1. Pumpherston & Uphall Station
Community Primary School
Visit My Class
September 2018
2. Nursery Staff
• Mrs Montgomery– Early Years Officer
• Mrs Arthur– Early Years Practitioner
• Miss Young– Early Years Practitioner (AM)
• Mrs Hamil - Pupil Support Worker (PM)
3. AM (Mon-Thurs)
• 8:10 Start time
• 11:15 End of the Nursery Day
AM (Friday)
• 8.10 Start time
• 11.38 End of the Nursery Day
PM (Mon-Thurs)
• 12.18 Start time
• 4.15 End of the Nursery Day
Structure of the Nursery Day
4. • School Uniform
• Black Gym shoes to change into
• School Bag
• Wellies
• Waterproof jacket/warm coat
• Waterproofs (optional – we also provide these)
• Shoes children can change by themselves
• Name tags on everything
Nursery Clothing
5. What Do I Need to Do?
• Provide Emergency Contact details and keep them
updated at the school office.
• If your child is going to be absent, let the school office
know by 9.30 am (AM session) or 1.30pm (PM session)
• Sign in / sign out your child.
• Provide names of the adults who may pick your child up
should you not be able to come.
• If you will NOT be collecting your child yourself, let us
know who is.
6. Parental Involvement
• Parent/Teacher Meetings – twice a school year
• School Report at the end of the pre-school year
• Assemblies
• Stay and Play
• Curriculum Evenings
• Volunteering – (PVG Check)
• Parent Partners Group
7. Learners Journals
• We use online learners journals to
record and celebrate children's
learning. These can be accessed
any time by you and pictures and
comments can be added by
parents of children’s home
learning.
8. The Curriculum Areas
Literacy &
English
Numeracy &
Mathematics
Health &
Wellbeing
Expressive
Arts
Sciences
Social
Studies
Religious & Moral
Education
Technologies
10. How we learn
• In nursery all our learning is taken from the children's interests
and ideas.
• At the moment we are looking at settling children, snack
routines and being independent when getting ready to go
outside.
• We are looking at the Circus at the moment as a few children
have expressed how much they enjoy “the Greatest
Showman”
• We regularly enjoy joining with the school for weeks like
Maths week, digital learning and Scots week.
• We also join with the school for Celebration Assemblies to
give prizes for Remarkable Reader and STEM Superstar and
other assemblies such as Harvest and Christmas.
Editor's Notes
The Primary 1 teachers for next session will be: Mrs Smith & Miss O’Brien
Next session, we will again have 11 classes in the Primary School and two Nursery sessions.
The main school building is split up into three areas: Infant, Middle and Upper.
Our school is open plan with a number of learning bays in each area. If you had a more traditional experience of school yourself, you might be thinking, ‘How on earth can that work?’, but, believe me, it does.
There are times, of course, when classes want to do something noisy or need quiet for some activity and for that purpose, we have a Noisy/Quiet room in the middle area.
At present, your children are working with these teachers and getting to know their new surroundings and their classmates. During the tour a bit later on, you’ll get a chance to see how they’re doing.
