Well done to our Primary 7s who took part in Sportshall Athletics last Wednesday. The pupils worked really hard as a team and showed outstanding behaviour in front of the other schools. Everyone enjoyed taking part in the activities and cheering on their fellow pupils. We have now received our score and I can confirm that East Calder Primary got 149 points and came 5th out of the 9 schools competing! Well done everyone.
Literacy in P6-An Explanation
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
Primary 7 thoroughly enjoyed their trip with Alan Hamilton yesterday, Alan is a friend of the school, a veteran and an expert in all things to do with WWII.
He set up an activity for us to discover some different war graves, when we found the correct graves we laid some commemorative crosses for Remembrance Day. Alan also explained a bit about each soldier, their role in the war and how they lost their lives.
Alan told us some information about a residential house right next to the school, if you look closely at the brickwork, you can see that there was an opening – this used to be the old tuck shop for the school. He also reminded us that the ‘big’ house at the end of the road used to be a Police Station.
Alan was delighted with his gift from a pupil, the pupil made him a technical replica model of some war weapons. We want to say a huge thank you to Alan for his continued support of the school and wealth of knowledge. The pupils are looking forward to working with him again.
