Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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A massive ‘well done’ to our pupils from p5, 6 and 7 who participated in the triathlon today! Mrs Dickie was extremely proud of them all! They were a real credit to our school and everyone had a great time. Lots of smiles in the sunshine!
P1 had a fantastic suprise when they arrived at school this morning. A mummy hen has left us 10 little eggs to look after. Two of the eggs had already hatched before we got in and there was another arrival after school today! They are desperate to say hello but Hopefully we get to see some pipping and hatching tomorrow. We have a boy and two girls so far. P1 had lots of super questions about the chicks.
More from ‘Chick Cam’ tomorrow …
Our STEM topic this term is to design and create a new healthy dish for school lunches. We have been learning about Scottish and local produce. We have interviewed staff from the lunch hall to find out the most popular types of lunches as well as collecting data from all the classes in school. We are using this information to help us design new dishes.
Learning Intention
We are learning to design a new, healthy school lunch dish with Scottish produce.
Success Criteria
I can use Scottish/local produce in my design
I can use my knowledge of healthy foods to help me in my design
I can make my dish interesting
We have been researching ingredients and different produce found locally/around Scotland – we even found chillies being grown in Dumfries. All the children are really keen to test their dishes to see how they taste. I can’t wait either.
Mrs Andison and P5
Learning Intention:
To participate in whole school presentations and performances.
Success Criteria:
I can listen and respond appropriately to instructions and directions.
This week we have participated in ‘Rookie Rockstars’. We have learned songs about important topics such as bullying, being yourself, not discriminating, never giving up, forgiveness and respecting one another. Glynn and Chloe taught us the words and actions and included some fun challenges for staff and pupils. We recorded our songs and are looking forward to going to the concert next week.
“Very inspiring” – Ella
“The best week ever” – Hallie
“A fun way to learn about bullying” – Jessica
“Extremely fun” – Katie
“Important messages and teamwork” – Lewis
“Lots of fun and crazy dance moves” – Ewen
We are learning to … be confident and build good friendships through singing.
I can … talk about forgiving and friendship.
I can … perform for others.
I can … work together with my class.
Here is what P1 had to say about their ‘Rookie Rockstars’ week:
The songs were teaching us how to be friends.
We learned rock songs.
They were about happiness and sadness.
I liked when we were singing – Bullies are not cool!
I liked the penguin dance.
I liked putting our arms round each other and showing we are friends
I liked the song about not giving up, like in a race!
I liked challenge time when people rapped or had a marshmallow challenge!
We were recording our songs for a CD.
We are looking forward to dressing up for the concert!
What were we learning?
New songs about things like forgiveness, friendship and differences.
How will we know if we were successful?
What did we do?
Chloe and Glyn have been working with us all week! We learned lots of different songs (‘I’m so Glad’, ‘Never Give Up’, ‘Bullies ain’t Big’, ‘Hey, Hey, I’m OK!’ and ‘Let’s all be Friends!’). These songs gave us lots of different messages, such as to be kind to others, to be forgiving, that it’s good to be us and to keep trying. They try to makes us more confident. Every day, there was a different challenge, including the ‘Chubby Bunny’ challenge and the Rap Battle wih Mrs Campbell and Miss Mulhern. Yesterday, we got to be like real rockstars and record our own CD! Next week, we even get to dress up and star in our own concert! We hope to see you there!
Check in with us next week to see what we are learning!
Until next time…
Primary 2 & Miss M 🙂
Today, we welcomed a coach from Triathlon Scotland/West Lothian Tri to come into school and coach some of the children in P5-7 who have expressed an interest in the upcoming West Lothian Schools Triathlon. They learned about what to expect on the day and had a chance to practise some transition drills. The children taking part all really enjoyed the session and we have had a message from the coach to say how well-behaved the children were. Well done to all that took part!
The children are having lots of fun with the Rookie Rockstars. Today they learned another two songs, as part of the preparation for their concert next week and to record on their CD later this week. Today’s songs were “Bullies ain’t big” and “Hey, hey, I’m ok”. All classes have been busy designing a CD cover for the PUSCPS CD and the winner will be announced at the concert next week. In the meantime, here are a few photos from the fun today. Mrs Campbell and Miss Mulhearn took on the Rapbattle challenge against Katy and Sam, and they won! Well done to them all for taking part!
We are learning to: use emotional language.
I can: identify the emotions, behaviours and triggers of a character.
Primary 4 were tasked with identifying the emotions, behaviours and triggers of a character in groups of 3. We watched a short video entitled “A Shadow of Blue”, pausing it at 3 different points for discussion.
The character in the vieo clip experienced a range of emotions and we were able to identify and name lots of them. Finding behaviours was trickier, as the clip was mostly featuring the character’s shadow, but we worked hard in our groups to find lots!
We came back together as a class at the end and shared some of our answers for each section. We were able to justify our thoughts about the character’s emotions through discussing their behaviours and the triggers which made them feel this way.
We produced some brilliant work and had a great discussing which was very interesting.
P1 were very excited when Veda and her owner Bill came to visit today.
Veda is an ex-guide dog who now works as a therapet. She visits schools, hospitals and people’s homes to make them feel happy and more confident.
Veda loves to listen to stories. She will be visiting every Thursday this term to read with children in P1. I bet she’s impressed when she hears our super reading!
