Thank you so much to Ian and Brett from the 3Sixty Bicycle Stunt Team for visiting us today. Our P1-7 pupils and staff loved the display and were amazed at some of the stunts!
Category: Events
Primary 6 Cross Country
Yesterday our Primary 6 pupils from both classes attended an Active Schools event with other cluster Primary schools. After walking the 1.2km course the girls were first to run. Jaymin ran a very competitive race and came in second overall. The boys were last to race and Coben and Jake ran well to earn second and third place. Our boys won overall boys team. All winners will have the opportunity to attend another event at the beginning of next session.
We are very proud of all of the Primary 6 pupils who took part yesterday. Every runner took part with enthusiasm and demonstrated excellent sportsmanship towards their fellow competitors.
Red Nose Day 2022
As part of our fundraising efforts for Comic Relief, Primary 6B will be selling noses in school starting on Friday 11th March. Noses are £1.50 each.
We will also have a dress down pyjama day in school on Friday 18th March for Red Nose Day itself. We ask that children who come to school wearing their pyjamas bring a small donation towards our fundraising.
P5, P5/4 and P4 Fischy Music
We were lucky to have the opportunity to take part in a Fischy Music session last week. Everyone was so excited to see the people from Fischy Music who we have seen so many times on screen in Assemblies! We sang songs that we know so well and we learned a few new songs too. One of the songs reminded us of the importance of friendship and the qualities that make a good friend.
We really enjoyed our learning and Miss Cameron, Miss Beattie and Miss Marra certainly spotted some future performers among us. We are looking forward to using some of the new songs we learned to support our learning in class.
Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities.
Amazon Future Engineers Webinar-Primary 6
On Thursday October 7th both Primary 6 classes attended a digital webinar with Amazon. The live 1 hour session was highly engaging, fast moving and well presented by a group of Amazon staff demonstrating the whole process from clicking and placing your order to your packages arriving at your home. The webinar was a mixture of live streamed interviews and demonstrations of each step your package takes, videos explaining the technology and also interactive multiple choice questions. There was an opportunity to have staff respond to you questions in a live Q&A session at the end.
We were fascinated by the amount of digital technology used by Amazon to carry out work in their factories and distribution centres. We learned all about algorithms, databases, computer science and cloud computing as well as how they are used to make Amazon as efficient a company as possible. Keeping the process as quick and efficient as possible. We were so shocked to see that all products are stored on ‘Pods’ which are completely controlled and moved around by robots. The robots scan QR codes on the factory floor to constantly update their position and to plan the fastest route to a human picker. Staff who must access the floor in an emergency must wear a custom made AI safety vest that cost Amazon around £9.8m to design. We were also shocked that the products were all stored randomly as the Amazon research showed this was actually more efficient than organising and storing products in alphabetical order or grouping them in any way. We also loved seeing some of the other machines in action and finding out about ‘machine learning’ so that technology can adapt and learn to keep the company as efficient as possible. We were shown how quality control was carried out at various stages.
The ingenuity and forward thinking of the company was so exciting, as well as their dedication to reducing their carbon footprint by cutting packaging by creating more ‘frustration free packaging’ and purchasing over 100,000 electric vans. It was a great opportunity to interact with such a modern and exciting company with over 1.3million employees, we agreed as classes we are all familiar with those smiley boxes!
Scott said “I thought it was really interesting to see some of the machines and I was shocked at what they did. Looking at them I wouldn’t have guessed what they could do.”
Jack said, “I thought it would be a normal deliver service but it’s so much more than that!”.
Erin thought, “It was really interesting because I thought it would just be a video of how they did it but there were all these robotics. We actually heard from real workers!”.
Jake said, “I like there was a real Q&A quiz and the interactive questions so would could join in.”
National Numeracy Day- Maths Trail
Maths looked a little different in P7 last week. As part of National Numeracy Day we looked some STEAM clips which demonstrated how Maths is so important in the World of Work. We heard from Scientists, Data Analysts, Builders, Bankers, Chefs and Engineers. Who knew Maths would touch upon so many different career paths! We then made our Numeracy lesson a little more active by going outside and starting a Maths Trail. It got very competitive as each group used their mental maths strategies to solve each problem. To finish off the week the class came up with some amazing designs crossing over curricular outcomes with both Art and Technology.
January 2021 Active Fun Challenge
Hello everyone,
Today we are starting a new activity challenge. The Active Fun 2021 Challenge. In this competition we will play against the other houses and against other schools.
This is a friendly competition but we want to try our hardest to be as active as possible. Have a look through all of the information then get logging those minutes!
January 2021 Active Fun Challenge Student Instructions
Come on East Calder, let’s see if you can get your house and our school to the top of the leader board!
Almondell
Calderhall
Langton
Oakbank
Whole School ‘Nativity Assembly’
This morning we held our usual virtual Assembly on TEAMS, however today’s assembly was very different as it was our first Nativity Assembly which was led by the pupils of East Calder Primary School. The Christmas Story was told by pupils from every class and we think that our P1-7 pupils did a fantastic job! You all learned your parts so well and spoke clearly and confidently – great job everyone!!!
Primary 7 Leavers Video
It was lovely to see so many of our Primary 7 pupils today for their transition event. Here is a copy of your video message from all of the staff at ECPS to wish you luck moving on to High School to share with your families.
ECPS Digital Careers Fayre 2020
This week Primary 6 and 7 pupils will participate in our Digital Careers Fayre event as part of their home learning grid activities. Over the last few weeks our parents, families and friends have shared with us their wonderful responses to our Careers Fayre video request. A huge thank you to all who participated and shared information about their job, providing the pupils with a wonderful range of information from different career paths. Here is the link to our SWAY presentation:
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Mrs Stewart, Mrs Lewis and Miss Young
