School Blog

This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby's Worry. It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition. Please see Sway to find out about our learning. P3A Creativity in Literacy We based our competition entry on the book Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival. This ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"

Victorian Artefacts in P6 We were fortunate enough to have a visit from West Lothian Museum services this week. Linking with our current Social Studies context we enjoyed an afternoon of Victorian artefacts! The class were allowed to handle a lot of the items and were amazed to see how things have progressed since Victorian ... Continue reading "Victorian Artefacts! P6"

Donate your old Devices! Got any old smartphones, tablets, routers, gaming consoles, cameras or laptops and cables that you no longer need? Don't know what to do with them and don't want them going to landfill? This could be the answer! As part of our Eco learning on sustainability, East Calder Primary is joining with ... Continue reading "Donate your old Devices!"

We have started learning about 3D shapes. First we tried to remember their names. Then we looked at them, touched them and thought about their properties. We then had to work with our partner to work out how many edges, faces & vertices they had. We found some like a sphere easy but found working ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"

This week we have been learning our Fry's words. 'We painted them, we made them with playdoh and we wrote them on ipads' Piper. 'We went round the different stations to try every task' Harrison. We listened to the story 'Tiddler' by Julia Donaldson. 'I like how he told all the stories' Oscar. 'I liked ... Continue reading "Learning in P2A"

A huge big thank you to all our volunteers who came along recently to be 'Secret Readers'. Our classes love listen to stories and having visitors makes it even better. It's so important for our learners to see adults other than their teachers reading. Thank you again. We couldn't do it without you!

We took part in lots of different activities for Book Week. We watched Author's Live with the illustrator Fiona Lumbers. She read one of the Luna Loves stories and taught us how to draw Luna. We had good fun adding our own things that Luna might love to our pictures. We took part in the ... Continue reading "P3A Book Week"

It's lovely to hear about our pupils achievements in and out of school. Here are two pupils celebrating their medals and hard work in their extra-curricular activities. One pupil won five medals at the Fauldhouse Swimming Gala: coming 4th in the 200m freestyle, 5th in the 50m breaststroke, 1st place - winning two gold medals ... Continue reading "Celebrating success in P7!"

Thanks P6 for all your kind donations. You all looked very chilled!

Another amazing haul of medals in P6. Well done Liyaa,we are really proud of your achievements.

Fun was had at our very first After School Lego Club this week. We had Lego sets of an aircraft, turtle, squirrel and more being built. Some very creative children also built their own models. Check back in the next few weeks when they will describe their models to us.

An Explanation We have been looking at the Explanation Genre. This genre explains how or why something happens. We decided to link our Literacy to our current IDL context of Natural Disasters. We also used our ICT skills by researching a Natural Disaster of our choice. We created notes in our first draft. We then ... Continue reading "Learning in P6"