Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

April 19, 2021

P2/1

We have been learning about The Senses. We researched the 5 different senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. In groups, we talked about, then drew and labelled our favourite thing to smell, taste, touch, hear and see. We discussed how our senses can keep us safe and help us make sense of the world around us.

We wanted to find out how easy it would be to complete tasks if we weren’t able to use all our senses.

We had some class volunteers take part in a blindfold challenge where they had to move around the room only listening to the instructions from the teacher. It helped us to understand how people who do not have sight have to rely on their sense of hearing and touch to help them move around their environment safely.

Our blindfolded volunteers enjoyed the taste test, where sweet and savoury items were given to taste and they had to identify the item. Some items were tricky but everyone managed to identify the chocolate!

A.K.4 | Robot and Human Senses | Modular Robotics

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

Term 3 Celebration Assembly

Congratulations to our Stem 3 Superstars, these children have had achievements in Science, Technologies or Maths.

Congratulations to our Stem 3 Awesome Authors, these children have had achievements in literacy.

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

Head Teacher Update

Dear Parent/Carer,

I am writing to update you on the progress of recruiting a Head Teacher for PUSCPS. I am delighted to inform you that Mrs Joanne Kerr, currently Head Teacher at Seafield Primary, will take up the seconded Head Teacher post on Monday 26^th April 2021. Mrs Kerr comes with a wealth of teaching and leadership experience. I am sure you will all make her feel very welcome.

Although I will support the smooth transition of the new management team, my last day as Head Teacher at PUSPCS will be on Friday 23^rd April 2021.

I would like to thank you for all of your support, for challenging my thinking, and for your words of encouragement along the way during my time at PUSCPS. You have taught me about the power of community, working in partnership through communication and building relationships, to get it right for our children. We have been through so much together! Snow days to a world pandemic; happiness and laughs to times of great sadness; new staff to retirements. So many significant events on our journey have happened in the last 3 ½ years.

A wise colleague once said to me, your leadership is only as strong as the legacy you leave behind. I hope that what I leave behind at PUSCPS is that our children should always be championed by the adults around them, and that they deserve the best school experience as making memories matters. We all know that l love our school colours and a video, too! 🙂

Our memories are our greatest treasure, and I have loved making memories with you, our staff, but mostly our children. The children of PUSCPS will always hold a special place in my heart.

I wish Team PUSCPS the best of luck in the next part of your journey.

Kind regards,

Miss Burton

April 1, 2021

Primary 1 STEM

Primary 1 have begun learning all about living things and life cycles as part of their STEM topic.

We have been learning about the different parts of a flower and the things that help plants to grow. We successfully grew cress in the classroom, ensuring that it had plenty of sunlight from the window and was watered every day.

We have also been learning all about the life cycle of a chicken. As part of our learning, we sequenced the stages in the life cycle, wrote facts about how the chicks hatch, created our own chick pictures, and designed a brooder box for growing chicks to live in. We are looking forward to learning about other life cycles when we return to school.

April 1, 2021

Primary 3/2

Please use the link below to learn more about the fantastic work P3/2 did as part of their ‘Garden Centre’ project.

https://vimeo.com/531833584

April 1, 2021

P5 Life in The 16th Century

Since our return from lockdown we took the opportunity to complete a poster to demonstrate our learning about life in the 16th century. This also gave us the opportunity to further develop our interpersonal skills to work together to achieve a common goal.

LI: Create a poster

SC: I can… have a bold title

I can… have interesting facts

I can…. have eye catching pictures.

We also had health and well being targets when we were working within our groups. The children were able to come up with the success criteria.

LI: To work together

SC: I can… listen to others

I can….. allow everyone to share their ideas

I am sure you will agree their posters are fantastic and they have been able to demonstrate their learning really well.

More to come in term 4 …………………… an update with our STEM topic

April 1, 2021

Spring Holidays

Dear parent/ carer,

It is hard to believe it is the end of term 3 and our Easter holidays are here. It has been another unsettling time for some, with us starting the year in lockdown but I know we are now all glad to be back at school, finding some kind of normality.

Thank you for your continued support during remote learning and supporting your child with their transition back to school, we really appreciate it.

We recently had some Spring fundraising with our dress down day raising £90, Spring booklets £45.15 and our raffle £300! Thank you to everyone who organised the events and to those who donated – this is a fantastic amount of money for our school funds.

Mrs Barclay joined us this week as Acting Principal Teacher and she has already been a great asset to our team.

We look forward to welcoming our primary children back on 19th April and our nursery children back on 6th April.

I hope you have a lovely Spring break and that we have some good weather!

Kind regards,

Miss Burton

April 1, 2021

Spring Fundraising

A huge thank you to Mrs Bonnar and Mrs Birrell for organising our Spring Raffle and to all our school staff who donated prizes!

We raised an over whelming £300 for school funds!

We held a spring dress down which raised £90 for school funds!

Sarah-Jane very kindly made up spring booklets to sell. They raised £45.15!.

April 1, 2021

P6 STEM – Substance Misuse

In term 3, P6 have been exploring the affect of drugs, alcohol and medicine on our bodies. We have considered what group different substances belong to (illegal, legal or prescribe) as well as the impact they have on our bodies (stimulant or depressant).

The class have worked hard to investigate the issues with smoking, and the long term impact this can have on our body and organs. They made posters and PowerPoints to discourage people from smoking, using catchy slogans like “Don’t Smoke – It’s a Joke” and eye catching illustrations such as blackened lungs to make the reader think.

This week, we have looked at the different parts of the brain and the impact that alcohol has on each of these. We watched a very education video that helped us understand the short and long term impacts of alcoholism. Please find the video below if you fancy learning something new today!