Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

Yesterday, PUSCPS was very lucky to receive a visit from the ‘Wild About Scotland’ bus. This bus is run by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and is sponsored by the Clydesdale Bank. The bus provides ‘hands-on’ learning opportunities about Scotland’s wildlife and is staffed by a team of education officers from Edinburgh Zoo. P4-7 were treated to a workshop on Scotland’s Endangered Animals and the threats to their existence. Children learned about the re-introduction of  beavers to Scotland and how they were killed in the past for their beautiful coats. Children got to feel a real beaver skin which was very thick, soft and warm. There was a model wildcat on-board to view and children enjoyed learning about this precious species that is unique to Scotland. Children are more aware of  how the activities of man can have an impact on wildlife and its conservation. Children in the afternoon Nursery session were treated to an interactive story and puppet-show about Polly the Puffin, through which, they learned more about this native bird.

Many thanks to Edinburgh Zoo for providing such a wonderful opportunity for our children. They all had a great day!

Miss Baillie

Hello everyone,

I hope you are enjoying the holiday weekend. The Primary 4 assembly is on Thursday 25th February at 1.15pm. Slips were sent home to tell you about it, but in case it has been lost or your child has been absent, here is a little reminder.

Many thanks, and we look forward to seeing you there.

Miss McLaughlin 🙂

We are just in from our Daily Mile and it was very fresh this morning.  We are still enjoying this and are all feeling our fitness improving, including Mrs Andison.  In Handwriting we are learning how to join letters together.  In Art we have been working like artists.  We have been learning to sketch then adding blocks of colour and finally adding the fine detail. We have created fantastic images of kiwi fruits that we are very proud of.  We hope you will admire them at parents night which is coming up soon.  In Maths we have been continuing to learn to tell the time.  At home can you help me to learn to tell the time on a clock face.

Have a great few days rest.  Remember we are not back until Wednesday.

We have started our new topic! Our new topic this term is a geography topic. We started our topic by investigating the local area around our playground. We discussed what was there and then we drew maps of this area.