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UNCRC in P3/2

We are learning about the UNCRC – United Nations Convention on the Rights of Every Child as our Topic this term. At the beginning of the term, we learned about the Rights to help us create our Class Charter and we have been exploring what the rights mean to us. We used play dough to create a Right of our choice. We watched a video about the Rights of the Child and identified the Rights we already knew. We enjoyed learning some new Rights too.

 

This amazing learner is showing Article 27: We have the right to a safe place to live.


Article 31: We have the right to relax and play.

   

We were very focused on our learning and we identified this as one of the skills we had to use to be successful learners.

P3/2 Class Charter

 

During our first week in Primary 3/2, we worked together as a class to create our Class Charter. We started off by talking about our three school rules (Ready, Respect and Safe) and what these meant to us. We also reflected on our LEARN Values and then engaged in listening talking with a partner to share ideas about rules we thought we should have in our class. Some of us chose to draw and write our ideas. One of the most popular rules was “we will be kind to each other” so we added that to our Charter first.

 

Miss Marra showed us the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and we decided which Rights linked closely with our chosen rules for our class. Our favourite part was creating the artwork. We were given a plain body shape and we could turn it into anything we wanted. Some of us drew pictures of ourselves, some of us drew a character of our choice. Barbie, Pokemon, Stitch and Marvel characters were very popular choices. We will continue to reflect on our Class Charter as part of our daily routines to ensure each and every child in our class is safe and happy at school.

Article 12: We have the right to be heard.

Learning in P 2/1

P1 have been continuing to learn our sounds – i and t. We have been practising to form our letters and numbers (up to 5).
P2 have been continuing to learn about addition and have enjoyed reading our new reading books in groups.

P1 were excited to meet their buddies on Friday and had a great time together in the library.

We all discussed reusing, recycling and reducing rubbish as part of keeping our environment clean and tidy for wildlife and designed posters to show our learning.
We have been thinking about ways to be healthy and drew our favourite healthy meal. Some of our meals looked very tasty!

 

Spring Sway – Nursery

Get all the latest updates and find out what our youngest learners have enjoying and learning in our Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) setting by clicking on the link below to our ‘Spring Sway’.

Go to this Sway

‘Leg It To Lapland’ Challenge

Well done to all our P1-7 pupils who took part in the Sustrans ‘Leg It To Lapland’ challenge. East Calder Primary came 2nd place overall and will receive a ‘pedal cinema’ for pupils (and staff) to enjoy in January 2022.

Well done to the following pupils who clocked up the most miles for their class – fantastic effort!

P1A – Grace

P1B – Alexis

P2A – Eilidh 

P2B – Cormac

P3A – Jasmine

P3B – Ben

P4 – Paul

P5/4 – Struan

P5 – Ella

P6A – Jaymin

P6B – Coben & Liam

P7A – Morgan

P7B Struan 

Thank you also to Charlotte Forbes (I bike officer) and Sustrans for organising the competition and for delivering the prizes for our winners!

 

Royal Mail Competition Finalist!

We have received exciting news that one of our pupils has made it through to the 120 finalists of the Royal Mail ‘Heroes’ Stamp Design Competition! Well done to Lily in P6 🙂  We have our fingers crossed that you make it to the next round (where 24  from the 120 finalists will be announced in November) and hopefully even make it to the final 8 winning stamp designs! An incredible 606,049 entries were received from children across the UK, with an amazing 7,479 schools taking part so to make it through to the 120 finalists is a great achievement – we are very proud of you and love you ‘Heroes’ stamp design.  

Wearing face coverings

Following on from the new guidance issued, face coverings will be worn by adults in school when they are in communal areas shared with pupils.

We ask that parents and carers still continue to wear face coverings when collecting children from the school grounds. Thank you for your support.

Outdoor P.E – Reminder of days

Please see a reminder below about P.E days for our classes this session.

P1a – Tuesday & Thursday
P1b – Tuesday & Wednesday
P1c – Monday & Tuesday
P2/1 – Monday & Thursday
P2a – Wednesday & Thursday
P2b – Tuesday & Thursday
P3a – Wednesday & Friday
P3b – Wednesday & Thursday
P4/3 – Monday & Tuesday
P4 – Monday & Tuesday
P5/4 – Monday & Tuesday
P5 – Wednesday & Thursday
P6/5 – Wednesday & Thursday
P6 – Monday & Tuesday
P7/6 – Wednesday & Thursday
P7 – Monday & Thursday

Pupils should attend school dressed for outdoor P.E (t-shirt, jogging trousers or similar, trainers etc) on the days specified above (there is no need to bring a change of clothes for your child). It may be useful to wear shorts under jogging trousers in case of warm weather or indoor P.E.

Thank you.

N-P1 Transition Task

N-P1 Transition Task – Final Week

It was lovely to meet many of you last week for our P1 Transition Visits 🙂  We hope you enjoyed spending some time in your classroom and meeting your teacher. 
Please see information and links below for this weeks transition activities. These are the last transition activities before the Summer holidays.
The story this week is called ‘The Rainbow Fish’ by Marcus Pfister.   
At the beginning of the story, the rainbow fish doesn’t have very many friends but by the end of the story, he has learned to share and has lots of friends.
Can you draw a picture of one of your friends?   Can you write your name and their name too?
You could try drawing a picture of the beautiful rainbow fish or if you have paints at home you could use them to make a finger painting.  Maybe you could cut shiny materials or pages from an old magazine and stick them onto paper in the shape of a fish.
Please click on the link below to listen to the story of ‘The Rainbow Fish’.  We hope you enjoy it 🙂
The rainbow fish has so many colours!   The link below is a favourite song of ours in Primary 1.  How many colours do you know?  We hope you enjoy the song.
It’s a colors song for young children. This song was written and performed by A.J. Jenkins. Video by KidsTV123. Copyright 2018 A.J.Jenkins/KidsTV123: All rights reserved. This is an ORIGINAL song written in 2018 – any copying is illegal. For MP3s, worksheets and much more: http://www.KidsTV123.com kids songs song for children Chords Capo 3rd …
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Parents, the booklet attached below is by Axel Scheffler.   It was written together with Professor Graham Medley (Professor of Infectious Disease Modelling), Head teachers and Child Psychologist Dr Sarah Carman.   It is an accessible booklet which can be read in parts or all at once.  We hope it is useful to you and your family. Please click on the link below to access the booklet.
These Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler poems (in the link below) show familiar characters social distancing.  You may like to share them with your children.
Have a great Summer.  All the P1 team are really looking forward to seeing you in August!
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