This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby’s Worry. It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition. Please see Sway to find out about our learning.
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This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby’s Worry. It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition. Please see Sway to find out about our learning.
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Victorian Artefacts in P6
We were fortunate enough to have a visit from West Lothian Museum services this week. Linking with our current Social Studies context we enjoyed an afternoon of Victorian artefacts! The class were allowed to handle a lot of the items and were amazed to see how things have progressed since Victorian times,even though we have the Victorians to thank for some of the amazing inventions that we use today. It was however interesting to see like an abacus we still use concrete materials in Numeracy This was a great springboard for our Victorian context as it led to discussions about Victorian inventions, housing and lifestyle to name but a few. We will be linking this learning to our current Literacy theme of creating a recount,the ability to retell and evaluate an experience. The Museum Service have kindly agreed to attend our Sharing the Learning in April so come along and see if you can identify the purpose of our Victorian artefacts, remember your child is now an expert!
Donate your old Devices!
Got any old smartphones, tablets, routers, gaming consoles, cameras or laptops and cables that you no longer need?
Don’t know what to do with them and don’t want them going to landfill?
This could be the answer!
As part of our Eco learning on sustainability, East Calder Primary is joining with the Edinburgh Remakery- a registered charity and environmental social enterprise with a mission to reduce e-waste by repairing and refurbishing old tech. Your donations can be given the gift of life, reused, resold or donated to people suffering from digital poverty.
A Tech Donation Box will be arriving in school on January 29th for approximately 4 weeks. This box is designed to help pupils, their families and staff dispose of their old personal tech in an environmentally friendly way. The Edinburgh Remakery will ensure any tech is data wiped.
So if you would like to reduce e-waste and its impact on the environment, while supporting local people and our planet, this could be for you!
We have started learning about 3D shapes. First we tried to remember their names. Then we looked at them, touched them and thought about their properties. We then had to work with our partner to work out how many edges, faces & vertices they had. We found some like a sphere easy but found working out the properties of a triangular prism much harder. Some of us even found a pentagonal pyramid in the box and worked on finding out it’s properties.
We have been recapping our learning of last term about nouns and adjectives. Now we have moved onto learning about verbs. We watched a video about action verbs and joined in with the movements. Then we worked with a partner to come up with our own action, the rest of the class then had to guess what our action was. Next we worked with our partner to write a sentence on our desks including at least one action verb.
This week we have been learning our Fry’s words.
‘We painted them, we made them with playdoh and we wrote them on ipads’ Piper.
‘We went round the different stations to try every task’ Harrison.
We listened to the story ‘Tiddler’ by Julia Donaldson.
‘I like how he told all the stories’ Oscar.
‘I liked the Gruffalo fish because it was in a different Julia Donaldson book’ Abbie.
‘I liked it when the fish told the class it wasn’t a story-it was real’ Jenson.
‘We were learning about friendship with our buddies’ Piper.
‘We learned how follow the instructions ‘sit down’ and ‘stand up’, in French’ George.
‘We learned the instruction ‘silence’ in French’ Ralph.
‘In music, we were learning about different types of music, like the Blues’ Meghan.
We took part in lots of different activities for Book Week. We watched Author’s Live with the illustrator Fiona Lumbers. She read one of the Luna Loves stories and taught us how to draw Luna. We had good fun adding our own things that Luna might love to our pictures. We took part in the book week competition creating our own book marks. We tried to use bright colours to make them stand out. We have been learning to write discussion text this term. During book week we wrote one with the title Should children read at home? We also had a Secret Reader who came and read some of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Lastly, we received our Read, Write, Counts bags and welcomed our adults into school to read with us.
It’s lovely to hear about our pupils achievements in and out of school. Here are two pupils celebrating their medals and hard work in their extra-curricular activities.
One pupil won five medals at the Fauldhouse Swimming Gala: coming 4th in the 200m freestyle, 5th in the 50m breaststroke, 1st place – winning two gold medals in the 50m freestyle and 50m back stroke and one silver medal in the 50m butterfly. Incredible!
Another pupil shared his success after winning two gold medals at the World Kickboxing Association (WKA), beating the current world champion!
Well done boys, you are demonstrating many meta-skills here including collaboration and leadership.