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Primary 1 – DYW Week

Primary 1 had visitors in class last week for developing the young workforce week.  Here is some of what we enjoyed.

I liked trying on the fireman’s uniform.

I got to put the postman’s hat on.

I enjoyed when the midwife showed us the pictures of babies nappies and their poo!

We talked about what we want to be when we grow up.  Here are some of our ideas:

Ruaraidh:  Fireman

Ben:   Tram driver

Christopher P: Bagpipe player

Karlie: Teacher

Tom: Babysitter

Jake: Train driver

Logan: Archaeologist

Harrison: Rugby player

Danielle: Explorer

Sophie: Midwife

Maisie: Vet

Jacob: Policeman

Iona: Shop keeper

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Nursery to Primary 1 Transition

We have organised a range of events to ensure a smooth transition for your child into Primary 1. As your child is a currently enrolled as part of our nursery, most of these events will naturally happen and you do not need to make any extra arrangements.

Learning together

For this opportunity the pupils will be spilt into groups depending on whether they are a morning or afternoon child. They will get to experience what learning is like in a P1 environment. They will experience this at three different points over May and June, including a playground session, allowing them to experience the playground.

Assemblies:

Children will have the opportunity to join us with our whole school assemblies at different points during the term.

Buddy Visits:

Their buddy is a P6 child who has been matched with your child to support them during transition and to help them find their way around the school. We have organised for their buddy to visit the nursery three times before the end of this school year.

P1 Induction Evening – Meet the Teacher (for parents):

On Tuesday 5th June at 6pm we would like to invite parents/ carers along to find out about what learning and routines are like in P1. You will also receive all your enrolment and order forms at this time and have a chance to visit the P1 classrooms.

Meet the Teacher (for pupils) and Dine Together:

On Tuesday 19th June at 11:00-12pm we invite all our pre-school pupils to meet their new teacher and class. During this time you are invited to stay for tea and coffee and get to know the other P1 parents. If your child is currently in the morning Nursery we will take them over to their P1 classroom. If they are currently an afternoon child you will have to make arrangements for them to be at school by 11am. Following this you will have the opportunity to sample a school lunch with your child (from 12:00pm-12:30pm). A lunch order form and more information will be given out at the induction evening.

Information for NEW families to PUSCPS

Learning together:

The pupils will get to experience what learning is like in a P1 environment and to meet their P7 ‘buddy’. They will have the opportunity to experience this at four different points over June and you are invited to bring your child along to any/all of them.

  • 29th May: 1pm-1:30pm
  • 6th June: 1pm – 1.30pm
  • 13th June: 1pm-1:30pm
  • 27th June: 12.30pm – 1pm (playground visit to allow children to experience playing in the playground with their buddies)

We look forward to meeting you all.

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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:

  •  I can discuss the relevance of skills to the wider world and make connections between skills and the world of work.
  •  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.

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Primary 5 DYW challenge

The digital learning/DYW challenge this week was very engaging for our class.  The task was to create a new digital character for a game, either a new game or one that is currently on the market.  As many of our class are interested in careers in gaming, it was a great challenge.  We discussed what we liked about characters in games and then decided if we wanted to work alone or in a small group.

We were using lots of different skills in this challenge that will be important for us in the future when we are working.

We used teamwork, discussion, negotiating, literacy, creativity and  IT skills.  We also had to learn to use new programmes to create the digital image.

Once we had decided on our character, named it, designed it, gave it super powers and agreed what its personality would be like we then had to think of what the characters back story would be – this was lots of fun.

Mrs Andison was impressed at the literacy skills we were using to describe our characters as well as the creativity of our designs.

Thanks to Miss Burton for setting this challenge.

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Primary 2 – DYW Photos

We got to meet lots of interesting people this week and learned lots about the different jobs they do!

On Tuesday, Mrs Edwards came in to develop our team-building skills! We had to work as groups to build different transport using only marshmallows and spaghetti! We then talked about what behaviours worked well for team-work (e.g. taking turns, good listening) and those which didn’t (e.g. people being left out). Thank you for coming to work with us!

Can you guess which form of transport each group made?

We also learned more this week about manufacturing, the different jobs a fire fighter has to do and the role of a midwife. Thank you to Kristy and Jane from Dawnfresh, Mr Fish and Mrs Gent for spending time with us!

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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 🙂

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Primary 4 DYW Week

During Developing the Young Workforce week Primary 4 had some wonderful visitors in to tell us about their jobs.

We loved hearing from Mrs Gent the midwife about babies and how to care for them.

Some of our class were very knowledgable about this subject and gave us demonstrations of how to hold and burp babies!

 

We really enjoyed hearing from Mr Walker about his job building and customising motorcycles. We even got to design our own motorbikes!

Sarah-Jane came to speak to us about her archaeology job too and we were amazed at the types of things she got to do for work! We had a mini dig ourselves and found lots of different things, from pottery to bones!

This week has been really eye-opening and our class had such a great time! We even heard about different scientist jobs during our class trip to Dynamic Earth yesterday which  was linked back to our DYW Week by one of our pupils.

Thank you so much to all our visitors. We loved it all!

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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.

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Nursery Developing the Young Workforce Week

This week the nursery children have been learning about the world of work.  We have had visits from a firefighter, a postman and a care worker.  We looked closely at some of the equipment Mr Fish uses to help him with his job.  Mr Wilson let us try on his outfit and we learned that he can choose to wear three different types of hats – a summer hat, winter and a skip hat.   We talked about the role of a care worker with Kaz.

In nursery we set up our own Post Office with letters,  post cards, stamps and labels.  We can also weigh parcels to see how heavy they are.  Our nursery fire station is set up with a telephone and emergency forms to fill in to tell the firefighters where to locate the fire or emergency.  We also have home made hoses to put out fires.

Thank you to all our visitors who helped develop and support our learning this week!

 

 

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