Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Some of our P5 children had an idea to run a Harry Potter Lunch Time Club. They made a plan of what they would do, collected the resources they needed and made up a register.
This week the focus was on creating a wand and everyone who came along said they really enjoyed it and are looking forward to the next session.
It’s that time of year when we start thinking about moving on. Our Primary 7 and pre-school children have already started their transition journey over the past few weeks and months.
Transition Challenge
As part of Health Week, P1 – P7 have been set a transition challenge to teach the new children coming into their stage about their learning, achievements and events this year.
Here is an example of the P7 challenge:
Here are the P6s hard work completing the challenge:
Watch this space for the final results!
Moving up MorningÂ
On the 19th June we will have our moving up afternoon when our children will have the opportunity to meet their new teachers.
Class Structure
Currently our class structure for next session is:
*This is our current structure, however we are still awaiting our final numbers for Primary 1, so this may be subject to change if our numbers increase.Â
We are on day 3 of Health Week now and my goodness our class have been busy again today!
To start us off today we looked at mental health and chose some mindfulness colouring sheets to colour in. We put instrumental music on and and chose to work in a place comfortable for us before we sat quietly and coloured. This helped us to calm down and to clear our minds.
10 people had healthy snacks today! Can we make it to 11 or maybe even higher tomorrow?
After break we had so much fun making our own smoothies! We had to make sure everything had been washed (including our hands!) and that the surfaces were clean before we could begin. We were working in pairs or threes and we had to pick 2 or 3 different fruits to put in our smoothie. We could choose from pineapple, mango, banana, pear or apple.
Then we were able to work together to cut the fruit, measure the orange juice and pop in some natural yoghurt! All of this was added together in the blender.
We then blended the fruit together with the help of an adult and watched as it changed colour!
All of our smoothies were slightly different and tasted different too! We each got to have at least 1/2 a cup of smoothie, although some people chose to half less if they didn’t enjoy theirs. Thankfully we mostly had some very happy faces!
After lunch we did some GoNoodle dances and yoga together and we were all very tired after that!
We had a break and then went for Daily Mile which we were running in the sun today!
Remember, it is Sports Day tomorrow so make sure you have your water bottles and are ready to go!
We also have a couple of visitors coming to see us and show us some new activities so be prepared for another update tomorrow!
We have been very busy once again for Day 2 of Health Week!
We began our morning by discussing our Emotion Works cogs and identifying which cog the words or phrases on the board came under; emotions, behaviours, body sensations, triggers or regulation strategies. This made way for a lot of discussion and we all had to justify our answers and agree as a class. We decided that some of them even came under 2 different categories depending on the feelings that you had towards them.
We then finished our PE from yesterday out in the sunshine. It was very hard work once we got to the final station!
We are trying to have healthy snacks this week so we are taking a daily picture of our healthy eaters! We had 5 yesterday and today we had 9! Well done guys!
After break we had a brilliant surprise in the hall, where we were looking at our bodies with the Glasgow Science Centre. There were lots of different stations teaching us so many different things from our organs, heat in our bodies and our memory:
to the effects that smoking and drinking have on our faces and our lungs!
It was a brilliant, active and interesting workshop which we all loved!
Then after lunch we had a visit from Active Schools and we did lots of athletics outside. We tried lots of different activities and were definitely tired out when we got back in the classroom!
I cannot wait to see what we get up to tomorrow for Day 3!
We had a very busy day in Primary 6 today! We all enjoyed our judo session this morning and loved learning lots of new skills. In the afternoon, we went out to practise our skipping. The P7s have been teaching us lots of rhymes and skipping games, which are great for our health and fitness, as well as being a lot of fun!
Today was the first day of Health Week at PUSCPS and to begin our week strong, we did lots of active activities!
We started off with some spelling activities outdoors to get lots of fresh air. We did a Pass and Spell game,
, 
hangman on whiteboards in pairs,
and writing and drawing our words in chalk!
Some of us had brought in very healthy snacks today and we are hoping for more people to join in on our healthy snack photo tomorrow!
We all then had a go at curling in the lunch hall. It was quite tricky to throw the curl with the right amount of force so we all had lots of practise throws and then we had a mini competition between our 3 teams for Dojo Points!
Then to finish the day, we participated in the Daily Mile or the Daily Skip,
and then did a bit of PE outside where we are improving our fitness!
I am sure we will have another fun-filled day tomorrow!
During DYW week pupils had many opportunities to learn about a variety of occupations that may encourage and inspire them to consider these professions in the future. Pupils learned about motorbikes, aquaculture, midwifery, engineering, hairdressing, STEM activities and applied science. Pupils particularly enjoyed the applied science activities.
So far in the competition …
Classes placed out of 23:
Children placed out of 623:
The competition runs until Thursday and all children can play at home as well as school.
West Lothian Sumdog Maths Contest starts tomorrow and will run for a week. There will be certificates for children that make it to the top 50!
Good luck 🙂
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