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Primary 1 Nativity Cast
Santa Visits PUSCPS!
A very exciting and magical afternoon at PUSCPS as Santa visited our children, from a distance. The children all wished him a Merry Christmas and asked him some questions. He reminded us to go to bed early on Christmas Eve. Thank you Santa for taking time to visit us at this very busy time for you.
Primary 1 Nativity Trailer
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Primary 1 Learning
Primary 1 have learning about toys. We have been talking about toys we enjoy playing with today and what some toys were like in the past. Everyone has been enjoying playing with some examples of older toys such as wooden cards and yo-yos at play and learn time. Mrs Hardie also brought some toys that she used to play with as a little girl for us to see.
On Friday we received a letter from Santa asking us to use our imagination to design a new toy that children around the world would enjoy playing with. We began drawing our designs and adding labels to explain how they work. We are going to finish them this week and present them to our classmates before sending them off to Santa!
The class have also been busy working on Christmas arts and crafts. We made our own Christmas tree pictures using a fingerprint technique and a snowy day picture using white paint and glitter. Despite not being able to have our Christmas Fair this year, we have also created a special Christmas craft to bring home on Thursday.
Be an Author – Book Week Scotland Competition
Last week we set all classes a free writing competition inviting them to create a piece of writing on any theme or in any style for Book Week Scotland.
Our house and vice captains had the difficult job of judging the competition this week.
P1-P4/3 created theirs on paper, and P4-7 uploaded theirs to Teams.
Congratulations to all our fabulous authors!
Primary 1 Term 2 Sway Update
P1 Book Pen Pals
P1 and P2/1 had some very exciting mail this week. We received our first postcard from our new Book Penpal, Sophie Ambrose! We loved reading about Albie, the warthog in her book ‘Bedtime for Albie. We even had a shot of becoming illustrators by drawing Albie. We hope you like our pictures. We will write you a postcard soon next week.
PUSCPS Christmas Countdown 2020
Please see below a list of the ways we hope to celebrate the festive period with our children. Staff and the Parent Partners have brainstormed ways we can safely celebrate in our class bubbles and raise some money for school funds (instead of our Christmas Fayre).
We would request that children come to school dressed for their class Christmas Celebration rather than go home at lunch time to change into their party clothes.
I am sure you will agree we have managed to still plan lots of exciting opportunities to celebrate this festive period and our Christmas trees have gone up today!
As always, thank you for your continued support!
How do we teach writing?
In this video, one of our Literacy Champions, Miss McLaughlin, explains how we use a resource called PM Writing to support with the teaching of writing. All classes across the school use this process to ensure consistency and progression in learning.
