Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Happy Learning!
Miss Anderson 🙂
Welcome back to school!
Today we have settled back into our school routine very well. We all had a great day and hope the new P1s did too. Here are a few of our comments about the day.
It was good seeing my friends that I didn’t see in a long time. Everyone was getting on well. Ryan
It was good to see everyone at school and to see everyone work hard on the first day. Jordan
It was good to be back and good to work. Ann
It’s good to be back because I get to see all my friends again. Sophie
Typed by Shay
We are helping Mrs Hull to organise the school ‘Jump Rope for Heart’ event – a sponsored skipping event on Friday 9th May. Â We have sorted out a timetable for classes, drafted the letter for parents and counted out the sponsor forms. Â We checked how many skipping ropes we have and will be practising our skipping skills.
Tomorrow we are going to Pumpherston Bowling Club. We will need to wear flat plimsolls or gym rubbers.
Our topic for this term is The Local Community and we are currently practising our class talks about clubs and activities that take place in our community.
Last week we very extremely lucky to get such terrific weather for our trip along the River Almond! We started our trip at Almondell Country Park in East Calder where we drew a picture of the river and made notes about the features of the river. We then went to see the River Almond at Cramond and made a note of the river at this point and compared it to our observations at Almondell. Then we walked along the river to the estuary at Cramond.
Last week we were very lucky because we were invited to Broxburn Academy for a science and technology day. As part of the science investigations we used microscopes to view plant cells, we made fizz pop rockets, worked with ooze, measured our heart beat and pulse rate and made a balloon hovercraft.
In CDT we had to design and create a skyscraper in our groups. We also got to meet other children who will be going to Broxburn Academy with us when we go into S1.
Last week we started our new topic about rivers and we have learnt all of the vocabulary assosiated with rivers eg tribulary, meander, mouth, source and estuary. Why not test us at home to find out what this vocabulary means! We are looking forward to our trip on Wednesday!
Our new topic is rivers. Next week we will be going on a trip to investigate the River Almond. We are going to look at the river at Almondell Country Park and also at Crammond in Edinburgh. Please make sure you have welly boots and appropriate clothing because we will be outside all day. We will be very tired that night.
P6 have done wonderful imaginative writing about The Beast. It was difficult to choose, but this week’s star writer is Dolce. Well done everyone.
Here are the P6 winners of the Commonwealth Games Poster competition. Miss Speirs found it so difficult to pick one winner we got special permission from Game On Scotland to send more entries in. Well done to the winners. A selection of other posters will be on display in the school for everyone to see. The winning posters will be sent to be displayed in the Athletes’ Village for the competitors and officials who stay in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games this summer.
To finish off our Health and Wellbeing topic about Living and Growing, we made Reebop babies. We had to sort out the genetic code for our baby then we had to check what features the baby had and then we had to make our baby. We hope you like them.
Well done to our talented P6 gymnasts: Eilidh, Jamie Lee and Niamh  for their fantastic display last week! They were so good perhaps we will see them at the next Commonwealth Games!
Talking of the Commonwealth Games here are some of our pictures which we hope will be picked to be entered into the competition to be displayed at the atheletes village during the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in July! Good luck everyone!
This week we have been drawing pictures about all of the sports which will feature in the Commonwealth Games which will be held in Glasgow in July. We produced our best work and we hope some will be selected to appear in the athletes village. Next week we will put up some of our finished entries for you to see.
We started our football training with Greg from Broxburn United Football Club. He is helping us all to lead a healthy lifestyle by making sure we eat healthily and take regular excercise. We were doing  sit ups and wall presses to improve our personal fitness. We have been given fitness homework to help us improve our levels of fitness.
This Friday Eilidh, Jamie Lee and Niamh will be taking part in the gymnastics display which will be held at 11.45. Good luck girls!
