East Calder Primary School Blog

Learning in P6

An Explanation

We have been looking at the Explanation Genre. This genre explains how or why something happens. We decided to link our Literacy to our current IDL context of Natural Disasters.

We also used our ICT skills by researching a Natural Disaster of our choice. We created notes in our first draft. We then looked at the features and layout of an Explanation and used this and the genre targets to improve our final draft, ensuring it included all the elements of the genre such as

Title

Identifying Statement

Explanation Sequence

Summary Statement

Learning in P2A

‘We were learning about money. We were counting in 2ps, 5ps and 10ps’ Piper.

‘We were learning about doubles in maths’ Harrison and Abbie.

‘I liked learning about our weather. We learned that on the news they use symbols to show the weather.’ Abbie.

‘They use numbers too’ Rudi S.

‘I liked doing our fireworks art. We used sticks to dip in the paint and made the fireworks on the page. We used (biodegradable) glitter to make them sparkle’ William.

Congratulations!

Well done Jaysiel,you shared with us your haul of medals! Astro Gymnastics for both participation and 1st place in your competition. You also shared your Edinburgh Marathon Festival medal for completing 1.5 K,very impressive. We enjoyed hearing about your achievements!

P6 Halloween Fun!

A brilliant night with some amazing costumes! Thanks P6 and all the volunteers who gave up their Wednesday night,we all had great fun.

P3A Learning

This week we’re learning to tell the time. Some of us used Play Dough to create the hands of a clock to tell o’clock & half past times. Others tested each other telling quarter past & quarter to using the clock faces. Some were working on changing between analogue & digital times. We also used the laptops to test our knowledge.

This week we started learning to use questions marks. First we practiced writing them, then we had to think about question words. Next we looked at a picture and worked with a random partner to come up and write down questions about it. Lastly we became Question Mark Detectives and hunted for question marks in our reading books.

In Art we thought about the colours of leaves we see just now and then created Autumn pictures.

Book Bag Events P1-3

Read, write and Count and Book Bug bags are gifted by the Scottish Book Trust to all Scottish children in Primary 1 to Primary 3

By providing access to books this helps to develop language, communication and literacy ; and children’s development as readers, as well as providing opportunities for bonding and attachment; relaxation; and comfort in difficult times.

During Book Week Scotland we would be delighted if parents and carers would like to join us to share the stories, books and activities in the bags.

Friday 15th Nov 11.40-12.25 Primary 2 Read, Write and Count bags
Thursday 21st Nov 2.40-3.15pm Primary 1 Book Bug bags
Thursday 28th Nov 2.40-3.15pm Primary 3 Read,Write and Count bags

Please enter by the breakfast club door.

For more information about the Scottish Book Trust please look at their web site.

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-scotland

Happy reading everyone!

P3A Learning

Last week we were learning to use the element of line to draw what we see. We looked closely at a leaf and thought about the shape of it and the lines of the veins. We then drew its outline and tried and copy where all the lines were. Next we looked at the leaf again to see what colours were needed. We thought about light and shadow and shaded our leaf picture so it looked as close the real one as possible.

Calling all Secret Readers … can you help?

During Book Week Scotland (which begins on 18th November) we celebrate reading for enjoyment and aim to show our pupils that adults enjoy sharing books and stories too.

We love to welcome in adults as Secret Readers who come along to read a short story or chapter aloud to classes.

We would be delighted to hear from you if you would like to volunteer as a Secret Reader during the following dates and time.

Week 1

Wednesday 20th Nov 1.30-2.20 pm
Thursday 21st Nov 9.45 – 10.30 am

Week 2

Wednesday 27th Nov 1.30-2.20 pm
Thursday 28th Nov 11.00-12.00 OR 1.30-2.15 pm

Please contact our school office by email and include the following information

your name
which day / time slot you can attend
which age group you prefer and if you would you like to read to your child’s class.

We provide a wide selection of books but are happy if you have a favourite of your own that you enjoy reading.

We would also love to celebrate the number of different languages that we have here in East Calder Primary and would appreciate it if anyone would like to read a short story in a language other than English.

Many thanks for your continued support.

Happy Reading Everyone!

P3A Learning

We have had another busy week with our learning. We are continuing to work with giving exact amounts of money and giving change. We also keep extending our knowledge of times tables. As we have been learning about Farming, we decided to write a description of a tractor. We used our plan to inform our writing. In Art we used different media to create fluffy sheep.

Robotarium Visit 🤖

All of our P7’s and P6’s were very fortunate to get to visit The Robotarium at Heriot Watt University over the last few weeks. Some of us got to meet Ameca – the worlds most advanced human shaped robot – and asked it some hard hitting questions like ‘how big is the universe?’, ‘will robots take over the world?’ and most importantly for some ‘what is your favourite football team?’

We saw some incredible robots in action, got an amazing tour of the working labs and spoke to some inspiring engineers.

We finished the day with some competitive robot games – who knew robots could play football?!

A brilliant day out for everyone, and hopefully a few new budding engineers among us!