Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

November 30, 2015November 30, 2015

Primary 4 Anti-Bullying Learning

Last week was Anti-Bullying week. This means that we had to think extra carefully about what ‘bullying’ meant and helpful advice for those who may be experiencing this.

With Mrs Hull, we have been using the ‘Emotion Works’ resource. We thought about different emotion words, triggers, body sensations we felt, behaviours and how we could make ourselves feel better. We had some FANTASTIC words, such as ‘unstable’ (Boe) and ‘non-confident’ (Lauren).

On Thursday, with Miss McLaughlin, we decided to make an Anti-Bullying display to show our learning. We thought about how being bullied would make us feel. Below are the words we came up with. Can you spot yours?

Until next time…

Primary 4, Miss M & Mrs Hull 🙂

November 27, 2015

Primary 1

Primary 1 have been learning all about minibeasts this week. We talked about why we need minibeasts in the environment and worked together to create a bug hotel in the playground to give them a place to stay.

We learnt that some minibeasts, such as ladybirds, like to hibernate so we hope they will choose to spend the winter in our hotel!

Working together to put the materials in place.

November 26, 2015

Sporty P5

Primary 5 have tried out lots of new sports this week. They attended a cluster Handball Festival on Monday. Miss McLennan & Miss Young were very proud of their teamwork, effort and behaviour. On Wednesday they had a go at Fencing!

November 26, 2015

Anti bullying week – Primary 6

Primary 6 have been thinking about how our emotions and actions can have an impact on our friends and the people around us. This can be positive and helpful, or negative and sometimes even hurtful.

We thought about times when we free others to be themselves.

Here are some of the fantastic examples:

‘I free people when I tell them to be themselves and be happy. I free people when I ask them to play with me and smile. I free people when I tell them ‘Whatever they call you, nasty things, it isn’t true.’ ‘ – Sophie Martin.

‘I free people when I can respect how they are and understand how they are. I free people when I see they are trying hard to be themselves. I free people when they stop doing (things) to me and I can understand how or why they’re doing it.’- Sophie Campbell.

November 25, 2015

West Lothian Council Parent Involvement Survey

Dear parents and carers,

We would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete this online survey from West Lothian Council. You can access it by clicking this link:

https://www.esurveycreator.co.uk/s/PIStrategySurvey

The survey contains only five statements to rate strongly disagree to strongly agree – there is also space to add comments if you wish. The questions are:

· Communication is effective between my child’s school and home.

· My child’s school provides me with the information I need to help my child learn at home.

· I feel confident supporting my child’s learning at home.

· I am aware of West Lothian’s complaints procedure.

· I know how I can become involved in my school’s parent council.

Many thanks,

Steven Eagleson, Headteacher

November 25, 2015November 26, 2015

Anti-bullying week

In Primary 5 today we watched the Newsround special debate on bullying. The big question was; is it better to PUNISH a bully or HELP them? A vote was held on the Newsround website and 47% said PUNISH, 53% said HELP.

Our vote was 50% PUNISH and 50 % HELP. We then thought about what we do here in school already, and whether each thing was a punishment or a help. Here are some of the comments from our discussion:

‘If you punish the bully, doesn’t that turn you into a sort of bully too?’

‘The bully gets to talk to the teacher, and they help the bully to understand their behaviour, and understand that we’re all like a big family here.’

‘They need to know there are consequences to what they do.’

‘We need to tell them to stop and give them a signal that what they are doing is wrong, and help them to understand that.’

‘We can set them a good example, that would be a help.’

‘When they get to write a letter of apology it helps the person who has been hurt too.’

What do you think about this question? Would you vote for PUNISH or HELP?

November 23, 2015

Los profesores de P6

Hola!

P6 had a great time learning Spanish during our Modern Languages focus week. They learnt how to introduce themselves and how to tell the time. Playing ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ in Spanish was a fun way of practising what they had learnt. Some of our P6s even became teachers (profesores) themselves and taught a group of P5s how to play ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ in Spanish too! You can see some pictures of our P6 teachers (profesores) and P5 students (estudiantes) in action below.

P6 now use both French and Spanish in their daily routines and even do maths in French from time to time!

Muchas gracias y adios!

Mrs Cullum and P6

Que hora es? (What's the time?) — Que hora es?
(What’s the time?)

Almuerzo! (Dinner time!) — Almuerzo!
(Dinner time!)

November 23, 2015

P3 Blog

Thank you to everyone who came to our assembly about the Victorians. We do hope you enjoyed it and that you have learned something about life in Victorian times.

November 23, 2015

P4 Amphitheatre Update

Our amphitheatre is really starting to take shape now. We have braved the wind, rain and cold and are almost finished the first wall! We have also began proper construction of our stage too (very wet, muddy and dirty – just how we like it :)!). Some of us were very lucky and learned how to cut trees using a handsaw (all fingers still there!).

Whilst digging, we found a LOT of worms. We felt bad about taking them out of their underground homes, so Sarah-Jane helped us to build a wormery. The mini wheelbarrow is also now known as the ‘Wormbulance’. Erin and Ceira are fantastic worm nurses!

Below are our most recent photos…

Check in next time to see how we’re doing!

Until then…

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂

November 20, 2015

P1/2 Modern Languages Focus

As part of our Modern Languages focus last week, Primary 1/2 were learning how to speak Polish.

One of our P2 pupils Tatiana is from Poland and she was a great teacher, helping the class to learn the Polish words for yes/no, hello/goodbye and cat/dog. Thank you Tatiana!

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