Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS have some budding artists and photographers. Here are some pictures captured of a newt found in the school grounds last week that a P2 transformed into a wonderful piece of artwork.
P3 Off to Egypt
Severe Weather
Pumpherston and Uphall Station Community Primary School and Nursery class are expected to be open as usual tomorrow. Please listen to local media for further updates.
Red Nose Day – Update
Congratulations to all of our pupils and staff who did a job swap and made this day a success, I think we all had a great day and all deeply enjoyed it.
Thank you too to everyone for your generous donations. We have raised £295.73.
Mr Lewis Taylor
Head Teacher for the day
Miss Speirs says thank you to all of the other wonderful Head Teachers who took part today; Miss Toal, Miss Neilson and Mr Elder who did a fantastic job.
Primary 3
Our class are very much looking forward to red nose day tomorrow. Angel will be taking on the role of Head Teacher. Louisa and Aaron will be working in the office with Mrs Thom and Hayden will be on playground duty. Donatella is going to be the teacher in primary 3 and she is worried that Mrs Strachan is going to be a naughty pupil!
Primary 3
Primary 3 have been researching about the pyramids this week and have also been learning some Egyptian dance moves! All the boys and girls enjoyed taking part in World Maths day and playing the games on the laptops. Our class assembly is now organised for the 21st of March, so we have made our invitations to be sent home.
Primary 3
Primary 3 have been writing descriptions of what their own personal Egyptian god would look  like and do. Here is an example of what they have been  writing.
My god is called Tolkanic. He has four red and blue crowns, small pointy ears, 39 teeth and pure black eyes. He has a white skirt around his waist. His head is in the shape of a husky. Tolkanic can control the moon and fight of naughty thieves trying to steal children during the night.
Kadan p3
We know how to keep safe with electricity!
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:
- Plugs have 230 volts in them.
- We should switch off switches to help us keep safe.
- Trains take 1 mile to stop.
- There were 3 cables the orange one was for the garden, the black one is for your TV and the white one is for the kitchen.
- Insulators are materials like rubber that electricity can’t travel through.
- It can travel through conductors.
- Power boxes are extremely dangerous and we shouldn’t go near them.
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 3
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.
Scot’s Afternoon
This week saw our very successful Scot’s afternoon for the senior citizens of Pumpherston and Uphall Station as well as many of our parents and grandparents. Â The children all worked hard to learn a selection of Scot’s poems and a several traditional scot’s songs and P5 learned a dance, which they performed with great enthusiasm. Â The afternoon was a great success and the audience appeared to enjoy it thoroughly.
