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Learning in P2/1

Last week was story-telling week and we had great fun listening to stories in our class library. We scanned QR codes to watch our choice of story on the iPads.

We’ve been learning about Scotland and used our problem solving and teamwork skills to design a Scottish castle. We had a choice of junk modelling with boxes, iPads or Lego. We presented our designs to the class. One our castles even had a hot tub!

We are looking forward to sharing our learning with parents/carers on 2nd March.

RRS Article 28: We have the right to learn. Article 29: We have the right to develop our skills and abilities.

P3a Problem Solving

Today we were set a task to find out how many different towers we could make using one green, one yellow & one red block.  We used the cards to get into random partners. We got out the blocks and worked together on the towers. We came up with our success criteria together. We needed to –

  • work together
  • try
  • Used different colours of blocks
  • write / draw our answer
  • have same answer as partner

Once we had found a tower we had to record it on our sheet. We discussed our strategies and shared how we got our answers.

Once we had found as many towers as we could, we thought about what would make it harder.  We decided to add another block, this time a blue one.

Victorian Artefacts Handling Session 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 a morning 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. They were completely flummoxed by the toasting fork and carpet beater,the latter of which they thought could be to put pizzas in an oven! This was a great springboard for our Victorian context as it led to discussions about Vitorian 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 March so come along and see if you can identify the purpose of our Victorian artefacts,remember your child is now an expert!

Primary 1

Primary 1 have had fun during Scots Week.  We have read lots of stories in Scots, enjoyed different activities and loved hearing everyone say their chosen poem.

At the assembly tomorrow P1b are excited to present what they’ve been learning about.  They had great fun doing Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes’ and singing ‘Three Craws’.

Primary 1 have also decided what the class role play area should be and are busy making an opticians in P1a and a shop  in P1b.

Please remember to return reading books on a Thursday so they can be read by others the following week.

Experiment – Science and HWB

Primary 7 have focussed on understanding the different ways unkind behaviour can be presented.

The mains things we discussed were:

  • How unkind words and actions impact people
  • How to help someone who is experiencing bullying or unkind behaviour
  • That unkind words and actions are not always direct to the person
  • How to notice if your behaviour is unkind and how to make up for your mistakes and make amends

We watched this award winning video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsGGsPNakw

We decided to do an experiment on how unkind words and actions can harm any living thing. Instead of saying unkind things to plant 2, we put hand sanitiser in the water.

We ensured we had all the correct details in order to carry out a valid experiment, this included:

  • Diagrams
  • Controls
  • Variables
  • Predictions
  • Results

The results were similar to our predictions, that plant 2 would die.

We decided to see if we could reverse the negative actions by putting Plant 2 in with Plant 1 so it had plenty of water and food.

See below for our experiment notes.

This experiment helped us visualise what unkind words and actions can do to a living thing. We discussed the impact this has on others and how to help someone you think is struggling.

Book Week Winners and Runners up.

Today we had a small gathering in the library for our Book Week winners, and the Runners- up. They were all able to bring along a friend to join them. We enjoyed biscuits, juice and some festive cartoons.

We had so many fantastic book marks, drawings and book covers  it was a very difficult decision to choose winners. Thanks to the pupils in the Literacy Hub for  their help with the judging.

We have such a lot of artistic talent at East Calder Primary! Well done everyone!

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