Category: Parents as Partners

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Sharing Our STEM Learning

On Wednesday 13th March we invited our families to come and share our STEM Learning with us. They joined in lots of different activities with their children, you can see some the learning opportunities below.

Thank you to everyone who came along to join us.

Primary 7 shared some of their learning about China and how they have been comparing a school day in China to their own.

Primary 7 China topic

Feedback from our survey included:

What did you find out about your child’s learning that you did not already know?

  • That they were doing human biology.
  • My child knows more than he shows at home.
  • I saw Didbook for the first time, it’s great.
  • My child  is happy to accept help when offered

What other information would you like us to provide during Visit My Class sessions?

  • Some feedback from teachers. I feel the gap is maybe a touch long between feedback sessions.
  • If there is anything my child needs to improve on.

In what other ways can we support you to support your child at home?

  • Continue doing what you are doing.
  • Ways that parents can help effectively with learning.
  • More homework, if appropriate
  • I think this is already being done fine.
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Club Wild – Houses complete and ready for families!

Now that Spring is here we have noticed that the birds are busy, ready to build nests for this year’s families. For the last few weeks Club Wild have been working on our bird boxes to give the birds a helping hand.
We talked about why its important to put up bird nesting boxes with fewer suitable trees, shrubs and buildings and more human landscaped areas.
We had two different types of bird boxes, one with a small hole for the little birds like sparrows, blue tits and great tits and one with a large open hole for birds like robins. In the wild robins would build open nests. The robin nest boxes needed to be placed between 1-2m above the ground while the small birds nest boxes between 2-4m. We chose a small area of mixed trees and made sure that our nest boxes were well hidden and not accessible to predators. They also needed to be placed facing a northerly direction to provide shelter from the prevailing wind.
After putting up the bird boxes we gave them an extra help by making some nesting bundles. Here we used dried grass, feathers, moss, wool and some pet fur tied up in branches so the birds could help themselves to nesting materials.
We hope that some families will move in and lay eggs so that we can watch and learn about our nesting birds.

 

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Nursery Pop in and Play

A big thank you to all our parents and Carers  who were able to make it to our Pop in and Play  session today.  It was so good to see so many people that the children can share their play and learning with. The children enjoy showing people what they can do and this gives them a sense of ownership in the nursery. The children are proud of their achievements and Pop in and Play is an excellent  way to let them show what they enjoy and can do.

Parents had fun playing dominoes, building large structures with the large and small bricks, playing in the house corner, building the train track and spending fun  time with their children.

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Learning & Teaching @ PUSCPS Workshops

On Tuesday night children and staff organised information workshops about our priorities in school this year. Thank you to our staff and children who organised the event and to those families who joined us.

Literacy & English: Writing & PEEP

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/curriculum-evening-literacy-english

 

Numeracy & Maths: Bedtime Maths App

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/bedtime-maths-app-curriculum-workshop

http://bedtimemath.org/apps/

 

Numeracy & Maths: Number Talks & Mathematical Mindsets

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/curriculum-evening-maths-numeracy

 

Across Learning: Digital Learning 

 

Support for Learning: IDL

 

Feedback from the event: 

We used a form on glow to get some feedback on our event.

  • 100% said they would find more workshops like this useful.
  • Good to know what they are learning
  • To understand how to help my daughter with her learning.
  • Good to get information all very interesting.
  • Great information
  • New ways to teach children who have additional learning in literacy.
  • It was interesting and knowledgeable
  • Seeing what the children learn on daily basis and what they use to achieve this.
  •  Informative nice know how these topics are being taught.
  • The new technology available to children.
  • I loved learning how to help my kids as much as I can.
  • Understanding how to help our children.
  • Very good information.
  • I found out new ways to help the Kids @ Home.
  • Methods of support to help them at home.
  • It was good to learn things that we could help with at home.
  • Interesting to see how they learned.
  • Theories behind modern maths teaching.
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West Lothian Burns Competition

On Wednesday night, our five finalists from our Burns Assembly joined other children from schools across West Lothian   to compete in the recital competition. 

Our children did a fantastic job of representing their classes at the competition, a big well done to them all and their families for joining them at the competition.

A special congratulations to Jacob who came runner up in the P1-3 section.

We recognised this achievement at assembly on Friday.

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Fairtrade Friday!

To mark the end of #FairtradeFornight children dressed up or down to raise £85 for Fairtrade. A big thank you to everyone who took part, and well done to Calder House for raising the most money.

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