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This week we were rewriting nursery rhymes for Primary One  and here are some examples-
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down!
Hickory Dickory Dock.
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck two,
The mouse went boo!
Hickory Dickory Dock.
 We have made up a new class target and it is “Think before we do anything.” and we hope we follow it 🙂 !
On Wednesday James from Scottish Power came to our school to talk to each class about electricity. He told us all about electric cables and how we can stay safe with switches, plugs and power boxes.
Here are some facts we remembered:
We got to hold 2 different big electricity cables. James had a black crow with a yellow nose called Sparky to help teach the little classes about being safe.                                                                                             Â
By Ellie Hamilton and Shea McEwan (…a little help from Amy Barnett and Miss McLennan)
Primary 4 to help us learn more about where food comes from we are going to use the website Food a Fact of Life. Firstly Google search Food a Fact of Life.  Once you are on the home page click 8-11 years along the top of the page. Next click Food and Farming then scroll down until you see the heading Interactive Resources.  Click on the game that is called – Where does your food come from?Play the game and then we will share it together at the end of this week.
This week we were looking at every child’s right to play. We played two games, ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ and Chocolate Bar. On Friday at break time we went to the other classes and showed them how to play these games. It was lots of fun and we are going to learn more games and teach other classes how to play them.
Primary 6…
You all have the next 3 weeks to create a model of the Titanic. You can choose to use any materials but it must be 3D.Â
Good Luck on your mission, I know you can do it!
Miss McLennan 🙂
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This week we have been learning about Children’s Rights and that every child in the world has the right to an education.  We watched a clip of children in Africa and discussed how different their school was to our school. We made posters to show some of  the values of education. Then we shared what we had learned with the whole school at our Rights Respecting assembly.Â
                       by   Jordan and Carys
p7 enjoyed learning about the rights of children this week and all the activities we took part in .The best part of our week was once again poetry writing!!! We wrote poems about an “ideal world” and some of them were read out at our assembly. All the staff were very impressed with them!!
This week in Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS we have been learning about children’s rights. Miss Martin has set the whole school on a job to make name collages because it shows everyone that they have the right to a name. Also we have been making little paper girls and boys. Then Miss Martin is going to display them all over the school.
Yesterday we had an assembly about children’s rights and all the classes had to do a show and tell.  Primary 6 decided to talk about wants and needs these are some of them. The needs are clean water, nutritious food, decent shelter and medical care. The wants were laptop, pet, phone, holiday, games and computer stations.
By Connor Ramsay and Elli-louise Falconer
This week P1m were talking about what a ‘good’ lesson looks like. We had lots of good ideas!
A big list for Miss McLaughlin to think about!
P1m 🙂
This week we had a visit from Ewan McVicar. He told us about some of the different types of food they grow and eat in Africa.   We learned about some foods we had never heard of before like Paw Paw, Cassava and Plantain.  He also told us an interesting and exciting story about the journey of a bird migrating from Scotland to Africa. We then designed and created our own birds which were unusual and that we had never seen before. These birds will be sent to a school in Livingston in Zambia as part of The Bird Exchange project.  Below are some pictures of us creating our unusual birds.
