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We know how to keep safe with electricity!

On Wednesday James from Scottish Power came to our school to talk to each class about electricity.  He told us all about electric cables and how we can stay safe with switches, plugs and power boxes.

Here are some facts we remembered:

  • Plugs have 230 volts in them.
  • We should switch off switches to help us keep safe.
  • Trains take 1 mile to stop.
  • There were 3 cables the orange one was for the garden, the black one is for your TV and the white one is for the kitchen.
  • Insulators are materials like rubber that electricity can’t travel through.
  • It can travel through conductors.
  • Power boxes are extremely dangerous and we shouldn’t go near them.

We got to hold 2 different big electricity cables. James had a black crow with a yellow nose called Sparky to help teach the little classes about being safe.                                                                                              

By Ellie Hamilton and Shea McEwan (…a little help from Amy Barnett and Miss McLennan)

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Primary 4 Topic Homework

Primary 4 to help us learn more about where food comes from we are going to use the website Food a Fact of Life.  Firstly Google search Food a Fact of Life.  Once you are on the home page click 8-11 years along the top of the page. Next click Food and Farming then scroll down until you see the heading Interactive Resources.  Click on the game that is called – Where does your food come from?Play the game and then we will share it together at the end of this week.

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The Big Pedal

Our school will be taking part in the 3 stages of the Big Pedal 2013. On the 28th Feb, 8th March and 20th March we will be counting the number of children, staff and parents who cycle or scoot to school.  Our results are logged with the national Big Pedal event and we will be given a place in the race! More news at assembly from the JRSOs.

Get more information from http://bigpedal.org.uk/

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Primary 5 – Playground Games

This week we were looking at every child’s right to play. We played two games, ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?’ and Chocolate Bar. On Friday at break time we went to the other classes and showed them how to play these games. It was lots of fun and we are going to learn more games and teach other classes how to play them.

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Primary 4

 

This week we have been learning about Children’s Rights and that every child in the world has the right to an education.  We  watched a clip of  children in Africa and discussed how different their school was to our school.  We made posters to show some of  the values of  education.  Then we shared what we had learned with the whole school at our Rights Respecting assembly. 

                       by   Jordan and Carys

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Rights Respecting Week

Here is a sample of our work

p7 enjoyed learning about the rights of children this week and all the activities we took part in .The best part of our week was once again poetry writing!!! We wrote poems about an “ideal world” and some of them were read out at our assembly. All the staff were very impressed with them!!

Dannielle's poem
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Primary 6

This week in Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS we have been learning about children’s rights. Miss Martin has set the whole school on a job to make name collages because it shows everyone that they have the right to a name. Also we have been making little paper girls and boys. Then Miss Martin is going to display them all over the school.

Yesterday we had an assembly about children’s rights and all the classes had to do a show and tell.  Primary 6 decided to talk about wants and needs these are some of them. The needs are clean water, nutritious food, decent shelter and medical care. The wants were laptop, pet, phone, holiday, games and computer stations.

By Connor Ramsay and Elli-louise Falconer

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P1m – ‘A Good Lesson…’

This week P1m were talking about what a ‘good’ lesson looks like. We had lots of good ideas!

  • We need to know what we’re learning and why
  • We need to know how we’re going to learn
  • We have to think if we can use Lenny (our link lizard) if we can use what we already know
  • Everyone should be listening
  • Miss McLaughlin should say things in a way we can understand them
  • We should learn in lots of different ways (writing/drawing, the smartboard, acting, etc)
  • We should learn with lots of different people
  • Miss McLaughlin, a partner or I should check how I know I have learned
  • A lesson should not run late
  • We should think about what we have to do next

A big list for Miss McLaughlin to think about!

P1m 🙂

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Orchard day postponed

The sponsors of our Community Orchard have asked us to postpone the planting day once more. We are sorry to disappoint you with this news, and hope to bring news of a definite date very soon.  Everyone is hoping this change of date will increase our chances of warmer (and drier?) weather…

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