We have had a super week with our parties. We had a great time playing games and dancing. P1s also had a special visitor to their party!
We’ve also been very creative with our Christmas craft wreaths. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.
P1 Party
The Primary 1s had a great time at their Christmas party with games and dances. We also had an extra special surprise when Santa visited to give us all a present!
P2 Christmas Party 🎉 🌲
Primary 2 had a fantastic time at their Christmas party. We played games and did lots of dancing. 
Experiment – Science and HWB
Primary 7 have focussed on understanding the different ways unkind behaviour can be presented.
The mains things we discussed were:
- How unkind words and actions impact people
- How to help someone who is experiencing bullying or unkind behaviour
- That unkind words and actions are not always direct to the person
- How to notice if your behaviour is unkind and how to make up for your mistakes and make amends
We watched this award winning video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsGGsPNakw
We decided to do an experiment on how unkind words and actions can harm any living thing. Instead of saying unkind things to plant 2, we put hand sanitiser in the water.
We ensured we had all the correct details in order to carry out a valid experiment, this included:
- Diagrams
- Controls
- Variables
- Predictions
- Results
The results were similar to our predictions, that plant 2 would die.
We decided to see if we could reverse the negative actions by putting Plant 2 in with Plant 1 so it had plenty of water and food.
See below for our experiment notes.
This experiment helped us visualise what unkind words and actions can do to a living thing. We discussed the impact this has on others and how to help someone you think is struggling.
Book Week Winners and Runners up.
Today we had a small gathering in the library for our Book Week winners, and the Runners- up. They were all able to bring along a friend to join them. We enjoyed biscuits, juice and some festive cartoons.
We had so many fantastic book marks, drawings and book covers it was a very difficult decision to choose winners. Thanks to the pupils in the Literacy Hub for their help with the judging.
We have such a lot of artistic talent at East Calder Primary! Well done everyone!
Community visit to Manse Court P6
It was great to start making links with our local community once again. With it being the festive season P6 were keen to visit Manse Court in East Calder and share some Christmas Joy. We exchanged christmas cards, some Christmas goodies and even a rendition of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer! We hope that this will be just the beginning of developing our links with the community with a planned visit to the Partnership Centre already in the diary. Many thanks to our parent helpers.
P3a Numeracy
Continuing on from last week’s learning on place value we have been working on Hundred’s, Ten’s & One’s. We had to find our partners by working out how many HTO’s a number had, then we had to get into order smallest to biggest. We had checkers to make sure we had completed it correctly. Then we got into our groups and worked on different activities. One group work on Seesaw and had to put numbers in order and say which were greater than & less than while another worked with the concrete material. Another group were given a 3 digit challenge to work out all the numbers that could be made from the 3 digits. They then had to work out which were odd and which were even and then put them in order. They were then challenged further by using 4 digits.
Primary 1
It has been a very exciting week in school!
We loved the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk and took part in lots of activities in class. We even built our own beanstalk!
We have been busy practising our Nativity and trying on our costumes too!
Our new sound this week was ‘w’ and we have been learning to copy patterns, play pattern games and have started making our own patterns.
On Monday please return all reading books and book bags. Also please send in clothes as requested for the nativity.
Many thanks
Primary 3a Number Talks
This week we have been learning about the value of numbers. We used the 100 square on the smart board and had to click on the correct number. If the number had 5 tens and 3 ones we would click on 53. Once we were confident in this we moved onto numbers to 1000. For this we used the place value flip chart. If the number had 3 hundreds, 4 tens and 3 ones we had to make the chart read 348. We are going to keep working on this next week.
Christmas has arrived in The Hive!
The children (and staff!!) have been getting ready for Christmas. Mr Fazakerley made an amazing Christmas tree for the Hive which the children helped to decorate.
We have also designed our own Christmas jumpers whilst wearing our Christmas jumpers! We wrote letters to Santa and made Christmas pictures using different 2d shape. Super learning and fun!
