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Social Stories for Session 2023/2024

A warm welcome to all parents and carers. Please find Social Stories for each class which can be viewed at any time over summer to support your child/children as they begin their new class in August.

If you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to get in touch,

Miss Baldacci (Principal Teacher).

Primary 1a

Social Story – Primary 1a 1

Primary 1b

Social Story – Primary 1b 1

Primary 2/1

Social Story – Primary 2-1 1

Primary 2

Social Story – Primary 2 1

Primary 3/2

Social Story – Primary 3 and 2

Primary 3

Social Story – P3

Primary 4a

Social Story – P4a 1

Primary 4b

Social Story – P4b 1

Primary 5a

Social Story – P5A

Primary 5b

Social Story – Primary 5B 1

Primary 6

Social Story – p6 1

Primary 6/7

Social Story – p 6 and 7

Primary 7

Social Story – P7

 

Please also find some visuals which you may find useful to use with your child/children to help their understanding of when the school is closed and when it reopens again.

East Calder Bowling Club -Community Hub visit

Wow! What can we say but a huge thank you to East Calder Bowling Club. Today we were fortunate enough to visit the bowling club where we taught the fine art of bowling….it is much trickier than it looks! We are so grateful to everyone involved who gave up their time and for the much needed refreshments on such a beautiful day. Considering some of the children had never bowled before there were some real pros in our midst. We would also like to say thank you to the Club for the incredibly generous donation to the P7 Hoody fund. This was much appreciated. The children thoroughly enjoyed this worthwhile experience.

P3a Grid References

This week we started learning about grid references. We have different activities to help us. We used the Maths Wall to place pictures in the grid and then have to write the correct Co-ordinates. We had some work on Seesaw to complete placing and recording Co-ordinates and an Alien game to shoot the Alien crafts by getting the Co-ordinates correct. We played Billy Bug and had a sheet to colour the Co-ordinates to create a picture. Lots of learning!

Primary 4 Sharing the Learning

On Thursday the 25th of May Primary 4A invited their families into school to share our learning from this term. The children planned an afternoon full of activities linking to our learning in class. Adults then had to complete a Kahoot! Quiz using lots of information from the 7 different stations.
Thank you to all parents and carers who joined us.


P5 Personal Project

The first of our Personal Projects came in today and we were all very impressed with this pupil’s research on guineapigs. It was beautifully and clearly presented and contained lots of interesting information- there was even a word search and a quiz which we had fun completing. We look forward to seeing more projects as they come in.

Community Hub Visit

Today the Community Hub visited the KNEC Community Listening Project and Warm Hub in East Calder. The project aims to provide a space called a warm hub. Starting with 4 hours, 2 days a week (Monday and Thursday 11am-3pm) They open in the downstairs of East Calder Church Hall allowing people to come and sit in the warm. There will be a free bowl of soup, roll, warm drinks and biscuits available. There will also be free WI-FI which  allows people to sit in and complete work if need be. This will also help people who would be isolated in their homes facing the potential of suffering loneliness.

We helped preparing lunch, getting plates ready and then, very carefully serving lunch. We also had a lesson about listening, as it is central to the ethos of the Warm Hub. Another group looked at the organisation of the Hub and how it accommodates everyone. It was great to be able to chat to so many of the visitors to the Hub. Later this week we will present the Hub with a cheque from our Dress Down Day fundraising. Thank you to everyone at the Hub for such a warm welcome.

P3B Trip to the Owl Centre

We had am amazing time on our first school trip! We learned about the different owls and watched a brilliant flying show. We asked very thoughtful and intelligent questions about the owls and we enjoyed visiting all the owls around the centre. One of our favourite parts of the day was free play on the owl slide and at the park. We played so well together, and demonstrated our LEARN Values throughout the day. The behaviour was fantastic and everyone did really well coping with the change in routines.

Well done everyone!

Article 28: We have the right to learn.

A P1 Surprise!

Primary one got a big surprise this week when a friendly dragon visited their classrooms and left a letter.

He asked if we could help rebuild Fairyland. We all agreed we could help by reading more fairy tales and we talked about our favourite ones. Some of us went to the library to look for books and we have coloured  dragon pictures.

We had lots of good ideas about what would make a good home for a dragon. We think the dragon would feel safe and cosy in our class castle or cave. He would be delighted with his new home!

We hope to hear from him again soon!

P3a Trip to Owl Centre

This week we went on a trip to the Owl Centre at Polkemmet Country Park. In the morning we met different owls and played a game to help us understand what they eat. Next we got to look round all the cages and try to find answers to different questions. Then we had a flying display where we found out even more information. We also got to play at the Owl Park which had a huge owl slide. In the afternoon we went on a forest walk and played some outdoor games, making us think about our natural surroundings. Finally we got to play at the park where they had a big wooden castle, dragon swing and flying fox. It was great fun!

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