Author: Miss Baldacci

Have a look at what we have been up to this week. We have been focusing on the following:-

• Identifying the difference between a fact and opinion.
• Reading Circles where we have focused on our new reading books.
• Our ‘ough’ sound.
• The Skeletal Structure and researching the names of the different parts and what they do.
• Time where we have been identifying 5 minute intervals as well as minute intervals and discussing the importance of the hands and how they can be drawn – ensuring there is a difference between the minute and hour hand. We have been linking this to digital time and how this looks.
• Circuits and gymnastics have been covered in P.E where we are trying to improve each week on our individual skills.
• In Spanish we have had fun learning the colours and playing games to help reinforce them.
• Writing a recount based on our WW1 context that we have been learning about. These recounts were based on The Christmas Truce. We planned it out and ensured our recount had an orientation, sequence of events and personal comment at the end.
• Finally, we are in the process of creating a new WW1 display for outside our classroom – watch this space!

Well done for your hard work this week, p5/4! I am enjoying working with you and look forward to more learning and fun next week. Have a lovely weekend 🙂 Alison Baldacci (Principal Teacher).

Look at some of our fantastic Maths entries for a competition we did in school. Well done everyone!

Have a look at the task some of us completed using Pixton for West Calder High. We had to write our own mini conversation in French.

We had a Spooktacular Friday dooking for apples and creating our very own spider Oreos. Our favourite part was eating them!

We have been so enthusiastic about our spooky writing this week. We created a plan and designed our own characters for our story. We have been really focused on these stories throughout the week – trying to include some awesome alliteration along the way! Some of us have chosen to write in our jotters and some of us are typing them up. We have been sharing the finished ones in class and have been using a torch with the lights out to create a spooky setting. We come out and read in the author’s chair since we are authors of our own stories.

Since it is Black History Month, we have taken control over our learning and decided who we would like to research in more depth. We also decided how we would like to display our learning so we could then become teachers and teach the class more about our chosen individual. Our research ranged from looking at Rosa Parks to Leigh-Anne Pinnock from LittleMix.

Miss Baldacci – I just wanted to add a little bit to say how proud I am of all of the learners in primary 6b. We have had lots of fun, whilst working hard and I am very impressed with the enthusiasm they have shown towards all tasks. Keep up the fantastic work everyone 🙂

We have had lots of fun this week in Primary 6b, reminding ourselves of how to multiply and have been focusing on a range of different strategies to support us with our work. Some children learned to multiply with two digits e.g. 345×26 and absolutely loved the challenge. Take a look at us hard at work 🙂

We had a fantastic trip to Almondell Country Park in order to celebrate the near completion of the woodland management works and Historic Wall Project there. The kids had a brilliant day and so did the adults! We went on a guided walk, watched a chainsaw demonstration and did lots of tree planting. A massive thank you to Mrs Hearn and Mr Fazakerley who joined Miss Livingstone and I on the trip.

A massive thank you to Kirsty who helped us arrange this great trip and to all of the staff who were kind, patient and welcoming and supported the children with their tree planting.

Have a look at the fun we had in the pictures 🙂

Miss Baldacci (Principal Teacher)

 

A massive well done to this P7 pupil for this fabulous drawing. She came down to show me on Friday and I was very impressed. She also shared the work she is completing on the American Revolution and said she was currently in the process of completing her own research. Well done!!

Miss Baldacci.

Hi everyone!

Now that your child has met their new class and teacher, I wanted to provide Social Stories for them to look at incase they or yourselves wanted a reminder of doors  they use and the people who can help them when they come back in August.

I have also recorded a version they might want to listen to which can help reassure children who are perhaps feeling a little worried about the change.

Take care,

Alison Baldacci (Principal Teacher).

Social Story – P7A

Social Story – P7B

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Hi everyone!

Now that your child has met their new class and teacher, I wanted to provide Social Stories for them to look at incase they or yourselves wanted a reminder of doors  they use and the people who can help them when they come back in August.

I have also recorded a version they might want to listen to which can help reassure children who are perhaps feeling a little worried about the change.

Take care,

Alison Baldacci (Principal Teacher).

Social Story – Primary 6A

Social Story -P6B

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Hi everyone!

Now that your child has met their new class and teacher, I wanted to provide Social Stories for them to look at incase they or yourselves wanted a reminder of doors  they use and the people who can help them when they come back in August.

I have also recorded a version they might want to listen to which can help reassure children who are perhaps feeling a little worried about the change.

Take care,

Alison Baldacci (Principal Teacher).

Social Story – P5