Outside of School – Page 3 – Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

January 29, 2019January 29, 2019

Active Schools

Active School Coordinators have been working closely with the school to put on after school clubs that the pupils would like to attend. There were five different clubs offered in term one which led to 33% of the school roll taking part in a sporting extra-curricular club. This is a fantastic jump from the 18% of the school roll that took part in term one in 2017.

Again this term there will be a range of clubs on offer which started last week. These include multi-sports, dance and football. There are still spaces available in all clubs so if you would like a space speak to your teacher.

If there are any clubs you would be interested in seeing running please get in touch and Active Schools will try to help.

Follow Broxburn Cluster Active Schools on Twitter, @ActiveS_Bburn.

Active Schools Coordinators, Ross Logan and Libby Harris

January 27, 2019

Basketball Team Success

Our Basketlball Team played in the West Lothian Wolves tournament on Friday. They won 3 out of the 4 games they played in! This is a huge success for our team. A big thank you to Mrs Hamilton for coaching our team and to her son for coming along to help support them. Also thank you to all the parents and families that came along to support the team.

January 24, 2019

Glasgow Rocks Basketball Trip: P6 & 7

P6 and P7 have been issues with letters today.

We would like to offer children in Primary 6 and 7 the opportunity to watch Glasgow Rocks Basketball Team play against Worchester Wolves at their Emirates Sports Arena, in Glasgow on Sunday 17^th March 2019. There are 19 places available with the first 11 places being offered to the school basketball team.

The children should arrive at school at 3:30pm, the bus will leave at 3:45pm and return at approximately 8:00-8:30pm.Tickets will cost £14; this is at a discounted rate from Basketball Scotland.

Tickets will be offered on a first come first basis with those interested paying a £7.00 deposit to secure their place, and we will set up a reserve list. The final balance should be paid by 1^st March.

Miss Burton, Mrs Birrell and Mrs Hamilton will occupy the children on the trip. Children will be permitted to bring a pack lunch and snacks with them to the game. They should wear their school sweatshirt/ P7 Leavers hoodie but can wear they want as bottoms.

December 14, 2018December 14, 2018

Term 2 Celebration Assembly

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.

December 8, 2018

P4 Panto Star!

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!

November 2, 2018

Sumdog Contest has commenced!

October 26, 2018October 26, 2018

Basketball Team

Today our Basketball Team played their first friendly games in the West Lothian Wolves basketball tournament.

Congratulations to our team and thank you to the families who brought along their children, and to Mrs Hamilton for coaching our team.

August 30, 2018

Sumdog Contest is starting soon!

Can you make into the top 50 for Maths Week Scotland?

August 9, 2018

French Immersion Course 2018

At the beginning of the Summer holidays, Mrs Dickie, Mrs Montgomery and I attended a French immersion course in the south of France for a week.

The aims of this course were:

To improve methodological expertise in the teaching of French to young learners
To provide participants with materials and ideas suitable for the teaching of French at primary level
To develop cultural awareness and understanding of contemporary France
To improve participants’ competence and performance in French
To use Internet and other ICT resources in your class

We participated in many different activities and games, all of which can be adapted and used in all stages of primary school. We made board games, new family members for fictional families, found new number learning methods and learned classic French playground games and songs.

We were taken on many cultural tours (for example, the local market) which allowed us to practise our French in real-life contexts and collect any French leaflets and magazines which could be used in the classroom.

At the end of the week, we had to create and present a talk in French to sum up what we had learnt and what we enjoyed about the week we had.

Once we had presented, we were awarded our certificates to say we had completed the week and our training.

It was an incredible week and we would highly recommend it to any other teachers who would like to rush up on their French or find some new activities for in class.

We met so many lovely teachers from all over Scotland and Ireland! We are keeping in contact with each other and plan to meet up again soon.

A huge thank you to Sophie and Angelique who made our week so incredible.