Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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On our last day of term Mrs Strachan and the Global Group organised a Movies for Magale Day. Children could opt into a movie they wanted to watch and also dress down in their own clothes.
We raised an amazing £200 for our partner school in Magale. A big well done to the Global Group and to everyone who donated.
Our school have been invited to take part in the Uphall Station Gala Day on Saturday 8th June. The theme this year is ‘tropical’. All children at our school can attend and walk in the parade to represent our school.
More information to follow.
On Thursday after school we opened our doors to our community for our Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
This event was organised by our Parent Partners, with support from the school staff.
Our children created art work to decorate the hall and we used our home learning task to decorate the tables.
The entrance tickets allowed access to the tea party and a range of different activities including:
https://vimeo.com/328534449
Thank you to Asda, Morrisons and Tesco for donated some items for our tombola, prizes and items for the teas party. It was lovely for some of their employees to also come along.
A huge thank you to our Parent Partners, Parent Craft Club, staff, everyone who donated home baking and to everyone who came along to join us. We will update you with the total raised as soon as possible.
A big thank you to everyone who contributed to our Spring Home Learning task. It was lovely to use the placemats and table decorations as part of our Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. You can see some of the designs below.
Today we celebrated World Autism Awareness Day.
We all wore our favourite colours to show how we are all different.
Mr Ullathorne, one of our parents who works with Autism Initiatives took workshops with P2-7. They discussed autistic super powers, neurodiversity and sensory overload.
A big thank you to Mr Ullathorne for giving up his time to come and work with us.
Great fun today taking workshops with children from P2-P7 for #WorldAutismAwarenessDay.. Talked autistic superpowers, neurodiversity & meeting each others' sensory needs.. Proud to work with @AutismInit to support people to have control & choice in life ❤https://t.co/IypN9stJQS
— Tom Ullathorne (@TomUllathorne) April 2, 2019
Our basketball team played in the West Lothian Wolves Primary League and they won 5 out of 5 of their games! An amazing result.
A huge well done to all our basketball players, Coach – Mrs Hamilton, Ms Cook and our supporters.
We are super proud of our team and their perseverance and determination.
We welcomed along Dr Peter Hughes (OBE) to our Celebration Assembly this morning to share with us his achievement journey. As the past President of the Robert Burns World Federation and former Chief Executive of Scottish Engineering he had lots of stories to share. His enthusiasm and passion for all things engineering was inspiring and he reminded us to work hard and never give up. he even played some instruments and sang for us as well! Thank you very much to Dr Hughes for joining us!
Congratulations to our Top Scorers for Term 3!
Congratulations to the children who received a STEM Superstar Award for their learning in Maths, Technologies, Engineering and/ or Science.
Congratulations to the children who received an Awesome Author Award for their learning in writing.
We recognised the children who represented the school in the recent P6 Euro Quiz.
We recognised the children who represented the school in the recent P7 Rotary Quiz.
Our Primary 6s who took part in skiing received a certificate in recognition of all their perseverance and efforts.
Primary 6 came 59th and Primary 7 came 40th out of 152 schools in the recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition.
We recognised our children who took part in the west Lothian Burns Competition, and their certificate arrived just after the assembly!
All the children in Primary 7 who went to Dalguise received a certificate, and some were nominated by the staff for a special award. The staff were also nominated for awards!
All the children in Primary 5 who went to Lendrick Muir received a certificate, and some were nominated by the staff for a special award. The staff were also nominated for awards!
Congratulations to Calder for being the winning house this term and receiving the most house points! Well done.
https://www.slideshare.net/PUSCPS/celebration-assembly-term-3-138637427
In order to support health and safety and assessing risk at the new Pump Track beside our school we have taken P4-7 over for a visit. Although the Pump Track is not part of our school we know it is very tempting for our children on their way to and from school, so we wanted to support them with making decisions about the track.
First of all we discussed tips Miss Burton had previously shared with us:
We read the safety signs at the track.
We risk assessed the track, to discuss which parts we thought might be tricky.
Then we walked, fast walked or jogged around the track. This helped to give us a feel for what the track is like. Some of us even thought it would be good to do our daily mile on the track.
Some of our children who are very confident at using the track, volunteered to take part in a photo shot to promote the track by West Lothian Council. You will see that they are all wearing a helmet.
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