Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Primary 4 are pleased to welcome their new teachers, Â Miss Morrison and Mrs McConville. We are looking forward to having fun with them and learning new things. Â We would like to do some more Drama, Science and PE. Â We will do our best to use our growth mindsets to help us even if we find things difficult.
We hope you enjoy teaching us.
Yours sincerely
Primary 4
As part of their final session with Miss Mulholland Primary 4 performed their Christmas song which demonstrated their learning of beat, rhythm and pitch and then they finished the session with some games which had everyone giggling and trying to keep up. Â Thank you to Miss Mulholland, we have all learned so much and have a much better understanding of music now.
Jay and Samuel worked very hard to write Christmas Stories today. Both boys had a growth mindset and worked very hard to improve their work.
This week Primary 4 were given free choice of a task to practise their spelling words.  Murron decided to make tablets of clay and write her words in them.  What a creative idea, they looked super and they seem to have helped her to learn her spelling.  Well done Murron!
Pumpherston used to be a mining village and is on the edge of Livingston. We found this out when we were learning about our local area. Â We wrote reports and organised our information using subheadings.
We looked at Google Maps to find the school, the shops, takeaways, parks and train stations, then we created our own maps. Most of the class found it quite tricky because some places didn’t show on the map, this was because our map was missing lots of information.
Now we are looking at co-ordinates and directional instructions. Â We learnt that a quarter turn was 90 degrees and a full turn was 360 degrees. Â We played the game Turtle Pond and Battleships to help us.
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We have been learning about magnets. Â The magnets have a North and South Pole and if you put North and North together they repel each other which means they push away from each other. Â If you put opposite poles together they attract each other which means they stick together.
We also did experiments and found out that even if there is something in the way like a piece of plastic, the metal can still stick to the magnet. Â We tested whether magnets work under water, we thought it wouldn’t work but it did. Â We tested how close an object had to be to stick the magnet, the furthest away the metal could be was 4cm.
We also thought about where you might find magnets in everyday life. Â We knew quite a few places where magnets are used to make our lives easier. Â Can you think of any?
Primary 4 have been learning about the Vikings.  We were very lucky this week to be able to investigate some real and replica Viking artefacts.  Sarah-Jane organised for the class to borrow some artefacts from the charity Archaeology Scotland.  The children really enjoyed looking at and touching the artefacts  They thought about what they might be used for, how they would be made, what they were made of and how they were found.
Sarah-Jane told us about  being an archaeologist and showed the class some pictures of digs she had been on.
Primary 4 became history detectives – building stories about the people looking at the evidence.
The children then did some observational drawing, looking at the artefacts and trying to draw exactly what they could see, thinking about line, pattern and shading to show the different textures and colours of the artefacts.
Thank you to Sarah-Jane for organising this brilliant experience.
We have been to learning about Science and experiments and magnets. Â We are planning to carry out experiments with magnets like; how fast they move something, what materials do they stick to, will they stick in water and more. Â We have planned these experiments in pairs and are going to carry them out next week, look out for the results!
In writing, we have been learning about descriptive language.  We created scary stories  and they were so scary we jumped!  It was good fun.
In Maths we have been working on 2D shapes, we have been thinking of ways to remember them and their names. Â We worked in our talking partners. We had a 2D shape quiz and we were in groups with team leaders, we had to choose the right answer.
We have also been sending a small group with Mrs Comrie, we have been learning about square numbers, numbers under zero and maths magic.
We have just started using the Red and Blue Reading boxes. Â Everyone has their own level at their ability. Â We are looking forward to using them because we work independently and get to mark our work.
Primary 4 have been working very hard in groups and today we demonstrated how much we can get done when we work as a group. Â The children had limited time to complete their posters and they had to work together and focus on the task if they wanted to complete it.
Unfortunately there were a few people absent today but all the children have been involved in this task. Â They have done some fabulous research and have displayed their information in the form of posters. Â Well done P4.
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