PUSCPS Newsletter – December 2017
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Primary 4 Catch-Up!
Primary Four have been very busy recently! We have been doing a lot of reflective reading in groups looking for information and using this information to answer questions.
We also got a new visitor who will be staying with us for the month… his name is Peppy and he has been up to all kinds of crazy things already!
Finally, we have been working on writing our own song with Miss Mulholland. Each group made up their own beats, pitches and lyrics and we began to perform our own sections this week. They are sounding great already!
Festive Home Learning Task
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SSPCA
Today we had a visit from the SSPCA. We learned lots of new facts while playing snakes and ladders and learned how to help animals in need.
Zoolab
Primary Four had some very special visitors in today!
We met lots of different animals thanks to the team at Zoolab and we all learned lots about them.
Everyone enjoyed themselves and participated by either stroking or holding the animals.
We all had very different reactions to the different creatures, but we could all agree that Spike the Hedgehog was lovely.
New Interactive Board
Primary 4 are very lucky to now have a new interactive board in their classroom. Fingers crossed we will be able to work it!
Stand Up To Cancer!
Ava B – “We were learning how to say our numbers to 31 in French so we can say our birthdays”
Abbie – “We have been creating place value posters to show our learning”
Rosa – “We have been looking at rhythm with Miss Mulholland. We played a game called Hot Potato to help us”
This week, we raised money for Stand Up To Cancer. We all wore orange and donated a pound for the charity.
Fantastic Fundraisers!
We are so proud of Rosa and Darcy.  Over the weekend they decided to raise money for the school by making and selling slime.  Rosa told me the recipe and it is very complicated!  The girls were amazing role-models and fantastic entrepreneurs, raising £66!  Well done girls – be very proud of yourselves as responsible citizens and contributors.
Scottish Maths Week
This week across Scotland, it has been Maths Week. We have been doing some exciting maths activities in class.
Amelia – “I enjoyed doing the book of shapes with Miss Cave. We had to match the shape with the correct colour.”
Ellie Curran – “I liked playing the game ‘Splat’ where you answer a question and the other two people next to them can answer the question too and they have to say “SPLAT!”
Aaron – “I liked doing tiling with the shapes to investigate whether the shape would tile or not.”
We also continued our Celts topic and have begun to make Celtic roundhouses for our families to live in.
Primary 4
This week we started our new topic on the Celts in Scotland. We researched Celtic clothing and made posters about what we found. We really enjoyed using what we had learned to create our own Celtic characters in groups for our wall display.
In French, we have been working more on our French colours and we played games to help us remember them.
Within Maths, we have been learning to identify 2D shapes and describe their features. On Wednesday, we were looking carefully at the sides and angles of shapes to determine whether they were regular or irregular.
