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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

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!

Our Big Cosy Read!

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

Chess Club

Chess club have been learning about the rules of chess and how to correctly set up a chess board. We spent time learning about all of the pieces on the board before beginning to challenge each other in our chess league.

World Book Day in Primary 4A

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.

Numeracy in P7/6

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!

World Book Day in P3

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.

This week in P2

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.