P1 – Updated Sways
Primary 1 – Sight Words
Keep practising your common words this week P1. Â This will help you so much in reading and writing! Can you create your own exciting game or activity to learn them?
A Little Unicorn Magic in P1
In P1 we have been reading ‘Sophie Johnson – Unicorn Expert’ by Morag Hood as part of our IDL topic.  We have been exploring lots skills linked to the book and showing our understanding of the story.
Last night, our janitor noticed something a bit strange on the class camera. We think some creatures might have had a little visit to our classroom when we were not there! Can you spot them in our clip?
Today in writing, we tried to draw where we think they have come from. It was very exciting!
Will there be anymore magic in P1?
Home Learning Choice Boards
At a recent parent partner meeting we discussed our current approaches to homework and the impact homework has on achievement and attainment. Following this we have decided to trial issuing a home learning choice board each term. The choice board is attached and a copy is in your child’s homework book. Their reading homework will sit alongside this and will be in your child’s reading record/ homework diary. We home you find this useful and will ask for feedback in term 4.
Families Learning Together
There was a real buzz in the hall today as we had our first Families Learning Together session of this school year. Children had to the opportunity to share their progress in their jotters and their targets. This will also support conversations at our  Parent Appointments next week. Thank you to everyone who joined us and our P7 Young Leaders who ran the event.
Our Digital Directors and IDL experts demonstrated to parents and carers how to use these apps.
Primary 2
P2 have been learning all about nouns.
We are able to describe what a noun is and were able to sort nouns into people, place and things. We then took part in a noun hunt to see how many nouns we could find in our reading book.
1 Plus 2 Languages Support
At Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS, one of the priorities on our School Improvement Plan this session is the 1 Plus 2 modern languages agenda.
Children are taught French from Nursery to Primary 7. This year we want to extend this by introducing another language or culture in an informal way. Our Parent Partners thought that some families within our school and community could support us! If you can help us, for example a workshop with a class, a club or ongoing support, please fill out the form below.
Thanks in advance.
Library Club Themes
Thanks to our Parent Partners, our very successful Library Club will run again on Thursdays. We look forward to seeing you there!
Celebration Assembly Term 4
On Friday we had our final celebration of the year.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-4-151247955
Anna and Holly past pupils from PUSCPS, currently at Broxburn Academy, joined us to tell us about their achievement journey. It was fantastic to hear about all the opportunities that Broxburn Academy gives to children. We are very proud of all Anna and Holly’s achievements, thank you for joining us.
Congratulations to our Top Scorers!
STEM Superstars are those children who have made fantastic progress or achievements in science, technologies or maths.
Awesome Authors are those children who have made fantastic progress or achievements in writing.
Ross Logan our Active schools co-coordinator joined us to give out some medals. First of all to those children who attend our after school clubs, the coaches nominated them for an award.
Secondly he gave medals to our fantastic basketball team for the progress they have made this year.
Jack received Most Valuable Player because of his determination, positive attitude, willingness to work hard and because he has been a great team player. Lauren received Most Improved Player, for being to shoe great basketball skills and a positive attitude towards training. We also presented Mrs Hamilton with a gift for being such an inspiring coach.
IDL is a new literacy programme, some children have been using this session to support learning in literacy. Children who have reached milestones in this received certificates.
We recognised those children who took part in the West Lothian Triathlon.
We presented Eve with an award for her piece of writing which is now representing our cluster at the West Lothian Stellar Awards.
Mrs Montgomery received a West Lothian Leadership Award for completing her Early Years Officer course.
This week was the West Lothian Sumdog Competition. P3, P6 nd P5 ranked in the score board and some of our children ranked within the top 100 out of 2097 children!
Finally the house winner of the term was … Almond! Congratulations! We will organise a house treat for the last week of term.
