Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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World Book Week:Â 26th February – 2nd March
Reading Challenge
To celebrate World Book Week we are asking pupils to take a photo of themselves reading for pleasure in an usual place. To share your photo you can:
These photos will be displayed at our Book Week Assembly.
This week Club Wild joined schools up and down the country to take part in the RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch. The Schools’ Birdwatch started in 2001 and since then 2000 schools have been involved with 90,000 pupils getting out their binoculars to become real citizen scientists.
We set up two birdwatching areas in the playground and in the wildlife area at the front of the school. It was lots of fun setting up the bird hides with camouflage netting and we all enjoyed using the binoculars. The only bird we saw in the playground was a pied wagtail although we noticed the big birds; seagulls, crows and magpies circling above waiting until we had moved on.
We carefully set up our hide in the thicket of trees at the front of the school and waited patiently and very quietly. The birds soon came in numbers and it was great to see our usual friends of blue tits, great tits, sparrows, wood pigeons and a robin. We were so lucky to be there as a flock of wee long-tailed tits came together and feasted on the fat balls. Kristina loved the long-tailed tits, so cute and pink.
Back in school we submitted our results to the RSPB who will gather together all the data from the Big Schools Birdwatch with the data from the Big Garden Birdwatch. The RSPB uses the data to monitor long term bird populations and the analysed results are published in March. Freya said that she really felt like we were helping the birds today. The annual birdwatch is as great thing to do.
We hope you enjoy our photos. Hopefully we can share a video of our learning at assembly soon.
Club Wild, Mrs Young & Sarah-Jane.
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This week our school featured in the West Lothian Courier.
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Today we held our traditional Scots Assembly to celebrate Scots and Burns. We invited our grandparents along to share this special celebration with us.
Our nursery am children joined us at the assembly to sing some songs and pm children sent us some videos to share.
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Over the past few weeks we have been learning Scots and Burns poems and each class selected 2 pupils to present at today’s assembly. On Monday we will find out the names of the pupil at each stage who will now go through to the West Lothian Burns Competition. The Vice Captains and Mrs Dickie were a tough judging panel to impress!
Primary 6 have been learning Scottish Dancing in P.E. and their class selected a group of pupils to share their dance a our assembly.
We all took part in a Scottish sing song sharing the songs we have been learning.
A big thank you to Mrs Campbell and Mrs Dickie for organising the assembly, and to everyone who came along to help us celebrate.
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We are learning to use the Internet to carry out research and we are learning how to create a poster. Our health and well being target is to develop our group working skills
Success criteria:
I can… have a bold title
I can… have interesting facts
I can…have eye catching pictures
I can… lay it out creatively
First we had to have a class discussion about what facts we wanted to find out about our famous Scots. Then we worked in groups to use the Internet to carry out research to find the facts and record them. Then we organised the groups to make sure everyone had a role to create the poster making sure all of the success criteria were met. When they were finished we presented the posters to the class.
We were learning to find information, make notes and use the notes to create a new text as well as learning about different Scottish inventors.
To show this we had to use the internet and books to research the inventors. We made notes and organise them under suitable headings as well as using our notes to create posters in small groups.
We made colourful posters to show the rest of the class what we have learned – Amen
I enjoyed doing the research on the inventors – Amber
I knew that Scottish inventors made important things – Hayden
I liked learning about the inventions that the inventors made and seeing how they have changed – Jay
I ‘ve learned that the Scottish inventors made life easier for us – Samantha
We have all really enjoyed our research.
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