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Just a quick reminder that our Primary 4 assembly is tomorrow morning (the 11th of May) at 9.15am!
We have been working very hard on this and have written some of our own lines, so we are looking forward to seeing everyone there to support us!
See you all tomorrow,
Miss Mulhern
We are learning to understand and use apostrophes for contractions.
I can use apostrophe when writing contracted words.
Primary Four have been busy this week looking at apostrophes for contractions. We had different stations set up to practise this and all found it really engaging and fun. Firstly, we were asked for help by Shrek! He had written a letter to Puss in Boots and Donkey and wondered if we would read it for him to check for any mistakes. We were all up to the task!
So Station 1 was working in pairs to check Shrek’s letter. We spotted apostrophes used incorrectly for contractions and lots of other silly mistakes too like capital letters and spellings!
Station 2 was where we had to work as a group to complete a contractions loop cards game. We had lots of cards with which we shared evenly and had to match with its other half. The aim is to create one large circle together (a bit like dominoes). All our groups managed to complete it and noticed that a couple of the cards were in there to trick them!
Our final Station was number 3 and this was contraction surgery! We had lots of expanded phrases like ‘cannot’ and ‘you have’ and we had to cut them up correctly and insert a plaster apostrophe in the correct place. This was very messy but we were all able to justify why we had placed our plaster apostrophe in the place we did and why it was correct.
We now have a much more solid understanding of the use of contractions and were able to come back together as a class and share our learning. We have fixed Shrek’s letter now so hopefully he will get a response back from Donkey and Puss soon!
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.
Wednesday 16th May 3:15pm
You are invited to our final Families Learning Together session of this year.
You will have an opportunity to see some of the learning which your child has been involved in this session and to help them to set targets to improve and progress.
FLT is a great chance to spend time sharing learning with your child, talking about their progress and next steps and understanding more of what they are learning before parent appointments – any member of the family is welcome.
Your child will shortly receive a slip in their school bag, please complete the slip and return to school so we know who to expect on the day.
PUSCPS Families Learning Together Programme Leaflet
To start this term most of our classes with have a STEM focus for their Interdisciplinary learning
P1: Let it grow!
P2: Doctor, Doctor!
P3: Living, growing and sustainability
P4: Weather and Climate
P5: Braw lunch break
P7: Crystal growing competition
Please find below the learning overviews for this term.
We are learning to: use emotional language.
I can: identify the emotions, behaviours and triggers of a character.
Primary 4 were tasked with identifying the emotions, behaviours and triggers of a character in groups of 3. We watched a short video entitled “A Shadow of Blue”, pausing it at 3 different points for discussion.
The character in the vieo clip experienced a range of emotions and we were able to identify and name lots of them. Finding behaviours was trickier, as the clip was mostly featuring the character’s shadow, but we worked hard in our groups to find lots!
We came back together as a class at the end and shared some of our answers for each section. We were able to justify our thoughts about the character’s emotions through discussing their behaviours and the triggers which made them feel this way.
We produced some brilliant work and had a great discussing which was very interesting.
As Calder received the most Dojos last term, they requested a pyjama party. Jessica and Katie organised a range of games, pyjama corners, pass the pillow, stuff the pillow and bed sheet parachute games. We also had lots of nice treats for snacks. Thank you to all the Primary 7 Young Leaders who helped to organised the party.
This morning at assembly we launched Emotion Works by looking at the emotion of happiness!
We first of all watched a clip about ‘joy’ from Inside Out.
Primary 6 helped us to understand different words for happiness.
Then we looked at how we feel and what triggers us to feel happiness.
We then watched a video that showed how we show happiness at PUSCPS, we also discussed how music and other people smiling can make us feel happy and smile. M
Mrs Dickie told us all about the Rockie Rockstars who are coming to work with us week beginning 30th April.
We finished our assembly with our Living our Values Certificates.
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