Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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This week, Primary 2/1 started looking at early skills for division.
We learned that quantities can be ‘broken up’ by sharing or grouping. We explored how to share/group using counting materials and then began looking at how we could use jottings/pictures to do this too.
All classes will have a ‘Sharing the Learning’ event on Friday morning at 11.20. We would love to see you there!
Check in with us again next week to see what else we have been up to!
Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂
Please use the link below to access the Primary 2/1 learning overview for Term 4.
P2&1 Termly Learning Overview – 4
Miss M 🙂
This week, Primary 2/1 celebrated World Book Day!
We explored one of the World Book Day £1 books, ‘Charlie McGrew & the Horse that he Drew’ by Rob Biddulph. The story follows Charlie, a little boy who isn’t able to have his own pet, so draws one instead! The book is interactive and encourages children to add their own drawings – I think it would be a great use of the £1 book token!
In the spirit of the story, we created our own pet horses, some of which you can see below.
Congratulations to Murray, who was awarded his own copy of the story to take home and enjoy!
Check in with us again next week to see what else we have been up to!
Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂
In Science, Primary 1 have been learning about The Senses. Here is a photo of us on our Senses field walk.
We talked about and drew pictures of our favourite things to see, hear, touch, taste and smell.
H – I love to hear birds singing.
E –Â IÂ love to touch Millie my dog. She is fluffy.
A-Â I like to taste cheese sandwiches.
H _ I love to see my Mummy, Daddy and my little sister.
M – I like to smell flowers,
Many thanks to all of the parents/carers who joined us on Wednesday for our class assembly – I really appreciate you taking the time to come!
Please use the link below to watch the video of our talking self-portraits (they really are fantastic!):
Miss M 🙂
Our Primary 6 girls attended a girls only football festival this afternoon at Deans Community High School.
There were 6 teams taking part in the festival from across West Lothian. We played 5 games in total and ended up joint winners with Bankton Primary School.
The girls were a credit to the school and themselves! Thank you to everyone at Deans Community High School for organising the event.
Well Done Pumphy!!!
Just a short message to remind parents/carers that the Primary 2/1 assembly will take place on Wednesday 28th February at 2.30pm. We really hope that you can join us!
Many thanks,
Miss M 🙂
This week in Primary 6 we have been learning more about our topic for this term: The Human Body Systems. We were learning about the Skeletal System and the main roles it plays within the body.
We were set a challenge where we had to create a support for a tennis ball which would hold it high above a table. We discussed the different features of structures, what would work well and what would not offer enough support. This was to replicate the role that the skeleton plays in supporting the body.
Below were our two winners who were rated by their classmates as having a 10/10 rating!
This week, Primary 2/1 were learning about shapes!
We explored examples of solid 3D shapes and discussed how they were different to flat 2D shapes. We were also able to identify real-life objects that were 3D shapes. Primary 1 children learned the correct names for 3D shapes and Primary 2 children were classifying shapes using their own criteria.
We linked our new knowledge of shapes to castle building and recognised that some parts of castles were 3D shapes (e.g. a cylinder as a tower, a cone as a turret roof, a cuboid as a drawbridge). We then worked in teams and used construction blocks to create our own castle models.
Check in with us again next week to see what else we have been learning!
Primary 2/1 & Miss M 🙂
