Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
A place for news, information and sharing learning from PUSCPS
Reminder that this Friday is the last Friday of the month.  It is also Mr Eagleson’s last day at PUSCPS.
Children may wear non-uniform. No football colours.
£1 donation in aid of school funds is appreciated.
If you have a suggestion for a charity focus for next months’ dress down day, please let us know.
Many thanks to everyone, pupils, staff and home for making last week’s HMIE Inspection a positive experience.
The inspection team left on Friday and we are very proud of the hard work of everyone.
The report on the inspection will be published after Christmas and we look forward to celebrating our successes and working on our next steps together.
Unfortunately, Fiona Morrison, our PT, has had to begin her maternity leave a week early for health reasons. We are sorry to see her go without a chance for a proper goodbye but we will see her soon and I’m sure you all join us in wishing her all the best. We are very excited to hear the news in the next few weeks!
Next week Sarah Burton, the new acting HT, will be in school all week. this is to provide support for the pupils and parents during the inspection with Miss Morrison’s absence. It is also a great opportunity for Miss Burton to get to know all of our great pupils, families and staff better before formally taking up post on 27 November.
Morag Dickie, the new acting PT, will take up post next Monday (20th November) and I know she is very keen to get to know you all and get on with developing and supporting our ongoing work.
warm regards,
Steven Eagleson
Headteacher
Our school Inspection starts on Monday and we’re excited to share our school with the team. We have spoken to the children about what the inspection means using the powerpoint below.
Some of our pupils may be nervous or unsure of the process and, while we know it will be a positive experience for everyone, it may be useful for you at home to take some time and speak to pupils about what is going to happen. I have included the Powerpoint here to help you with this.
We are emphasising with the children that their week of learning will continue the same as always, but that team members will be in and out of classes and will sit with them and ask about their learning, their experience of school and their opinions. All they can do is be honest, open and respectful and they will do us all proud.
We will also be reinforcing our very high expectations of excellent behaviour and attitude to all pupils and would appreciate you reinforcing this at home too.
Steven Eagleson
The termly learning overviews for this term have been sent home in your child’s bag and are now available to download from the blog.
Click here to download your child’s learning overview. This is a useful document to share learning with your child, and for you to see what is planned this term. If there are any aspects of the overview which you think you could support with, please let your child’s class teacher know.
At Pumphie Pals last week we asked pupils to share what they think makes our school great and what they think we could improve on together. The results have been organised below and they make for terrific reading. Our pupils clearly love their school, and enjoy having a say in how we do things at PUSCPS.
As you know we are being inspected by HMIE next week. It is extremely important for the inspection process that your views as parents are heard. At present we have a very low number of parents available to speak to the team and I’m hoping we can encourage more of you to come forward to speak to the team about your school.
We would like to tell you what we have enjoyed learning last week:
‘I enjoyed using ambitious openers in my writing.’ Emma
‘ I enjoyed converting between 12 hour analogue times and 24 hour digital times in maths.’ James
‘ I enjoyed applying our learning in time differences by making up our own questions for the group.’ Katie
‘ I enjoyed developing my readings skills by predicting what I thought would happen in my new book ‘Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.’ Erin S
On Friday, Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Ross took their group for some outdoor fun!
We gathered different natural items (leaves, stones, shells) and turned them into a masterpiece by the library! Can you guess who we made…?
