Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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On the West Lothian Sumdog Competition Leaderboard so far …
Out of 80 classes:
We don’t currently have anyone placing in the top 50.
Remember you can log in at home and play as well! The competition is running all week.
As the 29th March is our Celebration Assembly we will NOT be having a dress down day on this date. Please see below for information on our next dress down day.
Primary 1 have their trip on 2nd April. They should wear their school jumper/ cardigan but can wear what they would like on their bottoms.
This week the children participated in a STEM design challenge to create a sundial from readily available resources. Each member of the group had a specific role to play e.g. recorder, quality checker, team representative or resource manager to ensure that everyone played a part in the process. Groups had the opportunity to browse the available resources and then discussed their ideas of how to create their sundials. They then created their sundials before presenting them to the rest of the class, stating how they came up with their ideas, how the sundials would work and also discussing what they would do differently if they had to build them again. The children asked Miss Burton to judge their finished sundials. They answered questions based on the success criteria to help her to decide.
On the West Lothian Sumdog Competition Leaderboard so far …
Out of 32 classes:
– P1 is 31st
Out of 909 pupils:
– Gillon in P6 is 49th
Remember you can long in at home and play as well! The competition is running all week.
On Tuesday night children and staff organised information workshops about our priorities in school this year. Thank you to our staff and children who organised the event and to those families who joined us.
Literacy & English: Writing & PEEP
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/curriculum-evening-literacy-english
Numeracy & Maths: Bedtime Maths App
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/bedtime-maths-app-curriculum-workshop
Numeracy & Maths: Number Talks & Mathematical Mindsets
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/curriculum-evening-maths-numeracy
Across Learning: Digital LearningÂ
Support for Learning: IDL
Feedback from the event:Â
We used a form on glow to get some feedback on our event.
On Wednesday night, our five finalists from our Burns Assembly joined other children from schools across West Lothian  to compete in the recital competition.Â
Our children did a fantastic job of representing their classes at the competition, a big well done to them all and their families for joining them at the competition.
A special congratulations to Jacob who came runner up in the P1-3 section.
We recognised this achievement at assembly on Friday.
To mark the end of #FairtradeFornight children dressed up or down to raise £85 for Fairtrade. A big thank you to everyone who took part, and well done to Calder House for raising the most money.
