Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

This week, Primary 4 were looking at farming in Scotland. We looked at a seasonal calendar and used our reading skills to find out what could be grown across different seasons. We then made these into calendars.

We have also started to look at what cannot be grown in Scotland and needs to be imported in, such as citrus fruits, bananas and coffee. We are currently using our ICT skills to make information posters about these products. Pop in to see how we’re doing!

Until next time…

Primary 4 and Miss M 🙂

 

 

Here are some of the photos of the Primary 2 assembly this afternoon.  They told us lots about bicycles old and new, and sang a lovely song. Well done Primary 2!

World Autism Awareness Day is on 2nd April and, in celebration, extra Autism Friendly Screenings are being held across the country to help make the cinema more accessible and raise awareness of autism.

Click on the links below for information from the Vue and Odeon cinemas where regular screenings are held which are adapted to make them more accessible.

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Vue Autism Friendly Screening

Last week we were working in groups to compare life in Scotland to life in Sierra Leone.  We compared education, healthcare, family life, whether they are rich or poor, transport, water supply, food and daily lives. Well done to the transport group who all worked really well together to produce a fantastic poster which met all of their success criteria.

This week, Primary 4 continued their Science learning by looking at seasons! We wondered why the seasons changed throughout the year and discovered that the tilt of the earth makes a big difference!

When the Earth is tilted towards the Sun, we get longer days and warmer weather (Summer) and when it is tilted away from the Sun, we get shorter days and cooler weather (Winter).

We made fantastic pictures to show how the tilt of the Earth changes the seasons.

Next time, we will be looking at the phases of the Moon!

Until then…

Primary 4 and Miss M 🙂

This week Primary 1 have been learning about capacity. We practised filling up bottles to different levels and described how full or empty various containers were.

On Thursday it was Chinese New Year and we learnt about the different ways people in China celebrate. In writing, we wrote a description of what happened in the story of Chinese New Year.

In PE, we have been learning how to use bats and rackets to hit a ball back to our partner. We had to practise our aim and keep our eye on the ball. We are looking forward to playing more games to improve our skills next week.

Great news today – the West Lothian Courier Wish community cash giveaway have given us a cheque for £99.32 for Pumpherston and Uphall Station PSFA!

The amount was in proportion to the number of Wish tokens collected form the newspaper late last year.  Thank you again to everyone who took part and donated tokens to our box, and thanks also to the Courier for their donation.

 

pancake graph

We watched a pancake movie of how to make the pancakes.(Junior)   In the movie it showed you how to make the pancakes, you put sugar, milk and eggs in it. (Lilly)   You leave them on the frying pan for a little minute then you turn the other bit on so the pancakes are not all saucy. (Lewis) They turn brown on one side, then when it’s brown you flip it over on to the other side. (Mischa)

We had a try of the pancakes. (Jessica) We took our pancake and passed the plate round. (Ellie)

People make pancakes with milk, butter and sugar and egg to use it up before the 40 days then at Easter they eat eggs again. (Rosa and Amber)

We made a graph of our favourite pancake toppings.  We wrote a list of different flavours then we voted for our favourite.  We coloured in then we could see the numbers. (Abbie) The butter was the winner on our graph. (Kyle)