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WL Sum Dog Competition So Far …
So far in the competition …
Classes placed out of 23:
- 7th – P6
- 20th – P4
Children placed out of 623:
- 29th – Callum C – P6
- 39th – Jack – P6
- 40th – Emilia – P6
The competition runs until Thursday and all children can play at home as well as school.
West Lothian Sumdog Contest
West Lothian Sumdog Maths Contest starts tomorrow and will run for a week. There will be certificates for children that make it to the top 50!
Good luck 🙂
P3 DYW
WAL:Â about the world of work.
 I can:
– explain the different roles of an increasing number of people in society.
–Â explain what some jobs involve.
Last week for DYW week, we had talks from Dawn Fresh Manufacturing, a Midwife and Mrs Slzawlowska. We learned about their jobs and what they have to do at their work. We wrote about our own ‘Dream Job’ and what we would have to do at it.
Olivia P’ I would like to be an Engineer and build a flying machine.’
Layla ‘I would like to be an artist and paint paintings to sell to people for their homes.’
Kieron ‘ I would like to be a builder and work on a construction site driving the machinery.’
Liam ‘ I would like to be in the Army and protect people.’Â 
In pairs/trios, we also designed and created a digital character for a video game as part of a whole school challenge. We voted as a class and the two winning teams were Eve, Ryleigh & Eilidh and Rachel & Mitchell. What do you think of our designs?
We all enjoyed learning more about the world of work and taking part in the challenge.
P3
Developing the Young Workforce Week
Developing the Young Workforce (DYW) is a programme organised by the Scottish Government  that aims to better prepare children and young people aged 3–18 for the world of work. Last week we held our annual DYW Week in order to share with our children different a range of types of jobs/ carers and the skills, qualifications and values you require to fulfill these roles.
This year we had a range of speakers and visitors from our local community and beyond. We also used a website called Founders4Schools and our contact Arlene Nicol from West Lothian DYW to find people to visit us.
Our visitors included:
- Mrs Edwards ~ Team Building Skills
- Mr Walker ~ 35 Cycles
- Mrs Gent ~ Community Midwife
- Mr Cecil ~ STEM East
- Ms Haston ~ Archaeology
- Alison & Rachel ~ Narnia Hair Design
- Mr Fish ~ Fire fighter
- Mr Wilson ~ Postman
- Ms Szawlowska ~ Carer/ student
- Mr Mitchell ~ PBC Foundation
- Kristy & Dawn ~ Dawnfresh
- Applied Science Students ~ West Lothian College
- Mr Russell ~ Wright and Maclennan Ltd
- Jenny Cambell ~ Resilience Engine
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who visited us and helped to make it such a huge success. Ms Haston organised for WL Courier to visit us … So watch this space!
The learning outcomes we explored during the week were:
Nursery – P1:
- I can communicate with people about the different jobs they do in my community.
- I can discuss some of the rewards that a job brings
- I can role play different job roles.
- I can develop ideas and take part in projects to make things.
P2-4:
- I can describe different jobs in my community and some of the skills needed for these.
- I can learn about the world of work from visits, projects and my experiences.
- I can talk to employers about myself and about their workplace.
- I can recognise that there are different ways to get a job.
- I can talk about the types of jobs that interest me
P5-7:
- Â I can discuss the relevance of skills to the wider world and make connections between skills and the world of work.
- Â I can explain to others my ambitions/what I would like to do and look for ways to achieve them/that.
- I can recognise the skills I have and need for work.
- I can apply my skills to get more information about jobs/careers.
- I can identify different types of enterprise opportunities and engage in them.
You can find out more about our DYW Week by visiting our blog.
Primary 2
Digital Learning & DYW Week – ‘The Apprentice’ Challenge
What were we learning?
To create a solution for a design challenge.
How would we know if we were successful?
- We would be able to work as a team to share ideas and make decisions fairly.
- We would be able to make sketches of our ideas.
- We would be able to use digital technology to create them.
What did we do?
We were challenged to create a new character for a computer game. We sketched our ideas on our own first, then worked as a group to pick the best parts of each person’s plan. We then used the ‘Cartoonify’ website to practise creating our characters digitally. When we were happy, we worked with Miss McLaughlin to finish and save them. We voted as a class to pick the two teams who would represent us in the ‘Apprentice’ challenge and they did really well at Friday’s assembly.
Everyone did an amazing job – check below to see all of the different characters we created!
Primary 2… You’re HIRED!
Check in with us next week to see what we are learning!
Until next time…
Primary 2 & Miss M 🙂
DYW Apprentice Assembly
This morning we held an Apprentice Assembly to mark the end of our Developing the Young Workforce Week.
Jenny Campbell from Resilience Engine started our assembly by sharing her journey with us which has resulted in her creating her own business.
Our judging panel consisted of John Sexton (West Lothian Digital Learning Team), Arlene Nicol (West Lothian Developing the Young Workforce) and Jenny Campbell (Resilience Engine). The panel had a tough job of selecting the winners of our ‘Digital Character Challenge’.
The presentations from each class were very impressive, demonstrating how confident and creative our children are.
Congratulations to Connor and Jessica in P1 who won the P1-3 competition!
and Oliwia in P6, who won the P4-7 competition!
PUSCPS would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has made our DYW Week so successful!
We also dressed up as careers or jobs we would like to have wehn we grow up. Our visit from Barry walker inspired Katy to dress up as him, and Abbie even dressed up as Miss Burton!
P7 Digital Learning Week
Learning Intention:
To create, capture and manipulate text and images to communicate experiences, ideas and information in creative and engaging ways.
Success Criteria:
I can capture and collate images in a creative way.
As part of Digital Learning Week, P7 have been busy working on their yearbook. The children had to locate and select the images that they would like to appear in their yearbook to create paired pages about themselves. They have also been locating and selecting images to create some gallery pages of P7 learning events and experiences.
Primary 5 Digital Learning week
This week we have been using our digital expertise to research in Science and Maths.
We have been learning what the benefits of renewable energy sources are
We found out that they are cleaner for the environment, they create jobs, save money, don’t add to greenhouse gas emissions, won’t run out and make us less reliant on other countries to supply us with oil.
We have been investigating different types of triangles and their properties.
We learned that equilateral and isosceles triangles are the most commonly used triangles in engineering (Murron). We also found out that the triangle is the strongest shape and that is why it’s used in bridges and buildings (Owen and Liam).
Share a Story
As part of Digital Learning Week P1m took part in an early years collaborative story.
We received the story on Wednesday then we had the exciting job of creating an ending for the story that other classes in the authority had created.
We worked in pairs to decide what we thought should happen to the characters who’d got lost at the zoo.  There were lots of fantastic of ideas and we managed to bring most of them into our ending before we saved it onto the online group. We are looking forward to receiving the finished story soon.
