Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
A place for news, information and sharing learning from PUSCPS
Last week we set all classes a free writing competition inviting them to create a piece of writing on any theme or in any style for Book Week Scotland.
Our house and vice captains had the difficult job of judging the competition this week.
P1-P4/3 created theirs on paper, and P4-7 uploaded theirs to Teams.
Congratulations to all our fabulous authors!
Things might be a little different at school but recognising our children who go above and beyond is still important to us. Today we were very excited to present our first Living our Values certificates of the school year for those children who have been living our NEW school values! It was a very special day! 💙💛 #makingPUSCPSmemories
We welcomed along Dr Peter Hughes (OBE) to our Celebration Assembly this morning to share with us his achievement journey. As the past President of the Robert Burns World Federation and former Chief Executive of Scottish Engineering he had lots of stories to share. His enthusiasm and passion for all things engineering was inspiring and he reminded us to work hard and never give up. he even played some instruments and sang for us as well! Thank you very much to Dr Hughes for joining us!
Congratulations to our Top Scorers for Term 3!
Congratulations to the children who received a STEM Superstar Award for their learning in Maths, Technologies, Engineering and/ or Science.
Congratulations to the children who received an Awesome Author Award for their learning in writing.
We recognised the children who represented the school in the recent P6 Euro Quiz.
We recognised the children who represented the school in the recent P7 Rotary Quiz.
Our Primary 6s who took part in skiing received a certificate in recognition of all their perseverance and efforts.
Primary 6 came 59th and Primary 7 came 40th out of 152 schools in the recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition.
We recognised our children who took part in the west Lothian Burns Competition, and their certificate arrived just after the assembly!
All the children in Primary 7 who went to Dalguise received a certificate, and some were nominated by the staff for a special award. The staff were also nominated for awards!
All the children in Primary 5 who went to Lendrick Muir received a certificate, and some were nominated by the staff for a special award. The staff were also nominated for awards!
Congratulations to Calder for being the winning house this term and receiving the most house points! Well done.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-3-138637427
This morning we held our Term 2 Celebration Assembly.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-2
Michelle Quinn from Almond Engineering came along to share with us her achievement of receiving West Lothian Business Woman of the Year. She told us about how she worked hard at school and started with Almond Engineering 12 years ago and worked her way up in the company.
Our Dojo top scorers received a gift voucher.
Michelle presented our STEM Superstars with an award for their achievements in Science, Maths, Engineering and Maths.
Our Awesome Authors received an award for achievements in writing.
Our Basketball Team and Choir also received special awards.
Moira, our librarian had reading awards for children 12 books in 12 days, and for reading their first book.
One of our P4s received a head teacher award for performing in the Panto at Bathgate Regal.
Cozy Corner drew their raffle. 
Congratulations to Breich for earning the most house points in term 2, they will receive their treat at the start of next term.
One of our P4 pupils has been busy rehearsing for her part in Aladdin and this week she got to demonstrate her talents by performing on stage at the Regal in Bathgate!
Congratulations Layla! We are very proud of you!
Today we had an assembly to share our learning during Maths Week Scotland.
Mr Sneddon joined us from Virtue Money to share with us the importance of Maths and Numeracy in every day life and for our future career paths. Virtue Money donated a free piggy bank and key ring to all our children to remind us why it is important to safe our money. A big thank you to Mr Sneddon for supporting us with our Developing the Young Workforce learning.
Our classes shared with us their learning during Maths Week which was all connected to their Interdisciplinary context for learning.
https://vimeo.com/289771484
Congratulations to our Sum dog Champions for their achievements in the Maths Week Scotland Competition.
Class winners:
Congratulations to P7 who were the winning class, they came 377th out of 3556 classes across Scotland.
The following children relieved a certificate for completing all 1000 questions in the competition:
Amen came first in the school and 320th out of 78624 children across Scotland. Lucas came second school and 323rd out of 78624 children across Scotland.
Congratulations to our Living our Values this children this week.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/maths-week-scotland-assembly
Out of 2692 classes, our results so far are:
Today our classes shared at assembly what are school values mean to them. There was presentations, posters and singing.
Thank you to the families who came along to join us, and the children and staff for their preparation for the assembly.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/living-our-values-assembly
https://vimeo.com/287890399
On Friday we had our welcome back assembly. It was lovely to see our happy, smiley PUSCPS family back together. It was also fantastic to see every child wearing their school uniform, I would like to thank our families for their support with this.
We explored the value of positivity, which is our value of the month. Using emotion works we discussed:
We also celebrated the achievement of some of our children who completed the Tesco Bank Summer Reading Challenge at Pumpherston Library. The challenge finishes at the end of August so there is still time to complete it.
Congratulations to our summer readers!
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/welcome-assembly-2018
Well done to P6 and P4 who have reached the leader board in the national contest. 583 classes in the U.K have qualified so far so this will be a real challenge! Here are the results so far:
P6 – 344th
P4 – 361st
There will be an extra playtime and Class Dojo points for the leading class at PUSCPS. Which class will it be??
