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This week we have been working on our East Calder project. We listened while Alan Hamilton talked about his time in East Calder in the 60’s. It was very interesting learning about the history of our community. Then the P6’s joined us to build the community in 1935 or 2024. We used maps to help us. We also thought about what is in the community of East Calder now and created leaflets to tell tourists about it. Pop along to our celebration on 31st May to see all our work on the community then and now.

 

Primary 5A were very excited to welcome parents and carers into class on Thursday afternoon. Pupils had chosen to share some of our maths and literacy games we use in class to support our learning in these areas, as many parents had asked about ways to support at home at our last Parent Consultations.
P5 had great fun showing parents a variety of games and challenges which can be used at home, and lots of parents showed their competitive side when playing against their kids!
We ended with a Kahoot! quiz to showcase our learning across the whole of this session – in the end it was a very close finish but Alex and his mum were the victors, well done to them!

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend, we all thoroughly enjoyed it.

A huge well done and thank you to Miss Mannion and our Rights Respecting School Hub pupils, who today secured our Silver – Rights Aware award status.  This is a fantastic achievement and we are all very proud.

Achieving this level means:

• We explicitly embed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in our policy, practice and culture.
• We promote knowledge and understanding of the Convention throughout our school community.
• We are seeing the positive impact of our actions on children and young people, staff, and on the school’s ethos, practice and environment.
• Our children see themselves as rights respecting global citizens and advocates for fairness and children’s rights, both locally and globally.

We are absolutely delighted to be amongst some of the first schools in Scotland to achieve endorsement of our continuing excellence and development in digital learning and teaching!

We had a wonderful time sharing our learning with our parents, carers,  grandparents and family. We worked hard to set out different stations with different tasks, to showcase what we have been learning. The pupils created different activities which were enjoyed by everyone who came.

Everyone was full engaged in what they were doing and the class did an excellent job of explaining and facilitating the stations.

We are so grateful that so many people attended and left us lovely feedback to reflect on. The pupils had a lovely afternoon showing all the work and learning they are proud of.

 

Ella in P5A has been learning British Sign Language and this week she volunteered to teach a short lesson to the class. We learned how to sign please, thank you, hello and goodbye and then we practised signing our names. Next time, Ella and Emma will be teaching us how to sign all the letters of the alphabet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P6 were fortunate enough to visit The Oriam at Heriot-Watt University today. We met Hope!

Hope is a life-size inflatable whale. Hope measures 13m long and 8m wide, similar to a real-life humpback whale.

She also looks like a real-life humpback whale both outside and inside.  We were fortunate enough to go inside Hope. This gave us the opportunity to learn about the internal anatomy of humpback whales, from breathing to feeding as well as the impact of plastic pollution. Our visit gave us the opportunity to think about sustainability and how important whales are to the health of our oceans. We had a whale of a time……