Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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A big well done to our basketball team in making it to the West Lothian Wolves playoffs on Friday. This is a huge achievement for our newly formed team!
Thank you to Mrs Hamilton who has passionately coached the basketball team and inspired the team to persevere, and to Mrs Ross for supporting the team on Friday.
As part of Digital Learning Week, P6 have been developing their coding skills using a coding website called Scratch. We wrote code for multiple ‘sprites’ to create an animation for Digital Learning Week. Using code, we were able to make the sprites change position, colour, size and shape as well as make sounds and add speech bubbles.
You can view examples of our coding work below.
https://vimeo.com/336417826
On Wednesday we had a visit from a DevOps Engineer at CloudReach. He told us about his job, the skills he uses in his work and possible routes into a job such as his. Many of us were inspired to think about computer engineering as a possible future career.
Yesterday, we enjoyed sharing what we had learned on Scratch with our parents. We also planned our slideshows to present our learning within Science on the water cycle in a digital form.
Part of our improvement plan for this session was digital learning, so we used digital learning week to showcase our new skills and equipment. Today we had an assembly to celebrate our achievements!
Thank you to Shona from Sky who came along and shared her digital journey with us, reminding us that their are lots of careers for girls and boys in computing.
Thank you to our Digital Directors for presenting at assembly.
Here is some of the learning we shared.
https://vimeo.com/336385496
https://vimeo.com/336417826
As you are aware Thursday 23rd May is the European Parliamentary election. Our school dinner hall is a voting station but our school and nursery will be open as normal.
Children attending Breakfast Club should enter through the main office and go into the gym hall.
School lunches that day will be green tray only (packed lunch) or children can bring their own packed lunch to school.
As we are lucky to currently have such beautiful weather can we please offer you a few gentle reminders about sun cream:
Long may the sunshine continue!
P6 children used @scratch to make fantastic animations to advertise #NDLW19. @Schools_Digital @wldigilearn @DigiLearnScot #STEMChallenge pic.twitter.com/EKy35EYovb
— PUSCPS (@PUSCPS) May 14, 2019
Our basketball team recently won the White B Conference as part of the West Lothian Wolves Primary School league.
Our basketball team was a new addition to the school this year. These children give up their lunch times, after school and Friday afternoons to train and attend league games.
We are very proud of their perseverance, determination and grit in order to win their league.
To recognise this huge achievement, today we treated them to a pizza party! They enjoyed pizza, team chat and watching some NBA games.
A big thank you to their Coach, Mrs Hamilton who has been an inspirational and motivational coach for our team, and also to the children’s families for supporting them by taking them to the games.
Best of luck for your games on Friday!
We will also have our nearly new uniform stall.
Each session West Lothian issue a parent ethos survey for families to complete about your child’s school. The findings of this questionnaire, along with our school evaluations, help us to plan future improvements.
We would value if you could take ten minutes to complete the survey using the link below.
https://www.esurveycreator.co.uk/s/9a2f12c
