Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Please find below the link for Broxburn United’s December newsletter.
This week we created a piece of Christmas artwork to be displayed outside Miss Finlayson’s office.
Miss Walkingshaw’s challenged us to re-create the ‘Grinch Pinch’ from her favourite movie – The Grinch. We focused on texture, colour and detail when creating our pieces of artwork. We also ran a separate competition which was to design the best Grinch.
P5 took part in Google’s Be Internet Legends Day through a Virtual Assembly. We learned about staying safe and being kind on line. We are Internet Legends. 
Primary 1 and Primary 2/1 are now busy learning the songs for this year’s nativity. If you would like to support your child in learning the songs, all songs for the nativity can be found on the link below:
Today Primary 3/2 really enjoyed getting to tune into Author’s Live with Benji Davies. We got to watch and listen to him reading us his book ‘The Great Storm Whale’. Benji Davies also showed us how to draw some characters and scenes from his book. Here are some examples of our drawings.
Today, we looked at the E (Engineering) element of STEAM in our Pupil Voice Group. We designed rollercoasters and used only Lego or paper to build our designs. We even had a go at making some carts to move along the track. Excellent Engineering! 
Primary 1 were happy to receive their Book Bug bag this week. We enjoyed listening to the stories and took part in activities relating to the books. We read “Penelope Snoop, Ace Detective.” After reading, we designed our own rocket to travel to space and packed our own suitcase, drawing everything we wanted to take with us.
We read the book “5 bears: A tale of friendship” then made fur for our own bear and clothes for them to wear.
Our book bag contained our first minibeast book so we designed our own butterfly and decorated its wings.
Thank you to all of the parents and carers who came to our reading events on Thursday and Friday. We appreciate your support.
Primary 3/2 have been working hard since the start of term 2 in October. Here are some pictures of our new corridor displays showing off all our hard work. We have started our rainforest topic and have been exploring where rainforests are in the world as well as learning about the 3 main climate zones.
In literacy our focus has been on narrative writing and we have written some fantastic stories.
We have also been learning about Diwali the Hindu festival of light and have created our own Rangoli patterns.
In maths we have started to explore time and have been enjoying some active learning to help us with this tricky concept!
To celebrate World Kindness & Anti Bullying Week, Primary 5 thought about what they could do to help someone who is feeling bullied. We created a class caring chain out of our ideas. 
Primary 1 were visited last week by the friendly dragon from Fairyland. He asked for our help. We completed our first challenge which was to make new homes for the 3 little pigs. We listened to the fairy tale, made our own pig puppets, and then created new homes for the pigs using different materials.
We have learning about the different seasons and talking about signs of Autumn, we created our own Autumn trees by tinfoil printing with paint.
In RME, we have been learning about the Hindu festival of Diwali. We watched a little girl called Jessica prepare for the festival and enjoy the celebrations. We talked about times in the year that we have celebrations with our own family.
