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Primary 3 had a fantastic trip yesterday to Mill Farm. We saw a lot of the animals that can be found on the Island of Coll, which was our recent topic. Below are some of our pupils talking about what they enjoyed most.
Cerys: “ I loved digging in the sand and being on the trampolines.”
Callum: “I had fun in the soft play and I liked seeing all the animals.”
Rebecca: “I enjoyed going on the tractor ride.”
This week, Primary 4 has been turned into Dragon’s Den!
Miss McLaughlin gave us the task of designing a toy of the future. We turned from table groups to business teams!
First, we researched the different roles that would be involved in the toy design business (e.g. designer, artist, packager, advertiser, project manager and researcher) and each person was given a role in the team.
Then, our research team asked our sample (a group of Primary 1/2s – thank you Mrs Andison!) for their input and used this as criteria for our designs.
We came up with…
* It must be a type of doll/teddy/figure
* It must be soft/cuddly
* It must be colourful
* It must be suitable for both boys and girls
* It must have some special features.
Below is what we came up with! Later today we will be shooting adverts for our team pitch next week!
What do you think? Have we met our design brief?
Until next time…
Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂
The April issue of the PUSCPS Newsletter has been added to the blog. Go to the OUR SCHOOL tab from the front page and choose NEWSLETTERS AND UPDATES.
Steven Eagleson
West Lothian Council, Education Services, Admission Arrangements for Specialist
Provision 2014
In accordance with the Schools (Consultation) (Scotland) Act 2010, West Lothian Council
consulted (between 14 November 2014 and 16 January 2015) on the proposals outlined
below:
SUMMARY OF PROPOSALS – ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS FOR SPECIALIST
PROVISION
The adoption of admission arrangements set out in the consultation document will
ensure equity in the admission of children and young people to specialist provision
and ensure high quality decision making regarding admission;
The adoption of a single catchment area for all specialist provision will ensure equity
within West Lothian for all children and young people with additional support needs.
This will help the council discharge its duty to meet the needs of children and young
people, to the benefit of children and young people with additional support needs,
and their parents/carers; and
The proposed admission arrangements and catchment area will apply to all specialist
provision.
The consultation response report is available to download at the following weblink:
www.westlothian.gov.uk/admission-arrangements-report
The report will be available on the West Lothian Council website from Thursday 30 April
2015 for a period of 3 weeks.
Hard copies of the report are available from:
The foyer of the Civic Centre, Howden South Road, Livingston, EH54 6FF
and all West Lothian libraries.
At the end of the consultation period, a final decision will be taken on the proposals by West
Lothian Council’s Education Executive on Tuesday 26 May 2015.
It has been a very exciting week in Primary 1 and 1/2! On Monday, our chicken eggs arrived and over the course of the week we have had the pleasure of seeing 8 little chicks hatch. We witnessed the chicks ‘pipping’ on Wednesday (where they started to peck to get out of the shell) and by Thursday we had 4 lively little chicks. The remaining chicks started pipping after lunch on Thursday afternoon and we found 4 more little chicks waiting to meet us on Friday morning!
We have learnt so much about chickens and how to care for them this week! We drew each stage in the life cycle of a chicken and wrote fact-files about chicks and chickens to display on the wall for any visitors to see.
We are looking forward to seeing how much the chicks have grown when we get back to school!
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This week, Primary 4 were exploring rights! Each class had been given a specific right to look at, and ours was the right to learn.
We decided to find out what school was like for different children around the world. Countries we looked at included Japan, Brazil, Canada, Spain and Poland.
Here are some of the interesting facts we found out…
Ask us for other interesting facts!
Until next time,
Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂
In Maths this week, Primary 1 have been learning how to subtract numbers. We discussed the different methods we can use to find an answer, including taking cubes away from a group, counting down on our fingers and counting backwards in our head.
In Science, we have been learning about how different living things grow and develop. We grew plants from seeds, made a floorbook to showthe life cycle of a frog and sequenced the stages in the life cycle of a chicken. From Monday, P1 and P1/2 will have live chicken eggs to look after so we can learn about the development of a chicken in real time. We can’t wait! 
Primary 3 are busy rehearsing for their assembly next week. Our assembly will be all about our recent island life topic where we learned about life on the Isle of Coll and the island of Madagascar. Here are details about our assembly.
Date: Thursday 30th April
Time: 1.15pm
Hope to see you there!
We have been learning about chicks this week. We were drawing chicks today; we drew yellow dots and then we put on legs, eyes, beak and made every chick a little bit different. In our groups we made big pictures to show what we know about the life cycle of a chicken, and what they need to grow big and strong.
We were learning about caring people as part of Rights Respecting schools. We know children have the right to live with their parents or someone who cares for them.
Primary 7 made the decision about their prom theme just before the holidays. It was a difficult decision with so many great ideas on the board.
We finally got it down to 4 choices and had a class vote.
The theme we have chosen is ‘The Oscars’.
We would be really grateful if anyone who has any decorations that match this theme could let us know. We are going to have a busy term making things and planning for our special evening.
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