Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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WAL: to research and create a presentation about a Scottish Musician.
I can: research a Scottish Musician of my choice.
– create a PowerPoint Presentation using the information gathered.
We enjoyed learning about Scottish Musicians. Here are two of our presentations for you to have a look at. Enjoy!
Calvin Harris & James Arthur –Â Emma & Jonathan
James Arthur & Paulo Nutini – Katie and Rebecca
PUSCPS’s peep group is open to all our nursery children accompanied by parents, grandparents or carers. We share ideas on how to support our children’s learning and the children spend quality time with their parent/carer enjoying songs, rhymes, listening to stories and craft activities.  Our group meets again tomorrow, Wednesday 13th February at 12.30-1.30 in the library. Please come along and join us!
We are learning … about what the internet is and how we can stay safe while using it.Â
P1 talked about what we knew about the internet, how it worked and what it looked like. We found it very hard to describe it and lots of us thought it was a bit like electricity. We watched a video about it and were able to explain that:Â
We heard a story about some children playing a computer game against each other when some things popped up on screen. We suggested that the children should ask a grown up if they weren’t sure. This is called asking permission and is a very important way to stay safe online.Â
Mrs McJimpsey was very impressed to hear lots of stories about times that P1 have asked for permission when using the internet.Â
On our final day we packed up our cases and tidied our rooms. We only had one piece of lost property! Miss Burton was very impressed. The rain was very heavy on the Friday, so we were lucky that this was our last day!
Our final activity was Aeroball! It was great fun, and a little bit wet. It was a bit like trampoline basketball. Well done for Team 2 for winning the game.
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Day two started with a fantastic cooked breakfast, we think we would like one every morning! What do you think Mrs Bonner?
Our first activity today was Climbing!
Keeping with the theme of height, we went on to complete the Vertical Challenge! We supported each other to have a go, and to take a risk to climb a little bit higher. Well done to everyone who reached the top.
At Survivor we had the opportunity to make our own shelters, use knives for carving wood and make our own fire.
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Our final activity was one that we were a little bit nervous about – Zip Line but we managed to support each other and the staff to have a go. Mrs Andison enjoyed it so much – she went twice!
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Day two finished with the Disco!
On Wednesday we set out on our adventure to Dalguise! We got on the bus and waved goodbye to our family and school.
When we arrived we quickly dropped off our bags, divided into our two activity groups and went to our first activity, Problem Solving.
Later that afternoon we braved the Giant Swing, even Miss Burton and Mrs Hamilton had a go (with some encouragement!). This was almost everyone’s favourite activity.
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We also had the opportunity to take part in Archery. Some of us had a very good aim!
That evening we divided into 4 teams to play Robot Wars. We had to complete challenges to earn points to make a robot. Then the robot took part in different challenges. It was great fun and we demonstrated creativity and team work skills.
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Mrs Bradley is a nursery Mum and also a music teacher at Broxburn PS. We have been learning Scottish songs over the last few weeks and Mrs Bradley came to teach us some more.
Mrs Bradley had us stamping our feet to the music, we clapped our hands and patted our knees.
We used the musical instruments to play along to the Scottish tunes and played the instruments soft and then loud.
We learned a new song too!!
“Oor wee bairn can sook a bar of chocolate” ” Oor wee bairn can sook a bar a day” (music on you tube)
Thank you so much to Mrs Bradley. We had great fun
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.
What were we learning?
To explore activities linked to Safer Internet Day.
How would we know if we were successful?
What did we do?
Until next time…
Primary 3 & Miss M 🙂
This week P2C have been learning Digital Safety.
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This SWAY will be updated regularly.
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