Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

On our walk around the school today for our daily mile, the children from P6 noticed some very peculiar ice formations. We were able to make links between what we found outside and what we have learnt about states of matter in science. Take a look at the pictures Louisa took and see if you can identify water in its liquid form and its solid form.

We are so happy to be back to school after our holidays.  We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New year.

We have been learning about Eric Liddell this week and have been writing fact files about his life.

He won the 400m race at the Paris Olympics in 1924 (Mia)

He won a gold medal and set a new world record for that race in Paris (Oskars)

He was most famous for not running his Olympic race heat on a Sunday because it was a day of rest (Abbie and Bailey)

We know lots more facts about Eric Liddell so ask us about what else we know.

In Maths this week we have been learning how to measure accurately in centimetres and to draw lines to the correct size.  We have also begun to estimate measurements of items and lines drawn.

Have a great weekend

From Mrs andison and P2/3

As part of our Scots focus Primary 1/2 and Primary 1 have been finding out about the inventor of the waterproof raincoat, Charles MacIntosh. This week we designed our own raincoats then carried out experiments with different materials to discover which were waterproof.  Here is some of what was said:

“The paper and card got really wet.” Olivia C

“The rubber and the plastic were waterproof.” Roman

“ I would like to make my raincoat from rubber.” Layla

We are busy preparing our Scottish poems at home for our forthcoming Scots assembly. We will be performing them next week and the best 3 performers will be perform their poem to Mr Eagleson. He will pick the person who will perform at our Scots assembly. Good luck!

For our Scottish topic we are learning about Robert Owen. The first thing we did was take notes about Robert Owen. Then we had to work with a partner to put our notes into sentences. Well done to Murron and Sam who worked really well together to complete their sentences. Their work was so good they went to show Mr Eagleson it.

Our next step was to use the Internet to develop our skills in reading for information to find out more facts about Robert Owen.

We will now be developing our collaborative group skills as we work together to decide which facts we will pick to present in a short talk to the class to share our learning about Robert Owen.

This week we have been learning Scots poems and researching famous Scottish explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. The poems we have been learning are: ‘Free Boots’ by Douglas Barber, ‘A Red, Red Rose’ by Robert Burns and ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ by Robert Burns. We are focusing on using lots of expression and varying our tone of voice.

Here are some quotes from our class about our work this week:

“I didn’t know Livingstone died of malaria until now.”

“It’s surprising that Livingstone had a job at the age of 10.”

“I want to find out how Livingstone travelled from Scotland to Africa.”

“I really like Tam o’ Shanter because it is advanced.”

“I like the Scots language in our poems.”

“Come a’ ye citizens tae oor Scots assembly later this term!”

Please note that our school email address has changed to:

wlpuscps@westlothian.org.uk