Our fantastic Pupil Supports workers along with myself took part in a refresher emergency first aid course to ensure we can continue providing the best care for all of our children!
A big thank you to Crown Safety for educating us all further with important life skills. Adults learn too 🙂
Alison Baldacci (Principal Teacher)
We’ve had a great week in P2/1. The boys and girls have had lots of fun in their new classroom and are settling well into the school routines after summer.
We had a chat about our favourite parts of the week.
‘I liked playing with the puppets.’ Emily G
‘My favourite part was the reading corner. I liked reading The Bug Collector.’ Abby
‘I liked the car park.’ Harris
‘I like the construction area.’ Harrison
We had a great time with Mr Millar during our PE lesson too. Our PE days are Mondays and Wednesdays.
What a week we have had in P7A! It has been lovely to get to know each other and get stuck into our learning. The pupils have contributed great ideas and input this week, helping to plan how we will meet our learning outcomes for the term. Here are some videos and photographs from our numeracy lessons; recapping on, and having some fun with place value.
Hi to all parents and carers. We look forward to continuing to work with you in the new session. 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).
Huge Congratulations everyone!
I am delighted to announce that East Calder Primary has been awarded a Silver Reading Schools Award from the Scottish Book Trust.
Thank you to all staff, pupils and families who have been reading, talking about books, enjoying libraries and sharing their love of books and reading with others.
Classes completed the Reading Schools Attitude Survey and it was great to see many of you enjoy reading more now. You said you have more interesting things to read and describe reading as relaxing and fun.
Thank you for your involvement and enthusiasm, and a special mention to those who find reading a bit tricky but keep trying.
Now that we have an award it’s important to continue to build on our Reading culture at East Calder Primary. There will be lots of opportunities to carry on sharing our enjoyment of reading and books next session.
I am so proud of you all and remember KEEP READING!
I am very proud of these pupils for their fantastic achievements outside of school. One pupil got these trophies for her amazing racing which we enjoy hearing about each week. She got 5 1st places at Ireland. The next pupil got this wonderful medal for his martial arts competition – a massive well done!
Miss Baldacci
More Gala success in Primary 6A- well done to runners Jaymin and Ryan!
It’s the final day of out Really BIG READ ALOUD…and today to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee… it’s the really BIG ROYAL READ ALOUD!
We have been sharing all sorts of books and stories with a Royal theme.
Younger pupils have been enjoying ‘The Princess and the Pea’, ‘The Laughing princess’ and ‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses’.
The Primary One pupils took part in a paired read aloud. They had to find a reading partner with the same colour of crown.
If you want to find out more about kings and queens, we have some non- fiction books about royalty in our library.
We have a copy of King George V Silver Jubilee book in our library.
King George V was the Queen’s grandfather and this book was published in 1935(about the time our school was being built!) to celebrate his Silver Jubilee. It’s not in very good condition but it is 87 years old!!
It has some interesting photographs including ones of the Queen when she was a girl. 
Perhaps you have some old books at home? Can you find out when they were published?
Have a great Jubilee weekend and remember to keep reading!
Not sure what to read next?
Are you ready for a reading challenge?
Why not try Bookzilla?
Bookzilla is a free app for upper primary and early secondary school students in Scotland. The app encourages pupils to read for pleasure, whether they are already regular readers or just embarking on their reading journey. Young people can receive tailored book recommendations, see what’s popular among their classmates and challenge themselves to try something new with a reading dare. The app promotes different featured collections every month.
You can find a great trailer all about Bookzilla on The Scottish Book Trust Website. The website has lots of information about books and authors for all ages.
Please note the app is free but does not give access to free books, only recommendations and challenges.
Why not download it to find some great reads in time for the summer?
Happy reading everyone!
Do you love to read? Are you always looking for new books? Or perhaps you are interested in learning new things?
Why not join East Calder Public Library?
As we continue our really BIG READ ALOUD we would like to promote our local library.
It is located in The Dave King Partnership Centre.
Joining the library is free and gives you access to hundreds of books and much, much more.
We have previously visited East Calder Library with classes and hope to resume our links with them next session.
Please note the library will be closed on Friday 3rd June.
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