P1 Book Week

We’ve had lots of fun this week during Book Week. We read about Arlo , the lion who couldn’t sleep, and made our own Arlos with a song that helps us to sleep too. We looked at a non-fiction book and made our own woodland animals book for our class library. The book ‘Inch and Grub’ explored friendships and showed us what was important. We thought about what made a good friend and put our ideas on friendship flowers. We also chose a book and used a scene to make a window display.

Our week ended with Children In Need Day. Many thanks for your kind donations.

P3 Book Week

We had lots of fun activities to help in our learning this week.  We received new books for our class library and have been reading them each day when the bell rang to tell us to ‘Drop everything & read’.  We were read some new stories and created a big display with our ideas from the book Octopus Shocktopus.  We used an idea from the book to design and label our perfect house.  We took part in ‘design a book mark’ competition. We learned about exclamation marks and found some in books in the class. We listened to David Williams & Julia Donaldson on Author’s Live.  We took our books to the playground to read during Outdoor Learning.  We found verbs in our reading books, completed some Readingwise and Giglets tasks and we each received our ‘Read, Write, Count’ bags containing two new books and lots of other surprises.

P6B Book Week Update

Ross Mackenzie Report- Authors Live                                                                         Our class have been reading the Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie. It is the first book is his trilogy. We watched an Authors Live session with him in class. He told us about how he produced the idea to write about a magical shop that can go anywhere at any time. He said he saw a shop in Renfrew High Street and asked questions to himself such as what if it could travel in time? The shop had a blood red Curtain, and tiny thing’s you want to pick up everywhere. He told us that his idols where Roald Dahl and Stephen King, and that the book that got him into writing was the Witches. Then he told us that if he was to be stuck on a deserted island and could only bring three books, he would bring the Harry Potter series, Northern Lights and the Witches, since that was the book that got him into writing. He said that reading and writing are his passion and finds it fun and freeing.

Why not create just one book? The reason why he didn’t just create one book is because you would want to know what happens next and because if the author has done it right you start to care about the characters.

What makes you want to write three books? He said that he loves to write not because it’s his job but because it’s his pride he feels like he’s in another world were anything is possible. He also says he doesn’t always plan what’s next, it’s like driving in the fog, you can only see what’s in front of you that you know the the direction you are in, he also told us that the story kind of creates itself. He also told us that he doesn’t know where his ideas come from, they just appear. He felt a bit sad and happy at the same time when he finished the series because they felt like family. He introduced the final installment in the Nowhere Emporium Trilogy called the ‘Otherwhere Emporium’. He read us Chapter 6- The White Feather. It was gripping! We cannot wait to read it. We loved that he used Scottish names for his new characters.

Awards: As well as being a brilliant author, he has won a Blue Peter book award and a Scottish Book Award. He told us reading can make us feel better and to read as much as possible. He said that he loved all the things that happen after he finishes a book, like with working in schools.

Questions: How would you design the movie set? He said he would make the shop a junk shop full of small trinkets and wonderful toys you would want to pick up and keep for yourself. He really wishes magic was real and likes to imagine magic existing within our world and us not knowing.

By Coben and Taim

Health and Wellbeing P7A/7B

We asked our P7’s what they thought Health and Wellbeing looked like at East Calder Primary. Using the HWB recovery curriculum as a springboard the classes produced individualised posters demonstrating what Health and Wellbeing means to them. Under the headings Recover,Reflect and Re-explore and using the wellbeing indicators,our school rules and our LEARN values they created these child friendly go to reminders. These have been shared with the West Lothian Health and Wellbeing team. I think you will agree they did a great job not only on the artwork but also making relevant and viable links to our Wellbeing Indicators.

West Lothian Museum Services -P7B

Fantastic to welcome Maureen Liddell fromWest Lothian Museum Services to our class today. She shared with us a range of aretefacts and stories relating to our current context of WW2. We learnt about how our country prepared for war,discussing rationning,evacuation and shelters. The class were fortunate enough to handle a range of artefacacts including a gas mask,identity cards,ration coupons and even an ARP warden helmet. This visit links closely to the work we are doing in PM writing at the moment where we are looking closely at the features and layout of a recount.

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