The P6 and P7 pupils were very lucky to get a visit form the Livingston Fire Department. We discussed safety surrounding bonfire night and looked at all the different equipment in the Fire Truck and even got a shot of the hose! We are very grateful to the fire department for taking time out of their day to teach us.
Coming soon…to a school near you!
Book Week Scotland is just round the corner and we are delighted to welcome the Scholastic Travelling Book Fair to East Calder Primary School.
This is a pop up book store where pupils and parents/ carers will be able to browse and buy a wide variety of exciting books and also some fun stationary.
The Book Fair will be set up on Thursday 9th November and will be here until the following week. It will be open at set times after school.
More details to follow.
Hope to see you all soon!
What a great time we had on Thursday night, some amazing costumes and dance moves!
Another very busy week in P2. This week we are finishing off our addition and subtraction learning and we are beginning to look at multiplication. We have been using loop cards working in partners to solve problems in maths. We looked at shapes in the real world and discussed what they might be. We enjoy our daily number talk as it promotes a lot of discussion. We have also been doing a lot of Sumdog in class as part of maths lessons and using our QR codes to choose a maths game to practise.
We have had fun creating our own pointillism pumpkins this week as well and learning about this style of art.
This week we have been learning about writing questions. We had to try to write question marks on the table. They are quite a difficult shape! Then with our random partner we thought of a question and wrote it on the desk. We shared our questions and then tried to write two more. Someone wrote a sentence by mistake but as a class we were able to turn it into a question by changing some of the words. Again we shared our questions. As a class we realised that most of the questions began with the same words. We will continue working on questions next week.
We continued our work on money by completing lots of different activities from recognising coins to giving correct coins to £10.00.
An exciting week in Primary 7, our class pet arrived! An oxygen producing variety of phytoplankton, this idea was conceived and led by a couple of our pupils. They will need to look after it and culture it to enable growth and reproduction. This ties in well with our learning around IoT and our classroom sensors, we are going to explore if having plankton in the classroom will lower our Co2 levels.
For our mathematics context, we have started to look at fractions, creating some fraction art and fraction Halloween pumpkins.
We also had our Halloween disco yesterday, we have included a couple of photographs from the night, more to come soon!
Both classes spent some time together and shared our learning about circles. We had to draw circles in pairs with a piece of string and a piece of chalk, we then labelled the different properties of a circle. We figured out that the string had to be tight and we needed an anchor point. There were some great displays of communication, leadership and problem solving going on. After we finished, we had a bit of fun playing a giant game of duck, duck, goose – running around the circumference of the circle. An excellent showcase of our mathematical understanding and skills, all whilst the sun was shining.
It has been great to be back after the October holiday. We have been continuing to look at writing descriptions and working on addition and subtraction in numeracy.We have used our numeracy skills through play opportunities as well to support our learning. We are continuing to look at animals and different climate zones for our topic and learning about habitats.
We have been using arrays to help us learn our times table. As a class we worked on our 2 x table, making arrays with counters, drawing them on our desks and then writing the calculation. Some people were able to do this quickly so moved onto the 5 times table. By the of the week, a small group were able in their 5 times table so after the holidays will start work on the 3 times table. Lots of learning at each child’s own level.
