During book week we took part in lots of great activities. We received visits from several secret readers. We went to the library and got our Read, Write, Count bags and a book from the Queen. We also listened to stories and read with each other. We took part in the Book Week bookmark competition by drawing our favourite animals character from a book. It has been a brilliant week.
Primary two had a fantastic time celebrating book week. We loved our secret reader visits and enjoyed listening to lots of stories. We also designed our own book covers and shared these with the class. On Wednesday we enjoyed reading with with our friends and families and received our read, write, count bags.
P2/1 have had a super Book Week. We’ve really enjoyed receiving our Bookbug bags (in P1) and our Read Write and Count bags (in P2). We were excited to have our parents and carers join us the school library! We loved hearing Mrs Robertson read us a story (and we also loved the juice and biscuits).
‘Scaredy Bat’ by Jonathan Meres inspired us to make our own bats. We like how they hang upside down on our washing line.
‘The Perfect Fit’ by Naomi Jones has lots of different 2d shapes. We made 2d shape pictures with our partners.
We had lots of fun meeting our ‘secret readers’! Thank you so much to the parents who came into our class and read to us. We loved listening to some of our favourite stories and some new ones too.
This week is Scottish book week. We discussed our favourite types of books and a common theme was Space! In Maths this week we have been learning about money. We have been recognising and adding the value of coins, and some of us managed to work out change too! We linked our maths with our book week chats and tried to work out how much it would cost us to go into Space. We then did some role play and acted out us being in a space rocket.
On Wednesday morning, 23 of our Primary 7 pupils represented us at the West Lothian ‘East Conference’ Sportshall Athletics event. All of the children did an excellent job competing in 13 different events against 7 other schools. Everyone was a credit to our school!
We were extremely luck to have Alan Hamilton visit us this week in Primary 7. He shared his experiences and knowledge of war and he let us pass around his war medals! We learned about the how WWII started; he used an interactive time lapse map to show how it spread all around the word. Alan guided us through a timeline of the events of the war, helping our chronology. He also told us some stories of his time as a pupil at East Calder Primary and linked the events of WWII to local events at the time. Alan left some books behind for us to explore during book week and we can’t wait to get reading!
We love a challenge in P3B! This morning, we took part in a new learning activity to practise reading and writing our Fry’s words. We learned how to create a word search. We each created our own word search, however; we worked with a partner and Miss Marra saw lots of great teamwork. In Smart Start tomorrow, we are going to ask another group to find the words. We enjoyed our learning and would like to do more word searches to practise reading and writing our words.
Article 13: We have the right to find out things and share what we think with others.
This week Primary 1 have been learning all about 2D shape. We named the shapes and used them to make shape pictures. Some of us went outside for a Shape Hunt and we used things we found to create our own shapes. Others took turns to use the feely bag, and, without looking, describe what the shapes were.
We continue to learn new sounds, this week o and u. We have also been practising our Fry’s words. Please remember to return reading books on Thursdays. We have a limited number of books and we want everyone to be able to bring a book home weekly.
Our science learning in class is all about the weather and we have been using symbols to record the weather. On Thursdays Mrs Beattie is in class for science and children have been learning about night and day. This week they made sundials.
Primary 2 learned all about Remembrance Day and the reason that we wear poppies.
They did super writing and created poppies using different materials in the classroom. 
Primary 5 and Mrs Campbell were delighted to welcome Alan Hamilton into school on Thursday afternoon. Alan has previously been a regular visitor to our school, working with P6s and P7s on their World War IDL contexts. He is a mine of information about WW1, WW2 and everything in between!
Alan came to speak to Primary 5 about Remembrance and gave us a real insight into the life of a soldier, from rations and trench foot to horse dung and ‘sweet pea mixture’ (ask your kids!). He brought along his own medals and some interesting artefacts to show us and also very kindly left us copies of his own sketches which he made whilst serving in Iraq.
The pupils were highly engaged in this session and understandably had many questions which Alan did his best to answer!
