Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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There will be no meeting of the Eco club this week (Thu 16th May) as all the teachers will be at a training meeting. The Club will be back again next week so don’t forget!
In the meantime, Eco People, your challenge is to take some Eco Action at home and post news of it on the Blog!
Today at Eco club Mrs Hull introduced Fergus, the new School Sunflower. We are taking part in the Sunflower Challenge run by Rural connect and will be looking after Fergus and hoping he will grow taller than any other sunflower in a West Lothian School. Today’s challenge was putting him in a bigger pot as he had outgrown the pot he was put in only 2 weeks ago!  He has been gently tethered to the side of the building. Please wave to him as you go by in the morning and have a look at how tall he is – but please DON’T TOUCH as he is very fragile!
At 4pm today he measured 1 metre tall – can anyone estimate when he will reach the same height as Miss Speirs?
Our Eco Challenge in Primary 3 was to design the garden beside the dinner hall door. We measured the area then came back to class to draw our design of what we thought would work well in the area. We have also been trying hard to reduce the amount of paper in our blue bag. We have even given someone a job in class to check that the paper in the bag has been used on both sides before it goes in!
This week we will be learning a lot about our school grounds and tidying up our local community!
Throughout the week every class are taking on eco challenges and there are three big events happening;
Wednesday – tree planting in the school driveway and around the BMX track with staff and students from the Oatridge campus of the Scottish Agricultural College
Thursday– National Spring Clean when we are joined by the Environmental Wardens to pick up litter in Pumpherston and Uphall Station
Friday – Orchard Day! We will be planting our new Community orchard with Fruitful Schools and a team from News International who sponsored this as a competition prize in The Scottish Sun newspaper.
Great News! 
We can confirm that the date for our Orchard planting with News International and Fruitful Schools will take place on Friday 19th April 2013. Please contact the school office if you are able to help. We’d like as many helpers as possible to make this a true Community Orchard! Come along and join the fun from 9.30 am.
Reminder- when the snow’s gone, remember to scoot or cycle to school and let the JRSOs know! We are ranked 48th in Scotland, 661st in the UK – can we climb that ranking list??? Put your best pedal forward!
Our school will be taking part in the 3 stages of the Big Pedal 2013. On the 28th Feb, 8th March and 20th March we will be counting the number of children, staff and parents who cycle or scoot to school. Our results are logged with the national Big Pedal event and we will be given a place in the race! More news at assembly from the JRSOs.
Get more information from http://bigpedal.org.uk/
The sponsors of our Community Orchard have asked us to postpone the planting day once more. We are sorry to disappoint you with this news, and hope to bring news of a definite date very soon. Everyone is hoping this change of date will increase our chances of warmer (and drier?) weather…
This week in P6 there has been lots of learning going on. We have been working in our topic groups to make a  model of the Titanic. The parts of it that we’ve been making are:  the funnels, the decking, the hull and the sea.
In writing we have been writing settings for stories and trying to guess other peoples. We really all enjoyed our writing this week because we had to guess each others settings.
We were given our tickets for the Titanic in drama. Some people had first class tickets,others second and third.
In assembly we where thinking about consideration of others and Rights week after the holiday.
Everyone dressed inside out today to raise money for UNICEF! We had to spell our words forwards and backwards for our spelling check-up!
We hope everyone has a good long weekend!
Miss McLennan and Primary 6 🙂
 
Our school is a member of The Pod website which has lots of eco ideas and games to play. You can have a look at their latest e-zine at http://www.jointhepod.org/student-zone/
