Fun was had by all on Tuesday at our party. We played games, danced & sang along with music. We also had some yummy snacks.
Month: December 2022
Profiling in P6
We were fortunate enough to have a visit from some members of P7A today. They were sharing their learning and experiences of using a Profile folder on One Note. A profile is a snapshot of a young person’s best achievements at a given point in time. The content of the profile is decided by the young person following a conversation with their teacher or key adult. This is a great opportunity for the class to showcase their achievements and work they are proud of. The class are taking real ownership of the profiling process by choosing not only what they incude in the folder but also when. Each piece of work will be labelled with an explanation to why they have chosen a particular piece of work. The profile is divided into 4 sections
- Maths/Numeracy
- Literacy
- Health and Wellbeing
- Other Curricular Areas
The profile will be populated termly
Christmas Curling 2022
Pupils from primary 5, 6 and 7 took part in a fun but competitive Christmas indoor curling competition. There were 14 teams participating in the Primary 7 event!
All of the pupils played some excellent curling with great sportsmanship. There were lots of successful takeouts, guards, tap ins and draws being thrown!
Congratulations to our P5, 6 and 7 winning teams!
Primary 2/1
We have had a super week with our parties. We had a great time playing games and dancing. P1s also had a special visitor to their party!
We’ve also been very creative with our Christmas craft wreaths. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.
P1 Party
The Primary 1s had a great time at their Christmas party with games and dances. We also had an extra special surprise when Santa visited to give us all a present!
P2 Christmas Party 🎉 🌲
Primary 2 had a fantastic time at their Christmas party. We played games and did lots of dancing. 
Experiment – Science and HWB
Primary 7 have focussed on understanding the different ways unkind behaviour can be presented.
The mains things we discussed were:
- How unkind words and actions impact people
- How to help someone who is experiencing bullying or unkind behaviour
- That unkind words and actions are not always direct to the person
- How to notice if your behaviour is unkind and how to make up for your mistakes and make amends
We watched this award winning video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsGGsPNakw
We decided to do an experiment on how unkind words and actions can harm any living thing. Instead of saying unkind things to plant 2, we put hand sanitiser in the water.
We ensured we had all the correct details in order to carry out a valid experiment, this included:
- Diagrams
- Controls
- Variables
- Predictions
- Results
The results were similar to our predictions, that plant 2 would die.
We decided to see if we could reverse the negative actions by putting Plant 2 in with Plant 1 so it had plenty of water and food.
See below for our experiment notes.
This experiment helped us visualise what unkind words and actions can do to a living thing. We discussed the impact this has on others and how to help someone you think is struggling.
Book Week Winners and Runners up.
Today we had a small gathering in the library for our Book Week winners, and the Runners- up. They were all able to bring along a friend to join them. We enjoyed biscuits, juice and some festive cartoons.
We had so many fantastic book marks, drawings and book covers it was a very difficult decision to choose winners. Thanks to the pupils in the Literacy Hub for their help with the judging.
We have such a lot of artistic talent at East Calder Primary! Well done everyone!
Community visit to Manse Court P6
It was great to start making links with our local community once again. With it being the festive season P6 were keen to visit Manse Court in East Calder and share some Christmas Joy. We exchanged christmas cards, some Christmas goodies and even a rendition of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer! We hope that this will be just the beginning of developing our links with the community with a planned visit to the Partnership Centre already in the diary. Many thanks to our parent helpers.
P3a Numeracy
Continuing on from last week’s learning on place value we have been working on Hundred’s, Ten’s & One’s. We had to find our partners by working out how many HTO’s a number had, then we had to get into order smallest to biggest. We had checkers to make sure we had completed it correctly. Then we got into our groups and worked on different activities. One group work on Seesaw and had to put numbers in order and say which were greater than & less than while another worked with the concrete material. Another group were given a 3 digit challenge to work out all the numbers that could be made from the 3 digits. They then had to work out which were odd and which were even and then put them in order. They were then challenged further by using 4 digits.
