Anti-Social Behaviour
This flyer has recently been issued from West Lothian.
We would like to make the plea that if anyone see’s any antisocial behaviour in our school grounds including people trying to access the playground, or in the areas surrounding our grounds for example the kick pitch and pump track, that they report it. Especially as it is coming into the summer period.
Extra Inservice Days
Recently “ the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills proposed providing teachers with two additional in-service days in the academic year to support professional learning.”
West Lothian Education Executive have decided that the additional inservice days will be on Tuesday 20th August 2019 and Monday 6th January 2020.
This means that our school and nursery will start the new school year on Wednesday 21st August 2019.
As discussed at the Primary 1 induction evening, Primary 1 children will start at 9am on Wednesday 21st August and should enter the school through the office. They should be collected from the playground at 3:00pm. On the Thursday they will start and end at normal school times, 8:50am and 3:15pm.
Transition Morning Success!
This morning our children were very excited to find out who their teacher would be for next session. They all enjoyed a getting to know you activity with their new teacher and we welcomed our new Primary Ones.
Our new Primary Ones and their families joined us for a Dine Together session, so they could sample our school lunches.
Our Primary 6 children were very excited about receiving their Primary 7 tie!
Class Structure for 2019/20
This morning your child has taken part in a transition activity with their new teacher, there was a fantastic buzz across the school and everyone was excited to find out who their teacher would be next session!
The class structure for next session is as follows:
Nursery
- Early Years Officer: Mrs Montgomery
- Early Learning Centre Area Support Manager: Ms Carruthers
- Early Years Practitioner: Mrs Arthur, Ms Young (am), vacancy for pm
- Pupil Support Workers: Mrs Watson and Ms Hamil
School
- Primary 1: Mrs Hardie (Monday, Tuesday): Mrs McJimpsey (Wednesday, Thursday Friday)
- Primary 2: Mrs Strachan
- Primary 3: Mrs McConville (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)/ Miss Cave (Wednesday, Thursday & Friday)
- Primary 4: Mrs Mooney
- Primary 5: Mrs Campbell
- Primary 6: Miss McLaughlin
- Primary 7: Mrs Andison
- Support for Learning: Mrs Dugan
- Teacher non-contact time: Mrs Ness/ Mrs McJimpsey/ Mrs Cougan
Pupil Support Workers
- Mrs Adie
- Mrs Bonner
- Mrs Hamilton
- Mrs Ross
- Ms Cook
Admin: Mrs Thom
Clerical: Mrs Birrell
Pupil Equity Funding Staff:
Targeted Support: Mrs Ness/ Mrs McJimpsey/ Mrs Cougan
Speech and Language Therapist: Mr Grant
Cluster DHT for Maths: Ms Allsopp
Parent Portal Launch
On Tuesday 11th June, on behalf of West Lothian Council you will receive a groupcall about Parents Portal.
We would request that all of our families sign up to this facility to support our continued efforts in becoming a paperless school.
Thanks in advance.
Sumdog Contest
The West Lothian contest starts this Friday. Can anyone make it into the top 50?
Stellar Young Writer Awards Assembly
Star Writer Awards from PUSCPS
Thank you to our Literacy Leaders for leading the Assembly.
Congratulations to the winning entry at each stage.
Congratulations to this Primary 4 whose story will be entered to represent our school at the Stellar Awards.
You can hear the winning entries below, thank you to our Literacy Leaders and senior children for recording the stories for a surprise at the assembly.
Primary 2S Transition Challenge
Primary 2S have been busy this week completing a transition challenge set by Miss Burton. Our challenge is to let P1 know about what to expect when they come up to P2 next session. We have made posters showing important information and we are looking forward to going to visit the P1 class to share the information on our posters. We will let you know how we get on!
Uphall Station Gala Day Update
UPHALL STATION GALA DAY UPDATE
With the weather threatening to come our way this evening into tomorrow the committee have made the decision to cancel the parade 😞 This decision was very hard to make and we have thought on ways to make this possible but with reluctant walkers, no ponchos for the children or canopy for the float etc it seems the only decision we could make.
Unfortunately the events in the park also have to be cancelled. Our inflatable suppliers again are reluctant to put their structures up given the forecast and the park will be far to wet for the races to take place. Safety is or main concern and we hope you understand that.
HOWEVER!!! 😊
We will still be putting on our fancy dress @11.15am in the Institute Hall where we will also have UPS Pipe Band play for us at 1pm and DJ Tubz will provide our entertainment with games for the kids. There will be tombola stalls, silly string/ toys for sale and fantastic cheesecakes and fudge. Tea/coffee will also be available so please pop down and support us in trying make a special day regardless.
We endeavour to hold a fun day in August so we can finish off the races etc, updates on that to follow 😊
Kind regards,
Uphall Station Gala Day Committee
