Author: Mrs Donnelly

Wearing face coverings

Following on from the new guidance issued, face coverings will be worn by adults in school when they are in communal areas shared with pupils.

We ask that parents and carers still continue to wear face coverings when collecting children from the school grounds. Thank you for your support.

Outdoor P.E – Reminder of days

Please see a reminder below about P.E days for our classes this session.

P1a – Tuesday & Thursday
P1b – Tuesday & Wednesday
P1c – Monday & Tuesday
P2/1 – Monday & Thursday
P2a – Wednesday & Thursday
P2b – Tuesday & Thursday
P3a – Wednesday & Friday
P3b – Wednesday & Thursday
P4/3 – Monday & Tuesday
P4 – Monday & Tuesday
P5/4 – Monday & Tuesday
P5 – Wednesday & Thursday
P6/5 – Wednesday & Thursday
P6 – Monday & Tuesday
P7/6 – Wednesday & Thursday
P7 – Monday & Thursday

Pupils should attend school dressed for outdoor P.E (t-shirt, jogging trousers or similar, trainers etc) on the days specified above (there is no need to bring a change of clothes for your child). It may be useful to wear shorts under jogging trousers in case of warm weather or indoor P.E.

Thank you.

Welcome to our new Primary 1 pupils and families

Dear parents/carers,
I hope you are all well 🙂
It was lovely to meet those of you who were able to come along to our Transition Visit in June. It’s not too long until we meet you all again and welcome our new Primary 1 pupils to school.
As promised please find a link below to a video of our school. We hope you will be able to share it with your child and watch it together. Hopefully it will make things a little more familiar to them when they start school in August. Our classrooms are not completely set up yet and our teachers will be making the finishing touches soon, however we hope that the video gives you and your child an idea of how the classrooms and areas where you child will play and learn will look in Primary 1 at East Calder Primary School.
The link to the Sway and Video is below:
Go to this Sway
Once you click on the link it should take you to our ‘Sway’. Then just click on the ‘Play’ button in the top right corner – there is a short written message and then a video for you and your child to watch together.

N-P1 Transition Task

N-P1 Transition Task – Final Week

It was lovely to meet many of you last week for our P1 Transition Visits 🙂  We hope you enjoyed spending some time in your classroom and meeting your teacher. 
Please see information and links below for this weeks transition activities. These are the last transition activities before the Summer holidays.
The story this week is called ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister.   
At the beginning of the story, the rainbow fish doesn’t have very many friends but by the end of the story, he has learned to share and has lots of friends.
Can you draw a picture of one of your friends?   Can you write your name and their name too?
You could try drawing a picture of the beautiful rainbow fish or if you have paints at home you could use them to make a finger painting.  Maybe you could cut shiny materials or pages from an old magazine and stick them onto paper in the shape of a fish.
Please click on the link below to listen to the story of ‘The Rainbow Fish’.  We hope you enjoy it 🙂
The rainbow fish has so many colours!   The link below is a favourite song of ours in Primary 1.  How many colours do you know?  We hope you enjoy the song.
It’s a colors song for young children. This song was written and performed by A.J. Jenkins. Video by KidsTV123. Copyright 2018 A.J.Jenkins/KidsTV123: All rights reserved. This is an ORIGINAL song written in 2018 – any copying is illegal. For MP3s, worksheets and much more: http://www.KidsTV123.com kids songs song for children Chords Capo 3rd …
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Parents, the booklet attached below is by Axel Scheffler.   It was written together with Professor Graham Medley (Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling), Head teachers and Child Psychologist Dr Sarah Carman.   It is an accessible booklet which can be read in parts or all at once.  We hope it is useful to you and your family. Please click on the link below to access the booklet.
These Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler poems (in the link below) show familiar characters social distancing.  You may like to share them with your children.
Have a great Summer.  All the P1 team are really looking forward to seeing you in August!

N-P1 Transition Task – Week 5

I’m pleased to hear that lots of you enjoyed last weeks story 🙂 I’ve loved seeing the photos which some of you have sent in and I’m very impressed with the healthy lunches you’ve put together.
We are now on Week 5 of our transition tasks. Please find details below about this weeks activity.

Week 5 Transition Task – ‘Topsy and Tim – First Day at School’

Hello everyone. This week you will have the opportunity to visit your Primary 1 classroom and meet your new teacher. We hope you’ll enjoy your time in school and have fun!

