Today’s challenge is to try to spot these animal tracks when you are out on a walk …
P5 Weekly Blog
‘ I enjoyed doing PE with Mrs Pender because I am getting better at hitting the ball with the tennis racket’ Charis
‘ I enjoyed art because we were making the Christmas display for the hall and we were using a variety of art skills: choosing colours to colouring in, using chalks, painting and cutting and gluing.’ Lydia
‘ I enjoyed reading because I like the story of Black Beauty and I enjoy making predictions with my group.’Samantha
‘ I enjoyed topic because we were doing persuasive letters. I got to put my name in the box because I wrote a very good persuasive letter about homeless people.’ Matthew
P4 Plan for the Future
This week, Primary 4 began to sort the data collected from their questionnaires. We are very interested in improving both Pumpherston and Uphall Station for young people. Thank you to all children who gave their opinions and participated.
The results are in…
Improving parks – better toys and more age-appropriate things to play on   72 votes
Community garden   48 votes
Safer road crossings   40 votes
More clubs/things to do   70 votes
It was very close, but improving parks won by a fraction! Our next step is to plan a proposal to pitch to the community council. We need to consider which toys need improving/included and where a suitable location would be.
Stay tuned to see what we come up with!
Until then…
Primary 4 🙂
Glow Scotland
This week your child will bring home their Glow username and password. The weblink for Glow is https://glow.rmunify.com/ and it can be accessed through any device with an internet connection. As well as lots of educational resources, Glow provides access to your child’s school email account and Office 365. This allows your child to use Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint from anywhere with an internet connection, even if it is not installed on their device.
Once your child has successfully logged in they will be able to access the Apps available (including Brainpop and TigTag World). They will also be able to access the School Site by clicking on the App as pictured below.
At the moment the School Site is being developed and will contain more content as time goes on.
When your child logs on for the first time they will need to agree to the following Glow Community Rules:
Be Secure
Always keep your Glow password to yourself.
Always sign out of Glow when no longer using it.
Be Polite
Always treat others with respect.
Never post or share a message, document, image, video or any other other content that is inappropriate or likely to cause harm or offence to others.
Be Safe
Always remember to be careful when communicating over the internet – other users may not be who they seem.
Don’t share your personal details with other people.
Never agree to meet someone in person who you have only met on the internet unless accompanied by a parent, carer or other known and trusted adult.
Speak to an adult immediately if you see a message, image or anything else on the internet that concerns you
Be Legal
Never post or share a message, document, image, video or any other other content that you do not have permission to use.
Be Responsible
Always be mindful that once you put something online, that information may be beyond your control.
Never post or share a message, document, image, video or any other content online that you would not wish other learners, teachers, or parents to see.
Remember that anything you do can be traced back to you.
If you misuse Glow, this can be reported to your school.
Upper school pupils should have already accessed Glow in school and tried out a few of the resources available. If your child has any problems accessing Glow they should inform their class teacher or Miss Anderson.
Further information about Glow is available Here.
Primary 3
Primary 3 are busy rehearsing for their Christmas singalong. All parents are invited to the singalong next week. It takes place on Wednesday 17th December at 9.30 am. Hope to see you there!
Morrisons vouchers
Thank you to everyone who donated Morrisons ‘Let’s Grow’ vouchers to our school. We collected 1595 which will let us order more trowels, forks and planting equipment for our Ground Force box, and a couple of items to build up our food preparation equipment to help in our learning about Food and Health.
Football Remembers
We’re sure that most of you came to the P7 assembly and have perhaps watched the Sainsbury Christmas advert. You may well know some of the history of the Christmas Truce.
In the first months of the First World War, soldiers fighting in the trenches around Ypres held a truce. Over the Christmas period they set aside their weapons and met in ‘No-man’s Land’. Some of them played football.
Today, P7 took part in a football tournament to remember and feel part of the First World War Centenary.
Well done Primary 7.
Christmas Choir on Tour
Today was a big day for our School choir as we were out and about, giving 2 performances in the local community. Â This morning we were entertaining the staff, patients and visitors at St John’s Hospital in Livingston, and helping to raise money for The Friends of St John’s Hospital. Â We were very pleased to see members of our fan club who had come along on such a wet and windy day to watch us and listen to our singing. We also took Alfie the Elf for some extra Christmas magic – he was very well behaved. Â Thank you to the Friends of St Johns for inviting us, and for giving us juice and biscuits (not figgy pudding) during our break.
The visit to sing at St John’s was made possible by a donation given by Dobbies Garden Centre as a goodwill gesture after our performance there was cancelled last year. Â The money has been held for use by the choir and paid part of the hire price of our tour bus.
This afternoon we walked through rain, wind and sleet to sing at the Pumpherston Golf Club, entertaining guests invited to a Christmas party by the Pumpherston Community Council. Â (This time we even had a dressing room! Will it be the Usher hall next year?)Â They were a very appreciative audience, giving us many rounds of applause and joining in on several songs especially our grande finale, Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer. We would like to thank the Community council for inviting us to sing and being so friendly. Â Thank you also to Pumpherston Golf club for the juice which helped our hard working voices to recover.
The next singing events here at school will be the P2 and 3 singalong in the morning of Wednesday 17th, and the P1 and P1/2 nativity in the afternoon on the same day. Â Remember everyone is also welcome to our whole school singalong (bring your Christmas hat!) at 9.30 on Tuesday 23rd December- the last day of term.
P7
P7 have been enjoying collecting ideas for outdoor fun from our interactive advent!
