Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Spheros
The children used an Atlas to locate Scottish towns and cities. They then recreated these by using cones and programmed the Spheros to travel between them. They investigated different speeds to help keep control of the Sphero.
https://vimeo.com/313169574
Apps
The children used different apps to create their own tartan.
Station 1
The children used their design skills and imagination to create their own tartan. They could chose if they wanted to use a netbook, iPad ror draw a tartan. Some children used the lines on paint on the netbooks and some used the doodle buddy app.
Station 2Â
At this station the children use their research skills to find out key facts about Robert Burns in pairs. They then used a Glow form to share their information by answering questions about his life.
Station 3
The children brainstormed Scots they already knew and used their research skills to learn some new Scots words using the iPads or netbooks. They made a video to share their learning.
https://vimeo.com/312607667
Station 4
The children looked at maps of Scotland and decided which towns and cities they would like to visit. They used cones to make the cities and then programmed the Sphero robots to travel to different places in Scotland. Reflecting on their learning, they felt they are getting better at being able to make more accurate movements with the Spheros.
This term Primary 1 are learning about Scotland through the Katie Morag and other Scottish stories. We have talked about Katie Morag’s clothing and the materials used. Sarah Jayne came to help us explore weaving techniques this week. We had great fun and learned new words e.g. loom.
Moira our librarian also read us a story called ‘The Grouse and the Mouse’ during our library visit.
P1 were set a challenge last term at the end of their toy topic.  The classroom needed toys for its toy workshop. Children had to design and make a toy from the past. They had to choose their materials carefully and talk about what their toy can do and how it is made.
https://vimeo.com/307516956
https://vimeo.com/307516839
Some children in P2C had a go at some Christmas coding tasks today. Here is the site link below:
https://santatracker.google.com/village.html
They worked well together to problem solve and try to complete each task.
On Friday Michelle Quinn from Almond Enginnering joined us for our Celebration Assembly. Michelle shared her own personal journey of working hard at school, and then working her way up in Almond Engineering to become the first female Director.
Lauren from Developing the Young Workforce in West Lothian also joined Michelle. Before our assembly, they visited P3 to find out about their ‘Digital Me’ business plans and they were very impressed.
Michelle sent us the letter below, to say thank you, as she really enjoyed visiting our school.
We would like to thank both ladies for taking time out of their busy schedules to visit us.
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.
