Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

Here are the highlights of last weeks learning:

‘We found our maths very tricky because we were doing addition by partitioning and bridging.  We found this difficult but we persevered and used different strategies to help us.  We both got smiley faces and got to put our names into the box because we persevered! Mrs Campbell liked our can do attitude’ Ella and Hannah

‘ In PE I enjoyed the game we played called ‘around the world’ where we were trying to apply our badminton skills to return the shuttlecock to Mrs Campbell and try to keep the shuttlecock in play’ Lewis P

‘This week I enjoyed predicting what would happen next in our reading book ‘Danny Champion of the World’ by Roald Dahl’. Aaron

‘I enjoyed doing maths because I like being challenged in my maths. I was finding it tricky but, with more practise, I was getting better at it by the end’ Rory

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The PSFA would like to say a big thank you to everyone involved with the Christmas Fayre this afternoon.  The choir got us off to a very  festive start with their carol singing and the stalls were very busy.  It was fantastic to see such a good turnout in support of the school. We hope you all had a fun afternoon and thank you again to everyone who helped to run the stalls and activities, and for all the helpers who tidied up too.

Thank you also to Santa for taking time out of his busy schedule to visit us here today.

The grand total raised will be announced next week.

I have taken a picture with my new toy (a digital microscope). I am wondering if there is anyone who knows what it is? If not, is there anyone who can guess?

Any, and all, correct answers will win a prize from my prize box.

Happy guessing!

Miss Anderson

Things that Primary 4 felt good about this week…

‘I was good at finding directions using compass points.’ Matthew

‘I enjoyed learning how to make our Christmas Fayre products.’ Jed

‘I was good at writing in first person.’ Miai

‘I was also good at writing in first person.’ Jess

‘I finished Code Cracker level 2 this week.’ Andrew

Things the we found tricky this week…

‘I found compass points hard because it was tricky to work out which way was East and West.’ Freya

‘I found French tricky because some of the words confused me.’ Lauren

Catch up with us again next week!

Primary 4 🙂

Pumpherston Community council have told us today that unfortunately they have had to cancel the Torchlit procession which was planned for 10th December.

They are disappointed that it won’t take place this year.  If you would like to be part of the team planning the community Christmas events for 2015, contact the Community council through their website.

Thank you

‘I enjoyed maths because we were learning to partition and subtract with 3 digit numbers’. Kadan

‘I enjoyed doing maths as well because I can now partition numbers and now I am learning how to take them away once they have been partitioned’. Cameron

‘This week I enjoyed playing badminton. I think I am getting better at doing keepie uppie with the shuttlecock’. Kimber

I enjoyed the assembly we had for Miss Speirs because I enjoyed listening to the choir and I liked the P1’s singing the song from Frozen’. Coutrney

I am getting better at hitting the tennis ball with the racket’ . Aidan

I was delighted with the song the choir sang at the assembly for Miss Speirs because they all put a lot of hard work into it and their performance was fantastic’.Mrs Campbell

This has been a very busy week with lots of rehearsals for Miss Speirs special leaving assembly.  We have had some emergencies in our animal hospital role-play area.  The most recent was Rudolph who has had a very sore nose.  We have been looking after him to make sure he is ready for a special day, very soon.

We have been learning to count forward and backwards to 20 – ask me to show you.

This week, Primary 4 were let loose in the local area!

Our current topic is land use and we wanted to find out how the land around the school had been used. We had a very handy tour guide in Mrs Stanton (who loved using the line ‘When I was a wee girl…’) and found out a lot about how the area had changed in the not so distant past!

We found lots of different land uses in the local area:

• Housing (old and new)
• Recreation (the golf course, parks, the bowling club, football park)
• Development (site of the old school)
• Country park/woodland
• Shops and services (newsagents, hairdresser’s, pubs and restaurants, dentist, Scotmid, car garages)
• Houses of local celebrities (Mrs Stanton, Mrs Adie)
• Industry (Houston Industrial Estate, Dobie’s)
• Education (the school)