Monthly Archives: March 2017

FAST Programme-

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In association with Save the Children, Uphall Primary is delighted to be hosting the Families and Schools Together Programme (FAST).
We are looking for 20 Primary 2 and Primary 3 families to take part in the programme which is designed for families to come together after school. There will be opportunities for the children to play, parents to chat and for everyone to share a meal. There will be 8 weekly sessions of 2 hours duration on a Friday afternoon with a graduation ceremony at the end of the block. The intended start date for the programme will be Friday 28th April from 12.30-2.30pm.

Volunteers
We are also looking for parents or extended family members and community volunteers to help with the delivery of the programme. Volunteers will undertake 2 days training at Uphall Primary on 28th and 29th March in readiness for the programme beginning at the end of April.
Please contact the school if you would like to participate.
I have added a link below for a short You Tube video which gives more detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmsZgnK7oxk

Many thanks

Mrs Creaney

Heriot Watt Robotics Mascot Competition

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Primary 1 recently submitted entries for the above competition – we talked about robots and learned about a robot from the National Museum of Scotland which can spell names!

We have had a lovely email from one of the organisers of the competition. We didn’t manage to produce a winner but clearly the boys and girls in Primary 1 have impressed the judges with their ideas so well done to all of you.

Here is the email from Dr Wicks:

Dear Pamela,

Thanks for all your wonderful entries to the Heriot-Watt Year of Robotics Mascot Competition. The quality of entries was amazing, and our judges had a really hard time deciding who was the winner. In fact, we have ended up with 1 winner, 2 age-group winners, and 18 runners up, from over 1100 entries!

One of our judge’s feedback was ‘First of all: what a tough choice! I mean that genuinely. When the criteria is not just based on functionality, but also originality and imagination and effort/enthusiasm ~ there were so many golden choices and candidates within each category. There’s so many I’d like to mention but it wouldn’t be practical to do so, so do make sure all these children know that they’ve produced some really excellent work!’

We have some other opportunities later on in the year for the children to learn more about robotics, and get involved in our activities. If you think this is something that will be of interest, please let me know and I will get back in touch once activities are confirmed.

Thanks again for being part of the competition.

Best wishes
Laura

Three Craws, Dinosaurs and an Enormous Turnip! Just Another Day in Primary 1S

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Primary 1s were happy and excited to show off their talents this morning at their class assembly. The boys and girls have worked so hard to practise this.

Well done all of you. Mrs Sutherland is very, very proud of you all.

Thank you to all of our visitors who came along, and for your kind comments which will be shared with the children. They love an audience in Primary 1!

Enormous thanks to Mrs Stott for her hard work with the children to make the wonderful enormous turnip!