Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Hi Everyone
You may already have seen this on the PUSCPS pages but I wanted to share it again as we have some excellent artists in the nursery. The challenge is design a poster to let people to know they should be staying safe at home. I am sure you would all have a million ideas and you can share them on your Learners Journals where we can share them with Miss Burton.
Good Luck!!
This week at nursery it has been Digital Week
“I was seeing what everyone was doing. I like using the computer and the iPad” Lucy.
During digital week the children have been taking turns to use the iPad to record their learning. The children have had fun using the iPad’s, the laptop, Smartboard and the light board.
Pop in and Play
It was lovely again to share our learning with our friends and family this week. We have had mum and dads, Grans and sister and brothers come into our nursery to visit us this week.
We even had 2 new children join the nursery for our story about Kipper
It has been a busy term for the children with lots to do. We have been exploring the weather, when it was very cold and very warm, writing and making marks in the frost. and playing out inthe beautiful sunshine. We have celebrated Scots, learning lots of new words. We have been over to the Pump Track and watched the men building it using lots of different equipment and we talked about the safety aspects of the track and the building site. We have been exploring maths using lots of different resources both inside and outside. Lots of us were interested in feeding and caring for the birds .
We have had lots of visitors this term, Miss McLaughlin came to tell us all about being a teacher, Mr Manderson  came to talk about being a police officer, Mr Fish came and told us all about his job a fireman and showed us all the things he need to fight fires. We have visited the Post Office and learned about the things we can do there
Mrs Bradley came and did lots of singing and musical instruments with us and Mrs Campbell from primary 5 came and showed us how to make finger patterns, look at dot patterns and how numbers looked “altogether”.
We have had a visit from the baby chicks and have made pizza with our student Miss Davis. The fairies have left us a beautiful door in the garden and we have been chilling and practicing our cosmic yoga.
To end the term we had a pajama day and we watched dvds and helped to raise money for the school in Magale.
We would like to thank you for all your support this term and look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday 23rd April for the new term
Have a great holiday!!
Mr Fish the Fireman came to visit the PM children and show them all the things that he has on his uniform. He talked about his helmet and uniform and how they keep him safe from the heat of the fire, he showed us his visor to protect his eyes. He lots of thing to help on his uniform. He has a whistle to be found in building, he has a torch to see. His boots are special in the way that they are made of strong material to keep his feet safe from anything that could fall on them.
The AM children had a visit from PC Manderson and his colleague to tell us about their job as police officers. They talked about all the things that they do as officers and explained about all the equipment they have on their uniforms. They let us try on their hats and when they left they put on the blue light and the siren on the police car for us.
A big thank you to all our parents and Carers  who were able to make it to our Pop in and Play session today.  It was so good to see so many people that the children can share their play and learning with. The children enjoy showing people what they can do and this gives them a sense of ownership in the nursery. The children are proud of their achievements and Pop in and Play is an excellent way to let them show what they enjoy and can do.
Parents had fun playing dominoes, building large structures with the large and small bricks, playing in the house corner, building the train track and spending fun  time with their children.
Over the last couple of weeks the nursery children have been interested in the Post Office and the Police Station.
After reading the Jolly Postman book the AM children decided to send a letter to the PM children asking them lots of questions about their nursery day. The children walked to the post office and bought a stamp and posted the letter in the letterbox. A few days later the PM Children received their letter and wrote a letter back to the AM children buying a stamp and posting it at the post office.
The children have been using the post box in the nursery learning that they need to use stamps to pay for the postage. They have been using the scales to weigh their packages and that to post a letter they need to use the correct name address and a post code.
Lucy and Freddie asked for the Police hats and a Police Station.
The children have been looking at their fingerprints, Talking about the jobs the Police do and making looking towers to catch the “baddies” and a jail in the garden! The children are continuing to learn about the job the Police do and we may even have a visit from a real Police Officer.
Mrs Bradley is a nursery Mum and also a music teacher at Broxburn PS. We have been learning Scottish songs over the last few weeks and Mrs Bradley came to teach us some more.
Mrs Bradley had us stamping our feet to the music, we clapped our hands and patted our knees.
We used the musical instruments to play along to the Scottish tunes and played the instruments soft and then loud.
We learned a new song too!!
“Oor wee bairn can sook a bar of chocolate” ” Oor wee bairn can sook a bar a day” (music on you tube)
Thank you so much to Mrs Bradley. We had great fun
The children have had great fun this learning all about all things Scottish. They have had the opportunity to taste different Scottish foods. They have tasted haggis neeps and tatties. They have tasted oatcakes, raspberries and had porridge for breakfast.
Lots of the children have enjoyed listening to bagpipes. We have looked at the kilts and talked about the tartan pattern. Some of the children were interested in the bagpipe music and learned some highland dancing.
We have looked at the Scottish mountains, the highland cows and places in Scotland like castles and the Forth bridges. Maybe the children would like to visit some of these places.
The children have enjoyed this topic so much that we are still continuing to learn about Scotland, singing lots of Scottish songs, reading story books and learning the Scots words.
During book week at nursery we have been listening to stories that our adults enjoy.  Mrs Hamill read “The Elves and the Shoemaker”,  this was a story she enjoyed when she was a little girl. Miss Young picked “The Bears and the Fireworks” from the nursery library as a book she enjoys.  Mrs Arthur chose a book from the nursery library that  she has loved telling over the years to lots of children called “Little Blue Car” and Mrs Montgomery read “Where the Wild Things Are”. This was a book her children enjoyed when they were young. Over the week we talked about our favorite stories and we decided that the “GRUFFALO” was one of our most favorite books.
We enjoy reading stories everyday at nursery.
Reading from an early age helps children with literacy skill all the way through school. A good idea is to read a story at bedtime as part of the children’s bedtime routine.
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