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!
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Term 4 Clubs
This term we will be offering a range of after school and lunch time clubs. Letters will be coming home today with a return slip at the bottom. If you would like your child to attend any of the clubs on offer please complete and return the slips to secure a place. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis and you will be notified if your child has a place in the club selected.
Dates of clubs this term will be:
Monday Clubs: 27.05.19, 03.06.19, 10.06.19 and 17.06.19
Wednesday Club: 29.05.19, 05.06.19 , 12.06.19 and 19.06.19
Thursday Club: 30.05.19, 06.06.19, 13.06.19 and 20.06.19
Clubs on offer this term will be:
| Rugby (Primary 4 and 5) | Wednesday- after school | Mr Millar |
| Clay (Primary 2 and 3) | Monday- after school | Mrs Armstrong and Mrs Robertson |
| Cheerleading (P6 and 7) | Monday- after school | Miss Conner |
| Creative Literacy (Primary 1) | Thursday- After School | Miss Jamieson and Miss Cameron |
Lunchtime Clubs: Our lunch time clubs will be ongoing this term and children do not need to sign up in advance they are welcome to attend any time.
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