P4-7 Instructions for Pupil Video Lessons
Advice On Accessing Glow for P4-7
Please find below some information about glow and how you can support your child to use it at home:
School responsible use: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/puscpsnews/primary-4-7-teams/
West Lothian Council Advice:
Scottish Government Advice:
https://glowconnect.org.uk/security-and-privacy/glow-community-rules/
Advice on how to access Glow apps: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/puscpsnews/advice-for-p4-7-on-how-to-access-microsoft-apps/
Accessing Teams on Xbox:
Accessing Teams on Playstation:
End of Term Message from Miss Burton
Good morning everyone,
Wow! Can you actually believe it is the end of term?!
It’s hard to believe that 14 weeks ago our school doors closed, but our school community definitely didn’t.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you as parents and carers for your support as we navigated through these unprecedented times. Thank you for your patience and understanding, and for supporting us along the way. In some ways, although we are apart, I feel like we have grown closer. You have done a brilliant job of supporting your child with home learning, please give yourself credit for that.
Thank you to our staff who have quickly adapted to a new way of learning and teaching, and especially for humouring me with my love of making a making a wee video! They have consistently taught our children, showing they care whilst experiencing the personal challenges that lock down brings to us all. Thank you to everyone who also works behinds the scenes- a lot of work goes into running the school smoothly.
Happy retirement to our dear Mrs Ness, who has dedicated 25 years to our school. That is a huge achievement and dedication to our community! She will be greatly missed by us all.
Thank you to our children- we miss them dearly! They are the true stars of PUSCPS. We have loved seeing, and hearing them in Teams, reading emails and seeing their uploads to online learning journals. Good luck to our Primary 7s- they will be greatly missed. It was great to celebrate with them last week, and we know they will go on to make us all proud. Please now take 10 minutes to sit with your child and watch this wee video we made especially for them:
I will be in touch in August once we have a clearer picture of what the school day will look like. August will bring a new normal for us, but for now, rest and try not to worry. None of us like uncertainty, but the one thing that is certain is that we will always be here to support you. We are ready to welcome you and your child back, and we are very excited about that!
Please give your child a big PUSCPS hug from me- I miss them lots.
Happy holidays,
Miss Burton
Veolia Poetry Competition
Some of pupils entered the Veolia Poetry Competition about looking after the planet. Congratulations to Ola who won the competition! Amazing news and fantastic feedback.
Other children who entered the competition had fantastic feedback too! Well done to everyone who entered!
P5 – Connor – This was so close to being our winner, because of the fantastic words used in rhyming, the great local knowledge of the ‘gardyloo’, and the powerful message of ‘one planet-one Scotland’ which captures the global action needed to combat climate change.
P4 – Finlay –Â Loved how this poem had such a direct call to action- to mobilise people and that it used fantastic repetition. We hope people will do exactly as Finlay asks.
P4 – Jack – This was one of the most original poem entries we had. We loved how Jack managed to make a coral reef sound even more amazing, buy using the whole poem as a metaphor for baking a cake (at least we though cake- others may have thought of other food). It made all of the colours in a reef stand out in out imaginations even more.
P4 – Ruby – This poem had great rhyming and we really liked how Ruby, made us think of the Ocean as a home, rather than just a big pool of water for animals in it. It made the reader even more keen to protect it.
P4 – Sophie Rose –The descriptive language in this poem was the best we have seen from any of our entries. It was so good, it didn’t need the pictures. The language made you imagine all of these horrible scenes happening to Sloths and their environments and really made the reader feel how powerless they are without our support. This poem was also one of the saddest we received. This is not a criticism, it is just testament to well Sophie Rose described a very sad situation.
P4 – Sorley – We loved how Sorley, spelt the word environment using each line of the poem, and we loved how the T at the end was a message that working together we can solve this issue. Sorley also showed great knowledge from renewable energy to melting ice caps.
P4 – Anastacia – We liked that this poem had great use of rhyming. We also really liked the simile about polar bears, and the metaphor about polar bears needing ice to fight climate change. There was a good use of onomatopoeia. We found this a powerful poem.
Nursery Class of 2020!
It was a double celebration for our new Primary 1s last week.
They said goodbye to their nursery staff and received their nursery scroll and gift.
Then the had the opportunity to visit their Primary 1 classroom and meet their new teachers! They also received a gift from them to say we would be thinking of them over the summer.
A big welcome to our New P1s from everyone at PUSCPS!
Summer Reading Challenge
The Summer Reading challenge has gone digital this year to ensure children can still take part even though they’re unable to visit our libraries just now. Here are some details of this year’s challenge and information on how to join in:
Join the #SillySquad2020  by signing up at sillysquad.org.uk
Check out your West Lothian libraries webpage https://bit.ly/WLlibrariesSRC2020 and search for books you can borrow from us at https://bit.ly/BBoxChildren
Nursery Home Learning
Primary 3 Check-in
Hi Primary 3,
We hope your week is going well so far and that you have managed some of the learning activities for the final week of term. All your resources are listed below for you. Remember that the Sumdog competition is on until tomorrow so there’s still time to take part!
Thank you for all of your messages and the work you have sent in whilst the school has been closed. We have really missed seeing you all in school and it has been lovely to hear how you have been getting on at home. A big thank you to your grown-ups at home for helping you with all your learning too!
We have loved being your teachers and we’re looking forward to seeing you around the school when we get back in August. In the meantime, we hope you all have a fantastic summer!
Take care,
Ms Cave and Mrs McConville 😎
P3 Home learning board 22.6.20
Spelling week beginning 22nd June 2020 & activities
