Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

As part of our reflection today we have been practising giving and receiving feedback with our elbow partners. We worked on giving constructive feedback to help each other grow and improve. We had to make sure we thought carefully about what we said so it was helpful and not hurtful.

Here are some examples of how we worded our constructive feedback:

“Try to use capital letters more.”

“You could be more sensible in the line.”

“Maybe you could use your knife and fork more in the dinner hall.”

“Try to change your shoes outside the cloakroom.”

Primary 2 have been learning about texture!

We explored natural materials and thought about good ‘texture words’ to describe them. Here are some of the words we came up with:

Then, we gathered extra materials to build a ‘texture board’.  We chose materials and wrote labels to describe how they felt. We hope to move the board to the playground where everyone can use it!

Miss McLaughlin taught us a key word for people who like feeling different textures. Test us to see if we can remember!

Until next time…
Primary 2 & Miss M 🙂

Yesterday we had GREAT fun during our visit from Zoo Lab! We got to touch and hold snakes, cockroaches, a frog, a hedgehog and a tarantula. Everyone was very brave and excited to see these unusual animals.

Primary Four had some very special visitors in today!

We met lots of different animals thanks to the team at Zoolab and we all learned lots about them.

Everyone enjoyed themselves and participated by either stroking or holding the animals.

We all had very different reactions to the different creatures, but we could all agree that Spike the Hedgehog was lovely.

This week, Primary 2 found a new classmate!

When we came back from lunch, we found a set of tiny footprints on the floor! We followed them and found a little hedgehog! He had a story book with him and as we read, we found out that Harry (as we named him) needed to find somewhere to hibernate for the winter!

So, we wrapped up warm and ventured off into the nearby woodlands to see if there were any suitable places for Harry to hibernate. We came across different plants like an alder tree and ferns. We were lucky enough to hear bird songs and we even saw a family of deer!

We explored different woodland areas and discussed why they would/would not be suitable for Harry’s hibernation home. We also identified what makes up the woodland itself.

We also made maps to record our woodland journey. We are looking forward to seeing what Harry’s next task is!

Until next time…
Primary 2 & Miss M 🙂