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World Book Day 2024

World Book Day is next week!

This year World Book Day is on Thursday 7th March and classes will be celebrating authors, illustrators, books and the joy of reading.

We would also like to invite everyone to A BIG Cosy, Comfortable Reading Day NEXT FRIDAY 8th March.

All pupils are welcome to join in if they wish. You can wear pyjamas or dress down and also bring a favorite cuddly toy, cushion or pillow. We will all get comfy and enjoy some shared reading time together.

Please note pupils can exchange their World Book Day tokens at participating stores. The token can be used to purchase one of the special £1 published short books, or used to discount other book prices by £1.

Happy reading everyone!

Book Week Scotland P1-3 Events

The Scottish Book Trust is a national charity that believes books, reading and writing have the power to change lives. Over the last 25 years they have gifted books to Primary 1, 2 and 3 pupils in all Scottish Primary schools.

Book Week Scotland which begins on Monday 13th November gives us the opportunity to invite parents/ carers of Primary 1, 2 and 3 pupils to our Book bag events in our school library on the following days.

P3a/ P3/2 Monday 13th November -2.30pm until 3.15pm ( pupils will be dismissed from the school library)

P2a/ P2/1 Tuesday 14th November -2pm in our school library followed by sharing the learning in your child’s class.

P1a/P1b Wednesday 15th November – 2.20pm until 3.00pm (pupils will be dismissed from class)

We hope you can join us to share a story and a snack.

Happy reading everyone!

Sharing the Learning in P3/2

We had a very exciting start to our new term in P3/2 as we had our Sharing the Learning for parents and carers on Thursday. We focused on our learning in Numeracy and we were excited to show off all the hard work we have doing in multiplication so far. We used concrete materials to make times tables and we wrote the calculations on the desk. We love writing on the desk!

We showed our parents and carers how to play “Whack a Mole” on the ipads and we were confidently able to explain how this game helps us to skip count. We share our Dienes materials and showed our adults how we can use them to make two, three or four digit numbers. We also enjoyed showing off all the other tools we use to support our learning in Numeracy. Some of were also excited to show our jotters to our adults too, especially to show our great progress in Writing so far this year.

Thank you to all our parents and carers who came to our Sharing the Learning. It was a lovely afternoon and the children really enjoyed having you all in class with us.

Article 28: We have the right to learn.

P1a News

We’ve had a really busy week in P1a.

In Maths we have been continuing to learn about time and have been reading o’clock and half past times on digital and analogue clocks.

Our new sound this week was ‘ai’ and we made a list of ‘ai’ words, but soon realised that this sound can be written differently e.g bear, whale etc. We also tried to make words that rhyme and used magnets and flip charts to make rhyming word families.

On Wednesday we had our sharing the learning afternoon. Thank you to all the parents and carers who were able to come along. We had a great time trying out all of the senses activities. We had smelling pots to guess the smell, tasting activities to identify sweet, sour, bitter and salty, shakers to make for the sense of hearing, fun glasses to design for sight and lots of different textures to stick onto a huge hand for the sense of touch. It was agreed afterwards that the tasting one was the best!

Coming Soon! Book Week Scotland 2022

Book Week Scotland is almost here!

From Monday 14th November we will be celebrating all kinds of books.

Please look out for this newsletter which has all the information about Book Week Scotland at East Calder Primary School.

We are delighted to be able to invite parents and carers of Primary 1, 2 and 3 pupils into school during Book Week to enjoy some relaxing reading time in our school library.

P1 Monday 14th Nov 2.30pm

P3 Tues 15th Nov 2.30pm

P2 Wed 16th Nov 2.30pm

All classes will have time to read, celebrate books and authors and take part in a competition.

We will also take this opportunity to issue all pupils with their copy of the late Queen’s Jubilee book.

If you would like to to find out more about Book Week Scotland please visit the Scottish Book Trust online.

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-scotland

Looking forward to a fantastic, fun-filled Book Week!

Coming Soon!! The Really BIG READ ALOUD!

Calling all parents and carers!

We need your help!

As part of our Reading Schools Silver Award Accreditation we are hoping to raise the profile of reading with families.

Lots of research has shown that continued reading aloud to children even after they can read on their own, improves reading and listening skills and academic performance. It is relaxing and wonderful for bonding.

We would appreciate it if you could participate in Our Really BIG READ ALOUD! Which will take place from Tuesday 24th May to Thursday 2nd June.

We are hoping that over the next 2 weeks families could find time to fit in 5 or 10 minutes of reading aloud together …at least 3 times each week if possible.

If your child can read independently you can share the reading together. It doesn’t need to be a book. It could be a comic, newspaper, magazine. It could be a recipe if you are baking or cooking together.. or the instructions for a game or model. And we know how much everyone likes a story being read to them.. even our senior pupils.

It would great if you could take a photo of your family reading time. You may see classes will have a post on their Seesaw or Teams page about reading for enjoyment at home.

Thank you for your support.

Happy Reading Everyone!

Article 31 I have the right to relax and play.

Coming soon .. our Library opening event ..and World Book Day!

As part of our Reading Schools Award we are working to promote reading for pleasure and enjoyment.

A growing number of studies show reading can have a major impact on on children and young people’s attainment, self-confidence and well-being.

Next week we will be opening our long awaited, refurbished library (just in time for World Book Day on Thursday 4th March) We hope everyone will enjoy reading and exploring all the fantastic books we have. Classes will be invited along for an opening event and then will have an allocated time each week to spend in the library.

This is what our library looked like before..

Each pupil has been given a token for World Book Day which can be exchanged at participating retailers (Waterstones book shop in Livingston is one) for a selection of short, free books or used to discount other books by £1. The tokens can be used from now until 27th March.

NEXT FRIDAY 4th March we will be celebrating World Book Day by dressing up ..or down .. if you wish. We would really love to see some characters from books!

We are looking forward to a fun…and book-filled week ahead!

Article 31 (leisure, play and culture): Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.