Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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This week in Primary 3 we have complete an expressive arts activity where we recreated Edinburgh Castle as part of our class topic. We completed a drawing activity where we drew the castle step by step. We then painted the scenery in the background using a picture from the smartboard for guidance.
We continued working on our knowledge of time – using o’clock, half past and quarter past. We worked in pairs to draw clocks to represent different times given from our partner.
This week have enjoyed learning more about our topic – ‘On Our Doorstep’. We continued our learning from last week where we learned about the different types of house within the local area. We used our plans to help us create a model house. We explored what the term ‘renewable energy’ was and what we could add to our houses to help them become more eco-friendly.
We added wind turbines, solar panels and a well.
This week we have been focusing on learning our common words. We have been completing active learning tasks to help us with doing this.
In numeracy, we have been focusing on our knowledge of number bonds using Numicon and number lines. In maths, we have been recapping our knowledge of time where we focused on telling o’clock and half past on an analogue clock. We used many interactive resources to help us with this.
Well done to our certificate winners this week – Hanna and Aiden.
Well done to our achievement assembly winners this week also – Tyler and Hanna.
Please find attached the termly overview for Term 1 and the home learning grid. A copy of the home learning grid has been attached to Seesaw as well.
P3 Term 1 Home Learning Choice Board
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
Over the first two weeks of this session, we have been working hard on creating our class charter. We used the book ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by Drew Daywalt as our inspiration.
By doing this, it allowed us to focus on the main purpose of the story which is to show an understanding of empathy, problem solving and inclusion. In other words, it showed the children how it feels to walk in another persons shoes as each of the crayons shows the emotions of people which they can relate to.
We focused on the important role that the UNCRC (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) plays in their lives and chose certain rights that we felt linked to our life in school. Our charter makes reference to Rights Holders (children) and Duty Bearers (adults) as you can see from the charter display.
This week in Primary 3 we have been getting used to our classroom surroundings, routines and showing off our learning from Primary 2.
We have focused on our listening skills over week 1 and 2 where we have used the Teaching Children to Listen resources. These resources have been uploaded onto our Seesaw page for you to try the games at home.
Every child has been provided with their Seesaw and Sumdog log in this week which will allow them to access this at home.
Here are some pictures from our second week in Primary 3.
This week we were lucky to receive a visit from the Scottish Parliament education department. We were able to share the information we had learnt this term alongside some inside facts about the Parliament itself. We thoroughly enjoyed this experience and were grateful to have the opportunity to engage fully in the different, interactive activities.
We had our assembly this week, which we really enjoyed sharing with the whole school and parents/carers. We hope you enjoyed hearing about our learning and we will keep you posted on who wins the election!
Thank you so much for coming to support us!
This week we have been putting the finishing touches towards our assembly – which will be next Wednesday 15th June 2022. We will be sharing our knowledge from our topic this term, Democracy and the Scottish Government.
In PE this week, we have been preparing for sports day alongside competing in our own mini ‘Wimbledon’ tournament. We were able to bring together all of our skills from the past 5 weeks and worked well as part of a team to compete against our classmates.
We added the finishing touches to our Queen’s Jubilee artwork. We hope you like them!
Today we helped to raise money for a charity close to our hearts. May is the month of the year where people raise awareness for Vasculitis. In Primary 6 we created badges and asked all the children in the school to wear something red to show our support `for this special cause.
We hope we have raised lots of money for this amazing charity!
#VAM2022
Thank you for supporting us,
Primary 6
This week we have been learning how to explore character descriptions and consider how this indicates personality traits. We also looked into how to extract quotations and retrieve information from a novel or piece of text effectively. We used our class novel ‘Why the Whales Came’ by Michael Morpurgo to complete this task.
We looked into narrative voice, description, language and dialogue used to create an image of the Birdman in the readers head. We drew the Birdman based upon the descriptions given by the author and other characters in the novel, backing this up with direct quotations from the text to emphasise the way he is portrayed.
