Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Our House and Vice Captains have had the difficult task of selecting the winners for our Christmas card home learning task. The winners will be revealed at assembly on Friday. A huge well done to everyone who submitted an entry, it was very difficult to select a winner.
Our House and Vice Captains have created a house chant to say at assembly when they win the house points for the week, or term. They used our new green screen to record the videos and taught them to their Pumphie Pals group.
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At Pumphie Pals we had a Santa Holiday Challenge:
Today at Pumphie Pals we discussed four different questions:
Our Digital Directors will use this information to help their Junior Leadership Team.
As Almond received the most house points this term they organised a Pyjama Party to celebrate their success.
Jack and Lauren organised a range of party games, dancing and a shopping list of party food.
Congratulations to Almond on their success and to the P7s in Almond for organising and running the party.
Our Junior Leadership Teams (JLTs) are off to a flying start this term. Working in our JLTs helps us to live our values of positivity, understanding, support, confidence and success.
Each team met to discuss their plans for the year – these will soon be shared on each JLT’s notice boards within school.
House Captains
We are responsible for leading special activities, including Pumphie Pals.
Healthy Heroes
We are responsible for promoting healthy initiatives throughout the school.
Sporting Stars
We are responsible for raising awareness of sporting initiatives and for sharing new playground games we have learned.
Creativity Crew
We are responsible for investigating and sharing the ways creativity can enhance learning.
Pupil Council
We are responsible for representing pupil voice on all matters related to our school.
Global Group-Magale
We are responsible for fundraising, raising awareness and communicating with our friends in Magale.
Digital Directors
We are responsible for learning about how ICT can enhance our learning and sharing this with others.
Rights Respecting Rangers
We are responsible for raising awareness of the rights of the child and how these rights can be respected.
Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO)
We are responsible for raising awareness of road safety issues near the school and in the wider community.
Literacy Leaders
We are responsible for raising awareness and enthusiasm for various literacy initiatives.
Green Gang
We are responsible for raising awareness of environmental issues .
STEM Superstars
(Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
We are responsible for sharing our STEM learning to raise awareness and enthusiasm for STEM across the school.
This school session every child from P1 to P7 has had the opportunity to sign up to a Junior Leadership Group. These groups will give all our children the opportunity to lead an aspect of our school improvement agenda whilst having their voice included in developments and decisions.
The groups will meet for the first time this Wednesday, at this meeting they will put an action plan together for the year ahead.
If you feel that you could contribute to supporting one of these groups please contact the school office. 
 