Some of our Primary 6 and 7 pupils have been learning about Netball from Mr Millar on a Monday and Wednesday during their lunch break. Today after school the newly formed netball team played against other West Lothian schools in their first matches in the netball festival.
All children played very well and enjoyed the experience.
Well done everyone!
Well done, Alexander, for building these Lego models. You created a volcano with lava pouring down it, a tsunami with buildings being washed away and an earthquake that actually moved. You shared these with the class, extending our learning.
Very well done receiving a 1st medal during your gymnastics competition. We are all very proud of you.
Miss Marra’s class met up with their P5 and P4 reading buddies for the first time on Friday. The children were very excited to meet their new buddies and are all looking forward to getting together regularly throughout the rest of the session. We had a lovely, quiet, focused reading session on Friday morning – well done, everyone!
Not one, not two, but THREE medals for Judo – 2 Gold, 1 Bronze, very well done, a great achievement.
Well done for drawing and labelling volcanoes as part of you homework. We every had a Lego model of a volcano including a lava flow and ash cloud. Amazing work!!!
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!
