Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Unfortunately the West Lothian Courier no longer take P1 class photos, but we are able to send them a class photo. This photo will take place on the morning of Monday 30th September. Mrs Irvine-Holliday has kindly offered to take this photo with her professional camera, we will also make it available on the blog.
On Friday, during together time, a group of children decided that they would create a club of their own called the Creativity Club. They created a chant for their club and performed it together. They also thought about sustainability and decided to create pictures using pencil shavings from sharpened pencils based on an activity that had been done at a group attended by one of the children. The boys decided to draw pictures of aliens.
As part of our learning about life in the 16th Century the children went to Stirling Castle to experience what life was like in that time especially if you were rich! While they were on the trip they found out about a lot of things they had said they wanted to learn about.
A gentle reminder that Friday 27th is a dress down day. We would request that if children decide to dress down could they please make a donation in return for this. Our recent dress down days have raised £40-£50. This dress down day is to raise money for school funds to help us with buying resources for our playground.
P1-7 can take part in the Maths Week Scotland Sumdog Competition, at school and at home. The competition starts on Friday 27th September and runs until 3rd October.
A huge thank you to Parent Partners fundraising, which has supported the renewal of our Sumdog subscription.
Good Luck!
P2 have been learning all about nouns.
We are able to describe what a noun is and were able to sort nouns into people, place and things. We then took part in a noun hunt to see how many nouns we could find in our reading book.
This week, Primary 6 turned into wildlife investigators!
In Science lessons, we have been discussing the words ‘extinct’ and ‘endangered’. Miss McLaughlin set us an investigation task to research ‘endangered’ animals. We could choose to show our information as a video clip or poster.
We structured our investigations around three themes:
Miss McLaughlin combined our presentations into a wildlife ‘documentary’. She has added 5 dojos to everybody’s score for their hard work.
Click on the link below to watch (apologies, as some sections are quite quiet).
https://vimeo.com/361492621
Check in with us again soon to see what else we have been learning!
Until then…
Primary 6 & Miss M 🙂
At Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS, one of the priorities on our School Improvement Plan this session is the 1 Plus 2 modern languages agenda.
Children are taught French from Nursery to Primary 7. This year we want to extend this by introducing another language or culture in an informal way. Our Parent Partners thought that some families within our school and community could support us! If you can help us, for example a workshop with a class, a club or ongoing support, please fill out the form below.
Thanks in advance.
What did you find out about your child’s learning that you did not already know?
School:
Nursery:
What other information would you like us to provide during Visit My Class sessions?
| You asked? | We answered … |
| A little personalisation about your child. | There will be opportunities for this at parents night and Families Learning Together and Sharing the Learning Events. |
| Do they have school photographs taken to buy? | Yes, Tempest Photography do this once a year. Look out for the date. |
| Positive reinforcement examples. | Have a look at our Positive Relationships at PUSCPS. |
| School Trips and how we can help. | Collect a PVG form from the office. Once this is complete we can add you to our list of parent helpers. |
| How do we teach Maths? | Have a look at our Maths & Numeracy section on the blog. |
In what other ways can we support you to support your child at home?
| You suggested? | We answered … |
| I would like to know what topics they cover in advance. | Have a look at our termly learning overviews. |
| Lots of questions about homework. | This was discussed at the Parent Partner Meeting and a new approach will be tried out in Term 2. |
Thank you to the house and vice captains who came along to support the event.
