Social Studies – Page 3 – Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

Posted on October 7, 2019October 8, 2019

P7 Anderson shelter

P7 have been busy working on the foundations for the Anderson shelter we are building. The rain has made it a bit tricky!

As part of our learning about life in the 16th Century the children went to Stirling Castle to experience what life was like in that time especially if you were rich! While they were on the trip they found out about a lot of things they had said they wanted to learn about.

We learned about all of the different types of people who worked for the Royal Court.

We learned how the Royal Court played a variety of instruments to pass the time.

On this map we learned from what countries herbs and spices were brought in from.

We were able to dress up in a variety of clothes people would have worn, Here we have a page and the jester!

We were able to see some of the work done by some of the craftsmen who worked at the castle.

We heard some jokes from the jester as he was the entertainer for the Royal Court.

We met Lavender. She did the washing for the Royal Court.

P5 Investigate Natural Disasters

We created 3D structures to represent our farms in the Scottish landscape. Then each of our farms were subjected to a terrible natural disaster. This allowed us to experience how others feel when their houses are destroyed in real natural disasters. We then wrote a newspaper article to explain what natural disaster had taken place and what the outcome of it was. Then we worked in groups to write a script for a news interview. We are currently practicing these and we will be performing them in front of the class next week.

P4 Assembly – Our Local Area

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/p4-our-local-area-assembly/PUSCPS/p4-our-local-area-assembly

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/shops-in-pumpherston-uphall-station

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/restaurants-in-pumpherston-uphall-station

https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/thing-to-do-in-pumpherston-uphall-station

https://vimeo.com/339876937

Digital Week in P5

We have been very busy developing our digital skills in P5. We have been redrafting our imaginative writing using Microsoft Word. In topic we use Google to research Munros, Corbetts and lochs in Scotland. and then, in groups, we created powerpoints to share the information. We used Microsoft Excel to develop our skills in data handling to create 2D charts to compare the heights of Munros and Corbetts.

We were very lucky to get a coding workshop this week and also we had a visitor from a Develop Ops Engineer from Cloudreach.

We used the internet to carry out research for our topic.

Primary 6 Assembly

https://vimeo.com/326386108

Club Wild – Houses complete and ready for families!

Now that Spring is here we have noticed that the birds are busy, ready to build nests for this year’s families. For the last few weeks Club Wild have been working on our bird boxes to give the birds a helping hand.

We talked about why its important to put up bird nesting boxes with fewer suitable trees, shrubs and buildings and more human landscaped areas.

We had two different types of bird boxes, one with a small hole for the little birds like sparrows, blue tits and great tits and one with a large open hole for birds like robins. In the wild robins would build open nests. The robin nest boxes needed to be placed between 1-2m above the ground while the small birds nest boxes between 2-4m. We chose a small area of mixed trees and made sure that our nest boxes were well hidden and not accessible to predators. They also needed to be placed facing a northerly direction to provide shelter from the prevailing wind.

After putting up the bird boxes we gave them an extra help by making some nesting bundles. Here we used dried grass, feathers, moss, wool and some pet fur tied up in branches so the birds could help themselves to nesting materials.

We hope that some families will move in and lay eggs so that we can watch and learn about our nesting birds.

P6 WE Schools workshops

WE Schools visited our P6s yesterday. The children took part in three workshops, debating issues such as climate change, bullying and hunger. The P6s were very respectful of each others’ opinions and Annie from WE Schools said they were a pleasure to work with. Well done P6!

Fairtrade Kahoot!

Primary 7 used Kahoot to assess their knowledge of Fairtrade, following our Pumphie Pals meeting on Friday. Kahoot is an app/ website that allows the children to interact with questions on the board using the iPads. We were very impressed with how accurately they could answer the questions. You can see from their faces how engaged they were!