Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Jack: We found out about things that need electricity and how to keep safe. Never put your fingers near the socket.
Caitlin: I’ve been counting forwards and backwards and adding groups to see how much I have altogether.
James: Zoolab came and I saw a turtle and snake. I touched the snake.
Sorley: We have made a hospital in the class. I am a Doctor and Kyle was the patient.
We have finished our characters and setting for our new topic. We are now waiting to see what is going to happen in our village, ‘Springtown’. We have been developing our art skills through designing our village and characters using different materials. It was very tricky to keep to the right scale as everyone was contributing to the display.
Can you see the things we decided a village needs?
“We were measuring liquids to make a fruit punch” (Ellie Clark)
“You can measure liquids in L, cl and ml” (Rosa)
“We were measuring water using bottles, jugs and containers” (Lilly)
“1000ml is the same as 1L” (Calum)
I have at last managed to gather the pictures from P5 camp. Enjoy the lovely memories Primary 6!
Miss McLennan 🙂
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There will be an information evening tomorrow (Wednesday 16th) at Broxburn Academy at 6pm. This will be a chance to hear about the school and to have a tour. All parents of prospective Academy pupils and their P7 children are encouraged to attend.
I apologise for the late notice of this information. It was accidentally missed off the last newsletter.
Steven Eagleson
We have been learning about magnets. The magnets have a North and South Pole and if you put North and North together they repel each other which means they push away from each other. If you put opposite poles together they attract each other which means they stick together.
We also did experiments and found out that even if there is something in the way like a piece of plastic, the metal can still stick to the magnet. We tested whether magnets work under water, we thought it wouldn’t work but it did. We tested how close an object had to be to stick the magnet, the furthest away the metal could be was 4cm.
We also thought about where you might find magnets in everyday life. We knew quite a few places where magnets are used to make our lives easier. Can you think of any?
This week was our class assembly was about WW2 , we all participated in it and we all did a fabulous job. Before we did our assembly we all made gas masks and pin wheel poppies to wear for our assembly.Then for all the children on stage we made name tags.
We also wrote an imaginative story about a scarecrow who wanted to be real. Our main focus was describing the character and setting the scene. In maths we worked on dividing decimals by a single digit.
On Thursday we had badminton with Mrs Mooney and we played a really fast game of around the world. Surprisingly our top winner was Ella Watson, unfortunately Mrs Mooney didn’t win but she tried her best.
By Donatella and Courtney
Today we have been learning all about Bonfire Night and firework safety. Below are some of the rules we have learnt to keep us safe when we are watching fireworks.
‘Always stay with an adult.’ – Ruby
‘Never throw fireworks.’ – Khloe
‘Keep cats and dogs and all animals indoors.’ – Ephi
‘Stand back from fireworks.’ – Mayah
‘Don’t put sparklers too close to your face and put gloves on.’ –Emily
We watched a short video of a firework display and used what we saw to help us create some pictures. We chose different colours of paint and printed them onto the page using straws.
Primary 1 have been learning how to tell the time. We can now tell o’clock times on a digital and analogue clock. We played different games to help us with our learning, like the minute game and “What’s the time, Mr Wolf?”
In Science, after learning about the Sun, we wrote some interesting facts about it and drew a picture of the Sun after looking at pictures of the Sun in space.
We have been learning how to stay safe around fireworks and drew firework pictures using pastels.
Primary 4 have been learning about the Vikings. We were very lucky this week to be able to investigate some real and replica Viking artefacts. Sarah-Jane organised for the class to borrow some artefacts from the charity Archaeology Scotland. The children really enjoyed looking at and touching the artefacts They thought about what they might be used for, how they would be made, what they were made of and how they were found.
Sarah-Jane told us about being an archaeologist and showed the class some pictures of digs she had been on.
Primary 4 became history detectives – building stories about the people looking at the evidence.
The children then did some observational drawing, looking at the artefacts and trying to draw exactly what they could see, thinking about line, pattern and shading to show the different textures and colours of the artefacts.
Thank you to Sarah-Jane for organising this brilliant experience.
