Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

January 31, 2014

Another Good Week for Primary 5

This week we have had another successful week in Primary 5! Here are a few of our highlights…

Numeracy

This week we have continued building up our maths journals – we now have 4 pages complete! We have been learning about Place Value, and have been able to include an interactive Place Value pockets, a Place Value chart, explanations of key terms as well as digit, expanded and written versions of numbers. Now that we have all this information recorded in our journals we can always find the answer to Place Value questions (especially if we are stuck).

Literacy

As well as our normal literacy work this week, we have also worked hard to learn Scots poetry. Chloe and Sophie were the class winners who got to recite their poems for the whole school (and visitors!). Jordan and Emma C were also finalists, so well done to the four of you.

Health and Wellbeing

This week has been filled with Health and Wellbeing learning. We have been developing our handball skills in P.E. and are now all able to use a good chest pass and a good bounce pass. Accuracy with passing is improving every lesson!

We have also been learning a bit more about growing up, and what we can expect to happen when we grow up. We understand that there are some changes that we can choose to make, and others that just happen. This morning we learned about life cycles. Here are a few examples of typical life cycle lengths;

– Poppies – a few weeks

– Frogs – a few years

– Humans – as long as 100 years.

We had to learn a few key words; metamorphosis being one. Any pupil (P1-7) who can comment with a good definition of metamorphosis will win a prize from Miss Anderson’s prize box.

Next week we will continue to learn about growing up and will be focussing on our feelings.

A few of us managed to log into Glow and look at the J2E tools. These tools allow us to create animations, graphs and pieces of writing (plus much more). If you know your Glow username and password you should check them out!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Miss Anderson & P5 8)

January 30, 2014January 31, 2014

P1 Reflective Learning

This week Primary 1 have been learning about Robert Burns.

We drew portraits of him (which you can see in the picture) and wrote words and sentences about him.

We learned..

That he wrote poems and songs
We have a Burns Supper
We wear kilts at a Burns Supper
We eat haggis, neeps, tatties, oatcakes and cheese
Grown-ups drink whisky and they have a toast.

We are looking forward to our own Burns supper tomorrow!

Until later 🙂

Primary 1

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Primary 1/2

This week one of the things we have been learning is about symmetrical patterns. We made our own patterns on butterflies and predicted what would happen when we folded them in half. We also looked at symmetrical shapes and predicted from half a shape what it would be once it was completed.

Challenge – At home look for symmetrical shapes and patterns and leave a message on the blog telling us what you found. Use the address in your homework diary to post what you found.

January 27, 2014

Look what came today!

Early bird pupils were able to cheer on the raising of our Green flag as it was put in place first thing this morning! What a fantastic start to our week.

The Eco committee are still working hard on keeping our school recycling systems going, and encouraging everyone to use the litter bins. This month it is Primary 1 and 1/2 turn on the litter picking duty, so we’re sure the playground will be clean and clear.

We are also planning an exciting competition which will take place in March. More details will follow, but in the meantime if you have an entertaining talent, keep practicing…

We noticed last week that some of the bulbs planted in the front border are already poking their leaves up to look for the sun, so it won’t be long til spring. Keep your eyes open and let us know if you see anything interesting growing in and around our grounds.

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P7 technologies

Today we were making 3d bridges out of Lego or KNEX. It had to be 6cm of the base and you had to make sure it could fit 3 car toys on it. We found hard at the start because it kept falling apart, so we had to make it more strong and stable. We had to work in partners of our choice and had to aggree on what materials we were going to use and how we were going to lay it out.

by Ellie and Rebecca

January 27, 2014

P6 Weekly Blog

For the Scots Assembly Finlay Brennan, Ciaran Cumming, James Halliday and Alysha Vickers have been picked to recite their poems for Miss Speirs and Miss Baillie. The dancers who will be performing ‘Strip the Willow’ with P7 are Eilidh Anderson, Hollie Brown, Liam Thomson and Dolce Gordon. The reserve dancers are Molly Gillies and Finlay Brennan. We have also been practising a new song ‘ The Roses o’ Prince Charlie’. We cant wait to perform for all of our Senior Citizens on Wednesday!

January 27, 2014January 27, 2014

Primary 3

Primary 3 have been learning about using adjectives in their writing to make it more interesting. See if you can improve these sentences by adding some interesting describing words.

1. The boy ran down the street.

2. I walked round the house.

3. I put on my jumper.

January 26, 2014

Primary 1/2

January 25, 2014January 25, 2014

Primary 4

This week Primary 4 have been learning all about the skeleton. We discussed the purpose of our skeleton and learned what is inside our bones along with some of their names, including the femur, tibia, humerus, ulna, radius and fibula. Can you remember where they all are? You can find out more about the skeleton at home by visiting the Children’s University website.

In Maths, we have begun to learn about 3D shapes. We discussed how the properties of shapes differ and used what we learned to describe a shape to our peers. Explore 3D shapes by clicking on the link HERE.