Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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Primary 1 (and Primary 1/2) have been learning about James Watt and why he was a Famous Scot.
We learned…
Homework task.. Find out about a famous train! Use the email address in your homework diary to post what you find on the blog. Good luck!
Hear our singing all over again by following the link below to the Forth One page.
http://www.forthone.com/on-air/boogie-in-the-morning/kids-christmas-carols/
Or listen to the mp3 file here 13th-PUSCPS-Carol
Merry Christmas everyone!
Over the past few weeks, Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 have been learning about Nativity.
First, we heard the Nativity story, and tried to relate what we learned to our own ‘Wriggly Nativity’ story. We also looked at different versions of the story and talked about what was the same and what was different.
Then, we moved on to creating the programme for our own Nativity performance. We drew a picture of ourselves as our character, wrote our own name and tried hard to write our character’s name. They looked great! We photocopied them for our grown-ups to enjoy too!
Finally, after lots of singing and acting (and wriggling!) came our performance of ‘Wriggly Nativity’. After a slight delay from the fire alarm, we were ready to go! We loved the songs, especially the parts where we could wriggle! Mrs Andison and Miss McLaughlin were very proud – we’re sure we saw tears in their eyes! We really enjoyed our learning over this topic!
Miss McLaughlin and Mrs Andison would like to thank Nia Mullen (P5) and Lewis Paterson (P4) for being wonderful narrators; Liam Cavanagh (P7) and Zoe Evans (P7) for being super with our sound; Rebecca Lawrie (P7) and Alexa Renwick (P7) for selling our programmes; Miss Speirs for keeping the performance going; Mrs Hull for all the song rehearsals; all of the grown-ups who came to see our performance and bought the programmes, and finally, to the children in Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 who worked so hard to make the performance as special as it was. Thank you.
Merry Christmas from Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 🙂
We had great fun on Tuesday when Forth One presenters Boogie and Arlene came with their producer to record in our school. We are one of the very few schools in West Lothian to be chosen for this feature on the Breakfast show. We sang Jingle Bell Rock, then we all wished Forth One listeners a Merry Christmas, and got the chance to sing ‘Boogie in the Morning’ jingle too! Then Boogie spoke to some of our children about Christmas, asking what they like about it, and they each shared a festive joke.
 The recordings made with Boogie and Arlene will be broadcast on Radio Forth One (97.3 FM) on Friday 13th December at 7:40 am.Â
We would like to thank everyone who came to see our Jacobite assembly. We really enjoyed this topic and we learnt alot about  Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites. We would like to share a few photos with you.
This week we have been very busy rehearsing for our Jacobite assembly which will take place on Thursday 21st of November at 1 pm. We are all hoping you will be able to come so we can share with you what we have learnt about the Jacobites.
We are also very excited because we have been picked to take part in Radio Forth’s Carols at Christmas! Radio Forth will be coming to the school to record the whole school singing a Christmas carol which will be broadcast on Radio Forth on the run up to Christmas.
This week P6 have been practising a play for our assembly about the Titanic.  We know our parts now!  We also finished our homework task to make our own model of the Titanic.
We had a rehearsal for our Easter assembly for next week. Today we have been designing Easter eggs to decorate the hall.  Miss McLennan thinks they are fantastic!
We have also been playing maths champion to try to beat the p7s in a challenge next week. Â
By Holly Birrell and Shea McEwan
P5 have been busy practising for the Easter Service which is on Tuesday 26th March at 10am. This is the first time our brass instrument pupils have performed for the school and for parents. They gave P5 a performance on Tuesday morning with Miss Foster and they were very good. We do hope you can come along to the Easter Service to hear them!
This week it was parents night and the children reported back that their parents were pleased with all their hard work. Well done P5 and keep this up!
