On Wednesday some of The Hive children went on a walk to Almondell country park. We were looking for signs of Autumn.
“The leaves are falling off the trees” said Aria.
“The leaves are all yellow and red” said Eoin.
We had a great time!
We welcomed Michelle Sutherland from West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service on Wednesday. Michelle spoke to us about identifying the different kinds of risks associated with the use and misuse of a range of substances.We discussed the impact that the misuse of substances can have on individuals, their families and friends. Moving forward East Calder has been chosen as a pilot school to work alongside WLDAS to create a HWB action plan which will then be used acoss West Lothian. Watch this space!
We talked counting strategies in P7A today; looking at step counting, grouping and accuracy. We estimated our grains of rice and some of us were pretty accurate, some of us changed our estimation half way through based on how we chose to group and visual representation. We used our skills in addition and multiplication and didn’t even make too much of a mess!
We have been so enthusiastic about our spooky writing this week. We created a plan and designed our own characters for our story. We have been really focused on these stories throughout the week – trying to include some awesome alliteration along the way! Some of us have chosen to write in our jotters and some of us are typing them up. We have been sharing the finished ones in class and have been using a torch with the lights out to create a spooky setting. We come out and read in the author’s chair since we are authors of our own stories.
Since it is Black History Month, we have taken control over our learning and decided who we would like to research in more depth. We also decided how we would like to display our learning so we could then become teachers and teach the class more about our chosen individual. Our research ranged from looking at Rosa Parks to Leigh-Anne Pinnock from LittleMix.
Miss Baldacci – I just wanted to add a little bit to say how proud I am of all of the learners in primary 6b. We have had lots of fun, whilst working hard and I am very impressed with the enthusiasm they have shown towards all tasks. Keep up the fantastic work everyone 🙂
We have had lots of fun this week in Primary 6b, reminding ourselves of how to multiply and have been focusing on a range of different strategies to support us with our work. Some children learned to multiply with two digits e.g. 345×26 and absolutely loved the challenge. Take a look at us hard at work 🙂
On the lead up to Bonfire Night, please find some information Police Scotland, West Lothian Council & Scottish Fire & Rescue Service.
Firework Letter Schools 2021 WLC
We had a fantastic trip to Almondell Country Park in order to celebrate the near completion of the woodland management works and Historic Wall Project there. The kids had a brilliant day and so did the adults! We went on a guided walk, watched a chainsaw demonstration and did lots of tree planting. A massive thank you to Mrs Hearn and Mr Fazakerley who joined Miss Livingstone and I on the trip.
A massive thank you to Kirsty who helped us arrange this great trip and to all of the staff who were kind, patient and welcoming and supported the children with their tree planting.
Have a look at the fun we had in the pictures 🙂
Miss Baldacci (Principal Teacher)
On Wednesday a surprise arrived in our classroom. It was a box and it had a label that said, “To P3a, don’t open until Friday.”
We were very excited an wrote a list of what might be in the box.
On Friday we finally got to open the box.
It contained… pine cones!!!!
We all had a look and wrote down what we might like to learn about them.