Pumpherston Library

As a school community we are very lucky to have an onsite community library. All our children from nursery – P7 have the opportunity to visit the library as a class during the school week. You can also continue this experience by visiting the library as a family, please see the leaflet below for opening hours.

Why not pop in after school to find out more?

Building Our Community

During the first two weeks of school, classes are focusing on building their class learning community. This is an opportunity for the children and staff to develop their relationships and get to know each other, therefore building a strong foundation for learning.

Some of the activities they will be completing are:

  • Creating their class community contract
  • Internet safety
  • Exploring a school value to share at our values assembly
  • Establishing routines
  • Primary 1 and 7 have had buddy time
  • Primary 7 are also preparing for the House Captain Election
  • P2-7 children will also complete a spelling assessment.

The classes will blog on Friday about their Community Contract so that families are aware of the expectations in each class.

Welcome Assembly!

On Friday we had our welcome back assembly. It was lovely to see our happy, smiley PUSCPS family back together. It was also fantastic to see every child wearing their school uniform, I would like to thank our families for their support with this.

We explored the value of positivity, which is our value of the month. Using emotion works we discussed:

  • Emotion words: What other words do we use for positivity?
  • Body sensations: How does our body feel when we are positive?
  • Triggers: What makes us feel positive?

We also celebrated the achievement of some of our children who completed the Tesco Bank Summer Reading Challenge at Pumpherston Library. The challenge finishes at the end of August so there is still time to complete it.

Congratulations to our summer readers!

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/welcome-assembly-2018

Welcome Back to School

 

Today our staff have been very busy making the final preparations for our children to return to school tomorrow (Tuesday). We have caught up on all the West Lothian policies and guidance and have looked at the year ahead, which we look forward to sharing with you at Meet the Teacher on Thursday 13th September.

On Tuesday morning, breakfast club will be open from 8:10, and our school playground will be open from 8:30am for safe arrivals. School starts at normal at 8:50am. Can we please request, at pick up time families do not enter the playground until 3:10pm, as some classes may still be using the facilities.

Unfortunately our new P7 ties have not arrived but we look forward to them arriving shortly. Until this happens, P7s should wear their white shirts/ polo shirts.

We look forward to welcoming back all our children and are excited about the year ahead for our PUSCPS family.

French Immersion Course 2018

At the beginning of the Summer holidays, Mrs Dickie, Mrs Montgomery and I attended a French immersion course in the south of France for a week.

The aims of this course were:

  • To improve methodological expertise in the teaching of French to young learners
  • To provide participants with materials and ideas suitable for the teaching of French at primary level
  • To develop cultural awareness and understanding of contemporary France
  • To improve participants’ competence and performance in French
  • To use Internet and other ICT resources in your class

We participated in many different activities and games, all of which can be adapted and used in all stages of primary school. We made board games, new family members for fictional families, found new number learning methods and  learned classic French playground games and songs.

We were taken on many cultural tours (for example, the local market) which allowed us to practise our French in real-life contexts and collect any French leaflets and magazines which could be used in the classroom.

At the end of the week, we had to create and present a talk in French to sum up what we had learnt and what we enjoyed about the week we had.

Once we had presented, we were awarded our certificates to say we had completed the week and our training.

It was an incredible week and we would highly recommend it to any other teachers who would like to rush up on their French or find some new activities for in class.

We met so many lovely teachers from all over Scotland and Ireland! We are keeping in contact with each other and plan to meet up again soon.

A huge thank you to Sophie and Angelique who made our week so incredible.

Visitors from Malta

On Friday we welcomed 52 delegates and residents from Mtarfa in Malta, who are twinned with Pumpherston. Guests included Mayor Attard and Joanne Mifsud, Head of the local primary school. We entertained our guests with a Scottish Celebration Assembly including dancing, singing and reciting poetry. The visit was organised through Pumpherston Community Council and we look forward to developing a partnership with the primary school on Mtarfa.

https://vimeo.com/277859161

https://vimeo.com/277859189

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/scottish-assembly

https://vimeo.com/264495308

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