Then each of our farms were subjected to a terrible natural disaster. This allowed us to experience how others feel when their houses are destroyed in real natural disasters. We then wrote a newspaper article to explain what natural disaster had taken place and what the outcome of it was. Then we worked in groups to write a script for a news interview. We are currently practicing these and we will be performing them in front of the class next week.
