So far in the West Lothian Sumdog Competition:
Out of 68 Classes:
- 47th – Primary 5
- 64th – Primary 3
Out of 1607 students:
- 27th – Kayden C in Primary 4
The competition runs until Thursday!
West Lothian Sumdog Competition So Far …
So far in the West Lothian Sumdog Competition:
Out of 33 Classes:
- 18th – Primary 5
Out of 729 students:
- 20th – Kayden C in Primary 4
- 40th – Ellie C in Primary 5
The competition runs until Thursday!
Sumdog Contest
The West Lothian contest starts this Friday. Â Can anyone make it into the top 50?
Stellar Young Writer Awards Assembly
Star Writer Awards from PUSCPS
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.
P4 Assembly – Our Local Area
Stellar Writing Competition
All the children in P1-P7 created a piece of writing for the West Lothian Council Stellar Writing Competition (previously known as Young Writer of the Year).
Our Literacy Leaders had the difficult task of selecting the best piece of writing for each class, and then an overall winner for the school.
On Thursday 6th May at 2:30pm, we will have a special Star Writer Assembly to celebrate and announce those children who have been selected (the children don’t know). Parents/ carers of these children have been informed but everyone is invited to the assembly. We look forward to seeing you!
P4 Digital Learning
As part of Digital Learning Week P4 have been learning to create bar charts using Excel from data gathered about types of housing. This linked to our Interdisciplinary Learning Topic on our local environment through maths and technology. The children have explored different ways to record data, they have carried out surveys and then used the data to create the bar charts using Excel.
Some examples of our Excel bar charts.
Digital Dress Down Day
On Friday we had a digital dress down day to celebrate digital learning week. Well done to everyone who took part, we raised £48.90 and Breich raised the most!
Sharing Our Digital Learning
As part of Digital Learning Week we invited our families to join us for some digital learning. Thank you to everyone who came along and joined us.
Primary 3
What were we learning?
To learn how to use an algorithm.
How would we know if we were successful?
- We would be able to follow an algorithm set by Miss McLaughlin.
- We would be able to ‘de-bug’ an algorithm that didn’t quite work.
- We would be able to write algorithms of our own for a partner to try.
What did we do?
- We followed Miss McLaughlin’s algorithm for drawing a monster but unfortunately, our monsters did not match hers!
- We talked about why this might be – her algorithm wasn’t detailed enough! We fixed it together by adding key words like ‘short’ and ‘tiny’.
- We then tried writing algorithms for our own monsters and gave them to different partners for them to try. We talked about what we might need to ‘de-bug’ for next time.
Primary 3 also have been issued Listening & Talking homework – a letter went home in your child’s bag on Friday. Information is also below – if there are any issues/questions, please let Miss McLaughlin know!
Until next time…
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂
