A massive well done to our Primary 7 pupils who competed in this year’s Scottish Maths Challenge. I had the privilege of making some lovely phone calls today to congratulate the prize winners. We have 1 x bronze prize winner, 2 x silver prize winners and 1 x gold prize winner! A massive congratulations to all the winners and well done to everyone who entered – we are so very proud of you all!!
Good Morning, hope you are all well 🙂
Here are some suggested activities to give a try.
Baking/Cooking – Do you prefer savoury or sweet? Well here is an option for both. Click Here for a link to Lucy’s granny’s delicious shortbread, highly recommended by Mrs Laing And Click https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/pizza-puff-pinwheels for a recipe to puff pastry pizza pinwheels.
Alexa Games – Do you have an Alexa in the house? Why not ask her to play some games with you and your family, here are some ideas L.I I can use technology to help me learn new things.
Stickman – Do you like the story Stickman? You could read the story (available on YouTube if you don’t have the book) and then go out a walk and collect sticks to make your own stick family. What size of sticks will you find, long, short, thick, thin, big, small? L.I I can compare size of everyday objects and can use correct mathematical language. L.I I enjoy listening to stories and sharing my thoughts and feelings.
Grow a sunflower – Measure it daily to see how tall it grows and record its progress in a notebook. L.I I am learning how to recognise numerals and use mathematical language in the correct context. L.I I am developing my pencil control.
Have fun and stay safe
EC Nursery Team
Can you beat Mrs Ferguson’s score? I will be trying this afternoon and will aiming to beat her score.
Collins Big Cat Reading
We are delighted that we now have access to Collins Big Cat Reading scheme.
Reading is so important to your child’s development. We would encourage everyone to try read a little every day, especially if you are finding it a challenge to get your child to complete work at home.
This is a whole school reading programme that provides support for primary reading.
Our pupils will be able to access hundreds of high quality fiction and non- fiction banded books by award- winning authors and illustrators.
There are also activities at the end of each book and resources for you to try if you wish.
Each book is read aloud but if your child would prefer to read by themselves click on the pause button.
Your child’s teacher will advise a colour of level for your child to start reading.
Please adapt this if necessary to suit your own child’s reading ability.
This is the link or Google Collins Big Cat Reading
https://collins.co.uk/pages/big-cat-ebooks
Go to Collins Connect and click on the Teacher portal and enter:
Username: parents@harpercollins.co.uk
Password: Parents20!
and click Login.
Happy reading everyone!
Welcome to Week 2 of Sports Day Training. The focus this week is Overarm throwing.
Make sure that you have enough space to practise safely. You can follow the West Lothian PE team or I on Twitter to see our daily challenges and different activity ideas.
Mr Millar: @PEwithMrMillar
West lothian PE team: @WLPENetwork
Good morning everyone!
We hope you had a lovely long weekend and had lots of fun!
Here is your home learning grid for this week. As this week is a short week, there are less tasks to complete. You will also notice one of your Literacy tasks is to access the Collins Big Cat ebooks. Please see the additional attached document with more information. You will also find the username and password in this document:)
Here are the Collins levels for each group across both classes. These are just the starting levels and could change as you progress through the books.
P2M
Lions – Gold
Giraffes – Orange
Zebras – Yellow
Elephants – Pink/Red
P2W
Crocodiles – Gold
Zebras – Orange
Giraffes – Green
Koalas – Pink/Red
Have fun and we look forward to seeing some of your amazing learning this week!
From Miss Walkingshaw and Miss Marra
We hope you had a lovely long weekend. All the teachers are so happy to see the pictures you are sending in, both of you and your amazing work! Well done.
Here is this week’s Home Learning grid and an activity page that goes with it.
We have included a reading activity this week. Please see below for a copy of the information that was previously sent out.
Welcome back we hope you had a nice long weekend. Here is the Home Learning grid for this week. Your teacher will be available on Teams if you need any help or have any questions so remember to check in.
Home Learning Grid 04.05.20 Short Week
Mrs Stewart/ Mrs Lewis
Good Morning everyone!
This term we are going to take part in The Great Science Share for Schools which will hopefully inspire you to think about and talk about science. Each week there will be a new theme to focus on with investigations for you to get involved in, as well as a ‘Question Maker’ to help you think of creative ways to ask great questions. You can print this off or just create your own!
You can then share your scientific questions and investigations with me either through your class Teams page, or by emailing your completed investigation into school. You can create a poster, write about it, draw it, take photos, or anything else you want to do to share your findings.
The theme this week is ‘International Dawn Chorus Day’ where you are encouraged to get up early and listen to the birds singing in the morning. I’ve certainly heard and spotted many more birds around than normal! I also managed to make a homemade bird feeder out of a recycled plastic bottle which you could also try (although my one was quickly destroyed by a squirrel).
You can think about what time of day do you see the most birds? What types of birds can you see near you? Can you identify any the birds you see or hear? Can you see and hear different birds on a walk than you do at home?
Below is a link to the Great Science Share page which gives you some ideas for your investigation (You also get a sneak peek at the themes for the coming weeks ahead – ssshhh)
Have fun bird spotters!
Mrs Beattie
https://www.greatscienceshare.org/getinvolved2020#weekly-themes-20
Virtual Book Club for Kids is a learning website you can share with your child to read, sing, play, create, have fun and learn. L.1. I enjoy exploring and choosing stories and other texts to watch, read or listen to, and can share my likes and dislikes.
Get ideas for activities, crafts and recipes based on popular themes and featured books with important skills and weekly activity plans for each of the themes. For more information please click here
Seeing other people wearing masks is a free printable book which is available at http://drive.google.com/file/d/1B2FEF1DTXomgH8ZL79Vg7E_Bu7ZOkBOA/view
Supporting your child with understanding why people are wearing masks. L.1. I understand that my feelings and reactions can change depending upon what is happening within and around me. This helps me to understand my own behaviour and the way others behave.
Some other great indoor activities to try at home
A great way to introduce your child to different materials and their properties L.1. Through creative play, I explore different materials and can share my reasoning for selecting materials for different purposes.
Pavement chalk activities to keep your child active outdoors
The good weather is to last another few days, take the opportunity to take fun learning outdoors, all you need is chalk and a pavement or driveway. L.1.I am enjoying daily opportunities to participate in different kinds of energetic play, both outdoors and indoors.
Remember you can also have a look at West Lothian Early Years Blog for more idea’s by clicking here.
Stay positive and remind your self your doing the best you can and that’s good enough.
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