Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Last week we set all classes a free writing competition inviting them to create a piece of writing on any theme or in any style for Book Week Scotland.
Our house and vice captains had the difficult job of judging the competition this week.
P1-P4/3 created theirs on paper, and P4-7 uploaded theirs to Teams.
Congratulations to all our fabulous authors!
If your child is in Breich they will have a house party on Monday 20th January for winning the most house in term 2. The should bring pjs/ onesie to change into for the party. Please wear their uniform to school.
A reminder that Friday 1st November is a dress down day. We would request if children decided to dress down that they make a donation. The house and vice captains have decided that the money raised will be used by classes to select resources for Together Time.
Please no football colours or crop tops.
Have a look at our video below to see our learning during Maths Week Scotland.
https://vimeo.com/364169052
Our House and Vice Captains set a Maths Weeks Scotland Poster Challenge, the winning designs are below.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/pumphie-pals-poster-competition
We took part in the National Maths Week Sumdog Competition.
Some of children completed all 1000 questions! Primary 3 scored the highest for the school, and Tyler came 207th out of almost 75000 pupils.
Thank you to our Sumdog ambassadors for giving out the awards!
Primary 7 were given the opportunity to run for House and Vice Captains. They were set the following challenge and the children who did not want to apply, supported their Pumpie Pals peers.
On Friday we had the election and it was very competitive as the presentations were excellent. It was obvious that all the children but a lot of time, effort and thought into what they wanted to say.
A huge well done to everyone who took part!
Almond
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Introducing our 2019/20 House and Vice CaptainsÂ
Almond received the most points in term 4 and earned themselves a party, they decide on a Pyjama Party! They had corners, best dancer, pass the parcel, musical statues and food. Thank you to Lauren and Jack, and all the Primary 7s for helping to organise the party.
Almond will have a Pyjama Party on Wednesday 26th June at 11am for winning the house points this term.
As we have the P7 Celebration Assembly in the morning children should BRING their PJs or party clothes to change into for the party.
Sorry for the short notice about the party but we wanted the children to enjoy their treat before the end of term.
The first thing we did at Pumphie Pals was to identify which jobs and careers require skills and knowledge for each of the STEM areas.
Then we used information from British Science Week to have our own paper planes competition.
A reminder, that we warmly invite you to come along and join us at our learning and teaching evening.
We often hear from our families, what does learning look like at PUSCPS and what are the school’s priorities.
Come along and find out from staff and children in an informal way what we have been focusing on this year!
We will even provide you with a wee tea or coffee. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday evening.
Those parent/ carers with an IDL invite will also be able to attend a workshop on this evening.
As part of Fairtrade Fortnight our Pumphie Pals session today had a Fairtrade theme.
First of all the children sorted statements which represented Fairtrade values and those that didn’t.
Then they had a Fairtrade quiz.
