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How does our garden grow?

Primary 4 are taking responsibility for a small piece of land within the school grounds and are going to develop it as a garden, ably assisted by Mrs. Hull.  Other classes have responsibilities for other parts of the school grounds and every class has a designated planter that they have planted and are taking care of.  All of this helped contribute towards our Green Flag Award which was truly a whole school effort.

 

The proposed garden was planned by the P4 class and has been weeded and rotovated previously by West Lothian Council’s Neighbourhood Environment Team but the soil quality wasn’t great.  Luckily the Neighbourhood Environment Team noticed this and brought us a big consignment of top soil to help improve our garden. 

The down side was – it arrived as a big pile and had to be added to the soil by our intrepid P4 gardeners.  Thankfully they seemed to enjoy this task and were excellent at taking turns and organising the required jobs amongst themselves, with a few helpful words from Mrs. Hull when needed. 

They made some interesting discoveries including a bright green caterpillar, how best to plant a planter and where the best places around the school are for planters.  A great time was had by all and we look forward to the next installment of ‘how does our garden grow?’.

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Litter pick – new date! 2nd October!

Due to prior commitments of the NETS team and their equipment, the new date for the Community Litter pick will be Wednesday 2nd October.  Please contact the school office if you would be able to join us on a walk around our community to pick up any litter and make Pumpherston and Uphall Station clean and tidy. Join Us!

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Saving Scottish Animals

We had a very special visitor in school today. All of our classes got the chance to meet Lee, who is an animal rescue officer with the Scottish SPCA.  We learned lots about how we can help protect animals here in our community, how dangerous litter can be and what to do if we see an animal in trouble.  She taught us to stay safe, tell an adult and contact the SSPCA for help.  Here is a link to their website http://www.scottishspca.org/

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Primary 7 Reflections

In primary 7 we talked about which lessons we learned best, here are some examples:

  • Elli said the spelling scrabble game because we had to time ourselves and it was fun.
  • Sophie said she became more confident with calculating time durations during maths. 

We were all really proud on Wednesday in P.E as we had a great game of Benchball where everyone showed good sportsmanship.

Liam and Elli

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P1 Reflective Learning

In Primary 1 we have been learning new sounds.

We have already learned…

‘P’ – is pink and we use our lips
‘A’ – is black and we use our tunnel
‘S’ – is light blue and is a quiet tongue sound
‘C’ – is yellow and is a throat sound
‘M’ – is red and we use our lips

See if YOU can remember all of the sounds and colours we learned this week.

Good luck.. We’ll be testing you!

Primary 1 & Miss McLaughlin

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Wanted: Willing Wombles! Community Litter Pick next week

Our big Autumn Litter pick, out in the villages of Pumpherston and Uphall Station, will take place next Thursday morning(Sept 19th).  We would like to have as many of our friends and families taking part as possible – if you have an hour or so to spare come and join in with the classes as they tidy up the local area.The first groups will leave the school at 9.15am.

We’ll be out and about on the streets and in the parks.  Members of WLC NETS team will be with us to give training, lend equipment and hand out the bright yellow vests we wear to show we’re all Keeping Scotland Beautiful. If you can help please contact the office and we’ll match you up with a group on the day.  Thank you!

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