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In science we have been learning about mixtures and chemical reactions. We made our own lava lamps by mixing oil and coloured water and added an effervescent tablet to the bottle. This created a chemical reaction when the tablet mixed with the water and started to bubble.

Last week, we were visited by Fischy Music! We learned new songs and had good fun singing and dancing. Then we had a school concert in the afternoon which was very loud and great fun. In Literacy, we continue to learn new sounds: 'u' , 'l' and 'f', and are practising blending to read small ... Continue reading "P1 News"

Congratulations for winning Player of the Week with your football team East Calder United. You told us you were awarded your medal for not only playing well in each game but also working hard in training. It was great to hear you were so happy to receive it and we are proud of your achievement ... Continue reading "Outside School Achievements P6"

Using our class novel, Light on Dumyat we applied a range of reading strategies to read and understand texts, for example, skimming, scanning, predicting and summarising. We read in a range of styles from paired to choral to echo and individual. We tried to read with increasing fluency, understanding and expression, using appropriate pace and ... Continue reading "P6 Book Week"

This week has been an amazing week in P2. We have taken part in lots of book week activities such as Drop Everything And Read time, making book covers and bookmarks, creating finger puppets, having a secret reader in our class, watching a live reading session with Julia Donaldson and James Robertson (who translates Julia ... Continue reading "This week in P2"

We've had a super time during Book Week. One of our favourite things was the book mark competition. Congratulations to Leonor who won a certificate from our class! We were all excited to receive our Bookbug bags in P1 and our Read, Write, Count bags in P2. We loved listening to one of the stories ... Continue reading "Book Week P2/1"

We celebrated book week by making book covers for our competition, enjoyed our DEAR time (Drop Everything And Read) and were lucky enough to get a visit to our local East Calder library. We enjoyed being able to use our library space and learn how to find the books that interest us! We would like ... Continue reading "Book Week P7/6"

P7/6 went on a class trip to East Calder cemetery with our war veteran helper Alan Hamilton. We found the WW1 graves that related to our IDL context and discussed the other war graves from WW2. we discussed the way the cemetery was set up to catch the sunrise and sunset and why that was ... Continue reading "P7/6 Class Trip"

We are continuing our learning about using question marks. This week we worked with random partners to come up with questions about a picture. We wrote them on sticky notes so we could display them and remind ourselves what to do. In Numeracy we have been learning about Fact families. A fact family is made ... Continue reading "P3 Learning"

This week we began looking at arrays in multiplication and using them to help count in groups. We made arrays out of play doh to show how to make them. We had a visit from P6 to talk to us about road safety this week as well and we designed posters to show why road ... Continue reading "This week in P2"