Category: Class Learning

P7/6C Homework

Primary 7/6C have been working on an Island project as part of their homework this term. In week 1 they designed their own Island with either a map or model showing key landmarks and features of the island. Some children even used computer software to design their 3D Island while others completed detailed drawings with a description and a key.  Here are some of the finished Islands:

 

Week 2 asked pupils to complete a piece of imaginative writing explaining how their character arrived on the Island! We enjoyed sharing these stories and diary entries with the class demonstrating their use of descriptive and emotive language.

 

P1 Parent Information Evening

Primary 1 Information Meeting for Parents/Carers

We are looking forward to welcoming our pre-school parents/carers to our school on Tuesday 28th May at 6.00pm. We are delighted that your child will be starting Primary 1 at East Calder Primary in August. We hope that our Information Evening will provide you with all the information you require and that any questions you have will be answered.

Our Information Evening will begin with a presentation which will outline the arrangements for your child starting Primary 1 in August. It will also give you some practical ideas about how you can help your child get ready for the transition to school. Following the presentation there will be an opportunity for parents/carers to visit the P1 classrooms and meet the Primary 1 teachers. For anyone who would like it, there will also be an opportunity to have a tour of the school.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday evening!  

P7S 20th Century Artefacts

As part of our current context 20th Century Highlights P7S were fortunate enough to have a visit from Mrs Liddell from West Lothian Council Museum Service. She brought with her a whole range of 20th Century artefacts for us to handle. Maureen brought in items from each decade,some of them with a little discussion we could work out what they were…some we had no idea! Mrs Stewart felt very old when Mrs Liddell showed the class a Walkman and a Polaroid camera from the 1980’s…these are now classed as history!

  

 

 

P7S Welcome Stem Ambassador Matthew Innes

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.

  

  

Primary 7/6C 20th Century Timeline

We have been learning about key events from the 20th Century and beginning to build our sense of chronology by examining key historical events and changes to technology. Yesterday we engaged in a session with museum services in which we each selected an item and identified where it would come on our timeline of decades. It was clear to see how many technological advances happened throughout the century and since! Miss Conner felt very old when we examined a tape player and floppy disks and the class tried to identify their uses- how technology has changed! An excellent afternoon with a lot to learn! Can you identify the objects? Which of the 10 decades do you think it was from?

    

    

This one was the trickiest! No one could guess what it was or when it was from? When we realised it was a gas powered portable hair curler the girls were jealous we don’t have these available now!

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