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Active Schools have created a different type of advent calendar. A Wellbeing Calendar! There is an activity for each school day in December. The activities will keep you feeling active, happy and positive! Enjoy! Active Schools HWB Calendar 2020

P2 Spelling ow and ou 30th November 2020 Please find attached our spelling words for this week ow (as in owl) and ou (as in cloud). Some of our children are practising spelling cvc words. Thank you for your support. Mrs Meikle

Good morning, Please see below our second sound for this week: 'ou' and 'ow'. Please support your child to practise reading and writing these words at home. Try to focus on sounding out to blend the sounds together. If the children are confident reading and writing the words, they may wish to write sentences with ... Continue reading "P2B Phonics 2.12.2020"

Dear Parents and Carers, Primary 2/1 have been working hard this week and are also very excited about the Christmas period (and a special daily visit from a mischievous Elf called Jingle). Numeracy Primary 2s are learning about Arrays and finding different ways to experiment with this using the Smartboard, counters, whiteboards and Numicons. ... Continue reading "P2/1 Learning"

Good morning, Please see below our second sound for this week: 'ou' and 'ow'. Please support your child to practise reading and writing these words at home. Try to focus on sounding out to blend the sounds together. If the children are confident reading and writing the words, they may wish to write sentences with ... Continue reading "P2B Phonics Sound 7th December"

Good morning, Please find attached our new sounds and spelling for this week: 'igh' and 'y'. Some of our children are practising cvc words for spelling but all are learning the new sounds for this week together. Please support your child to practise reading and writing these words at home. Try to focus on sounding ... Continue reading "Primary 2/1 - P2 Phonics and Spelling"

Good afternoon everyone, Please see below for our new sounds this week. We are learning "igh" and "y" and some pupils are also continuing to practise CVC words. Please support your child to read and write the words in their list. One of the activities the children have enjoyed the most in class is going ... Continue reading "Primary 2A Phonics"

In Primary 2A, we have been learning about pirates as our Topic. We were very excited to receive a letter from a real pirate who is going to help us with our learning. We decided what we would like to learn about pirates and some of our questions have been answered in the interesting non-fiction ... Continue reading "Aargh Primary 2A!"

A massive 'THANK YOU' to our secret helpers who came in to the school playground last Friday to cement down the beautiful painted stones which our pupils and their families did during Lockdown. We were delighted to see the finished result and are sure that you will agree that they have done a fantastic job. ... Continue reading "Lockdown Painted Stones"

This morning we held our usual virtual Assembly on TEAMS, however today's assembly was very different as it was our first Nativity Assembly which was led by the pupils of East Calder Primary School. The Christmas Story was told by pupils from every class and we think that our P1-7 pupils did a fantastic job! ... Continue reading "Whole School 'Nativity Assembly'"