Sports Day will go ahead today at 1:15pm. We look forward to seeing you.
Transition
It’s that time of year when we start thinking about moving on. Our Primary 7 and pre-school children have already started their transition journey over the past few weeks and months.
Transition Challenge
As part of Health Week, P1 – P7 have been set a transition challenge to teach the new children coming into their stage about their learning, achievements and events this year.
Here is an example of the P7 challenge:
Here are the P6s hard work completing the challenge:
Watch this space for the final results!
Moving up MorningÂ
On the 19th June we will have our moving up afternoon when our children will have the opportunity to meet their new teachers.
Class Structure
Currently our class structure for next session is:
- P1
- P2
- P2
- P3
- P4
- P5
- P6
- P7
*This is our current structure, however we are still awaiting our final numbers for Primary 1, so this may be subject to change if our numbers increase.Â
WL Sum Dog Competition So Far …
So far in the competition …
Classes placed out of 23:
- 7th – P6
- 20th – P4
Children placed out of 623:
- 29th – Callum C – P6
- 39th – Jack – P6
- 40th – Emilia – P6
The competition runs until Thursday and all children can play at home as well as school.
P3 DYW
WAL:Â about the world of work.
 I can:
– explain the different roles of an increasing number of people in society.
–Â explain what some jobs involve.
Last week for DYW week, we had talks from Dawn Fresh Manufacturing, a Midwife and Mrs Slzawlowska. We learned about their jobs and what they have to do at their work. We wrote about our own ‘Dream Job’ and what we would have to do at it.
Olivia P’ I would like to be an Engineer and build a flying machine.’
Layla ‘I would like to be an artist and paint paintings to sell to people for their homes.’
Kieron ‘ I would like to be a builder and work on a construction site driving the machinery.’
Liam ‘ I would like to be in the Army and protect people.’Â 
In pairs/trios, we also designed and created a digital character for a video game as part of a whole school challenge. We voted as a class and the two winning teams were Eve, Ryleigh & Eilidh and Rachel & Mitchell. What do you think of our designs?
We all enjoyed learning more about the world of work and taking part in the challenge.
P3
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
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:
- Â I can discuss the relevance of skills to the wider world and make connections between skills and the world of work.
- Â 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.
Digital Learning Week – P3
WAL: to use technology to follow and record directions using words, signs and angles.
I can:
- suggest & record instructions for a programmable toy (Bee-bot)
- Â suggest & record instructions for a Sprite (2D image)
Last week we had lot of fun using technology to enhance our learning in Maths.
Bee- bots – we played with the Bee-bots to learn how they worked and then we recorded directions. We got our Bee-bots to make squares and rectangles.
We used the ‘Turtle Program’ on https://www.j2e.com/jit5#turtle. We recorded directions for our Sprite (2D image of a rocket) to get it to travel in a clockwise direction around all the planets. The extension activities were to program the rocket to go anti-clockwise, to add an extra Sprite and to use the advanced program.
What we thought – Dylan ” I enjoyed adding a second sprite and programming it. It felt like I had a magic power because I could make them both move.”
Olivia “i enjoyed getting the Bee-bot to make the shapes.”
Connor L ” I enjoyed recording the directions for my rocket and seeing it move on it’s own”
Emily “I enjoyed adding another sprite because it felt like a challenge.”
The class are keen to use both the technologies in the future especially the website https://www.j2e.com/jit5 as it has lots of other exciting activities to explore.
Rookie Rockstars Concert
Families Learning Together – Wednesday 16th May – 3:15pm
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.
