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.

Cookie Recipe

Good morning!

I’ve had lots of requests for the delicious cookie recipe we used in our hubs session – so I’ve attached it below. The only rule is that if you make them at home you need to bring me one for snack!

Mrs Beattie

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies – makes 8 cookies

Ingredients

  • 60 g vegan butter
  • 85 g light brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 150 g plain flour
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/4 tsp sea salt
  • 150g vegan chocolate (chips/chopped)
  • 40 ml oat milk

Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 180ºC Fan, or 200ºC regular!
  2. Add the vegan butter, sugar and vanilla to a bowl and beat with electric whisk until creamy.
  3. Using a sieve, add in the plain flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, and salt and beat until combined.
  4. Gradually add in the vegan milk until the cookie dough is formed.
  5. Add in the vegan chocolate and mix with a spoon until distributed well!
  6. Split the cookie dough into 8 equal balls.
  7. Spread out the dough balls onto a lined baking tray.
  8. Bake the cookies in the oven for 10-12 minutes.
  9. Take them out the oven carefully and put the cookies onto the cooling rack.
  10. Eat and enjoy!

P3A Hubs Week 2

This we we were working on the Meta Skill Social Intelligence. This meant we were communicating, collaborating and leading. We listened to the story Jack and the Beanstalk and thought about the characters and main points. We discussed how the characters would act, what they say and talked about how the story would be better with sound effects. We then split into smaller groups, each with a different character or main point noise to make. We worked together to think how best to create the sounds required. We then came back together and went through the story this time adding in our own sound effects. We had lots of tapping on tables for characters walking or running and the Giant’s footsteps made with slaps on the floor. We had some really good hens clucking around and the harp was made by someone hitting their water bottle. Our Giant’s voice was very good when he bellowed ‘Fee, fi fo, fum’. We had good fun collaborating together to create all these sound effects and it all came together to make the story come to life for us.

P1C Innovation Hub

P1C enjoyed their skills hub. We learned about percussion instruments through a listening game. Then we made shakers from recycled materials and rice.  We listened to a piece of music shaking our shakers to the beat.

We had a discussion about critical thinking and creativity skills and everyone was able to identify when they had used them.

P3A Hubs Week 1

We were working on Meta Skill of INNOVATION. We had to use our creativity to come up with a new wild animal, thinking about how it moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. We got to choose if we worked on it individually, in a pair or in a small group (and for once we got to choose out partners!). Once we had drawn and annotated our creature we then used any resource in the classroom to build it. Lots of us used Lego while others tried making it from card. We then recorded ourselves or took a picture, to be added to our Seesaw accounts, explaining how our creature moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. Next week we will use our creature in our story writing. A great fun filled afternoon!

P3A Learning

This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby’s Worry.  It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition.  Please see Sway to find out about our learning.

Go to this Sway

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!

P3A Learning

We have started learning about 3D shapes. First we tried to remember their names. Then we looked at them, touched them and thought about their properties. We then had to work with our partner to work out how many edges, faces & vertices they had. We found some like a sphere easy but found working out the properties of a triangular prism much harder. Some of us even found a pentagonal pyramid in the box and worked on finding out it’s properties.

We have been recapping our learning of last term about nouns and adjectives. Now we have moved onto learning about verbs. We watched a video about action verbs and joined in with the movements. Then we worked with a partner to come up with our own action, the rest of the class then had to guess what our action was. Next we worked with our partner to write a sentence on our desks including at least one action verb.

P3A Book Week

We took part in lots of different activities for Book Week. We watched Author’s Live with the illustrator Fiona Lumbers.  She read one of the Luna Loves stories and taught us how to draw Luna.  We had good fun adding our own things that Luna might love to our pictures. We took part in the book week competition creating our own book marks.  We tried to use bright colours to make them stand out. We have been learning to write discussion text this term.  During book week we wrote one with the title Should children read at home?  We also had a Secret Reader who came and read some of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Lastly, we received our Read, Write, Counts bags and welcomed our adults into school to read with us.

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