Category: Class Learning

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.

P3A Learning

This week we’re learning to tell the time. Some of us used Play Dough to create the hands of a clock to tell o’clock & half past times. Others tested each other telling quarter past & quarter to using the clock faces. Some were working on changing between analogue & digital times. We also used the laptops to test our knowledge.

This week we started learning to use questions marks. First we practiced writing them, then we had to think about question words. Next we looked at a picture and worked with a random partner to come up and write down questions about it. Lastly we became Question Mark Detectives and hunted for question marks in our reading books.

In Art we thought about the colours of leaves we see just now and then created Autumn pictures.

P3A Learning

Last week we were learning to use the element of line to draw what we see. We looked closely at a leaf and thought about the shape of it and the lines of the veins.  We then drew its outline and tried and copy where all the lines were. Next we looked at the leaf again to see what colours were needed.  We thought about light and shadow and shaded our leaf picture so it looked as close the real one as possible.

P3A Learning

We have had another busy week with our learning. We are continuing to work with giving exact amounts of money and giving change. We also keep extending our knowledge of times tables. As we have been learning about Farming, we decided to write a description of a tractor. We used our plan to inform our writing. In Art we used different media to create fluffy sheep.


Robotarium Visit 🤖

All of our P7’s and P6’s were very fortunate to get to visit The Robotarium at Heriot Watt University over the last few weeks. Some of us got to meet Ameca – the worlds most advanced human shaped robot – and asked it some hard hitting questions like ‘how big is the universe?’, ‘will robots take over the world?’ and most importantly for some ‘what is your favourite football team?’
We saw some incredible robots in action, got an amazing tour of the working labs and spoke to some inspiring engineers.
We finished the day with some competitive robot games – who knew robots could play football?!
A brilliant day out for everyone, and hopefully a few new budding engineers among us!

Meteorites!

This week has been out of this world! Literally! We’ve been very fortunate to have some real meteorite samples loaned to us from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. What an amazing opportunity to hold, feel and look at some incredible rocks that have been travelling through space for millions (and even billions) of years.

Everyone was so engaged and respectful when handling these very precious materials. Hopefully you have heard all about it at home.

Maths Week in P3A

We were very lucky during Maths Week to have two visitors come in to tell us how they use Maths in their daily work. Mr Malik is a software engineer and uses Maths all the time when he is writing code. He even created a game to show us how the software worked. Then we heard from Callum who runs a company involving small animals. He uses Maths each day for things like measuring how much food or water to give the animals and record the temperatures in the cages.

In class we worked on our times tables with a random partner, using arrays to help us.

We were also very lucky to go on a trip to Almond Valley Heritage Centre to take part in a Maths Trail. Here we found out how the farm used Maths in the past. We met the Miller who used to water wheel to power the wheel to grind the flour. Then the baker had to weigh the flour to make bread. We walked round the farm counting lots of different animals. This helped us gain knowledge for our Topic on Food and Farming.

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