Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
A place for news, information and sharing learning from PUSCPS
The children have been busy putting together a powerpoint to show P4 what is ahead of them when they come into P5! Here is one of the powerpoints produced by Mischa, Aaron, Ben and Chloe.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/life-in-p5
Mischa Chloe Ava B Ben and Aaron
It has been a busy week in P1.
In topic, we have been busy creating our own 3D aquariums using craft materials. Our polar books now have a front cover and 2 information pages.
We had a digital learning visit from Three Mobile who showed us how to create our own cartoons using an app called Toontastic. Everyone worked very well with their partners to create new characters.
Well done to Kiannah, Iona, Grace and Millie who presented their Marvellous Me boxes to their peers. They were all super and beamed with confidence!
We are SUPER excited to announce that this awesome author in P4 has been selected to represent our cluster (PUSCPS, Broxburn PS, Kirkhill PS, Uphall PS & Dechmont PS) at the West Lothian Stellar Awards!
Big congratulations!
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/star-writer-awards
Thank you to our Literacy Leaders for leading the Assembly.
Congratulations to the winning entry at each stage.
Congratulations to this Primary 4 whose story will be entered to represent our school at the Stellar Awards.
You can hear the winning entries below, thank you to our Literacy Leaders and senior children for recording the stories for a surprise at the assembly.
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All the children in P1-P7 created a piece of writing for the West Lothian Council Stellar Writing Competition (previously known as Young Writer of the Year).
Our Literacy Leaders had the difficult task of selecting the best piece of writing for each class, and then an overall winner for the school.
On Thursday 6th May at 2:30pm, we will have a special Star Writer Assembly to celebrate and announce those children who have been selected (the children don’t know). Parents/ carers of these children have been informed but everyone is invited to the assembly. We look forward to seeing you!
Well done to this weeks presenters. Everyone was very confident and their classmates asked super questions. 😊
Some of the boys and girls in P1 took the Marvellous Me boxes home last week for the first time this year. After filling the boxes with items that were special to them, they gave a presentation about what they had brought in and why. Well done to everyone last Friday and we can’t wait to see what’s inside this weeks boxes!
This week as part of our digital learning, primary 2 took part in Scottish Book Trust’s “Author’s live.” The Author, Emily Mackenzie read her story, “There’s broccoli in my ice-cream” to us on a live feed from Edinburgh, then showed us, step by step how to draw a character from her book. It was great fun!
We also had a chance this week to experience using the green screen app. We listened to the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, made masks of the characters and then had the opportunity to recreate scenes from the story with a green screen background.
Today at assembly we launched a whole school competition for the West Lothian Stellar Young Writer Award. Over the next few weeks children will have the opportunity to complete a piece of writing for the competition.
We welcomed along Dr Peter Hughes (OBE) to our Celebration Assembly this morning to share with us his achievement journey. As the past President of the Robert Burns World Federation and former Chief Executive of Scottish Engineering he had lots of stories to share. His enthusiasm and passion for all things engineering was inspiring and he reminded us to work hard and never give up. he even played some instruments and sang for us as well! Thank you very much to Dr Hughes for joining us!
Congratulations to our Top Scorers for Term 3!
Congratulations to the children who received a STEM Superstar Award for their learning in Maths, Technologies, Engineering and/ or Science.
Congratulations to the children who received an Awesome Author Award for their learning in writing.
We recognised the children who represented the school in the recent P6 Euro Quiz.
We recognised the children who represented the school in the recent P7 Rotary Quiz.
Our Primary 6s who took part in skiing received a certificate in recognition of all their perseverance and efforts.
Primary 6 came 59th and Primary 7 came 40th out of 152 schools in the recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition.
We recognised our children who took part in the west Lothian Burns Competition, and their certificate arrived just after the assembly!
All the children in Primary 7 who went to Dalguise received a certificate, and some were nominated by the staff for a special award. The staff were also nominated for awards!
All the children in Primary 5 who went to Lendrick Muir received a certificate, and some were nominated by the staff for a special award. The staff were also nominated for awards!
Congratulations to Calder for being the winning house this term and receiving the most house points! Well done.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-3-138637427
