Fantastic totals for our recent dress down day – congratulations to Breich who will receive 100 extra house points! Thank you to everyone who contributed this money will be used to support our Sumdog subscription for this session.
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.
P5 & P6 micro:bit Summer Coding Project
The micro:bit is a tiny computer that makes coding tangible and promotes digital creativity.
We have a limited number of micro:bits in school for current P5 and P6 pupils to take part in an independent summer project exploring how they work.
The micro:bits can connect to a PC using a USB cable or ipad using the free ‘micro:bit’ app.
You will be provided with a micro:bit kit and access to online links and tutorial to support your learning.
Please see the form below for more information and to sign up.
STEM Assembly: Sharing our STEM Learning
Today we our classes shared their STEM learning this term at our assembly.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/stem-sharing-our-learning-assembly
Miss Connor, the West Lothian Development Officer for STEM shared with us the importance of STEM skills for our future jobs and carers.
Each class then shared with us their STEM Learning.
Primary 7
Primary 6
https://vimeo.com/397227622
Primary 5
Primary 4
Primary 3
Primary 2
Primary 1
We celebrated the children and classes who scored highly in the West Lothian Maths Sumdog Competition.
We also invited along a neuroscientist, who told us all about his career and what STEM skills he used.
Primary 1 Lifecycles
STEM Assembly
Movies for Magale
Also a reminder that this Friday 28th February is not a dress down day.
JRSO Update: Parking
At our last JRSO (Junior Road Safety Officers) meeting, we all agreed that the main problem that the school has is the parking situation at the end of the day.
Our JRSOs would like to let you know that it is unsafe for children and adults to park on the grass verges, on the bends and in front of the bollards.
The service area (the area after the bollards) is also an unsafe area to park as this is an area that is used by the children for walking through to get to their cars. It is also to be kept clear as this is an area that is required to be used by the Emergency Services if they are in attendance at the school (hopefully this will never happen). As you know we may need the Emergency Services at any moment and if there are cars parked in this area then this holding back the services from doing their job. So please DO NOT PARK in this area even if the bollard has not been put back in its place.
There are 39 parking spaces that don’t get used at the football pitch grounds. It only takes just over 1 minute to walk from there to the school playground. This area has just recently been resurfaced, so there are no potholes like how there used to be.
The JRSOs feel that this is a much better place and solution to the schools car parking problem.
The JRSO s would like to ask you as parents/carers to think about your child’s safety and please park safely and responsibly.
Thank You
JRSOs
Pumphie Pals: Our Dinner Hall
At our recent Pumphie Pals meeting our House and Vice captains decided we should investigate how we can improve our dinner hall and finer diner.
We thought about what it should look like, feel like and sound like in our dinner hall. Watch this space!
Breich House Party
Breich received the most house points for term 2 and decided on a Pyjama Party as their house treat. Everyone dressed up in their pjs or onesies and the Primary 7s had organised lots of game like corners and sleeping lions. Thank you to our house and vice captain of Breich for organising such a fun party!
