What a fabulous few weeks we’ve had baking up a storm! The scent of cookies drifting along the hallway has got a few tummies rumbling! Well done to all our bakers who did a great job making some delicious vegan chocolate chip cookies. Yum!
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P3A Hubs Week 2
This we we were working on the Meta Skill Social Intelligence. This meant we were communicating, collaborating and leading. We listened to the story Jack and the Beanstalk and thought about the characters and main points. We discussed how the characters would act, what they say and talked about how the story would be better with sound effects. We then split into smaller groups, each with a different character or main point noise to make. We worked together to think how best to create the sounds required. We then came back together and went through the story this time adding in our own sound effects. We had lots of tapping on tables for characters walking or running and the Giant’s footsteps made with slaps on the floor. We had some really good hens clucking around and the harp was made by someone hitting their water bottle. Our Giant’s voice was very good when he bellowed ‘Fee, fi fo, fum’. We had good fun collaborating together to create all these sound effects and it all came together to make the story come to life for us.
P3A Hubs Week 1
We were working on Meta Skill of INNOVATION. We had to use our creativity to come up with a new wild animal, thinking about how it moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. We got to choose if we worked on it individually, in a pair or in a small group (and for once we got to choose out partners!). Once we had drawn and annotated our creature we then used any resource in the classroom to build it. Lots of us used Lego while others tried making it from card. We then recorded ourselves or took a picture, to be added to our Seesaw accounts, explaining how our creature moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. Next week we will use our creature in our story writing. A great fun filled afternoon!
Skills Hubs LAUNCH DAY!!
We are all so excited that today is the launch of our new skills hubs. These hubs have been in development since August as part of our School Improvement Plan and have been consulted widely on.
Congratulations!
On the 2nd March this dynamic duo entered their first competition at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. They came second in both Cheer and Hip Hop! They both received a medal and have another competition in May. Well done ladies!!
P3A Learning
This term we are working on our division. We learned a new strategy called Bar Modelling. We then worked with a random partner to show our knowledge. This will also help us work out fractions of a number.
We were asked to let the architects know what we thought about different aspects of our new school building. We worked together to discuss each questions and then used the QR codes to record our thoughts.
P3A Learning
This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby’s Worry. It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition. Please see Sway to find out about our learning.
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Victorian Artefacts! P6
Victorian Artefacts in P6
We were fortunate enough to have a visit from West Lothian Museum services this week. Linking with our current Social Studies context we enjoyed an afternoon of Victorian artefacts! The class were allowed to handle a lot of the items and were amazed to see how things have progressed since Victorian times,even though we have the Victorians to thank for some of the amazing inventions that we use today. It was however interesting to see like an abacus we still use concrete materials in Numeracy This was a great springboard for our Victorian context as it led to discussions about Victorian inventions, housing and lifestyle to name but a few. We will be linking this learning to our current Literacy theme of creating a recount,the ability to retell and evaluate an experience. The Museum Service have kindly agreed to attend our Sharing the Learning in April so come along and see if you can identify the purpose of our Victorian artefacts, remember your child is now an expert!
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!
P3A Learning
We have started learning about 3D shapes. First we tried to remember their names. Then we looked at them, touched them and thought about their properties. We then had to work with our partner to work out how many edges, faces & vertices they had. We found some like a sphere easy but found working out the properties of a triangular prism much harder. Some of us even found a pentagonal pyramid in the box and worked on finding out it’s properties.
We have been recapping our learning of last term about nouns and adjectives. Now we have moved onto learning about verbs. We watched a video about action verbs and joined in with the movements. Then we worked with a partner to come up with our own action, the rest of the class then had to guess what our action was. Next we worked with our partner to write a sentence on our desks including at least one action verb.
