Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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The nursery children enjoyed their ‘Bookbug’ day yesterday. They sang songs, played a singing game and Mrs Dickie read them a story. Afterwards the children had a special visitor from the Scottish Book Trust – Bookbug himself came to visit. The children then received their book bug bags to take home and enjoy reading with an adult.
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.
We are learning to use similes and alliteration when setting the scene.
Success criteria:
I can…. use ambitious vocabulary
I can…. use similes
I can…. use alliteration
I can…. use ambitious connectives.
First we looked at a variety of poems to see if we could see examples of similes and alliteration. Then we wrote our own examples of similes and alliteration. Then we applied these skills in our writing by setting the scene to our story about the beach.
AM and PM nursery classes celebrated Scotland and Burns last week. We sang Scottish songs and poems and talked about what we knew about Scotland. We looked together at Scottish items and photographs. On Burn’s Day we had a Burns supper for snack and the children had the opportunity to taste haggis, neeps and tatties and dance to Scottish music.
What were we learning?
To learn and perform a Scots’ poem.
What did we do?
For Scots’ week, Primary 2 had to learn one of two poems (‘Dentist’ by JK Annand or ‘Mrs Yule’ by Ally Christie). Miss McLaughlin gave us our poems for homework and we practised them with our grown-ups (thank you for taking the time).
What were our steps to success?
Well done to our poetry performers who wowed us at today’s Scots’ assembly. We are very proud of you!
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.
https://vimeo.com/252871029
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.
https://vimeo.com/253165340
We are learning to … perform a poem using good volume and eye contact.
I can … say the words clearly
I can … look at the audience
I can … stand still.
I can … use a volume of voice so people can hear me.
We are learning to … mix primary colours to create new ones and creat patterns with colour.
I can … choose colours to mix and describe what new colour I make
I can … experiment with a repeating colour pattern using art materials.
In talking & listening this week we have been trying hard to learn ‘Mince & Tatties’ and ‘Robin Reidbreist’.  Everyone had a go of reciting the poem they had chosen to the class. Some people felt a little bit nervous and scared before they performed but afterwards felt proud! Hannah, Christopher, Connor and Iona were chosen to perform at the Scots Assembly.
In art we learned to mix colours to make brown. Floraidh remembered that we needed to mix red, yellow and blue.  We also designed new tartan kilts for Katie Morag.  Ruiraidh said we had to make a pattern using crayon lines.
We learned about a famous Scottish book character, Katie Morag. We had to write a description about her. We used descriptions like: curly, red hair / black boots / green kilt / rosy cheeks. We tried hard to use our sounds to write lots of this by ourselves.
We self-assessed our work by explaining what was good about it.
Keep learning your sounds and blending at home everyone – you are becoming very good writers and readers!
Here are a selection of children reciting their poems:
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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.
Further to our recent gifting event of Bookbug family bags in Primary 1, the Scottish Book Trust have asked if parents & carers of P1 children could take part in a short survey so that they can receive feedback on the bags. The survey should only take around 5-10 minutes of your time and there is the chance to win a bundle of books for your child! We would be very grateful if you could complete the survey, using the following link:
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/6QXHRCS
