Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

We have been asked by Pumpherston Community Council to advertise their appeal for funding towards an exciting local project. The Community Council are hoping to start a Community garden here in Pumpherston and are applying to the Bank of Scotland Community Fund for a donation.  Their bid page says: ‘This award would help us develop our community garden project. This will increase a sense of community ownership, pride and stewardship. It will help to foster the development of community identity and raise spirits. We would hope to bring together all members of the community, no matter their age, race, culture or social standing.’

Find out more and vote for this exciting opportunity at:

https://communityfund.bankofscotland.co.uk/voting/cf_org_vote_profile.asp?cfr=98E668

Contact Pumpherston Comunity Council through their website: http://www.pumpherstoncc.org/

This week we have started the fruit stall again.  Grapes are 40p, oranges are 30p, apples are 30p and bananas are 30p. We know the children in the school enjoyed having a healthy snack before the summer so we will be running the fruit stall Monday to Thursday to see if it remains as popular.

We are starting to learn about our topics! This term we will be learning about life in a Burgh at the time of Mary Queen of Scots. Last week we researched a timeline from present day all the way back to the time of Mary Queen of Scots.

In science we have started to learn about the Solar System.  In both of these topics we are working in groups so we have been learning the skills of good group work!

Well done P5!

This week, Primary 4 started work on poetry.

We have been learning about special types of words called calligrams. They are words which look like what they mean.

We read a poem by Gina Douthwaite called ‘Circus of Shapes’ and we worked in groups to find examples of calligrams. We found letters that looked like jumping acrobats and others that looked like rings and a tightrope. Then, we tried to create our own for an ‘under the sea’ shape poem. We found this a little tricky, especially getting our letters to look like sea life! We are going to practise writing calligrams more next week. Look out to see how we improve!

Well done to Jessica McLean who is our star writer this week – Miss McLaughlin is going to challenge her to write some more interesting calligrams!

Challenge..

We found writing calligrams for sea life really tricky! Can you think of how we could make the word ‘starfish’ look like a starfish?

Until next week..

Primary 4 & Miss M 🙂