On the West Lothian Sumdog Competition Leaderboard so far …
Out of 32 classes:
– P1 is 31st
Out of 909 pupils:
– Gillon in P6 is 49th
Remember you can long in at home and play as well! The competition is running all week.
P5 learn about forces
Our STEM topic has been learning all about forces. First we learned about friction. Then we investigated another type of friction: air resistance. We also investigated electrostatic forces. We learned how to write up a science experiment as a real scientist would!
Club Wild – Houses complete and ready for families!
Now that Spring is here we have noticed that the birds are busy, ready to build nests for this year’s families. For the last few weeks Club Wild have been working on our bird boxes to give the birds a helping hand.
We talked about why its important to put up bird nesting boxes with fewer suitable trees, shrubs and buildings and more human landscaped areas.
We had two different types of bird boxes, one with a small hole for the little birds like sparrows, blue tits and great tits and one with a large open hole for birds like robins. In the wild robins would build open nests. The robin nest boxes needed to be placed between 1-2m above the ground while the small birds nest boxes between 2-4m. We chose a small area of mixed trees and made sure that our nest boxes were well hidden and not accessible to predators. They also needed to be placed facing a northerly direction to provide shelter from the prevailing wind.
After putting up the bird boxes we gave them an extra help by making some nesting bundles. Here we used dried grass, feathers, moss, wool and some pet fur tied up in branches so the birds could help themselves to nesting materials.
We hope that some families will move in and lay eggs so that we can watch and learn about our nesting birds.
Spring Home Learning Task
Families Learning Together
Learning & Teaching @ PUSCPS Workshops
On Tuesday night children and staff organised information workshops about our priorities in school this year. Thank you to our staff and children who organised the event and to those families who joined us.
Literacy & English: Writing & PEEP
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/curriculum-evening-literacy-english
Numeracy & Maths: Bedtime Maths App
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/bedtime-maths-app-curriculum-workshop
Numeracy & Maths: Number Talks & Mathematical Mindsets
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/curriculum-evening-maths-numeracy
Across Learning: Digital LearningÂ
Support for Learning: IDL
Feedback from the event:Â
We used a form on glow to get some feedback on our event.
- 100% said they would find more workshops like this useful.
- Good to know what they are learning
- To understand how to help my daughter with her learning.
- Good to get information all very interesting.
- Great information
- New ways to teach children who have additional learning in literacy.
- It was interesting and knowledgeable
- Seeing what the children learn on daily basis and what they use to achieve this.
- Â Informative nice know how these topics are being taught.
- The new technology available to children.
- I loved learning how to help my kids as much as I can.
- Understanding how to help our children.
- Very good information.
- I found out new ways to help the Kids @ Home.
- Methods of support to help them at home.
- It was good to learn things that we could help with at home.
- Interesting to see how they learned.
- Theories behind modern maths teaching.
West Lothian Burns Competition
On Wednesday night, our five finalists from our Burns Assembly joined other children from schools across West Lothian  to compete in the recital competition.Â
Our children did a fantastic job of representing their classes at the competition, a big well done to them all and their families for joining them at the competition.
A special congratulations to Jacob who came runner up in the P1-3 section.
We recognised this achievement at assembly on Friday.
Fairtrade Friday!
To mark the end of #FairtradeFornight children dressed up or down to raise £85 for Fairtrade. A big thank you to everyone who took part, and well done to Calder House for raising the most money.
Families Learning Together 3
Repost: Learning & Teaching at PUSCPS Event
A reminder, that we warmly invite you to come along and join us at our learning and teaching evening.
We often hear from our families, what does learning look like at PUSCPS and what are the school’s priorities.
Come along and find out from staff and children in an informal way what we have been focusing on this year!
We will even provide you with a wee tea or coffee. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday evening.
Those parent/ carers with an IDL invite will also be able to attend a workshop on this evening.
