Achievement – Page 58 – Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019

JLT Group – Sporting Stars

On Thursday 2nd May my JLT group – The Sporting Stars met with Ross Logan from Active Schools.

The group shared their findings from some questionnaires they had carried out across the school. We wanted to find out how many children currently attend clubs run by Active Schools and if children don’t attend a club then the reasons why. We also wanted to find out what type of clubs children would like to see Active Schools providing in the future.

Across the upper school, the most popular option was Dodgeball and as a result Active Schools are going to offer a Dodgeball club for P4-P7. Further details to follow in a separate post.

The group also helped Ross to complete part of the online assessment for Sport Scotland’s School Sport Award.

https://sportscotland.org.uk/schools/school-sport-award/

We will let you know very soon what level we have been awarded.

May 6, 2019May 20, 2019

Sports Day

Sports day will take place on Tuesday 21st May at 1:30pm, on the playing fields beside the school. Sports Day will include potted sports and traditional races. Children can come to school on Thursday dressed ready for Sports Day, please ensure no football colours are worn. We would also request that all children remember to bring their water bottle to school on that day so they can take it to the field with them. To join in with their team spirit we would request if possible children wear a top in their Pumphie Pals colour:

Almond – Green
Breich – Red
Calder – Blue

There will be an area on the field designated for families to spectate the events and we would request that parents/ carers please stay in this area. Dogs are not permitted at Sports Day. Please note, due to health and safety, there will be no access to the school for spectators. Due to photograph restrictions, we ask that you only take photographs of your own child/ children and ensure that no photos or videos of other children are taken, or posted on social media.

At the end of Sports Day, can we please request that all parents/ carers stay on the field until all the children have safely returned to the school building. Then we will open the playground and parents/ carers can collect their child from outside their classroom door.

Should we have to cancel due to the weather, we will Groupcall you by 11.00am on that day.

We look forward to you joining us for a fun and healthy afternoon!

May 2, 2019

Assembly

At our assembly today we talked about one of our school values – confidence. We looked at ways to improve our own confidence but also thought about how we can help others gain confidence.

Hannah was very confident and told us about her fantastic achievement of raising money for her football team by taking part in the Kilt Walk.

We also celebrated the confidence of our amazing basketball team who have recently won the West Lothian league.

Finally, we celebrated the confidence of our Living Our Values pupils, who have been working very hard in class to learn and apply new skills.

Well done everyone!

April 29, 2019

Primary 1-7 Sports Day

Sports day will take place on Thursday 9^th May at 1:30pm, on the playing fields beside the school. Sports Day will include potted sports and traditional races. Children can come to school on Thursday dressed ready for Sports Day, please ensure no football colours are worn. We would also request that all children remember to bring their water bottle to school on that day so they can take it to the field with them. To join in with their team spirit we would request if possible children wear a top in their Pumphie Pals colour:

Almond – Green
Breich – Red
Calder – Blue

Should we have to cancel due to the weather, we will Groupcall you by 11.00am on that day.

We look forward to you joining us for a fun and healthy afternoon!

April 26, 2019

Calder Neon House Party

Calder selected a Neon Party for receiving the most house points in term 3. Andrew and Charlie created a fun morning of musical bumps, greatest dancer and glow corners. Everyone also had fun dancing with their glow sticks. Thank you to all the P7s in Calder who helped to lead the party.

Congratulations Calder!

April 26, 2019April 30, 2019

Nursery Care Inspection Success

As you know, in February our nursery underwent a Care Inspection under the new model of inspection.

They graded us:

Quality of care and support 5 – Very Good
Quality of management and leadership 4 – Good

Some of the positives from the report included:

We found the nursery to be welcoming with a warm and friendly atmosphere.
Children experienced kindness and compassion from staff that used physical affection, for example high fives and cuddles, to ensure children felt
supported and secure.
The service provided different opportunities for parents to stay and participate in their child’s nursery experience, including termly ‘stay and play’ sessions.
A nursery blog, weekly newsletter and online learning journal were in place to share updates with parents.
Children requiring additional support had individualised plans in place which were subject to regular review.
Staff worked in partnership with other professionals, such as speech and language therapists and a link educational psychologist to ensure children experienced consistent and stable support.
It was evident staff valued snack time and understood the learning opportunities and positive experiences it could provide. Children enjoyed an unhurried snack in a relaxed atmosphere with many different conversations and social interaction taking place.
Children were encouraged to be active and had daily access to a well-equipped nursery garden.
Staff supported children to risk assess independently by teaching them how to make judgments based on their
individual abilities.
Staff told us they felt supported by the senior leadership team and all newly appointed staff confirmed they had a mentor to support their integration into the team.
Pumpherston and Uphall Station Community Primary School
had experienced a number of recent changes, including staff roles and responsibilities, and their overarching approach to play, learning and development. The changes had been well led and managed, and were having a
positive impact on children.
We found a strong commitment from senior leaders and staff to collegiate working within the setting and wider learning community.

You can read the full report here:

Nursery Care Inspecorate Report 2019

The positive finding of this reports reflects effectively our nursery team work together to provide high quality learning experiences and care for our children.

April 25, 2019

National Spring Clean 2019

On the afternoon of Wednesday 1^st May our Green Gang have organised for our P1-P6 classes to take part in Keep Scotland Beautiful’s National Spring Clean Campaign.

During the morning of 1^st May, David Fry, who is the Education Officer for Cleaner Communities with West Lothian Council will be coming into school to talk to P1-P6 classes about litter and environmental issues.

In the afternoon, we will work in groups to target areas within and around the school grounds. We would ask that children come to school on this day with appropriate outdoor footwear (wellies, boots etc) and an outdoor jacket/coat.

Thank you,

Green Gang

April 24, 2019

Calder Neon Party

Calder received the most House Points in Term 3.

The children have decided on a Neon Themed Party. This will take place on Friday 26th April at 9:30am. Children in Calder can wear bright coloured/ party clothes to school on Friday, they do not need to bring school uniform to change into. If they have any glow sticks or light accessories at home they may bring them to school.

We look forward to celebrating!

April 5, 2019

Primary 4

Yesterday Primary 4 went to Dynamic Earth for their class trip. They had lots of fun on the tour and in our Destination Space workshop where they learned about all of the people who are responsible for making space travel possible for the astronauts. There were also some fun experiments to help them to understand some of the processes.

April 5, 2019

Happy Easter

It has been a busy term for the children with lots to do. We have been exploring the weather, when it was very cold and very warm, writing and making marks in the frost. and playing out inthe beautiful sunshine. We have celebrated Scots, learning lots of new words. We have been over to the Pump Track and watched the men building it using lots of different equipment and we talked about the safety aspects of the track and the building site. We have been exploring maths using lots of different resources both inside and outside. Lots of us were interested in feeding and caring for the birds .

We have had lots of visitors this term, Miss McLaughlin came to tell us all about being a teacher, Mr Manderson came to talk about being a police officer, Mr Fish came and told us all about his job a fireman and showed us all the things he need to fight fires. We have visited the Post Office and learned about the things we can do there

Mrs Bradley came and did lots of singing and musical instruments with us and Mrs Campbell from primary 5 came and showed us how to make finger patterns, look at dot patterns and how numbers looked “altogether”.

We have had a visit from the baby chicks and have made pizza with our student Miss Davis. The fairies have left us a beautiful door in the garden and we have been chilling and practicing our cosmic yoga.

To end the term we had a pajama day and we watched dvds and helped to raise money for the school in Magale.