Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

To celebrate the end of our topic on the Celts, Primary 4 had their very own Celtic feast in the classroom.

During this term, we learned that the Celts had to get all of their food from the land by growing crops, picking wild berries or hunting for wild animals like boar and foxes. Unfortunately Miss Cave couldn’t find any wild boar at supermarket but we enjoyed eating  porridge, oatcakes and cheese together instead.  We also tried some nettle tea as the Celts would often collect wild plants and herbs too.

This week p7 went on a trip to the National Archives of Scotland (it’s not a library!) and we done drama, art and investigating about WW1. We wrote a diary entry about Albert from war horse you might be familiar with the movie or the book, we also put the writing into coffee and then into our scrapbook we all have our own page in the scrapbook!

 We have done lots of art things in class like :

Soldiers – blending using pastels and tissue paper.

Our p7 scrap book – about WW1 with pop out information, once we are finished it will be put in the public library so you can come and see them.

We have also been busy getting all our work finished for the October holidays. For maths everyone has been doing division because everyone was a bit rusty on it!

Amy & Anna

P7 were thinking about the question –  how do you know if you have learned or improved?

It was a tricky question.  Here are our thoughts:

– getting faster / better

– things seem harder but then easier to learn

– I can achieve new things that I couldn’t do before.

– I can answer questions but also know after thinking time

– I know I know because I’m confident

– Teacher feedback – stickers / marking

– Peer feedback

Does anyone else have any ideas?