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A big well done to everyone who took part in the festive home learning task, the results are amazing! It is fantastic to see the efforts families have went to to complete the task.
I have really enjoyed speaking to the children about how they made their designs and what they used. We will share the results at the Sing-a-long tomorrow.
This week Primary 6 will receive the Deputy First Minister’s Maths Challenge.
All Primary 6 pupils across Scotland have been issued with the Deputy First Minister’s Maths Challenge. This is to provide some Christmas holiday maths family fun.
When you do complete one of the activities we would like you to share your answers with us on Twitter. To do this you need to create a Twitter account, take a photo of the completed activity and tweet it to us by typing @PUSCPS.
The solutions and workings will be published at https://blogs.gov.scot/making-maths-count on 4th January.
Good luck!
On Friday we held our annual Christmas Fair, organised by our Parent Partners Group. The choir opened the event by singing some Christmas songs and all the classes had taken part in Enterprise projects which they sold at the fair. Our nurture groups, outdoor club and parent craft club also had stalls. Our P7 Young Leaders came along and worked at some of the stands and even set up their own nail bar. Thanks to everyone who organised the event and to all those who visited and donated to school funds.
There was lots of excitement in the infant department today as P1 received their Bookbug Bags from their P7 buddy’s. They looked through the bags together and P7 read them some stories.
P4 gifted P3, and P6 gifted P2 with their Read, Write, Count Bags. They explored the bags together and even found some games to play.
The P1-3 children will take their bags home tomorrow, and we have invited parents, carers and families along at 2:30pm on Tuesday to look through the bags with their child.
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PUSCPS Newsletter – December 2017
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We went to Broxburn Academy for a STEM day (Science Technology Engineering and Maths). Here are some of the activities we got a chance to take part in.
‘ We got to play with Oobleck. I f you put hard pressure on Oobleck on it, it becomes a solid. If you put light pressure on it, it becomes a liquid. ‘ Lauren
‘ We attached inflated balloons onto cd hovercrafts and took part in a race with them.’ Andrew
‘ We made fizz pop rockets. We put blu tak into the lid and added a white tablet. Then we added water. The first time we added cold water and we repeated it with hot water. We found out that hot water made the fizz pop rocket explode faster.’ Erin S
This session our Families Learning Together events for P2-P7 pupils will happen termly. Click below to download the leaflet for more information.
Download the leaflet: Â PUSCPS Families Learning Together Programme Leaflet 2017-2018
Primary 2-7 pupils signed up to their chosen golden time activity this week and had great fun playing with peers from different classes. All classes have been learning about Rights and Responsibilities since returning to school and article number 31 is a favourite – we have the right to play.
