Category: Primary 7

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!

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!

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.

Science at ECPS

We have been very busy in our science lab since we returned to school! In our first week back we were growing  rainbows, creating crystal geodes, planting rainforest and desert biodomes and beginning to set up a wormery (no worms have been added yet!)

We have also started our topics for the term:

P1 & P2/1 are learning all about electricity and how to keep safe:

We have been working on our classification skills this week and sorting items into electrical and non-electrical groups.

P2, P3 & P4 are investigating forces and magnets:

This week we have been investigating the affect weight has on the speed of a ball rolling down a ramp, and testing out balanced forces.

P5, P6 & P7 are exploring light:

We have been exploring how to use reflection to control light and have been using this knowledge to build our own mirror mazes.

East Calder Bowling Club -Community Hub visit

Wow! What can we say but a huge thank you to East Calder Bowling Club. Today we were fortunate enough to visit the bowling club where we taught the fine art of bowling….it is much trickier than it looks! We are so grateful to everyone involved who gave up their time and for the much needed refreshments on such a beautiful day. Considering some of the children had never bowled before there were some real pros in our midst. We would also like to say thank you to the Club for the incredibly generous donation to the P7 Hoody fund. This was much appreciated. The children thoroughly enjoyed this worthwhile experience.

Community Hub Visit

Today the Community Hub visited the KNEC Community Listening Project and Warm Hub in East Calder. The project aims to provide a space called a warm hub. Starting with 4 hours, 2 days a week (Monday and Thursday 11am-3pm) They open in the downstairs of East Calder Church Hall allowing people to come and sit in the warm. There will be a free bowl of soup, roll, warm drinks and biscuits available. There will also be free WI-FI which  allows people to sit in and complete work if need be. This will also help people who would be isolated in their homes facing the potential of suffering loneliness.

We helped preparing lunch, getting plates ready and then, very carefully serving lunch. We also had a lesson about listening, as it is central to the ethos of the Warm Hub. Another group looked at the organisation of the Hub and how it accommodates everyone. It was great to be able to chat to so many of the visitors to the Hub. Later this week we will present the Hub with a cheque from our Dress Down Day fundraising. Thank you to everyone at the Hub for such a warm welcome.

Netball Success!

Congratulations to our P7 Netball team who have had a very successful month. The team won the South Livingston Netball League and the West Lothian Primary School Netball Tournament.

Our Netball club started back in September and has ran on Wednesdays continuously throughout the school year. A huge thank you to Mr Millar and Mrs Gall for running this club and taking pupils to after school events.

 

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