Author: Mrs Stewart

East Calder Bowling Club -Community Hub visit

Wow! What can we say but a huge thank you to East Calder Bowling Club. Today we were fortunate enough to visit the bowling club where we taught the fine art of bowling….it is much trickier than it looks! We are so grateful to everyone involved who gave up their time and for the much needed refreshments on such a beautiful day. Considering some of the children had never bowled before there were some real pros in our midst. We would also like to say thank you to the Club for the incredibly generous donation to the P7 Hoody fund. This was much appreciated. The children thoroughly enjoyed this worthwhile experience.

Community Hub Visit

Today the Community Hub visited the KNEC Community Listening Project and Warm Hub in East Calder. The project aims to provide a space called a warm hub. Starting with 4 hours, 2 days a week (Monday and Thursday 11am-3pm) They open in the downstairs of East Calder Church Hall allowing people to come and sit in the warm. There will be a free bowl of soup, roll, warm drinks and biscuits available. There will also be free WI-FI which  allows people to sit in and complete work if need be. This will also help people who would be isolated in their homes facing the potential of suffering loneliness.

We helped preparing lunch, getting plates ready and then, very carefully serving lunch. We also had a lesson about listening, as it is central to the ethos of the Warm Hub. Another group looked at the organisation of the Hub and how it accommodates everyone. It was great to be able to chat to so many of the visitors to the Hub. Later this week we will present the Hub with a cheque from our Dress Down Day fundraising. Thank you to everyone at the Hub for such a warm welcome.

Community Hub

It was great to be able to visit  The Partnership Centre today. After a long wait due to covid restrictions our Hub group has finally had the opportunity to make links with the community again. We had a great time visiting the library,completing quizzes,questionnaires and even had a storytelling session. It has encouraged us all to grab a library card and make the most of this great resource right on our doorstep! Many thanks to the Library and Debbie for opening early for us. It was fantastic to have the whole library to ourselves. Keep an eye out for our next Community Hub visit!

 

Victorian Artefacts Handling Session P6

We were fortunate enough to have a visit from West Lothian Museum services this week. Linking with our current Social Studies context we enjoyed a morning of Victorian artefacts! The class were allowed to handle a lot of the items and were amazed to see how things have progressed since Victorian times,even though we have the Victorians to thank for some of the amazing inventions that we use today. They were completely flummoxed by the toasting fork and carpet beater,the latter of which they thought could be to put pizzas in an oven! This was a great springboard for our Victorian context as it led to discussions about Vitorian inventions,housing and lifestyle to name but a few. We will be linking this learning to our current Literacy theme of creating a recount,the ability to retell and evaluate an experience. The Museum Service have kindly agreed to attend our Sharing the Learning in March so come along and see if you can identify the purpose of our Victorian artefacts,remember your child is now an expert!

P6 Scots Week

In P6 we started by looking a whole range of Scots words and trying to decipher what they may mean….most of us knew Mingin! For the ones we were less sure of we used a Scots online dictionary. Once we had worked out the Scots translation, we used these words in a variety of ways. Some created their own Scots comics whilst others used the words to translate the poem A Dug, A Dug by Billy Keys. Some members of the class learnt a Scots poem whilst others decided to recite a Roald Dahl story which had been translated into Scots!

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

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.

Using our Literacy Skills in an Everyday Context

In our Literacy lessons we are looking at the features and layout of a Procedure. We discussed the 4 parts to a set of Instructions

Title

Goal

Materials

Steps

We also looked at adding a Top Tip and diagrams to help our reader!

Using these skills in an everyday context we had a fantastic melted snowman sugar cookie made by a member of our class.She told us how she carefully followed a procedure,a recipe in this case to make this yummy creation. Well done! It looked amazing.

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