Today we wore red to think about Racism. We watched a film telling us about it. Here are some of our thoughts;
Don’t judge people on what they believe or what they look like. – Millie
Don’t judge someone because of their skin colour. – Samuel
I learned not to be racist to other people because it is bad if they are getting bullied due to their skin colour. – Scott
Don’t judge people’s looks. – Lily
Don’t judge people on the colour of their skin because they might be really nice. – Charlie
This week we have been introduced to lots of different strategies we can use to learn our times tables. These include Hit the Button, multiplication dominoes, dice, basketball and the game of pairs. Hopefully they will help us with our learning and speed of recall of our tables.
In term 4 last session, our Primary 7 and Primary 7/6 pupils were lucky to work with Fiona Shaw from Education Scotland – Fiona’s role is to work with schools to ensure everyone has equality of opportunity, particularly with careers and subject choice. Pupils engaged with a variety of tasks which raised awareness of stereotypes . There was a lot of thought provoking conversations which really made them all consider unconscious bias. Our staff are excited to welcome Fiona Shaw back to East Calder, along with the staff from Kirknewton Primary, for more work on improving the gender balance and stereotypes in our October In Service day.
This week is Maths week and we have been looking at visualising numbers. This helps us get a picture in our mind of how big or small numbers are and how we can show this. We looked at how patterns can help us to count and work out amounts quickly.
We coloured in dot patterns to show numbers to 30.
We drew long lines with chalk in the playground and we had to visualise where the numbers would go on the line.
We cut out dots of coloured card and used them to show 2 digit and 3 digit numbers…and even 4 digit numbers!
Well Done P3R! Super number work.
Its great to be back!
P5/4C have been talking about the ‘magic’ of numbers this week.
Ask your child about one of the ‘tricks’ of the 9 times table (there are a few!) and try out these two fantastic number problems from the NRICH maths website – they work every time, but can you work out WHY?
Medal winners in Gymnastics and Dance in P5/4C – well done!
West Lothian Council Education Services
Proposal to Establish a new Non-Denominational Primary School at Calderwood, East Calder and Associated Proposals
West Lothian Council’s Education Executive at its meeting on 23 April 2019 authorised West Lothian Council’s Education Services to commence statutory consultation on the proposals to:
Establish a new non-denominational primary school at Calderwood, East Calder;
Establish a catchment area for the new school;
Review the non-denominational primary school catchment area at East Calder Primary School; and
Review transfer arrangements from Primary to Secondary School.
The consultation document outlining the proposal is available online from 26 September 2019 on the following webpage:
www.westlothian.gov.uk/Calderwood-Primary-School-Consultation
Hard copies of the consultation document are also available for uplift from the Civic Centre, Howden South Road, Livingston, EH54 6FF or can be requested in writing from:
Melanie Laurie, Project Officer, West Lothian Council Education Services, Civic Centre,
Howden South Road, Livingston, EH54 6FF.
The consultation period is from Thursday 26 September 2019 until Friday 15 November 2019.
A public meeting to discuss the consultation document will be held at:
East Calder Primary School, Thursday 24 October 2019. 6.30-8.00pm.
This week Primary 1 have been consolidating their learning of Jolly Phonics first sound group. (s, a, t, i, p, n) Look out for a page showing the sounds and actions coming home in the school bags soon.
Today we went to our House Groups for the first time and some of us shared our ideas about school. Well done Primary 1!
If possible please order your child’s lunch on line, it will save us a lot of time in class. Many thanks.
This week our writing lesson was great fun. We were given a person card with a job they would do and had to describe their character. Then we were given a setting card and we had to think of adjectives to describe it. Finally we were given a natural disaster card and had to write notes about what would happen. So we might have had a nurse on Mars when a hurricane happens or a farmer in a supermarket during an earthquake. It was hilarious!!! Next week we will be using these notes to write an imaginary story. We can’t wait to share the results.
Someone made good use of his free time this morning – great picture!
