Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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As our school inspection results are published on Tuesday 16th January, we would like to invite our parents, carers and families to our assembly on Friday 19th January to share our inspection results and findings with the school community. We look forward to seeing you there.
Almond have decided on a Candy Party as their treat for winning the House Competition last term.
Remember if you are in Almond you can bring party clothes with you to school to change into on Friday 12th.
At our in-service day on Monday we looked at ways we celebrate successes and personal achievements in school and if we needed to make any changes. We shared this at our New Year Assembly on Tuesday.
One of our P6 children suggested that everyone used Class Dojo and these points could be used as house points, so we have decided to trial this approach. Children can receive points for living the school values. On a Friday the house and vice captains will collect the house points and we will share them at the assembly. Also if you are the top scorer in your class for your house, each Friday you will receive a Top Scorer card and this will be entered into a termly draw. The lucky winners will receive a voucher. The winning house each term will receive a treat of their choice.
Each term we will have a celebration assembly to celebrate those children with achievements in reading (as it is in our school improvement plan) and STEM (Science Technologies Engineering and Mathematics). We will also share the house winners and top scorers at this assembly.
At our Pumphie Pals Meeting we discussed what Golden Time should look like in our school and here is what we came up with:
We look forward to earning our dojos and sharing our successes with you!
You will find some of our changes in the PowerPoint below, we will continue to reflect, adapt and consult on the changes.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebrating-success-86035280
Parent partners is a group who work on a variety of projects throughout the year to benefit the children and the school. All parents of school and nursery children are welcome to join. At the meetings held we are able to discuss ideas and issues concerning the school and the education of the children with the management team.
We have recently merged the fundraising group (PFSA) and the Parent Council to form our Parent Partners group. Parents can concentrate on the projects they wish to be involved with.
The fundraising side includes organising and running the school discos, bingo nights , Christmas Fayre as well as helping at out at other events such as the Scots Assembly and P7 Prom. All monies raised at these events goes back into the school, supporting the children for instance, by subsidising school trips, providing ‘Sumdog’ and in a variety of other ways.
We have developed many different projects within school such as the Developing Young Workforce Week. It was great to see so many parents come into school to talk about their jobs and share their skills with all the children.
This year one of the projects that we would like to focus on is ‘Safe Routes to School’. It would be great to hear the views of any parents about the risks to our kids in getting to school and how we could change this. We will keep you informed of any progress that we make.
We usually have meetings twice a term though there may be more frequent meetings coming up to a school event or if we are required to act upon a specific issue. The meetings have been held in the school on a Wednesday evening at 6pm although we are keen to make times suitable for all.
If you are unable to make the meetings but would like issues to be raised by Parents Partners please email puscps.pc@gmail.com or hand in a note addressed to Parent Partners to the school office. We will let you know the date of the next meeting as soon as possible.
This morning we had a festive start to our day with our traditional Christmas Sing a long. The Green Gang organised a Christmas Jumper day and we all joined together to remember The Christmas Story. Rev. Povey also joined us to share the Christmas message.
We announced the winners of the Festive Home Learning task, which you will see below. A big well done to everyone who took part.
Thank you to our P7 narrators and to Mrs Campbell for organising the service. Also thank to all of you who could join us.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/festive-home-learning-task-winners
I would like to thank the children, staff and parents for all making me feel so welcome at PUSCPS. I hope you all have a lovely family Christmas together and I look forward to seeing all the children when we return to school in the New Year.
Miss Burton
A big well done to everyone who took part in the festive home learning task, the results are amazing! It is fantastic to see the efforts families have went to to complete the task.
I have really enjoyed speaking to the children about how they made their designs and what they used. We will share the results at the Sing-a-long tomorrow.
Primary 1, 2 and 3 children has a special visitor at their Christmas Party!
This week Primary 6 will receive the Deputy First Minister’s Maths Challenge.
All Primary 6 pupils across Scotland have been issued with the Deputy First Minister’s Maths Challenge. This is to provide some Christmas holiday maths family fun.
When you do complete one of the activities we would like you to share your answers with us on Twitter. To do this you need to create a Twitter account, take a photo of the completed activity and tweet it to us by typing @PUSCPS.
The solutions and workings will be published at https://blogs.gov.scot/making-maths-count on 4th January.
Good luck!
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