This week’s transition activity is based on ‘Topsy and Tim- First Day at School’. You can click on this link to watch the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrPyg_iXQj8

Topsy and Tim were excited about their first day at school, meeting friends and enjoying lots of activities. What are you looking forward to?

Topsy and Tim had a smart new blue and white school uniform. Our school uniform is yellow and black. Can you draw a picture of what you will be wearing on your first day in Primary 1?

We would love to see your pictures!

N-P1 Transition Task – Week 4

Week 4 Transition Task

We hope you are enjoying the transition tasks so far – it has been lovely to see and hear about some of the activities you have been doing based around the stories we have shared so far 🙂

This week is another story for you. It’s called ‘Charlie and Lola – I am too absolutely small for school’. Please see details below for the story and a suggested activity.

Week 4 Transition Task – Charlie and Lola – I’m Too Absolutely Small For School

Hi everyone, here is your next transition activity.  It is all to do with the story book ‘Charlie and Lola – I Am Too Absolutely Small for School’.  If you have the book at home, then ask someone in your family to read it to you.  If you don’t have it, click on the link below to hear the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHjRzSFyn50

 Lola is a bit of a fussy eater so is not very sure about lunchtimes! Do you think you will try a school dinner, or take your own packed lunch?

Here is a little task for you.  Can you plan and prepare a healthy packed lunch that you might want to take to school?  You could do this by drawing it, or you could actually make up a packed lunch and eat it at home or in your garden!

Feel free to take some pictures and send them into us.  Have fun!

 

Transition Task – Week 3

Week 3 Transition Task – ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle
 
This week we would like you to watch and listen to, or if you have the book at home read, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle. This book provides lots of learning opportunities to discuss healthy eating, life cycles, counting, colours and days of the week.  There is lots to talk about  with your child as you enjoy the story together. Please find the link to the story below:

https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-itm-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=itm&p=cbeebies+the+very+hungry+caterpillar#id=2&vid=7ca26734349aaac20221365f426e829b&action=view

We hope you and your child enjoy this weeks story 🙂 Maybe you can spot some butterflies in your garden or when you are out walking or maybe you would like to draw or make one.

The days of the week are mentioned in the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The link below leads to a Days of the Week song we sing in Primary 1. Your child might like to watch it, learn it or sing along 🙂 

http://thesingingwalrus.com/videos-and-songs/general-topics/days-of-the-week-song/

Feel free to share any of your learning with us by emailing laura.donnelly@westlothian.org.uk if you would like or just enjoy the story together 🙂 

Transition Task – Week 2

Week 2 Transition Task – ‘It’s A Seashell Day’

This week we would like you to watch and listen to the story ‘It’s a Seashell Day’ by Diane Ochiltree with your child.  The story and learning activities suggested are an ideal way to further develop your child’s number sense and the counting principles. This learning will be revisited when your child starts Primary 1.  Please follow the link below to access the story ‘It’s a Seashell Day’.  We hope you enjoy it 🐚

https://sway.office.com/P0bIz9oCq1wxW35Q?ref=Link

If you want to learn more about the counting principles please click the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG0jzpZtfgs

We hope you and your child enjoy this weeks story 🙂 Maybe you can continue to find ways to count objects in your house and/or garden or maybe you can spot numbers and collections of objects in your environment or out on your walks.

N-P1 Transition Task – Week 1

Nursery – P1 Transition
Dear Parents/Carers – you should have received an email today with a copy of our N-P1 Transition Timeline, photographs of our P1 staff and details about our Week 1 ‘Transition Task’. Please click on the link below to access our N-P1 Transition Timeline.
 As part of this years transition process we would like to email you a weekly transition task for you and your child to complete. Our Week 1 Transition Task is ‘Getting To Know You’. So we can get to know your child a little bit, we would love if you could email a photograph of your child surrounded by some of their favourite things. It could be a favourite toy, a favourite book etc, they could be wearing their favourite outfit etc.
Please email your photo to laura.donnelly@westlothian.org.uk so I can share it with the P1 teachers and display it on a ‘Welcome Wall’ in the Primary 1 area of the school.
Please click on the link below to meet our P1 staff.
We look forward to seeing the photos of our soon to be Primary 1 pupils surrounded by some of their favourite things  🙂
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