Category: Achievement

‘ I enjoyed doing PE with Mrs Pender because I am getting better at hitting the ball with the tennis racket’ Charis

‘ I enjoyed art because we were making the Christmas display for the hall and we were using a variety of art skills: choosing colours to colouring in, using chalks, painting and cutting and gluing.’ Lydia

‘ I enjoyed reading because I like the story of Black Beauty and I enjoy making predictions with my group.’Samantha

‘ I enjoyed topic because we were doing persuasive letters. I got to put my name in the box because I wrote a very good persuasive letter about homeless people.’ Matthew

This week, Primary 4 began to sort the data collected from their questionnaires. We are very interested in improving both Pumpherston and Uphall Station for young people. Thank you to all children who gave their opinions and participated.

The results are in…

Improving parks – better toys and more age-appropriate things to play on     72 votes
Community garden    48 votes
Safer road crossings    40 votes
More clubs/things to do    70 votes

It was very close, but improving parks won by a fraction! Our next step is to plan a proposal to pitch to the community council. We need to consider which toys need improving/included and where a suitable location would be.

Stay tuned to see what we come up with!

Until then…
Primary 4 🙂

Primary 3 are busy rehearsing for their Christmas singalong. All parents are invited to the singalong next week. It takes place on Wednesday 17th December at 9.30 am. Hope to see you there!

Today was a big day for our School choir as we were out and about, giving 2 performances in the local community.  This morning we were entertaining the staff, patients and visitors at St John’s Hospital in Livingston, and helping to raise money for The Friends of St John’s Hospital.  We were very pleased to see members of our fan club who had come along on such a wet and windy day to watch us and listen to our singing. We also took Alfie the Elf for some extra Christmas magic – he was very well behaved.  Thank you to the Friends of St Johns for inviting us, and for giving us juice and biscuits (not figgy pudding) during our break.

The visit to sing at St John’s was made possible by a donation given by Dobbies Garden Centre as a goodwill gesture after our performance there was cancelled last year.  The money has been held for use by the choir and paid part of the hire price of our tour bus.

This afternoon we walked through rain, wind and sleet to sing at the Pumpherston Golf Club, entertaining guests invited to a Christmas party by the Pumpherston Community Council.   (This time we even had a dressing room! Will it be the Usher hall next year?) They were a very appreciative audience, giving us many rounds of applause and joining in on several songs especially our grande finale, Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer. We would like to thank the Community council for inviting us to sing and being so friendly.  Thank you also to Pumpherston Golf club for the juice which helped our hard working voices to recover.

The next singing events here at school will be the P2 and 3 singalong in the morning of Wednesday 17th, and the P1 and P1/2 nativity in the afternoon on the same day.  Remember everyone is also welcome to our whole school singalong (bring your Christmas hat!) at 9.30 on Tuesday 23rd December- the last day of term.

Here are the highlights of last weeks learning:

‘We found our maths very tricky because we were doing addition by partitioning and bridging.  We found this difficult but we persevered and used different strategies to help us.  We both got smiley faces and got to put our names into the box because we persevered! Mrs Campbell liked our can do attitude’ Ella and Hannah

‘ In PE I enjoyed the game we played called ‘around the world’ where we were trying to apply our badminton skills to return the shuttlecock to Mrs Campbell and try to keep the shuttlecock in play’ Lewis P

‘This week I enjoyed predicting what would happen next in our reading book ‘Danny Champion of the World’ by Roald Dahl’. Aaron

‘I enjoyed doing maths because I like being challenged in my maths. I was finding it tricky but, with more practise, I was getting better at it by the end’ Rory

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The PSFA would like to say a big thank you to everyone involved with the Christmas Fayre this afternoon.  The choir got us off to a very  festive start with their carol singing and the stalls were very busy.  It was fantastic to see such a good turnout in support of the school. We hope you all had a fun afternoon and thank you again to everyone who helped to run the stalls and activities, and for all the helpers who tidied up too.

Thank you also to Santa for taking time out of his busy schedule to visit us here today.

The grand total raised will be announced next week.

I have taken a picture with my new toy (a digital microscope). I am wondering if there is anyone who knows what it is? If not, is there anyone who can guess?

Any, and all, correct answers will win a prize from my prize box.

Happy guessing!

Miss Anderson