Author: Mrs Murdoch

P1a – Maths Week

P1a had an exciting time during Maths Week, filled with outdoor learning and creative exploration. We practised our counting skills by chasing and popping bubbles, turning a fun activity into a great way to build number sense. Using natural materials like sticks and stones, we created counting collections and carefully ordered them by size, developing our understanding of measurement and comparison.

Our 2D shape hunt around the playground was a big hit! We discovered circles, rectangles, squares, and even spotted a triangle and a pentagon. Suddenly, shapes were everywhere — in the classroom, around the school, and in everyday objects. We captured our discoveries with photos and used them to inspire our own shape pictures, combining maths with creativity.

It was a fantastic week of learning, exploring, and having fun with maths in the environment.

 

 


Congratulations also to our fantastic pupil  who recently walked 5 miles for charity in the Edinburgh Kilt Walk. A tremendous achievement. Well done!

Primary 1

When celebrating Earth Day recently, the pupils discussed how they could look after our planet. Some suggestions included turning off water, switching off lights, not dropping litter and not wasting food. They watched short films all about recycling and listened to the ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ song. This all linked with our previous Eco learning.

To celebrate, they made Earth Day hats and created seed bombs which they planted in our P1a flower bed. They talked about what our seeds needed to help them grow – light, water, air and warmth. Hopefully there will be a colourful display in the months ahead  and a chance to attract pollinators and  minibeasts – our new IDL theme.

Donate your old Devices!

Donate your old Devices!

Got any old smartphones, tablets, routers, gaming consoles, cameras or laptops and cables that you no longer need?

Don’t know what to do with them and don’t want them going to landfill?

This could be the answer!

As part of our Eco learning on sustainability, East Calder Primary is joining with the Edinburgh Remakery- a registered charity and environmental social enterprise with a mission to reduce e-waste by repairing and refurbishing old tech. Your donations can be given the gift of life, reused, resold or donated to people suffering from digital poverty.

A Tech Donation Box will be arriving in school on January 29th for approximately 4 weeks. This box is designed to help pupils, their families and staff dispose of their old personal tech in an environmentally friendly way. The Edinburgh Remakery will ensure any tech is data wiped.

So if you would like to reduce e-waste and its impact on the environment, while supporting local people and our planet, this could be for you!

Primary 1

This week in P1 we have been learning our new sound ee and revising ch,sh and th. Thank you to everyone who presented a talk about their favourite toy, what a variety of toys!

In Maths, we have been using our playdough to help learn about halves and quarters.

As it was Science Week, we took part in a curly wurly challenge. It was great fun and very messy. We were very surprised at how long they could stretch.

You may have noticed our daffodils on the windowsills. We added food colouring to the water to show how a plant sucks water up through its stem. Look at the petals!

We look forward to meeting you next week for Parent Consultations.

 

P1 News

Last week, we were visited by Fischy Music! We learned new songs and had good fun singing and dancing. Then we had a school concert in the afternoon which was very loud and great fun.

In Literacy, we continue to learn new sounds: ‘u’ , ‘l’ and ‘f’, and are practising blending to read small words. We read in school on a Monday and a Tuesday, and then we send books home on a Tuesday to be returned on a THURSDAY.

In Numeracy, we have been learning all about addition and can add two sets together. We use the vocabulary – add, plus, equals, makes and total.

This week is Book Week. We are enjoying stories every day in class and taking part in fun activities. Yesterday we listened to stories and songs in a live event with Julia Donaldson. We all know some of her books and shared our favourites. We look forward to seeing you at the library on Wednesday at 2.20pm when book bags will be gifted!

 

 

P1a News

We’ve had a really busy week in P1a.

In Maths we have been continuing to learn about time and have been reading o’clock and half past times on digital and analogue clocks.

Our new sound this week was ‘ai’ and we made a list of ‘ai’ words, but soon realised that this sound can be written differently e.g bear, whale etc. We also tried to make words that rhyme and used magnets and flip charts to make rhyming word families.

On Wednesday we had our sharing the learning afternoon. Thank you to all the parents and carers who were able to come along. We had a great time trying out all of the senses activities. We had smelling pots to guess the smell, tasting activities to identify sweet, sour, bitter and salty, shakers to make for the sense of hearing, fun glasses to design for sight and lots of different textures to stick onto a huge hand for the sense of touch. It was agreed afterwards that the tasting one was the best!

 

P1 Learning

This week we have been learning our new sound ‘ng’ and have been writing some descriptions. We’ve been trying really hard to remember capitals, finger spaces and full stops when writing sentences, and some of us have been using joining words too.

We are continuing to explore Our Five Senses and  have had fun playing the feely bag game . We used lots of vocabulary to describe the textures we felt e.g smooth, rough, bumpy, hard, squishy, soft. We also learned about our sense of smell and found out that some smells can act as a warning eg. food can smell off, so don’t eat it .

“If you smell smoke, that’s a warning. There could be a fire and you need to get out.” – Heather

In Maths we’ve been looking at o’clock times on analogue and digital clocks. We’ve played some bingo games and have  even made some of our own clocks.

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Primary 1 Learning

Even although it was a short week, we’ve had a very busy few days in P1.

We have learned our new sound ‘qu’ and have been practising our reading skills on Reading Wise. We have also been adding within ten using dominoes and ten frames for Numeracy.

We have continued to learn about toys and looked at some toys from the past. Many were made from metal, wood or cloth, unlike a lot of our plastic toys today.

We thought about which forces toys use to help them move. We found many  that use a push or pull force, in the classroom or outside.

Some of us also completed a STEAM challenge to design and make a game of our own – a marble maze using lego.

We were lucky to have a surprise judo session on Wednesday and had lots of fun learning new moves and working with partners on the mat.

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This week in Literacy, we have been learning to recognise  our new sounds ‘t’ and ‘i’ and form our letters correctly. We have also been playing some listening games to practise the four good listening skills, and have enjoyed meeting and sharing stories with our buddies in the library.

In Health and Wellbeing, we have thought about healthy eating and designed our favourite meal, and we have also been discussing what makes a good friend.

In Numeracy, we have been trying to look for numbers all around us. It’s amazing how many we found at school! How many can you spot around your home , at the shops or in the street?

P1 Starting School

Primary 1 have had a super start to school this week. They have been settling in well, learning all of our routines, and making new friends. We worked hard in the gym with Mr Miller, and our gym days this term will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Mrs Robertson came to class on Thursday. We listened to a story and pretended to be tigers. We had our first assembly today and watched it on the Smartboard.

Please bring a water bottle to class every day and remember your morning snack. Many thanks.

Looking forward to seeing you on Monday for another busy week.

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