Category: Primary 1S

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Health Week & Sports Day

Dear parents/carers,

Health week will take place next week (4th– 8th June), with a whole range of exciting activities for the children taking place in school. On Monday – Thursday, children should wear sports gear appropriate for indoor and outdoor activities, remembering that football colours are not permitted. Children should wear school uniform on Friday. Please ensure they have a water bottle each day.

Sports day be will on the afternoon of Thursday 7th June, on the playing fields beside the school. It will commence at 1.15pm.  Should we have to cancel due to the weather, we will Groupcall you by 10.30am on that day.  Please note, due to health and safety, there will be no access to the school for spectators. Due to photograph restrictions, we ask that you only take photographs of your own child/ children.

Kind regards,

Morag Dickie

Acting Principal Teacher

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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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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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Digital Learning in P1

We are learning about different emotion words and how they can be expressed.

I know … different emotion words

I can … show some of the body signs that may match emotions.

I can share my learning using digital technologies.

P1 used a new app called ChatterKid this week to show their learning about emotions.

Here are some examples of what we have done so far:

https://vimeo.com/271329762

https://vimeo.com/271329861

https://vimeo.com/271329905

https://vimeo.com/271329980

https://vimeo.com/271330066

https://vimeo.com/271330117

 

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Lay a little egg for me!

P1 had a fantastic suprise when they arrived at school this morning. A mummy hen has left us 10 little eggs to look after. Two of the eggs had already hatched before we got in and there was another arrival after school today! They are desperate to say hello but Hopefully we get to see some pipping and hatching tomorrow. We have a boy and two girls so far. P1 had lots of super questions about the chicks.

More from ‘Chick Cam’ tomorrow …

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P1 – Let’s all be Friends!

We are learning to … be confident and build good friendships through singing.

I can … talk about forgiving and friendship.

I can … perform for others.

I can … work together with my class.

Here is what P1 had to say about their ‘Rookie Rockstars’ week:

The songs were teaching us how to be friends.

We learned rock songs.

They were about happiness and sadness.

I liked when we were singing – Bullies are not cool!

I liked the penguin dance.

I liked putting our arms round each other and showing we are friends

I liked the song about not giving up, like in a race!

I liked challenge time when people rapped or had a marshmallow challenge!

We were recording our songs for a CD.

We are looking forward to dressing up for the concert!

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Pumphie Pals – Have your say!

At our Pumphie Pals session this morning we used How Good is our School to create key questions to help us reflect on our year. We then used this time to answer the questions reflecting on what went well and how we could be even better.

This information will be collated along with our staff and parent/ carers views to help form our priorities for next session.

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