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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.
On Monday P5 were excited to go swimming at Broxburn Leisure centre. The other exciting news is our Europe assembly which will take place on Thursday 28th of February. We are busy researching about a variety of countries for this. Please put that date into your diary as it is an event you will not want to miss!
This week in P6 there has been lots of learning going on. We have been working in our topic groups to make a  model of the Titanic. The parts of it that we’ve been making are:  the funnels, the decking, the hull and the sea.
In writing we have been writing settings for stories and trying to guess other peoples. We really all enjoyed our writing this week because we had to guess each others settings.
We were given our tickets for the Titanic in drama. Some people had first class tickets,others second and third.
In assembly we where thinking about consideration of others and Rights week after the holiday.
Everyone dressed inside out today to raise money for UNICEF! We had to spell our words forwards and backwards for our spelling check-up!
We hope everyone has a good long weekend!
Miss McLennan and Primary 6 🙂
 
In writing this week we wrote about traditions during Chinese New Year. In maths we are looking at different shapes and the triangles maths group have been introduced to the triangular prism. In topic this week, we found out how jewellery was an important part of Egyptian life even for the poor people. We used a range of materials to make our own Egyptian bracelets and necklaces.
Earlier this week Primary 7 worked in pairs to create a recipe poem about what makes Scotland great!
Here are some quotations from them-
“Drop in 282 munros and dust them with snow”. By James and William.
“Take some beautiful empty land, stir in the sound of music”. By Junior.
“Then dip in some noisy bagpipes as loud as a lions roar.” By Lewis Taylor
“Grate the grass around the thistles.” By Michael.
They will be on display outside the P7 classroom for you to read!
We achieved our class target!!!!!
This week we have been working on ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ sounds in words, paying particular attention to where these sounds appear in words. The children have been creating these words in bubble writing and decorating them in their own style to be displayed on our word wall in class. There have been some very interesting designs which clearly show individual creativity and imagination.
Everyone has been busy this week rehearsing for our Scots afternoon. I think you’ll agree it was worth all the hard work! Primary 6 poets were excellent and a special well done to Ellie Hamilton and Amy Barnett for their recitals of ‘Bingo’ and ‘Oor New School’ on the day.
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