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Primary 7 celebrated book week through various activities. We looked at comprehension and how this is important to understanding the text. We were very grateful to accept a book about the Queens Jubilee and we made book covers for the school competition. We were surprised by a secret reader who read a very interesting chapter from the book she brought – we tried to predict what would happen next…

We finished the week by reading to our buddies and ended up reading in some unusual places…

Happy Book Week!

Primary 5 have had a busy week celebrating Book Week Scotland this week. We began by writing reviews of our favourite books and sharing these with the rest of the class. We joined an Authors Live event where we took part in a draw-along session with author and illustrator Emily Mackenzie to recreate her character Granville, who features in ‘There’s Broccoli in my Ice Cream’- great fun! On Thursday we joined a live Giglets session where we heard the story of Tommy Foghorn and had an opportunity to hear from the illustrator and ask him questions. We also enjoyed creating animal-themed book covers for our school competition and received our Queen’s Jubilee commemorative books from Mrs Robertson. We enjoyed stories from two Secret Readers and made bookmarks with our P3 Reading buddies. A fantastic celebration of books and reading!

A very big thank you to all our visitors who have joined us this week to celebrate Book Week Scotland 2022.

It was wonderful to have you all in our library to share the books in the Book  bags with Primary 1, 2 and 3 learners.

All pupils also received their copy of the book ‘Queen Elizabeth’ which celebrates the 70 year reign of the late Queen.

And not forgetting a huge thank you to those parents and carers who volunteered to be secret readers. Classes really enjoy having visitors. It is much appreciated.

We hope you have all enjoyed sharing a story together this week.. remember if you have been reading in some really unusual places we would love to see a photo!

Happy Reading everyone!

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On Wednesday morning, 23 of our Primary 7 pupils represented us at the West Lothian ‘East Conference’ Sportshall Athletics event. All of the children did an excellent job competing in 13 different events against 7 other schools. Everyone was a credit to our school!

We were extremely luck to have Alan Hamilton visit us this week in Primary 7. He shared his experiences and knowledge of war and he let us pass around his war medals! We learned about the how WWII started; he used an interactive time lapse map to show how it spread all around the word. Alan guided us through a timeline of the events of the war, helping our chronology. He also told us some stories of his time as a pupil at East Calder Primary and linked the events of WWII to local events at the time. Alan left some books behind for us to explore during book week and we can’t wait to get reading!