Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
A place for news, information and sharing learning from PUSCPS
Last week at Library Club we were exploring Islands. We thought about what we would take with us to our desert island and had lots of great ideas from compasses and maps to books and food.
Moira read Katie Morag and the New Pier by Mairi Hedderwick. We learnt that Katie Morag lives of the Isle of Struay.
P1 have been working with their new talking partners to explore the school playground. We went on a hunt for living things and found lots of bugs to examine and talk about. We were very gentle and put everything back after a good look.
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:
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.
Today we had our second Celebration Assembly to celebrate all our achievements during Term 4.
Ruby and Meg, pupils from Broxburn Academy joined us to share with us about their achievements and their journey to achievement. They reinforced our school values and how it was important to preserve to achieve your dreams, although at times you might have set backs.
We had our Dojo Top Scorers for each of our houses – they received a gift voucher for WH Smith.
Each teacher nominated a child in their class for the Remarkable Reader Award for making progress in their reading.
They also nominated a child in their class for the STEM Superstar Award for making progress in Science, Technologies, Engineering and Maths.
We gave out Sumdog Awards for the recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition.
Out of 105 classes:
Put of 2,275 pupils:
One child in each of our groups at P5 Camp was nominated for an achievement award.
Iona in P7 was nominated for an award for recently taking part in the Edinburgh Moonwalk and raising over £1000 for charity.
Congratulations to Breich who recieved the most Dojos in Term 4.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-4
As part of their transition challenge Primary 3 made presentations to share with Primary 2 about what life is like as a Primary 3 pupil.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/p3-transition-3
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/p3-transition-4
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/p3-transition-7
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/p3-transition-6
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/p3-transition-5
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/p3-transition-1
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/p3-transition-2
Some of our P5 children had an idea to run a Harry Potter Lunch Time Club. They made a plan of what they would do, collected the resources they needed and made up a register.
This week the focus was on creating a wand and everyone who came along said they really enjoyed it and are looking forward to the next session.
