‘This week we have been learning about Barbara Hepworth. She made sculptures.’ Alfie.
‘We used clay to make shape sculptures.’ Kayla.
‘Mine was called the Tunnel Tree’ Leonor.
It was Science Week this week. Mrs Beattie set us all a challenge.
‘We had to stretch a curly wurly’ Mia.
‘We had to warm it up first’ Maris.
‘If we didn’t warm it up it would break’ Jenson.
Our longest curly wurly was 110 cm!
We would like to thank everyone who attended our Sharing the Learning session on Wednesday afternoon. We had seven stations in total,each highlighting an area of our learning this term.
Station 1 – ICT – Microbits – Exploring core programming language
Station 2 – Social Studies and ICT -Victorian Assessment using our Context Powerpoints
Station 3 – Science Creating a variety of circuits and describing the transfer of energy around the circuit
Station 4- Social Studies and Listening and Talking – West Lothian Museum Services-Sharing Victorian artefacts
Station 5- Social Studies Who am I ?- Using clues to identify famous Victorians
Station 6 HOT skills- Literacy – Creating Higher Order Thinking skills questions from a variety of texts
Station 7 A Learning Walk- Ethos – Sharing our class displays
It was great to see the class talking to a wider audience with such confidence.
Thanks P6
P7/6 had the opportunity to go to Sky Academy and create our own news story all about our society. We decided to discuss how litter is impacting our society as this links well to our Ethical Living topic this term.
We had to work to Sky Academy’s 3 skills; collaboration, communication and creativity. We enjoyed using those skills and are very proud of our final video!
Hi everyone,
Our children in Nursery have been very busy playing and learning – please find out more from our latest Nursery Newsletter.
At East Calder Primary we are proud of our Silver Reading Schools Award.
We love special events where we can enjoy books and reading, and that also give us the opportunity to have fun with others.
On Friday to celebrate World Book Day we all enjoyed a BIG Cosy Read. It was great fun relaxing and listening to someone reading, or just having time to look at a book with a friend.
There was a huge variety of super squishies, cushions and cuddly toys in each class as everyone snuggled up to share a story.
We hope everyone enjoyed this event ..and remember.. keep reading!
Article 31 We have the right to relax and play
For world book day we celebrated as a school by dressing up in our pyjamas and getting comfortable for a ‘Big Bedtime Read’. Here we are enjoying some texts of our choice in class on Friday.
We have recently started looking at length and measure as our numeracy topic. We started exploring measuring using non standard units such as whiteboard pens, paperclips and glue to measure objects around the classroom.
We discussed our estimation skills and how to measure accurately. Our estimations gradually became more and more accurate!
We decided to use our wingspan to estimate and measure things around and outside our school!
We had great fun today coming to school in our pyjamas. We brought books and chilled together in class during our Big Read. We spent some time illustrating a robot using our creativity. We also had Free Writing Friday time and wrote some great sentences and stories.
We continue to look at money and measuring in maths. We have started to look more at fractions and learn about halves and quarters. In writing we began looking at procedure texts last week so we created our own cat sock puppets following the steps of the procedure. We love practising our handwriting on the tables to help us with the formation of our letters. As it has been World Book Day this week we took part in a draw along with the author Emily Mackenzie who write ‘There’s broccoli in my ice cream!’. We have also enjoyed our big, cosy read today in our pyjamas.
It has been a very busy few weeks in P2/1. Before the holidays we chose to learn more about Scotland. We started by finding Scotland on a World map, then a European map and then, the P2s found East Calder on a map of Scotland.
After that we thought about what we wanted to focus on. Finlay said he wanted to learn more about the bridges and rivers of Scotland. Nearly the whole class wanted to learn more about the castles of Scotland.
We had great fun using our ‘teamwork’ skills to build bridges from different materials. We presented our bridges to the class.
Our bridges had to be sturdy enough to span the two tables.
The P2s wrote information reports about bridges and the P1s wrote some sentences about the bridges we had made.
We thought it would be great to try building castles and to compare the materials we used.
We thought the Lego and the junk modelling was the best to make our castles.
In maths we have been learning about fractions. P1 were cutting items into halves and P2 were exploring halves and quarters of numbers.
We have all been learning about tally marks.
“I made ten with the pencils!”.
