A Stem Ambassador visited P7S on Thursday. The STEM philosophy of education is that it embraces teaching skills and subjects in an a way that resembles real life. To this end we asked Mr Innes to discuss Negative numbers in an everyday context,this links closely to our current maths learning. Matthew certainly brought negative numbers alive with a lesson about the negative and positive values of different classroom commodities! The class had to decide if it was worth getting a loan from the banker to expand their portfolio whilst appreciating the risk of changing market forces. We used coloured items of identical shapes (blue counters and red counters, with blue counters representing negative units and red counters representing positive ones), to analyse the importance of negative numbers when, for instance, calculating debts. At the end of the lesson the class had a real appreciation of how maths can impact on their everyday life.
Category: Beyond school
ECPS After School Clubs
Term 4 Clubs
This term we will be offering a range of after school and lunch time clubs. Letters will be coming home today with a return slip at the bottom. If you would like your child to attend any of the clubs on offer please complete and return the slips to secure a place. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis and you will be notified if your child has a place in the club selected.
Dates of clubs this term will be:
Monday Clubs: 27.05.19, 03.06.19, 10.06.19 and 17.06.19
Wednesday Club: 29.05.19, 05.06.19 , 12.06.19 and 19.06.19
Thursday Club: 30.05.19, 06.06.19, 13.06.19 and 20.06.19
Clubs on offer this term will be:
Rugby (Primary 4 and 5) | Wednesday- after school | Mr Millar |
Clay (Primary 2 and 3) | Monday- after school | Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Robertson |
Cheerleading (P6 and 7) | Monday- after school | Miss Conner |
Creative Literacy (Primary 1) | Thursday- After School | Miss Jamieson and Miss Cameron |
Lunchtime Clubs: Our lunch time clubs will be ongoing this term and children do not need to sign up in advance they are welcome to attend any time.
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Managing Screen Time for Children
West Lothian School Swimming Heats 2018
Do you swim competitively? Would you be interested in taking part in the West Lothian Schools Swimming Heats?
Please let your teacher know you are interested and an application form will be arranged. Please note that application forms require notification of current times for each event and these must be within the consideration times. All is explained in the letter.
Lendrick Muir
LENDRICK MUIR
What a great time our P5 pupils and staff had at P5 Camp last week! They had a busy but very enjoyable time at Lendrick Muir and will have lots of happy memories about their time spent there with their friends. A special thanks goes to Miss Jamieson, Miss Cameron , Mrs Hearn and Mrs Sandison who accompanied the children to camp this year. Without our dedicated staff giving up their own time we would not be able to offer these valuable residential experiences for our pupils.
Lendrick Muir – Day 2
Our P5 pupils and staff are having an enjoyable time at Lendrick Muir. There were lots of smiling faces when I went along to visit them this afternoon and a few tired looking faces too! Everyone has been enjoying their activities and they’ve managed to avoid most of the heavy rain showers! There was lots of excited chat about their favourite activities so far and highlights of their first school residential.
Below are a few photos from Lendrick Muir. We’re looking forward to seeing lots more photos and hearing all about their experiences once their back home. I think everyone will be in need of their holiday weekend to recover from their fun-filled trip away.