Children received a letter in their bags last week, please sign up to 3 of our workshops and come along and join us.
Digital Internet Safety Challenge in P7
This afternoon we used the app Kahoot to assess what we knew about social media, we loved trying out this new website! We made up nicknames not giving away our identity and answered different questions.
Then we discussed that although most social media apps and online games are for over 13 and 16 year olds, it was important to think about how we stay safe online, if our parents or carers give us permission to use these apps.Â
Miss Burton set us a digital challenge with a difference – we weren’t allowed to use PowerPoint!
First of all we brainstormed all our top tips and then selected our top 5!
Some of us made a Sway using our glow log ins.
Some of us made videos using the green screen and edited them using iMovie.
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Some of us made a poster using Word.
We have been playing in our Nursery Police Station and Post Office
Over the last couple of weeks the nursery children have been interested in the Post Office and the Police Station.
After reading the Jolly Postman book the AM children decided to send a letter to the PM children asking them lots of questions about their nursery day. The children walked to the post office and bought a stamp and posted the letter in the letterbox. A few days later the PM Children received their letter and wrote a letter back to the AM children buying a stamp and posting it at the post office.
The children have been using the post box in the nursery learning that they need to use stamps to pay for the postage. They have been using the scales to weigh their packages and that to post a letter they need to use the correct name address and a post code.
Lucy and Freddie asked for the Police hats and a Police Station.
The children have been looking at their fingerprints, Talking about the jobs the Police do and making looking towers to catch the “baddies” and a jail in the garden! The children are continuing to learn about the job the Police do and we may even have a visit from a real Police Officer.
Primary 1
It has been short but busy week for P1. They have been rehearsing for a very special assembly next month. Making invitations was our first job so that we had an audience. They had to write down all the important information an invitation needs and then design the cover. They will be ready to come home on Monday!
Mrs McJimpsey and Mrs Hardie had an exciting call on Wednesday after school. The man said that he had heard Primary 1 are learning about how different living things grow and how to care for them. He would like to give us some eggs to look after in our classroom. We shared ideas about what might be inside. Here are some ideas:
- Ducklings
- Dragons
- Flowers
- Chocolates
- Chicks
- Seeds
- Beach balls
The eggs will arrive on Monday and we can investigate further!
Save the Date: Learning & Teaching @ PUSCPS
NSPCC Visit
Dear parent/carer,
The NSPCC’s Speak out. Stay safe. programme is visiting our school to make sure our pupils have the knowledge and understanding they need to stay safe from abuse.
I’m pleased to tell you that we will be working with the NSPCC, the UK’s leading children’s charity, who’ll be delivering their Speak out. Stay safe. programme on 27th February 2019. This is a nationwide programme for every primary-school-aged child in the UK and Channel Islands. With the help of their friendly mascot Buddy, they’ll be presenting an assembly to the children in our school as well as a workshop for P6 and P7.
“NSPCC has helped me to build the confidence to tell people about my worries and problems.” Child’s feedback
What is the Speak out. Stay safe. programme?
Through child-friendly, interactive assemblies and workshops their specially trained staff and volunteers will give our children information about how to keep themselves safe from harm and how to get help if they have any worries, sensitively discussing issues like bullying and sexual abuse, without using scary words or adult language.
We have studied the content of the materials and heard from other schools who have participated and are extremely confident that they are appropriate for primary-school-aged children. By the end of their visit, we’re convinced children will feel empowered – knowing how they can speak out and stay safe.
“This service provides important information in a child-friendly way – it should be made mandatory in all schools. A brilliant service!” Teacher, Wistaston Primary, Crewe
If you would like any more information about the NSPCC Speak out. Stay safe. programme, including frequently asked questions, you can find it on the NSPCC website nspcc.org.uk/schools or please come into speak to me and I can provide more information.
Talking about the Underwear Rule with your children
The NSPCC’s work in schools will help encourage conversations about staying safe – and they have a number of child-friendly materials to help you carry on the conversation afterwards. That includes ‘The Underwear Rule’, a simple way for parents to help keep children safe from sexual abuse – without using scary words or even mentioning sex.
The guide uses the rules of PANTS to teach children that their body belongs to them and them alone. You can find out more and download the free resources at nspcc.org.uk/pants
If you’d like to know more about the NSPCC’s work, or take a look at the wide range of information and advice which is available for parents and carers, please visit their website nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/
Yours sincerely,
Miss Burton
Primary 7 Create Questionnaires on Glow
Primary 7 have created a questionnaire on Glow to ask chilren for feedback on their recent trip to Dalguise.
They logged onto Glow using their username and passwords, and` accessed their email accounts. Then they located the ‘waffle’.
They had to consider some of the different types of questions we might ask about Dalguise. Here are some of the finished forms:
Club Wild – Spring is in AirÂ
At club wild we have been thinking about the seasons and the warmer, lighter and greener days that spring and summer will bring. In January and February Mother Nature is already leaving us clues telling us that change is on the way.. Spring is coming!
We found the flowers of hazel, alder and birch trees, drooping down in bright yellows. If you look closely you can also see the tiny pink female flowers next to the yellow catkins.
It is always nice to see clumps of snowdrops, the first flowers of the year. Green shoots are emerging everywhere and plants like Blubells shoot up early so they can get maximum light before the trees get their leaves.
Some trees are already showing leaves as they burst from their buds. We found bright purple Elder leaves and furry buds of Willow and Rowan.
Another way we can tell spring is on the way us by listening too and watching the birds. They will be very busy soon building their nests.
Join us for more Spring adventures soon at
Club Wild.
Primary 4 Internet Safety
In Primary 4 we used the Thinkuknow online resources to explore internet safety. We watched the cartoons and discussed the choices that the characters made in a variety of situations where their choices caused their safety to be compromised. We also explored internet safety from a Health and Wellbeing perspective, discussing the positive opportunities for learning and development, enjoyment and developing social connections and contrasting these with the effects on socialising, good sleep, diet and exercise. This is aimed to encourage safe, positive choices and healthy behaviours and attitudes to their online activities.
