Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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This week’s update on our learning comes from Aiden, Logan and Georgie:
P1 have had a fun and busy week. Â We reflected on our learning and shared what we have learnt this week:
Jack: Â We were learning about take away sums. Â We had to take away and add.
Layla: Â We were learning about doubling numbers like 4+4.
Kayden: Â We learnt about feelings like sad and happy and grumpy.
Peyton: Â We learnt our number in French. Â I can count up to 10.
Sophie Rose: Â We used collage in art to make pictures of a dragon.
We will need these pictures next week for our storywriting.
Take a look at some of our newspaper reports about the film Madagascar.  Everyone enjoyed writing catchy headlines and tried hard to answer the when, where, who and what questions.
https://vimeo.com/208689973
One of our P3 boys has started participating in a Junior Park Run. Â He has run the 2km circuit a few times now and he is loving it – and his time is improving. What a star!
In P4 one of our boys has achieved his first win at Ninja Racing Carts which he started last season. Â He has been improving greatly and is very motivated. Â What a champion. Â 
This week our focus has been Rights Respecting Schools. Eve updated us with what is happening in the Magale school. Â She told us they have used the money from our last fundraiser to buy chickens for the school.
We used the internet to investigate how to look after chickens. Then we worked in groups to create posters showing how to look after chickens. We will be presenting our posters at the Magale assembly.
As part of our Fairtrade and Rights Respecting School focus week, P6 learnt about the difference between wants and needs and how they link to our rights. We looked at a day in the life of a typical Ugandan Primary School child (Magale is in Uganda) and thought about their wants and needs. We were able to see that although their wants would be very different, we all have the same needs. We then looked at a Fairtrade case study to see how Fairtrade can help families get what they need and how we can make a difference.
Hallie, Katie and Oskar are looking forward to sharing what we have learnt with the rest of the school in our assembly tomorrow. We think you might be surprised at how different a typical Ugandan school child’s day is to your own!
This week, Primary 1/2 have been learning more about our partner school in Uganda and talking about the rights that we all share. We looked at photographs of the chickens they bought with the help of some of the funds we raised and we talked about how keeping chickens would benefit the pupils there.
We have also been learning about what makes a good piece of writing this week. We created plans for our Katie Morag stories and stopped at points during our writing lesson to reflect on what we had written so far. Next week we want to continue to practise checking over our sentences and try our best to include interesting wow words and adjectives.
P1 have reflected on their learning this week – here is what we have been learning:
Caitlin – With Mrs Rarity we learned about the chickens we bought for our partner school in Magale, Uganda.
Kayden – we learned more about Katie Morag and crossing the ocean.
Layla – we made pictures of pancakes in art and put on whatever we wanted – we did this because it was pancake day.
Kian – we were learning our reading with new books.
We learned about Fairtrade this week, at Pumphie Pals and in class. Â People who make food from countries far away earn more money if we buy Fairtrade.
Tyler – we learned the Christian story of Jesus turning the market sellers out of the temple
This week we have been out in the playground imagining we are in the rainforest! Some of us were spider monkeys, some of us were boa constrictors and some of us were blue and yellow macaws. We were linking with maths because we were
learning about grids and we were using co ordinates to find the right part of the rainforest to be in.
Primary 6 have been learning about how to keep ourselves safe. We have talked about the importance of trust and how this can be built or broken, how peer pressure can affect us and how to stay safe when chatting online. We created informative posters with advice on how to stay safe and made links to our poetry focus in writing by creating acrostic poems.
