Unfortunately PEEP will be cancelled until after the Easter holidays. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Reading Achievements in Our Community Library
At our assembly on Friday, children who had completed reading challenges in our library received a certificate from Moira. Well done everyone!
Thank you!
Thank you to everyone for your kind wishes this week, I am so delighted to have been made permanent here at PUSCPS.
Miss Burton
Learning & Teaching @ PUSCPS Workshops
On Tuesday night children and staff organised information workshops about our priorities in school this year. Thank you to our staff and children who organised the event and to those families who joined us.
Literacy & English: Writing & PEEP
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/curriculum-evening-literacy-english
Numeracy & Maths: Bedtime Maths App
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/bedtime-maths-app-curriculum-workshop
Numeracy & Maths: Number Talks & Mathematical Mindsets
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/curriculum-evening-maths-numeracy
Across Learning: Digital LearningÂ
Support for Learning: IDL
Feedback from the event:Â
We used a form on glow to get some feedback on our event.
- 100% said they would find more workshops like this useful.
- Good to know what they are learning
- To understand how to help my daughter with her learning.
- Good to get information all very interesting.
- Great information
- New ways to teach children who have additional learning in literacy.
- It was interesting and knowledgeable
- Seeing what the children learn on daily basis and what they use to achieve this.
- Â Informative nice know how these topics are being taught.
- The new technology available to children.
- I loved learning how to help my kids as much as I can.
- Understanding how to help our children.
- Very good information.
- I found out new ways to help the Kids @ Home.
- Methods of support to help them at home.
- It was good to learn things that we could help with at home.
- Interesting to see how they learned.
- Theories behind modern maths teaching.
West Lothian Burns Competition
On Wednesday night, our five finalists from our Burns Assembly joined other children from schools across West Lothian  to compete in the recital competition.Â
Our children did a fantastic job of representing their classes at the competition, a big well done to them all and their families for joining them at the competition.
A special congratulations to Jacob who came runner up in the P1-3 section.
We recognised this achievement at assembly on Friday.
Fairtrade Friday!
To mark the end of #FairtradeFornight children dressed up or down to raise £85 for Fairtrade. A big thank you to everyone who took part, and well done to Calder House for raising the most money.
Primary 1 Assembly
https://vimeo.com/322305320
News from Miss Burton
It is with great excitement that I am writing to inform you that today I was appointed as Head Teacher of Pumpherston and Uphall Station Community Primary School.
Over the past 15 months, I have developed a passion, understanding and complete commitment to the PUSCPS community and I am delighted to be writing this letter to you as the permanent Head Teacher of our school. I would like to thank our whole school community for their support during my time as Acting Head Teacher here at PUSCPS. I know the last year has been a time of uncertainty for us all with acting posts but now Mrs Cougan and myself are excited about the road ahead and leading our whole school community through the next part of our journey to excellence and equity.
My vision will drive forward our school motto of ‘Positive understanding supports confident personal success’. As you know, I believe that every child deserves a champion to ensure that they can become the best they can be. I feel that our children should be at the centre of all the decisions we make, and that our school should continue to develop its positive reputation in our community.
This session we will continue with driving forward our school improvement plan, with a focus on enhancing digital learning, raising attainment in writing, developing positive mathematical mindsets, a focus on emotional literacy and improving our approaches to profiling.
I will endeavour to continue to improve our strong links and communication, with our families and wider community. I know that we will continue to work together in the best interests of our children. As you know, I believe in having an open door policy, so if you have any suggestions, ideas or concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Ultimately, I hope that our children take away happy memories from their primary school experience and that they remember the events, people and the learning that made school memorable for them, enabling them to develop and demonstrate our school values.
It was lovely to share the news with our children this afternoon, and see the excitement and joy in their wee faces. Here’s to our exciting new chapter at Team PUSCPS!
Miss Burton
Active Schools: P6 & 7 Broxburn Academy Basketball Club
This club is ran by a teacher at Broxburn Academy who coaches all the basketball teams there. If you are interested pop along on the day!
Fairtrade Kahoot!
Primary 7 used Kahoot to assess their knowledge of Fairtrade, following our Pumphie Pals meeting on Friday. Kahoot is an app/ website that allows the children to interact with questions on the board using the iPads. We were very impressed with how accurately they could answer the questions. You can see from their faces how engaged they were!
