Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Congratulations to all of our pupils and staff who did a job swap and made this day a success, I think we all had a great day and all deeply enjoyed it.
Thank you too to everyone for your generous donations. We have raised £295.73.
Mr Lewis Taylor
Head Teacher for the day
Miss Speirs says thank you to all of the other wonderful Head Teachers who took part today; Miss Toal, Miss Neilson and Mr Elder who did a fantastic job.
This week P6 went to Broxburn Academy to a Science and Technology Day. We all loved the ooze experiment best. It was really fun to play with because it was all slimy. There were loads of activities like fizz pop rocket, learning about the heart and animal cells and plant cells.
We all were being responsible citizens because we ran the World Maths Day for the school. We were each a representative for a class and helping them to log on and play games on the site. You could play against other children across the world!
In maths some groups are learning division and others 2D and 3D shapes along with volume.
For art we have almost finished our massive Titanic.  We also are starting to draw our own Titanic on A6 paper. For homework we have to make 3D replicas of Titanic.  Some people have made them and brought them in already. They all look super!
By Anna Dickov and Bayleigh Dickson
The most active players in the past week were:
Ross – P7
Bayleigh – P6
Zoe – P6
Cameron – P6
Dolce – P5
Well done everyone!
Keep practising your mental maths, you could be the next ‘Human Calculator’ !
On Wednesday James from Scottish Power came to our school to talk to each class about electricity. He told us all about electric cables and how we can stay safe with switches, plugs and power boxes.
Here are some facts we remembered:
We got to hold 2 different big electricity cables. James had a black crow with a yellow nose called Sparky to help teach the little classes about being safe.                                                                                             Â
By Ellie Hamilton and Shea McEwan (…a little help from Amy Barnett and Miss McLennan)
Primary 6…
You all have the next 3 weeks to create a model of the Titanic. You can choose to use any materials but it must be 3D.Â
Good Luck on your mission, I know you can do it!
Miss McLennan 🙂
This week in Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS we have been learning about children’s rights. Miss Martin has set the whole school on a job to make name collages because it shows everyone that they have the right to a name. Also we have been making little paper girls and boys. Then Miss Martin is going to display them all over the school.
Yesterday we had an assembly about children’s rights and all the classes had to do a show and tell.  Primary 6 decided to talk about wants and needs these are some of them. The needs are clean water, nutritious food, decent shelter and medical care. The wants were laptop, pet, phone, holiday, games and computer stations.
By Connor Ramsay and Elli-louise Falconer
This week in P6 there has been lots of learning going on. We have been working in our topic groups to make a  model of the Titanic. The parts of it that we’ve been making are:  the funnels, the decking, the hull and the sea.
In writing we have been writing settings for stories and trying to guess other peoples. We really all enjoyed our writing this week because we had to guess each others settings.
We were given our tickets for the Titanic in drama. Some people had first class tickets,others second and third.
In assembly we where thinking about consideration of others and Rights week after the holiday.
Everyone dressed inside out today to raise money for UNICEF! We had to spell our words forwards and backwards for our spelling check-up!
We hope everyone has a good long weekend!
Miss McLennan and Primary 6 🙂
 
Everyone has been busy this week rehearsing for our Scots afternoon. I think you’ll agree it was worth all the hard work! Primary 6 poets were excellent and a special well done to Ellie Hamilton and Amy Barnett for their recitals of ‘Bingo’ and ‘Oor New School’ on the day.
This week saw our very successful Scot’s afternoon for the senior citizens of Pumpherston and Uphall Station as well as many of our parents and grandparents. Â The children all worked hard to learn a selection of Scot’s poems and a several traditional scot’s songs and P5 learned a dance, which they performed with great enthusiasm. Â The afternoon was a great success and the audience appeared to enjoy it thoroughly.
We will be supporting UNICEF’s Day for Change next Friday by having an Inside Out Day.  Children can come to school on Friday 8th February wearing their clothes inside out! In return children are asked to bring a donation of 50p to help supprt UNICEF’s vital work.
