Families Reading Together – 17/05/18
Parent Partners at Rockie Rockstars
Message from Parent Partners Group:
There will be a raffle and refreshments in order to help raise money for school funds. We have some fantastic raffle prizes on offer.Â
Families Reading Together – 10/05/18
Parent Partners – Fundraising Meeting
On Tuesday 12th June at 6.30pm the Parent Parents Fundraising group will meet to finalise arrangements for P7 Leavers. If you are able to help out or have some ideas please come along and join us.
Parent Partners – End of Year Meeting
On Tuesday 29th May at 6:30pm we will have our final Parent Parents meeting for this school session. At the meeting we will plan our aims for the year ahead and set dates for our meetings for the school session 18/19.
We would like to welcome all current and new members along to help us establish our role and agenda for the year ahead.
Parent Partners Meeting Minutes – April
Pumpherston & Uphall Station CPS Rookie Rockstar Raffle
Dear Sir/ Madam
Our School will be holding a Rookie Rockstar Concert on the evening of Thursday 10th May. Rockie Rockstars is an initiative that was created to give children the opportunity to work with professional musicians to learn original songs, record a CD and perform in a fantastic concert. The program covers key areas of the Curriculum of Excellence: Health and Wellbeing, Expressive Arts, Religious & Moral Education, Literacy and Technologies.
At this event the Parent Partners Group are holding a raffle, we are hoping for some support from local businesses to help us with this fundraising event for our school. Â We are asking for donations for the raffle.
As your organisation is part of our local community, we hope that you are in a position to donate an item for the raffle to support the work of your community school.
We realise in this financial climate that any donation you feel able to give is very generous and would be greatly appreciated by us all; pupils, parents and staff.
If you would like us to collect your donation, please contact the school on 01506 280995 and we will make arrangements.
Thank you in anticipation.
Yours sincerely
Pumpherston & Uphall Station C.P.S
Parent Partners
Club Wild – Spring is in the air!
Now that the long winter is finally over Club Wild have been busy out and about exploring the wildlife and plants around us and starting to give them a helping hand for the months ahead. Catch up with all our adventures here…
Club Wild – Animal tracks and Signs
 We put on our detective hats and set out to find what animals we have living in the school area. We might not see them all the time as they are shy and hide from us but we know they are there from the clues they leave behind. We took with us identification guides but most importantly our alert senses and curiosity.
 The snow left the ground wet and muddy which makes an excellent surface for preserving paw prints. Looking down, we identified dogs large and small, ducks and other birds and deer. One small track even looked like it has been left behind by a hedgehog.
 We thought about other clues that animals might leave. Erin said they could leave fur or feathers behind. She is right, sometimes when animals brush past bushes or fences some of their fur gets left. We found some very soft grey/brown fur that we think was left by a rabbit.
 Lucas said that they would leave poo and he is absolutely right. Identifying animal droppings is a great way to kmow what animals are there as all animals eat and get rid of their waste as droppings. Scientists call animal droppings scat. Using our scat id sheet we can now tell the difference between the rabbit (rounded) and deer (pointy at one end) droppings. We also found what looked to be fox poo as we could see fur, tiny bones and seeds within the scat.
 We also found some pellets, again full of animal bones and fur. Pellets are the undigested parts of a bird’s food which are coughed up through the beak. You can tell which bird left the pellet by dissecting it and finding out what small mammals that are around and then eaten.
 We were rewarded with the sight of three beautiful deer! They watched us for a bit before moving on. There are lots of other clues to look out for, nibbled bark on trees, nibbled hazelnuts left under the hazel trees. We have found nuts nibbled by wood mice and those eaten by squirrels before.
 We also found lots of tracks and signs left by us as we stumbled over what humans leave behind… rubbish. From the old rubbish of the Victorian bottle dump to all the litter left behind today. Let’s be more like animals and leave behind things that can decompose.
 Club Wild, Mrs Young and Sarah-Jane
Ethos Survey for Parents and Carers
Please follow the link below to participate in an ethos survey for parents and carers. We value your input and hope that you will take the time to complete this short survey. Should you require a paper copy, please let the office know and we can arrange this for you. We would be grateful if surveys could be completed by Friday 1st June. Thank you for your support with this.
https://www.esurveycreator.co.uk/s/9a2f12c
Parent Partners Meeting April 2017
There will be a meeting of our parent partners group on Tuesday 24thy April at 6:30. Everyone is welcome.
At the meeting we will be discussing the upcoming ‘Developing the Young Workforce Week’ and the next fundraising event. The fundraising events this term will be raising funds for the Primary 7 leavers disco and other school trips. Any other business raised by parents will also be discussed. If you are unable to attend but would like to the parent partners group to share any ideas, please email the group at puscpc.pc@gmail.com.
