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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. Â This will still go ahead, but due to the needs of the larger council service it has been delayed until the 24 November. Â 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. Â We are confident with lots of sounds now so have started to write some 3 letter words more independently. Â 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. Â 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. Â We have enjoyed acting out the stories using puppets, sequencing the story and making masks for the characters. Â 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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This week with Ms Pender we were doing basketball and first of all everyone got a ball and you had to try and tackle another person without your ball going out of control. After that we did matches of three vs three line ball . Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â This week in maths we did multiplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1000. Â We also multiplied by multiples of 10 and by two digits.
This week we were working on our World War Two by  posters and we had to make two sides, one showing what life was like then in comparison to present life.
by Katie and Mya
There will be a meeting of the newly joint PSFA/Parent Council on Wednesday 11 October at 6pm. Â All are welcome to attend. Â We will be joined by Miss Sarah Burton, the acting Headteacher who will be taking over from Mr Eagleson following the October break.
What a year it has been in the school garden. What a magnificent bounty of vegetables we have produced. Every child from Primary 1 to Primary 7 has had a hand in sowing, growing and caring, harvesting and preparing our tasty vegetables from potatoes, carrots and beetroots to onions, courgettes and tomatoes.
We have also enjoyed watching all the wildlife that visit the garden with lots of birds, bees and butterflies to see. We loved watching the caterpillars munching and growing bigger every day and someone even saw a little rabbit enjoying the greens.
There are potatoes in store for the winter months and plenty more vegetables to harvest. Some more than others will be looking forward to eating the Brussel sprouts. On Monday at Club Wild we picked, dug up and prepared some of the produce for our annual vegetable sale. It was great fun being market stall holders. We decided on prices, ways to display and sell the veg.
Thank you to everyone who visited the stall. We made over £80 which we will use for the school garden next year and for other outdoor learning. If you would like to tell or show us what you made with our veg, we would love to know. There are so many things that can be made with such fresh, tasty , grown in our school garden , veg.
