Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Calder received the most House Points in Term 3.
The children have decided on a Neon Themed Party. This will take place on Friday 26th April at 9:30am. Children in Calder can wear bright coloured/ party clothes to school on Friday, they do not need to bring school uniform to change into. If they have any glow sticks or light accessories at home they may bring them to school.
We look forward to celebrating!
On Wednesday 1st May we will have group photos for P1, P7 and our basketball team taken by Tempest Photography.
Primary 1 children should wear their school uniform as usual on that day.
Primary 7 children should wear their school tie and a shirt, if your child needs to borrow a shirt from the office can you please let the office staff know in advance. We would request that the P7 children also bring along their leavers’ hoodie so that we can get a group photo of them. They can also wear their hoodie to their trip later that afternoon.
Any child who has played in our basketball team will also have a photo. We have school shorts and a team t shirt for these children to wear for the photo.
On the last day of term Mrs Cougan and our House and Vice Captains organised our Easter Assembly. Mr Povey joined us to share the Easter message, as well as some of our families.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the assembly and to those families who could join us.
National Digital Learning Week is 13-17th May.
If you have a job/ career/ interest in an aspect of digital technologies we would love for you to come and work with our children during this week. This could be a chat about your job and the skills and knowledge you require, or a workshop to show a class how to use an aspect of digital technology, for example, an app, photography, coding, etc.
Please complete the form below and we will be in touch with you. (Your data will not be shared with others).
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:
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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
Last week some of our children who are confident on the Pump Track volunteered (with permission from their parents) to take part in a publicity photo shoot for West Lothian Council.
Here are some of the photos below.
Remember! Safety first on the Pump Track, find some tips in this blog post.
Photographs courtesy of Paul Watt.
