Health and Wellbeing P7A/7B

We asked our P7’s what they thought Health and Wellbeing looked like at East Calder Primary. Using the HWB recovery curriculum as a springboard the classes produced individualised posters demonstrating what Health and Wellbeing means to them. Under the headings Recover,Reflect and Re-explore and using the wellbeing indicators,our school rules and our LEARN values they created these child friendly go to reminders. These have been shared with the West Lothian Health and Wellbeing team. I think you will agree they did a great job not only on the artwork but also making relevant and viable links to our Wellbeing Indicators.

West Lothian Museum Services -P7B

Fantastic to welcome Maureen Liddell fromWest Lothian Museum Services to our class today. She shared with us a range of aretefacts and stories relating to our current context of WW2. We learnt about how our country prepared for war,discussing rationning,evacuation and shelters. The class were fortunate enough to handle a range of artefacacts including a gas mask,identity cards,ration coupons and even an ARP warden helmet. This visit links closely to the work we are doing in PM writing at the moment where we are looking closely at the features and layout of a recount.

Outside School Achievements 7B

Congratulations to these 2 very active members of 7B! On Saturday 6th November they both attended a dance show at Howden Park Theatre. They have not participated in one for over 2 years, due to Covid, and said it was fantastic to be back.They had lots of different outfits,telling me all about the sparkles and glitter! There were lots of different types of dancing involved from cheer,jazz,to hiphop and highland. The girls explained that as the curtain lifts your heart begins to beat so quickly but as soon as the music starts you begin dancing and you have the time of your life! Amazing,wish I could of watched you. Sounds fantastic.

So just what is in those jars? P7B

We welcomed Michelle Sutherland from West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service on Wednesday. Michelle spoke to us about identifying the different kinds of risks associated with the use and misuse of a range of substances.We discussed  the impact that the misuse of substances can have on individuals, their families and friends. Moving forward East Calder has been chosen as a pilot school to work alongside WLDAS to create a HWB action plan which will then be used acoss West Lothian. Watch this space!

Counting counts – P7

We talked counting strategies in P7A today; looking at step counting, grouping and accuracy. We estimated our grains of rice and some of us were pretty accurate, some of us changed our estimation half way through based on how we chose to group and visual representation. We used our skills in addition and multiplication and didn’t even make too much of a mess!

Learning in Primary 6B

We have been so enthusiastic about our spooky writing this week. We created a plan and designed our own characters for our story. We have been really focused on these stories throughout the week – trying to include some awesome alliteration along the way! Some of us have chosen to write in our jotters and some of us are typing them up. We have been sharing the finished ones in class and have been using a torch with the lights out to create a spooky setting. We come out and read in the author’s chair since we are authors of our own stories.

Since it is Black History Month, we have taken control over our learning and decided who we would like to research in more depth. We also decided how we would like to display our learning so we could then become teachers and teach the class more about our chosen individual. Our research ranged from looking at Rosa Parks to Leigh-Anne Pinnock from LittleMix.

Miss Baldacci – I just wanted to add a little bit to say how proud I am of all of the learners in primary 6b. We have had lots of fun, whilst working hard and I am very impressed with the enthusiasm they have shown towards all tasks. Keep up the fantastic work everyone 🙂

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