Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
A place for news, information and sharing learning from PUSCPS
Primary 1 have enjoyed their outdoor learning this week. After listening to the story, The 3 Little Pigs, we used different materials to make houses for the pigs. Once our houses were ready, we used the puppets we had made to act out the story. Everyone wanted to be the big bad wolf!
This week as part of our ‘Resilience’ topic we have been learning about cooperation. In groups we created a cooperation drawing. We decided on a theme for our drawing e.g. a playground, garden or a space creature. We sat in groups of around 4 children. The first person started off the picture and after a minute on a stop signal we passed the drawing to the next person . Each person in the group had a turn to complete the picture. We discussed that sometimes it is difficult to cooperate and trust others to continue our work.
This week we have been learning about Easter. We made our own books about the Easter story and made Easter cards with a symmetrical egg design on the front.
One of our P1 friends is moving to a new school after the holidays, so we decided to have a leaving party for him. We made Easter hats for the party and enjoyed party food and dancing to our favourite music.
This week we have been continuing to explore subtraction using concrete materials with P1 and P2.
We have been learning about Easter and made Easter cards.
This week in numeracy, Primary 1 have been continuing to learn subtraction.
In science, we have been investigating forces. Through experiments and discussion we learned about items which move through being pushed, pulled or both.
This week in numeracy we have continued to concentrate on subtraction (P1 within 10/P2 within 20). We have been exploring data handling in maths.
Primary 2 have discussed and written their ‘Evaluation’ for their Information Report on Kittens this week and P1 have been writing about bath time.
We made our regular visit to the library on Monday.
We have been exploring ‘Relationships’ as part of our Resilience learning. This week we talked about ‘In our family we like to…….’
We worked hard and performed our assembly on ‘France’. Well done to all of the children, you were fantastic! Thank you also to parents/carers and family for your support.
P6 had a great day at Broxburn Academy for their science day. They took part in three experiments.
For the first experiment, the class made o-wings – they were measuring to see the average distance they took to fly depending on how big the circumference was of the wings.
For the second and third experiments, P6 got to experience being in the science labs. They were given a talk about lab safety, then got to use the bunsen burners, studying different chemicals and the colours they made under the flame!
The last experiment consisted of making a rocket, simply using an seltzer and either hot or cold water, to measure how quickly it would take off!
When P6 returned to class, they made posters labelling the importance of lab safety, so that when they go to high school next year, they are well aware of the importance of lab safety. Well done P6!
Primary 1 have been helping Katie Morag this week as there are problems on the Isle of Struay. The lighthouse on the island is falling down and Katie Morag needs our help to design a new one. We worked hard to complete our design challenge.
Huge well done to Primary 6 for delivering a fantastic assembly on World Book Day. It was wonderful to see the class, and the rest of the assembly sharing their love of reading. It was also lovely having the parents in and reading with their children.
In class, P6 participated in various reading activities, including recreating a book cover of their favourite book and explaining why they liked it. We also joined in with a BBC live lesson. All the classes went to author masterclasses in different classes to learn about all the wonderful authors out there.
Great effort P6!
