Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Hello everyone,
Another busy week, so here is what we have been up to.
Literacy – We started the week by revisiting imperative verbs and recapping our knowledge of this through interactive stations. World Book Day 2022 was yesterday, where we were able to share our love of literacy and reading with the whole school and our class. We were given the opportunity to read for enjoyment, share our favourite stories with friends and show off our creativity. We were set a drawing challenge where we were asked to draw our favourite character from from a book of our choosing.
Numeracy – We have been focusing on squared numbers where we used our knowledge of multiplication to help us.
Maths – We have been developing our knowledge of information handling. We will be looking to develop this further over the coming weeks.
IDL/Topic – As part of our Human Body Systems topic, we have now moved on to investigate the purpose of the digestion system. This week we looked at the organs involved in this and will be looking into this further next week.
PE – We participated in a class Handball tournament, where we were asked to work collaboratively as a team, use positive language and bring together the skills we had learnt over previous weeks. We did a great job!
We also had pancakes on Tuesday for Shrove Tuesday! They were delicious!!
Have a lovely weekend.
Miss Walkingshaw and Primary 6
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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Calder
Introducing our 2019/20 House and Vice CaptainsÂ
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!
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.
Our Digital Directors, led by Mrs McJimpsey, gave us a fabulous assembly on Friday. There were lots of important messages about how to stay safe online. All pupils had spent the week learning about internet safety. This week, the Digital Directors have set a special home learning task:
Create a way to share the important messages of staying safe online. This can be in the form of:
-a poster made on paper
-a digital poster
-a video
If taking part, these should be handed in/emailed to wlpuscps@westlothian.org.uk by Friday 15th February.
We look forward to seeing these.
Come along and join us for our Safer Internet Assembly on Friday 8th February at 9:10am, led by our Digital Directors.
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. 
Congratulations to all our P7 children who took part in the House Captain Election, we had a very high standard of entries this year.
Almond
Introducing Jack as Vice Captain and Lauren as Captain.
Breich
Introducing Kamila as Vice Captain and Callum as Captain.
Calder
Introducing Andrew as Vice Captain and Charlie as Captain.
 