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After many weeks of rehearsal and preparation, Primary 5 and Primary 6 finally performed their Scottish Opera show, ‘Vikings! The Quest for the Dragon’s Treasure’ on Monday 17^th June.

Everyone spent time in the morning with the  Scottish Opera coaches, who took pupils through their paces with stage directions and choreography. After lunch, pupils were very excited to see their costumes and really start getting into character.  Some of the other classes came to watch the dress rehearsal and then parents , carers and invited guests took their places for our final performance.

The audience was blown away by the performance and so impressed with the confidence shown by everyone involved. The Scottish Opera professionals were also so impressed by  the childrens’ commitment and said that it made their job so much easier when pupils were so well-rehearsed and enthusiastic.

Miss Niven, Mrs Campbell and Mrs Stewart are all incredibly proud of everyone who took part – it was definitely worth all the hard work and effort! Well done everyone!

Unfortunately, due to Scottish weather we had to move our P3-5 Sports Day off the grass and into school grounds/dining hall. Pupils completed activities such as an obstacle course, long jump and target throwing. The weather cleared up at the end of the day, which allowed P5 pupils to participate in sprints for their house. Well done to all that participated. I hope you had lots of fun!

Thanks to Conor from Morrison Construction who came in and spent the morning with us building a huge Tetrahedron! Team work was certainly the order of the day and it was great to see the class collaborating and problem solving to get the job done! The quality of the communication and decision making as a team certainly helped towards our end goal. Well done P6.

 

 

Primary 6 and 7 took part in their sports day on Wednesday 12th June. We were very lucky with the weather and managed to set up our sports day in the quad and dining hall. Pupils took part in several stations including scoring goals, obstacle course and endurance run. At the end, all pupils participated in sprint races. Well done to everyone for working very hard – I hope you all had fun!

Happy Sports Day everyone!!

Unfortunately, due to Scottish weather we had to move our Sports Day off the grass and into school grounds/dining hall. The pupils were very resilient and loved working hard to achieve house points for their team. They visited 4 stations outside and 3 stations inside. They completed activities like bean bag target throw, javelin and an obstacle course! Well done to all that participated.

Miss Bennett

We would like to let everyone know that we are launching FREE Book Friday.

We have a large selection of surplus books that we no longer require and would like to promote a love of reading by giving them away to pupils and families.

Every Friday pupils can choose to bring a book  home from our selection in school. We also hope the weather is kind and we will have tables with books in the playground for families to chose from.

Look out for the Free Books HERE sign. Feel free to take as many as you wish.

Happy Reading!

Our science teacher, Mrs Beattie, has been working hard with P5A on the Climate Smarter project to produce a model of an eco friendly school. The children worked in groups to produce models which included sustainable features such as wind turbines and water recycling units. Our head teacher, Mrs Stewart, had the unenviable task of choosing 2 models to go forward to the Climate Smarter competition and STEM celebration at Heriot-Watt university on 22nd May.
The 2 groups attended the day with Mrs Beattie and Mrs Campbell. The children were asked to set up their models and then had the opportunity to spend the morning taking part in a range of STEM challenges.
They then had to present their models to the judges and showcase their knowledge about ways to make buildings more eco friendly and sustainable.
Both groups spoke confidently and held their own against other pupils ranging from P5 to S2.

We were all absolutely delighted, surprised and elated when one of our groups won 2nd prize! The boys were over the moon and received a trophy, certificate and a whopping £150 for Mrs Beattie to spend on STEM resources!

We couldn’t have been more proud of the pupils, they conducted themselves beautifully all day and spoke so confidential and enthusiastically to the judges and everyone else they met that day (even the bus driver was impressed with them!).

A huge well done to everyone involved and thank you to Mrs Beattie for organising.

Thanks so much to East Calder Bowling Club for hosting the Community Hub this morning. We had a great time honing our bowling skills. We are so grateful you gave your time to share your skills with us. We definitely have some budding bowlers who are keen to start bowling as a hobby. The refreshments were very well received and what can we say about your amazing donation to our P7 Leavers’ Fund of £180.00. Hopefully we can continue to nurture this worthwhile link with the community.

Well done to our Primary 6 Netball team who showed enthusiasm at the West Lothian wide championship today. Our P6 team worked hard against 11 other P7 teams and bagged 10th place. We are very proud of their performance and hope they all enjoyed your first netball competition !

As part of our Social Studies context P6 have been investigating the features of an election and the work of our representatives at both a local and national level. They are developing their understanding of how a democracy works and are discussing what the rights and responsibilities of citizens in Scotland are. To assist us with our learning we have been fortunate enough to have visits from both the UK and Scottish Parliament this week. We had our own manifestos, elections and even a monarch! Of course we had a speaker and Presiding Officer too so everyone came to order!