Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

Would you be free on the morning of  Friday September 25th?

We’re planning to take part in West Lothian Walking Week by walking round the community in groups of 2 or 3 classes, picking up any litter as we go.  The theme for this year  is Walk Your Wigs off  so many of us will be wearing crazy wigs on the day. It’s also one of our regular monthly dress down days, with the children contributing £1 to dress down which will be donated to Jak’s Den.

We’re looking for adult helpers to help with the supervision of classes on the walkabout! Please contact the school office if you are able to help.

Thank you!

Mrs Hull.

 

The P5 Fruit Stall will open tomorrow at break time.

P5 came up with some reasons why you should swap your crisps or chocolate for a piece of fruit:

– It’s healthy and delicious

– You can buy it in school

– It won’t rot your teeth like sweets can

– One of your 5 a day!

– It’s delicious and nutritious!

Price List

Bananas – 20p

Grapes – 40p

Apples – 30p

Oranges – 30p

Thanks

from P5 and Miss McLennan

 

We talked about what our favourite things in P5 were and at the top of the list was our camp to Fordell Firs! Caving was a big favourite also the king swing and climbing. The gladiator duel and the diddi cars were enjoyed too. Mrs Campbell, Mrs Ross and Mrs Bonner liked bedtime when we knew you were sleeping!

Some of the children loved drama especially using the ipads to film our dramas and viewing them together. We will be able to do more of this in P6.

We also enjoyed our school trip to Linlithgow Palace and Annet House in September. We used this visit as inspiration for our assembly about life in the 16th Century.

This year some of the children enjoyed developing their writing as they were able to use their imaginations to think of their stories.  They also enjoyed peer assessing their work with their partners.

Some of the children enjoyed reaching their targets in reading and this has made them more confident readers and they now are more able to read more challenging texts. Enjoy reading over the long summer holidays.

Au revoir

Mrs Campbell and P5

 

 

 

This afternoon, the Time Team were back out again in force! 

We were slightly concerned when we saw Miss McLaughlin and Sarah-Jane carrying into our classroom what looked like a real body! Fortunately, our skeleton friend was a plastic reconstruction.

We had to look at the skeleton, decide if it was male or female and try to build up a picture of their life. Jed and Miss McLaughlin had made a prediction (like we do in Reading) that our skeleton friend was male, older, married with 3 children and because he had been buried with a bronze armlet, that he was probably a craftworker.

We also got to look at real Iron Age artefacts, including glass beads, a javelin head, a horse bridle and many pieces of pottery and polished bone/rocks. Many thanks to Archaeology Scotland for letting us use these fantastic resources. And of course thanks to Sarah-Jane (again!).

 

 

I would also like to take the time to thank the parents and friends of the school who have left kind words on the Community Council Facebook page. We are gutted about the destruction of our beloved roundhouse.

Many thanks.

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙁

We are very busy in maths (as always!) last week we were learning about decimal numbers. We now understand that decimal numbers link with fractions. The most common place to see a decimal number is on a price tag.

We all enjoyed the beautiful weather on Friday for our Sports Day! Well done to everyone who participated in all of the different activities.

We have all been busy preparing our class talks. We are starting to hear some of them today and they are of a very high standard. We discussed the link lizards – what other parts of the curriculum our talks link to: listening and talking / reading (as you are reading from the prompt cards) / ICT if you have prepared a powerpoint / drama (presentation skills).

We have been developing our cooking skills in time to cook for the family over the summer holidays! Last week we made cous cous with Mrs Hull. It was delicious! I wonder what delicious treat I will be getting today!

That’s all for this week