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Welcome to Pumpherston and Uphall Station Community Primary and Nursery School Blog.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS – a warm and caring learning community.  We strongly believe that all children are individuals and we work hard to ensure that they are happy and achieving well in all areas of their development. 

We aim to prepare all our young people for the challenges of the future. Our learning environment aims to stimulate, challenge, support and provide opportunities to develop life skills. We have high expectations for all our children and we celebrate attainment and achievement inside and outside of school in a range of ways.

We take positive steps to promote effective partnerships between home, school and the wider community. We have an open door policy and you will, as parents and carers, always be made welcome. We hope you enjoy looking at life within our school and nursery and we would welcome your comments under any blog posting.

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Sports Day Feedback

Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you to those who were able to join us yesterday for our School Sports Day. We are glad that so many of you could join us across our morning and afternoon sessions. We are looking to announce the winner of Sports Day tomorrow at assembly (14/6/24).

I would greatly appreciate any feedback about Sports Day yesterday. This will allow me to plan and organise next year’s event with input from parents, children and carers.

The link below will take you to the feedback form or you should have received this through a group call today.

https://forms.office.com/e/VQjuH5TBZ6

Thank you for your continued support,

Miss Walkingshaw

PEPAS leader

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Friday Fun in P6

This morning we developed our knowledge of angles using active maths inspired activities. We used masking tape to create different types of angles on our classroom tables. We continued to develop our confidence of using protractors during this activity.

We had to identify the different types of angles we had been learning about by stating the accurate degree and the type of angle (right angle, acute, straight line or obtuse).

We worked in different groups to ensure we achieved success and developed our confidence.

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P6 Cross Country

Libby from Active Schools ran a Cross Country event for us today. We worked hard both individually and collectively to ensure the event was a success. We all received a participation medal and proudly showed them off for the remainder of the day.

Well done P6 from Libby and Miss Walkingshaw!

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P6 Visitor

Today we received a visit from Show Racism the Red Card to further enhance our knowledge of racism and discrimination. Kaela ran an insightful workshop for our P6 pupils where they were able to explore challenging topics in a safe space.

We want to say a massive thank you to Kaela for her visit and knowledge!

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P5 and P6 Amazon/Smallpeice Trust STEM Day

Today our Primary 5 and 6 classes enjoyed a full day STEM session run by The Smallpeice Trust, kindly funded by Amazon. We completed lots of fun activities to give us a taster of what it would be like to be an engineer. We learned about Engineering as a career and the jobs available in the world of work.

We started our day with a code breaking task. We worked with our teams to use our prior knowledge of skip counting, multiplication and sequencing to crack the secret code.

Next, we learned all about the mechanics behind rockets. We were tasked with designing an economical robot and had to work out the cost of our product before building and testing it.

Throughout the day we worked towards completing our STEM certificates by earning stickers for speaking, staying positive, teamwork, problem solving, creativity, aiming high, leadership and listening.

After lunch, we learned about autonomous vehicles. We created maps and used iPads to program a Sphero. We had to meet a specific criteria and direct the robots to follow our instructions.

We also had a virtual visit from  Amazon where we learned about job opportunities and the role of engineers at Amazon.

We are so grateful for such a fantastic experience and we have loved learning through STEM challenges today.

 

Well done P5 and P6 🙂

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Primary 3/2

This week in Primary 3/2 we have been finishing off our topic on Fairtrade. We have completed our learning journey to show all of the work we have done along the way.

On Wednesday we made our own banana and mango smoothies. We learned different cutting skills and the importance of food hygiene.  We created our  own recipes and enjoyed getting to taste them when they were ready.

Super work Primary 3/2 you have worked really hard throughout our Fairtrade topic!

Miss McGregor & Primary 3/2 🙂

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Show racism the red card.

This week, Primary 5 have been learning about racism and the serious impact it has on victims and their families. We read about the sickening story of Antony Walker and were shocked to find out how he was treated. We wrote letters to his family to share how their story made us feel and our hopes for the future. We hope that all people learn about the impact of their actions and how dangerous and upsetting racism can be.

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Primary 2/1

This week, Primary 2/1 started looking at early skills for division.

We learned that quantities can be ‘broken up’ by sharing or grouping. We explored how to share/group using counting materials and then began looking at how we could use jottings/pictures to do this too.

All classes will have a ‘Sharing the Learning’ event on Friday morning at 11.20. We would love to see you there!

Check in with us again next week to see what else we have been up to!
Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂

 

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