Basketball Team Success!
A big well done to our basketball team in making it to the West Lothian Wolves playoffs on Friday. This is a huge achievement for our newly formed team!
Thank you to Mrs Hamilton who has passionately coached the basketball team and inspired the team to persevere, and to Mrs Ross for supporting the team on Friday.
Primary 3
What were we learning?
To learn how to use an algorithm.
How would we know if we were successful?
- We would be able to follow an algorithm set by Miss McLaughlin.
- We would be able to ‘de-bug’ an algorithm that didn’t quite work.
- We would be able to write algorithms of our own for a partner to try.
What did we do?
- We followed Miss McLaughlin’s algorithm for drawing a monster but unfortunately, our monsters did not match hers!
- We talked about why this might be – her algorithm wasn’t detailed enough! We fixed it together by adding key words like ‘short’ and ‘tiny’.
- We then tried writing algorithms for our own monsters and gave them to different partners for them to try. We talked about what we might need to ‘de-bug’ for next time.
Primary 3 also have been issued Listening & Talking homework – a letter went home in your child’s bag on Friday. Information is also below – if there are any issues/questions, please let Miss McLaughlin know!
Until next time…
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂
Digital Learning Week Assembly
Part of our improvement plan for this session was digital learning, so we used digital learning week to showcase our new skills and equipment. Today we had an assembly to celebrate our achievements!
Thank you to Shona from Sky who came along and shared her digital journey with us, reminding us that their are lots of careers for girls and boys in computing.
Thank you to our Digital Directors for presenting at assembly.
Here is some of the learning we shared.
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Basketball Pizza Party Celebration
Our basketball team recently won the White B Conference as part of the West Lothian Wolves Primary School league.
Our basketball team was a new addition to the school this year. These children give up their lunch times, after school and Friday afternoons to train and attend league games.
We are very proud of their perseverance, determination and grit in order to win their league.
To recognise this huge achievement, today we treated them to a pizza party! They enjoyed pizza, team chat and watching some NBA games.
A big thank you to their Coach, Mrs Hamilton who has been an inspirational and motivational coach for our team, and also to the children’s families for supporting them by taking them to the games.
Best of luck for your games on Friday!
Pumphie Pals Self Evaluation
We started our session by playing a community builder and some of the pre-school children from our nursery joined us, as part of their transition.
On Friday our Pumphie Pals groups used How Good is OUR Good to self evaluation our improvements journey. Each group had one of the areas to evaluate:
- Our relationships
- Our learning and teaching
- Our school and community
- Our health and wellbeing
- Our success and achievements
The groups sorted statements into agree, not sure and disagree.
Uphall Station Gala Day
The Uphall Station Gala Day Committee would like to invite our school/nursery children to their annual Gala Day on Saturday 8th June 2019.
The parade will leave from Beechwood Grove, at 12.30pm. The committee have requested that all walkers be at the starting point for no later than 12.00pm to allow everyone to be organised. The route should take no longer than an hour and is suitable for all ages.
We would like to encourage as many of our children and parents to walk in the parade. All children should be accompanied by a parent/carer throughout the parade it is along a main road. Stewards and police will also be in attendance. Mrs Cougan will also be there to meet the children with the school banner.
Miss Burton been asked to lead the parade this year in recognition of  her achieving the permanent post of Head teacher. As this is a fantastic honour for our school, she would like to invite the House and Vice Captains to walk with her in leading the parade
The theme is Tropical “so everyone is encouraged to dress up as colourfully as they can.
Following the parade a fun day will take place including annual traditional races. These will commence at 1.30pm in Marrfield Park and there are many opportunities for everyone to participate. Entertainment will include inflatables, bouncy castles, toddler zone, disco dome, trampolines and small traditional stalls. Snacks, a burger/ ice cream van and candy floss will be on sale as well as flags and traditional gala bags.
Basketball Team Celebration
The children who have played as part of our Basketball Team have received an invite to their Basketball Celebration.Â
Save The Date
The Parent Partners AGM (agenda to follow) will take place on Thursday 30th May at 6pm in our library. We look forward to welcoming you then.
P7 Trip – Developing the Young Workforce, Farm to Fork
On Wednesday the 1st of May, P7 attended the Scottish National Equestrian Centre in Broxburn to learn about careers within the Farming, Food Production, Food Development and Hospitality industries.
We had a great afternoon visiting all the stalls and exhibits and learned a great deal!
We tried a variety of delicious local produce/foods including Strawberries, Milkshake, Cheesecake, Gluten Free Muffins, Game Soup, Elderflower Cordial & Wild Garlic Bread!
We also got to extract DNA from strawberries which was lots of fun!
