Category: Primary 7 School Closure

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School packed lunches and hot meals update – Wednesday 25 March

All Children Entitled to Free School Meals (including all P1-P3) can collect a packed lunch and a breakfast cereal bar/cereal or have a hot meal at the following schools between 12 noon and 1.30pm.  The list of locations has now been extended and is below.

  • All 11 secondary schools
  • All of the primary schools are listed below:
    • Addiewell Primary School
    • Armadale Primary School
    • Bellsquarry Primary School
    • Blackridge Primary School
    • Bridgend Primary School
    • Deans Primary School
    • Dechmont Infant School
    • East Calder Primary School
    • Greenrigg Primary School
    • Howden St Andrew’s Primary School, Livingston
    • Kirkhill Primary School, Broxburn
    • Kirknewton Primary School
    • Longridge Primary School
    • Mid Calder Primary School
    • Murrayfield Primary School, Blackburn
    • Our Lady’s Primary School, Stoneyburn
    • Parkhead Primary School
    • Peel Primary School, Livingston
    • Polkemmet Primary School, Whitburn
    • Pumpherston and Uphall Station Primary School
    • Riverside Primary School, Livingston
    • Seafield Primary School
    • St John The Baptist Primary School, Fauldhouse
    • Torphichen Primary School
    • Westfield Primary School
    • Winchburgh Primary School
    • Woodmuir Primary School

Please note that the following schools below provide a packed lunch for collection only.

  • Harrysmuir PS, Livingston
  • Knightsridge PS, Livingston
  • Springfield PS, Linlithgow
  • Simpson PS, Bathgate
  • St Ninians PS, Livingston
  • St Mary s PS. Bathgate

A small number of children entitled to Free School Meals (FSM) who live at remote addresses will be contacted to offer help accessing these centres

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Useful apps/websites

Here are some apps/websites which may help with home learning opportunities:

Literacy

www.spellingcity.com (some games free)

www.teachyourmonstertoread.com

 

STEM

www.tynker.com (for coding)

www.stem.org.uk (for daily challenges around the home/garden)

www.topmarks.co.uk (free maths games for 5-7 year olds)

 

Health and Wellbeing

www.actionforhappiness.org.uk (for mindfulness/acts of kindness)

 

We hope you find these helpful.  We will continue to add to this list over the coming weeks.

 

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P4-7 Glow Teams Responsible Use

It is great to see so many children logging into their glow team and accessing learning today.
Please remind your child – the team is for learning and is not for general ‘chit chat’, for example ‘Hi’ or ‘What are you doing?’ The current level of ‘chit chat’ from some children is meaning it is difficult for children to find their tasks and for teachers to see what has been completed.
Each team has a chat channel, which is a more informal way that children can communicate to each other.
The children decided the following ways to use their Team responsibly:
Thanks for your support with this.
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Primary 4-7 Glow Learning

Good morning from Mrs Mooney, Mrs Campbell, Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Andison!

This post is to explain to parents of P4-7 children how learning will be posted.

Each week, staff will post two Sumdog challenges – one for Reading skills and another for selected Numeracy skills. They will be available for children to complete until 12.30pm on the Friday.

Children who use IDL are encouraged to access their account and complete lessons.

We would also encourage children to practise their French daily using the Duolingo app (free to download from the App Store).

Activities across the week will be posted as follows:

Monday – Spelling words & 3 activities from homework grid (this will be posted if children have lost it); PE sessions with Joe Wickes (9.00am every weekday – access via YouTube)

Tuesday – IDL/Topic-themed learning activity; PE session with Joe Wickes

Wednesday – Reading activity; PE session with Joe Wickes

Thursday – Numeracy/Maths activity; PE session with Joe Wickes

Friday – Free Writing activity; PE session with Joe Wickes

Children are free to post learning on their Microsoft Teams account or record it in their homework jotter.

Take care and stay safe.

Primary 4-7 Staff 🙂

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Information on School Closures

Dear Parent/Carer

As we enter a period of school closures, the following arrangements are in place to ensure that your child’s learning can continue throughout this time.

The key source of learning will be using online platforms (virtual learning environment) however alternative arrangements will be made by individual schools for pupils for whom online learning is not suitable.

For children attending the nursery, suggested learning experiences that can be completed within the home will be provided on the school/nursery blog https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/puscpsnews/category/our-classes/nursery/ and on our home learning sway at: https://sway.office.com/qlp529z8T7AHHeIq

For children in P1-P3, teachers will provide a set of appropriate learning experiences that can be completed at home. These will be shared weekly through our school blog https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/puscpsnews/.

Your child has been provided with a jotter to record their learning and there will be an opportunity for them to share this when they return to school.

Children in P4-P7 are part of their class Microsoft 0365 Team, which can be accessed through their Glow account. Your child requires their Glow username and password to access their Team, and they are familiar with how to use this platform. Information for parents on how their child uses Teams is available at bit.ly/wlglowguide

It is expected that your child accesses their Team daily to engage with the learning experiences being provided by their teacher. The platform provides a function for your child to share their learning with their teacher and receive feedback where appropriate and support where required.

The use of Teams for communication is for learning purposes only between staff and pupils and ensures the safety of all users.

Parents / Carers who have any questions or require further information should use the following contact details. Please emails the school at wlpuscps@westlothian.org.uk ensuring your state your child’s name and class.

Further advice about continuity of learning at PUSCPS can be found at this link: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/puscpsnews/continuity-of-learning-at-puscps/

I would like to thank our whole staff team and community for their support, understanding and patience during this uncertain time. Our school team will continue to provide all available support to your child and family where we can during this challenging period.

Kind regards,

 

Miss Burton

Head Teacher

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