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Congratulations to this week’s achievement certificate winners.
Also, well done to our pupils who shared their wider achievements with us at our assembly today. Pupils from Primary 4 and 5 were awarded medals and trophies for Ninja Karting, dancing and long distance running. We are so proud of your hard work!
Here are some of P3’s highlights of the week:
“We were learning how to play hockey in gym. We learned how to push pass and dribble.”
“We had to stand at the green line and push the ball with our feet on the ground.” Cadence
“In science we learned about Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen. He invented the x-ray machine during the Victorian era by mistake. If you are a scientist and you make a mistake, it can be a happy mistake because you can learn something new. It’s the same for our learning in P3!” Eve
“We learned about the skeleton. We had to cut out the bones and stick them together to make a big skeleton.” Olivia P
“We have been learning our times tables in maths. We need to be confident and count up in fives.” Aiden N
“In Maths Talk we have been learning to build a bridge to another friendly number to help us add.” Connor L
I have also emailed to inform you that there has been a delay in the date of my leaving PUSCPS and Sarah Burton taking over as acting HT. This will still go ahead, but due to the needs of the larger council service it has been delayed until the 24 November. We apologise for the confusion but I am pleased to have another few weeks working with such a great and supportive group of pupils, parent body and staff team.
Many thanks,
Steven Eagleson
Headteacher
Please note that the P7 class assembly on Remembrance Day has been moved from Friday 10th November to Monday 13th November at 9:15. Apologies for this change.
Last week, Primary 2 had a set of special challenges!
We received another letter from Mary Anning, asking us to rebuild a stegosaurus skeleton! We used salt dough bones we had made and the bones we were sent weeks ago to try to make a stegosaurus shape. Little did we know that finishing the skeleton meant a session of TIME TRAVEL! We travelled back to prehistoric times, where we received another letter and an egg-shaped parcel… from Stig the Stegosaurus!
Poor Stig had lost his mummy and needed us to build somewhere safe for his egg. We worked in groups to make nests and had to make sure they fit our steps to success.
They were:
*soft, warm and comfortable
*strong
*made from outside materials
Have a look at how we did below! Which nest is your favourite?
Check in with us to see what our next challenge is!
Until then…
Primary 2 & Miss M 
We love hearing about your achievements from outside school. Today two of our P3 pupils showed us their medals that they won at a Kick Master competition in Meadowbank over the weekend.
This week P1 have continued to learn new sounds. We are confident with lots of sounds now so have started to write some 3 letter words more independently. This weeks sounds were ‘o’ and ‘g’ so we could build words like ‘dog’ and ‘got’.
For maths we have been practising counting forward and backward from different numbers, recognising numbers and saying what comes before or after. Some numbers have been quite tricky to write so we will be trying different ways to learn and practise these.
In topic, we have been listening to and talking about fairytale stories. We have enjoyed acting out the stories using puppets, sequencing the story and making masks for the characters. The Fairytale Land knights were also busy in the school playground today protecting their castle.
Yesterday P3 took a trip to New Lanark to learn about the Victorians. We got to try on Victorian style clothing and explore a Victorian classroom, home and shop. We also took a ride on the Annie McLeod experience to learn more about life as a Victorian child and the village of New Lanark.
P3 were enthusiastic, respectful and very well behaved throughout the trip – Mrs Cullum was very proud of them all! Thank you to Ms Ross, Ms Matthews and Ms Swavlowska for helping us out.
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