Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
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The Big pedal is almost over! This is the last week. We had a quick photo opportunity on Tuesday with the cyclists and scooter people – and the JRSOs too, of course.
The JRSOs were so impressed with our safe cyclist today that she was awarded 10 house-points for wearing her helmet. Â She must have been paying attention to P2’s assembly.
Here are some of the amazing hats produced by our children for their Christmas homework.
Well done everyone we are blown away by the fantastic range of designs and the artistic skills you’ve shown!
A hat parade will be part of our Christmas singalong on Tuesday morning at 9.30.
Primary 1-7 took part in a recent competition to design Christmas cards to be used by Pumpherston Community Council this Christmas. The entries were judged by a panel of Community council members and we are now proud to be able to show you the winners! Â Each prize winner has a copy of their printed design, and received a Christmas treat from the Community council as a prize. To see the winning designs, click on the links below. Congratulations to all our artists.
p7 winner p6 winner p5 winner p4 winner P3 winner P2 winner p1-2 winner p1 winner
Here is what happened today when Miss Speirs and the other teachers took on the Ice Bucket Challenge! Thank you to everyone who sent a donation to encourage us to take part!
At today’s Assembly we heard who had won the Poster competition organised by the JRSOs. Here are the winning designs which will be adapted into posters for display around our school, to encourage everyone to park smart or to travel to school without the car.
Well done to Sophie, Bayleigh, Kyle, Bailey, Molly, Nia, Freya, and Jonathan.
What a fantastic effort everyone put in to their hopping, skipping and jumping today at our Jump Rope for Heart event!
Top skippers on the 30 second challenge included Bailey, Jay, John-Paul, Josh, Mrs Mooney, Jessica, Courtney, Lewis, Cameron, Ben, Jamie-Lee, Josh and Amy.
Well done to everyone for all your hard work, I know you got your hearts working harder today with all that exercise. The weather was very kind to us, with the first drops of rain waiting until we were ready to pack up the ropes!
Thank you to Primary 6 for all their help in organising the rota, writing the letters to give out, and supervising the different activity stations today.
The next job will be to collect in the sponsor forms and sponsor money! Please return your sponsor form and money raised as soon as you can (perhaps when you get your breath back?) and we’ll blog the total raised when we have it.
Mrs Hull
This Friday is our Jump Rope for Heart event – a sponsored skip in aid of the British Heart Foundation.
This charity work to save lives and make life better for people with heart disease. The British Heart Foundation also work with schools through their Heartstart programme to train children in emergency first aid.
We are now an affiliated  Heartstart school and Primary 2, 4, and 6 have been learning these very important skills with Mrs Hull using resources sent to us by the BHF. Now we want to give something back and help them to continue their work with other schools.
Sponsor forms will be coming home on Wednesday!! On Friday morning each class will take part in skipping activities for 45 minutes using long and short ropes with Primary 6 on hand to help with the counting.
Which class will manage the most skips without stopping? Who will show skipping style on the long ropes? Can the teachers keep up?
Have you been practising your entry for the Eco Talent show next week? The Eco Committee will be hosting the Eco Factor and judging the best two entries from each class to find the best Junior and Senior Eco acts in school. In class Auditions will be held very soon – the Big Final is on Thursday 20th at Assembly. Remember, if you want to win, your act MUST contain and very clear ECO message…
Here are the P6 winners of the Commonwealth Games Poster competition. Miss Speirs found it so difficult to pick one winner we got special permission from Game On Scotland to send more entries in. Well done to the winners. A selection of other posters will be on display in the school for everyone to see. The winning posters will be sent to be displayed in the Athletes’ Village for the competitors and officials who stay in Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games this summer.
This week the children took part in our Scottish Assembly. Well done to Nathan and Oliwia for reciting their Scottish poems and to Lucas, Cerys, Callum and Kamila for performing The Canadian Barn Dance with pupils from primary three.
We have also been learning about 3D shapes and have used them to make models.  In literacy we have been learning about magic ‘e’ and how it changes the sound of the middle vowel, for example, cap becomes cape. Can you find some more words that can be changed by adding magic ‘e’ to them?
