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We raised a fantastic total of £315.13 for Red Nose Day on 17th March. A huge thank you to everyone for your generous donations and for taking part so enthusiastically in 'wearing red from toes to head'! Thank you also to the Primary 5 pupils who helped raise awareness of the event around the school, ... Continue reading "Red Nose Day 2023"

We are so proud of our Sportshall Athletics team, who competed at the East of Scotland Regional Final on Tuesday. The team gave it their all and finished 7th on the leader board. All of the pupils were a credit to the school. Well done everyone!

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 ... Continue reading "P1a News"

This week we have been working on counting back from 100. We had to share our strategy with the rest of the class. We then used the strategy to work out lots of different equations. Next we tried using the same strategy when the number was lower than 100. We worked out that the same ... Continue reading "P3a Number Talks"

Last weekend Jakson in Primary 5 qualified for the Motocross British Championship, an amazing achievement for such a young rider. We are all incredibly proud of Jakson and we look forward to seeing what the future holds for him as he continues to compete in this exciting sport. Well done, Jakson! Fw_ Jakson Spain Training ... Continue reading "P5 Achievement in Motocross"

Primary 4A have been preparing for the arrival of our class gerbils. We have been doing research in class and using our notes to create Power Points about caring for gerbils. We have been thinking about names for our 2 new gerbils and after creating a list of our favourites we used Microsoft forms to ... Continue reading "Primary 4A Gerbils"

We all had a lovely Easter holiday and are now getting back into the school routines. We have had a very busy couple of weeks. Glen and Alex have been enjoying buddy time! Eoin, Aria and Kayden were working hard together on comprehension skills. Henry enjoyed doing some science in his P4 class.

We have been experimenting with our new loom frames in class. We like to choose the colours and textures of each thread. It's great for our fine motor skills too. We've been learning about the Coronation and have been listening to facts read by our Reading Buddies. We made coronation bookmarks. We were also using ... Continue reading "Learning in P2/1"

Welcome back everyone! We have had a very busy few weeks in P3B. We have been working hard to create posters about the "Zones of Regulation." Each class has a chart and we use our names to show how we are feeling by placing our names in either the green, red, blue or yellow ... Continue reading "A Very Busy Start to the Term in P3B"

In P3B, we are very excited to announce that we are going to be the first class in East Calder to create a "bump it up wall" in Literacy. Our Literacy Learning Wall has been up in our classroom all year, and we recently realised we haven't been using it nearly as much as ... Continue reading "Bump it up Wall in P3B!"