Christmas Countdown 2020 Update.docx
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!
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.
Book Week Scotland
West Lothian Sumdog Contest Starts Today!
Sumdog’s West Lothian Maths Contest is here! It finishes at 8pm on Thursday 19th November.Here are some things to keep in mind during the contest:
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We still need a few more players in each class to join the leaderboard!
Book Week Scotland
Remembrance Day
Thank you to everyone who donated to our Poppy Appeal, we raised £71.15.
This year Miss Burton laid a school poppy wreath at the Pumpherston Memorial as the P7s were unable to due to restrictions.
Classes also marked Remembrance Day by having a 2 minute silence in class.
Primary 2/1
This week Primary 2/1 learned all about how to stay safe around fireworks and created firework pictures. We first looked at videos and pictures of fireworks and talked about the colours we could see. We then drew lines with wet chalk on black paper to recreate fireworks bursting in the sky.
