Well done to the dancers who represented East Calder Primary School on Friday evening for the crowning of the Gala Queen 2025.
The girls danced to Wings by Little Mix and demonstrated their use of creativity and collaborating meta-skills.
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P2A Learning
‘We were making Earth Day pictures for Earth Day’ Zoe.
‘We learned to look after the planet’ Michelle.
‘We learned to pick up litter so sea animals don’t die- they might become extinct. We should not be cutting down so many trees.’ William.
‘We have to learn to look after plants’ McKenna.
‘We made little Earth door hangers’ Mia.
‘We were learning the ay sound’ Emily.
‘We were learning to share in maths. We were learning halves’ Zoe.
‘Were learning quarters in maths’ Abbie.
Democracy P6
As part of our Social Studies context P6 have been investigating the features of an election and the work of our representatives at both a local and national level. They are developing their understanding of how a democracy works and are discussing what the rights and responsibilities of citizens in Scotland are. To assist us with our learning we have been fortunate enough to have a visit from the Scottish Parliament this week with the UK Parliament visiting us in May. We had our own manifestos, elections and of course we had a speaker and Presiding Officer too so everyone came to order!
A Fantastic Total!
A big thanks to everyone who contributed to our Dress Down Day. P6 used their maths skills in an everyday context to count the donations. A fabulous £321.40 was raised for the KNEC Community Listening Project in East Calder.
Victorian Artefacts! P6
Victorian Artefacts in P6
We were fortunate enough to have a visit from West Lothian Museum services this week. Linking with our current Social Studies context we enjoyed an afternoon of Victorian artefacts! The class were allowed to handle a lot of the items and were amazed to see how things have progressed since Victorian times,even though we have the Victorians to thank for some of the amazing inventions that we use today. It was however interesting to see like an abacus we still use concrete materials in Numeracy This was a great springboard for our Victorian context as it led to discussions about Victorian inventions, housing and lifestyle to name but a few. We will be linking this learning to our current Literacy theme of creating a recount,the ability to retell and evaluate an experience. The Museum Service have kindly agreed to attend our Sharing the Learning in April so come along and see if you can identify the purpose of our Victorian artefacts, remember your child is now an expert!
Donate your old Devices!
Donate your old Devices!
Got any old smartphones, tablets, routers, gaming consoles, cameras or laptops and cables that you no longer need?
Don’t know what to do with them and don’t want them going to landfill?
This could be the answer!
As part of our Eco learning on sustainability, East Calder Primary is joining with the Edinburgh Remakery- a registered charity and environmental social enterprise with a mission to reduce e-waste by repairing and refurbishing old tech. Your donations can be given the gift of life, reused, resold or donated to people suffering from digital poverty.
A Tech Donation Box will be arriving in school on January 29th for approximately 4 weeks. This box is designed to help pupils, their families and staff dispose of their old personal tech in an environmentally friendly way. The Edinburgh Remakery will ensure any tech is data wiped.
So if you would like to reduce e-waste and its impact on the environment, while supporting local people and our planet, this could be for you!
Nursery Newsletter – March/April 2024
Please click on the link below to access our most recent Nursery Newsletter
Sharing the Learning P6
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
Nursery Newsletter – February/March 2024
Hi everyone,
Our children in Nursery have been very busy playing and learning – please find out more from our latest Nursery Newsletter.
Victorian Artefact Handling in P6
We were fortunate enough to have a visit from West Lothian Museum services this week. Linking with our current Social Studies context we enjoyed an afternoon of Victorian artefacts! The class were allowed to handle a lot of the items and were amazed to see how things have progressed since Victorian times, even though we have the Victorians to thank for some of the amazing inventions that we use today. It was interesting to see that the Victorians used an abacus in Arithmetic similar to the concrete materials we use in Numeracy today.
This was a great springboard for our Victorian context as it led to discussions about Victorian inventions, housing and lifestyle to name but a few. We will be linking this learning to our current Literacy theme of creating a recount, the ability to retell and evaluate an experience. The Museum Service have kindly agreed to attend our Sharing the Learning in March so come along and see if you can identify the purpose of our Victorian artefacts, remember your child is now an expert!
