Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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One of our P3 boys has started participating in a Junior Park Run. Â He has run the 2km circuit a few times now and he is loving it – and his time is improving. What a star!
In P4 one of our boys has achieved his first win at Ninja Racing Carts which he started last season. Â He has been improving greatly and is very motivated. Â What a champion. Â 
Last week was our Shared Focus week on Rights Respecting School linked to our partner school in Magale. Â Â Pupils have been talking all week about the rights which all children have – and how we are supporting pupils in Uganda to ensure they have the same rights. At assembly today the classes shared their RRS learning, below are some photographs. Â A lot of classes considered the chickens which we have recently bought to help the school in Uganda be more self-supporting.
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We were also joined by Mr Povey, our school Chaplain, who shared the work in which his church is involved supporting villagers in Tanzania. Â We all thought about the rights to a home, safe drinking water, nutritious food and quality education.
This week, Primary 5 were thinking about rights!
For this year’s Rights Respecting Schools focus, we had to link what we knew about rights to the work we had done with the Magale School in Uganda. So, we asked ourselves the question – how does the kindness of others help rights be met in Magale?
We worked in pairs and illustrated something we had seen on the ‘Friends of Magale’ page. Then, we thought about how that would link to what we knew about rights. We made this poster below to show what we had learned:
We look forward to sharing this at the RRS/Magale assembly this afternoon.
Until next time…
Primary 5 & Miss M 🙂
This week, Primary 1/2 have been learning more about our partner school in Uganda and talking about the rights that we all share. We looked at photographs of the chickens they bought with the help of some of the funds we raised and we talked about how keeping chickens would benefit the pupils there.
We have also been learning about what makes a good piece of writing this week. We created plans for our Katie Morag stories and stopped at points during our writing lesson to reflect on what we had written so far. Next week we want to continue to practise checking over our sentences and try our best to include interesting wow words and adjectives.
Well done to the Rights Respecting and Magale group along with Primary 4 for running a successful tuck shop this week, selling Fairtrade items for Fairtrade Fortnight.
Thanks to the support of the pupils in the school, we made a total of £30 for the Friends of Magale fund.
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s part of Fairtrade Fortnight, the Rights Respecting and Magale Group will be selling Fairtrade bananas and chocolate bars for 25p at break time on Thursday 9th March and Friday 10th March.
Last week’s certificates of achievements
One of our P2/3 pupils showed us his medal for football – great work!
Our JRSO (Junior Road Safety Officers) with Mrs Bonner have been surveying parking at school pick-up – and they are not impressed!
They have seen cars parked on the pavement and on the yellow boxes which is dangerous, inconsiderate and unnecessary. Â They have photographed some particularly dangerous parking in the hope that parents and carers will think about the risk they are causing.
On Tuesday we held a thank you assembly for our fantastic lollipop lady – now retired – Rhona Ritchie. Â Pupil Council planned the event and Rhona enjoyed a tea party with pupils from Uphall Station whom she had helped over many years. Â We then had a school assembly with poems and songs to thank Rhona for her hard work over more than 40 years – and to congratulate her on her British Empire Medal and her retirement.
It was an emotional afternoon and we hope that everyone enjoyed it, especially Rhona.
The first craft club this Friday was a lovely start to a fun new project. Â Parents enjoyed a cup of tea together and tried their hand at some tapestry. Â The club is every Friday at 11am, younger children are also welcome and it is open and free for all.
We hope to see you there.
