Social Studies – Page 2 – Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

Posted on September 17, 2020September 18, 2020

P4 Local Community IDL

As part of our Local Community IDL topic we have been exploring mapping and grid references. We used Google maps to find out about the local area and highlighted how land has been used on a map of the local area. Today we went outside to work on shape, position and movement. We used positional language to give and follow instructions about how to move to a specific place on the grid.

P2/1 – Our Local Area

P2/1 has been learning about our village of Pumpherston. Granny has bought a new house in Pumpherston and we helped her find out all she needs to know about the area.

We looked on google maps to find out what was in the village and we learned about the different people who can help us in the area.

Granny had a problem with litter outside her new home so we made posters, telling people to keep the village tidy. We also went on a litter pick around our school.

Primary 3 STEM Topic Work

As part of our ‘Our Planet, Our Future’ topic, Primary 3 and been learning about the effects of litter and plastic pollution to the environment.

We have been researching how long it takes for materials to rot away after they are discarded and how our rubbish impacts on animals. Using the information found, we created posters and wrote an exposition to persuade people not to drop litter.

With have also linked our topic with our work on food chains, learning how animals depend on one another and discovering how plastic can enter and pass through the food chain. We worked in groups to create pictures of different marine food chains and presented them to the rest of the class.

Our next step is to learn more about recycling and how to cut down on our use of plastic to reduce plastic pollution.

Primary 7 Scottish focus

In Primary 7 our first IDL topic this term was Scottish Musicians, past and present.

We have learned about the career, family and music of a variety of Scottish musicians that pupils listen to currently and some from the not too distant past.

Some of the musicians we learned about are Lewis Capaldi, Calvin Harris, Gerry Cinnamon, Runrig, The Incredible String Band, Gerry Rafferty and Annie Lennox. We have researched, produced posters and written non-chronological reports on a chosen musician.

We also listened to the different genres of music and discussed how they affected our emotions, mood and if they created mental images in our minds. We had some very good discussions as well as enjoying some music from artists we hadn’t heard before.

P6 Scottish Focus

For our Scottish focus this term, we learned and analysed two poems by Robert Burns – My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose and To A Mouse. Scots dictionaries were used to translate the Scots words we were unfamiliar with. We looked at features of poetry such as simile, metaphor, imagery and personification. We then used what we had learned to write our own poems.

Research skills, group work and presenting skills were put to the test through researching the life and work of Robert Burns.

Well done P6!

Nursery Winter Walk

Anderson shelter update from P7

Today we had a very special delivery to the school from Burton Roofing Manufacturers. Primary 7 wrote letters to Burton Roofing to ask if they could help us for our project – to build our own Anderson shelter as part of our WW2 topic. They were kind enough to offer their support and have very generously supplied us with sheets of corrugated metal and all the fixings. We have spent a number of weeks digging out the base, with the help of Sarah-Jane, for the shelter and we are at the point of almost being ready to build it. Primary 7 and Mrs Andison owe Burton Roofing a huge thank you for the materials. It is great to know we are supported by local businesses.