Another lovely acknowledgement for Primary 4’s efforts raising money for a local charity. Jak’s Den offers emotional, social and practical support to children and young people with cancer-related illnesses. They sent us a lovely thank you card and certificate this week – well done again, P4!
I hope all of our families have a relaxing break over the summer. In the meantime, I have created some social stories so that all classes can familiarise themselves with their teacher, playground, class and entry/exit doors.
In the lead up to the schools coming back, it can be particularly helpful to go over the social story with your child to help support them with their transition back to school. I hope you find these helpful.
Take care and have a lovely summer when it comes,
Alison Hamilton (Principal Teacher)
Today we held our sprint races as the final part of sports day. Well done to our winning runners.
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.
Back in Term 2, Primary 4A and 4B researched different charities and used the information to create Powerpoint presentations. Each class voted for their favourite charity and we then raised funds by selling Christmas cards around school. We recently received this certificate of thanks from one of our chosen charities, the R.N.L.I. Great effort, P4!
Congratulations to one of our P7 pupils who achieved a bronze award at the Scottish Mathematics Challenge, he is one of two pupils from the whole of West Lothian to win. Here are some photographs of him at the prize-giving ceremony at Edinburgh Napier University’s Sighthill campus. A huge well done!
A huge thank you to a very talented parent who came in today to share her experience in photography. We learned about composition, complementary backgrounds and how to use lighting.
Each group had a photographer, director and model. We worked on our team work skills and communication.
Our context this term is ‘Sports’ and our aim was to create some action shots, posed portraits and a still life.
Have a look at some of our results! 
Today primary 4 visited Dynamic earth as part of their Climate topic. We learned so much about the climate, weather and the world. We had a workshop about weather, a movie and a tour.
Here are some highlights.
Running alongside our Democracy context this term the class have demonstrated their Pupil Agency by also creating a project on a topic of their choice. One member of the class chose to do The Cold War and as you can see from the photos he created a set of diorama’s to represent the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is his explanation of each diorama.
My Diorama’s
I made my dioramas for my school project- cold war. I made 2 dioramas; one of the Cuban Missile Crisis and one of the Berlin Wall. It took me 2 weeks to make my dioramas. I used sand and glue for the Cuban beach, and I used toilet paper, paint and glue for the ocean. For my berlin wall I used cardboard and paint for the wall and oil pastels for the graffiti. I think my dioramas are accurate representations of each event.
By exploring climate zones around the world, I can compare and describe how climate affects living things. SOC 1-12b
By exploring a natural environment different from my own, I can discover how the physical features influence the variety of living things. SOC 1-13b
Having explored the landscape of my local area, I can describe the various ways in which land has been used. SOC 1-13a
P4A have been exploring their new IDL context for this term, which is all about our environment, climate zones and comparisons between them.
So far, they have completed their key questions which they want answered and have identifies the 3 main climate zones on the world map.
They have also begun thinking about the animal and plant life in different climate zones and how they have adapted.
