P1 – P7 pupils participated in a sponsored half marathon event and with the help from EiC events (the Edinburgh Marathon organisers) we achieved a whole school time of under 2 hours.
Well done to all our staff and pupils who took part and a big thank you to Mr Millar for organising the event.
Our next ‘RAG BAG COLLECTION‘ is on Wednesday 19th June.
Through Rag Bag your are able to help recycle textiles and clothing that may have ended up going to landfill. It is estimated that approximately 1.75 million tonnes of clothing waste is produced in the UK every year.
Please support the school by adding any old items of clothing etc to our collection point. Our Rag Bag Collection Unit can be found on the grass pitch towards the school gates near leading to Main Street.
We can accept the following items:
We cannot accept the following items:
Thank you for your support – it is much appreciated 🙂
On Friday evening 2 of our groups of pupils performed for the newly crowned East Calder Gala Queen. Up first were our choir, who are becoming seasoned performers now, with their lovely upbeat summer song. Secondly our newly formed Primary 6 and 7 dance group took to the stage to dance. This was their first performance and they were fantastic!
Well done to all children who participated- it takes a lot of courage to perform to such a large audience.
Time is absolutely flying by in P7 and it will not be long till we wave goodbye to our Class of 2018. With this in mind here is an important date for your diary! Leavers’Assembly – Thursday 20th June 1.30pm start. Can we also take this opportunity to ask if you have not yet handed in a photo for the assembly if we could have this by Friday please. Thank you for your continued support
Well done to the Salvesen Boys Football Club (2007 Year) who recently won the football tournament they competed in. What an amazing achievement! It was this proud P7’s turn to keep the trophy for a couple of weeks. Fantastic team spirit display by the boys football team. Well done!
Look at this amazing piece of art created by one of our P7 pupils at East Calder Primary School! The pupils in P7 studied different famous artists. This masterpiece was inspired by Picasso. Well done – what a talent !
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.
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!
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.
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!
