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This week in Pumhie Pals the focus was our playground
We made a list of new toys and equipment we would like for the different zones in our playground.
We looked at different playground scenarios and how the people involved felt. We also thought about how some of the scenarios could be prevented or resolved.
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Mrs Cullum arranged for the RSPB to visit some classes. Everyone enjoyed being a nature detective, searching for clues about animals and their habitats.
As Breich were the winning House last term, we have organised a ‘Neon Party’  on Friday 11th January. Children can come to school dressed in bright clothes for the party on Friday. If they have glow sticks or neon/ light accessories children can bring these to the party. A glow bracelet will be provided at the party.
On Thursday children and staff joined together for our Christmas Lunch. We shared crackers, told jokes and shared Christmas stories.
Thank you to our pupil support workers for helping to set up the hall, to our dinner ladies for a yummy lunch and to our P7s for serving everyone their lunch.
This morning we held our Term 2 Celebration Assembly.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-2
Michelle Quinn from Almond Engineering came along to share with us her achievement of receiving West Lothian Business Woman of the Year. She told us about how she worked hard at school and started with Almond Engineering 12 years ago and worked her way up in the company.
Our Dojo top scorers received a gift voucher.
Michelle presented our STEM Superstars with an award for their achievements in Science, Maths, Engineering and Maths.
Our Awesome Authors received an award for achievements in writing.
Our Basketball Team and Choir also received special awards.
Moira, our librarian had reading awards for children 12 books in 12 days, and for reading their first book.
One of our P4s received a head teacher award for performing in the Panto at Bathgate Regal.
Cozy Corner drew their raffle. 
Congratulations to Breich for earning the most house points in term 2, they will receive their treat at the start of next term.
Our House and Vice Captains have created a house chant to say at assembly when they win the house points for the week, or term. They used our new green screen to record the videos and taught them to their Pumphie Pals group.
https://vimeo.com/304606843
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At Pumphie Pals we had a Santa Holiday Challenge:
Today we had our third Fun Time Friday of the school year. Fun Time Friday is an opportunity for all our children to select an activity that they are interested in and take part in it with peers across different classes. We had a range of activities to choose from which the children brainstormed at Pumphie Pals last session.
P1 have really enjoyed exploring the three books from their P1 Book Bags over the last few weeks.
We have focused on the different emotions the characters have shown in the book. In ‘Eric makes a Splash’, the character is a real worrier and we explored his face expressions and how his voice might sound. We used an app called Chatterkid on the Ipads to show this.
https://vimeo.com/301282382
WAL: to enjoy eating a range of healthy foods in a social situation.
I can: try a range of different healthy foods.
– talk about why some foods are healthier than others.
P7 have been enjoying Shared Snack twice per week.
So far we have enjoyed: dips with vegetable sticks and bread sticks, wraps with cheese and cold meat, scones, pancakes, cereal, crackers and cheese, homemade soda bread, homemade broad bean humus, sandwiches and natural yogurt with granola and mixed berries.
Every week we have a selection of fruit and/or vegetables. So far we have had apples, bananas, pears, pineapple, mango, satsumas, mandarins, oranges, peaches, raisins, melon, pepper, cucumber, carrots and tomatoes.
The children work on a rota basis to prepare the food and set up the class.
If you have any other suggestions for easily prepared healthy snacks, please let us know.
