Mrs Hamilton has been coaching our new basketball team at lunchtime. They are taking part in the West Lothian Basketball league.
Primary 6 Cross Country
Congratulations to our Primary 6 children who represented our school in the cluster cross country event today.
SSPCA Visit
We were very lucky to have a visit from the SSPCA on Wednesday 26th September. An officer gave P1-3 a special talk in the hall about animal welfare and P4-7 took part in workshops in their classes. Workshops included “Food and Farming” and “Pet Patrol”.
Junior Leadership Teams
Our Junior Leadership Teams (JLTs) are off to a flying start this term. Working in our JLTs helps us to live our values of positivity, understanding, support, confidence and success.
Each team met to discuss their plans for the year – these will soon be shared on each JLT’s notice boards within school.
House Captains
We are responsible for leading special activities, including Pumphie Pals.
Healthy Heroes
We are responsible for promoting healthy initiatives throughout the school.
Sporting Stars
We are responsible for raising awareness of sporting initiatives and for sharing new playground games we have learned.
Creativity Crew
We are responsible for investigating and sharing the ways creativity can enhance learning.
Pupil Council
We are responsible for representing pupil voice on all matters related to our school.
Global Group-Magale
We are responsible for fundraising, raising awareness and communicating with our friends in Magale.
Digital Directors
We are responsible for learning about how ICT can enhance our learning and sharing this with others.
Rights Respecting Rangers
We are responsible for raising awareness of the rights of the child and how these rights can be respected.
Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO)
We are responsible for raising awareness of road safety issues near the school and in the wider community.
Literacy Leaders
We are responsible for raising awareness and enthusiasm for various literacy initiatives.
Green Gang
We are responsible for raising awareness of environmental issues .
STEM Superstars
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
We are responsible for sharing our STEM learning to raise awareness and enthusiasm for STEM across the school.
Fun Time Friday
Today we had our first Fun Time Friday of the school year. Fun Time Friday is an opportunity for all our children to select an activity that they are interested in and take part in it with peers across different classes. We had a range of activities to choose from which the children brainstormed at Pumphie Pals last session.
Creative Music Making in P6 and P7
Olly and Owen joined Primary 6 and 7 for their first out of three Creative Music Sessions. These sessions introduce children to live, orchestral music, today’s session focussed on Samba. They learnt about the rhythms and instruments of Brazil whilst developing their team work and listening skills.
https://vimeo.com/291763467
Primary 2S – Money Week
For Maths week Scotland, Primary 2S have been learning about money. We have been identifying and describing different coins and adding a variety of coins together.
Our knowledge of money is useful for our current topic, The Circus, as we are inviting the Primary 1 children to our Circus to see us perform. We have been making tickets and deciding how much we should charge for the show!
Maths Week Scotland Assembly
Today we had an assembly to share our learning during Maths Week Scotland.
Mr Sneddon joined us from Virtue Money to share with us the importance of Maths and Numeracy in every day life and for our future career paths. Virtue Money donated a free piggy bank and key ring to all our children to remind us why it is important to safe our money. A big thank you to Mr Sneddon for supporting us with our Developing the Young Workforce learning.
Our classes shared with us their learning during Maths Week which was all connected to their Interdisciplinary context for learning.
https://vimeo.com/289771484
Congratulations to our Sum dog Champions for their achievements in the Maths Week Scotland Competition.
Class winners:
- P1: JJ
- P2C: Jacob
- P2S: Lewis
- P3: Caitlin
- P4: Kieron
- P5: Jessica
- P6: Amen
- P7: Lucas
Congratulations to P7 who were the winning class, they came 377th out of 3556 classes across Scotland.
The following children relieved a certificate for completing all 1000 questions in the competition:
- P6: Amen
- P7: Lucas
- P7: Ceira
- P7: Jack
Amen came first in the school and 320th out of 78624 children across Scotland. Lucas came second school and 323rd out of 78624 children across Scotland.
Congratulations to our Living our Values this children this week.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/maths-week-scotland-assembly
Maths Week in Nursery
This week we have been involved with the school in Maths Week. We have been learning about numbers, sorting, counting and language of measure. Miss Young helped us to make a game in the nursery where we had to search for numbers up to number 10. Miss Young hid them all around the nursery and then we had to find them. We were able to identify all the numbers we found! We then searched all around the school in the library, the classrooms and found lots and lots of numbers in Mrs Campbell’s room! In the nursery we have been using our loose parts (shells, cork, keys, stones) to sort and match objects. We set up special maths table to learn about long/short, big/small, time and money. On Friday we joined the school for assembly learning how important maths is a subject and how we can save our money.
National Sum Dog Contest
Out of 2692 classes, our results so far are:
