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Another lovely acknowledgement for Primary 4's efforts raising money for a local charity. Jak's Den offers emotional, social and practical support to children and young people with cancer-related illnesses. They sent us a lovely thank you card and certificate this week - well done again, P4!

I hope all of our families have a relaxing break over the summer. In the meantime, I have created some social stories so that all classes can familiarise themselves with their teacher, playground, class and entry/exit doors. In the lead up to the schools coming back, it can be particularly helpful to go over the ... Continue reading "Social Stories - Session 2025/2026"

Today we held our sprint races as the final part of sports day. Well done to our winning runners.

Well done to the dancers who represented East Calder Primary School on Friday evening for the crowning of the Gala Queen 2025. The girls danced to Wings by Little Mix and demonstrated their use of creativity and collaborating meta-skills.

Back in Term 2, Primary 4A and 4B researched different charities and used the information to create Powerpoint presentations. Each class voted for their favourite charity and we then raised funds by selling Christmas cards around school. We recently received this certificate of thanks from one of our chosen charities, the R.N.L.I. Great effort, P4! ... Continue reading "P4 Charity Champs!"

Congratulations to one of our P7 pupils who achieved a bronze award at the Scottish Mathematics Challenge, he is one of two pupils from the whole of West Lothian to win. Here are some photographs of him at the prize-giving ceremony at Edinburgh Napier University's Sighthill campus. A huge well done!

A huge thank you to a very talented parent who came in today to share her experience in photography. We learned about composition, complementary backgrounds and how to use lighting. Each group had a photographer, director and model. We worked on our team work skills and communication. Our context this term is 'Sports' and our ... Continue reading "Sports photography in P7"

Today primary 4 visited Dynamic earth as part of their Climate topic. We learned so much about the climate, weather and the world. We had a workshop about weather, a movie and a tour. Here are some highlights.

Running alongside our Democracy context this term the class have demonstrated their Pupil Agency by also creating a project on a topic of their choice. One member of the class chose to do The Cold War and as you can see from the photos he created a set of diorama's to represent the Cuban Missile ... Continue reading "Pupil Agency in P6"

By exploring climate zones around the world, I can compare and describe how climate affects living things. SOC 1-12b By exploring a natural environment different from my own, I can discover how the physical features influence the variety of living things. SOC 1-13b Having explored the landscape of my local area, I can describe ... Continue reading "New IDL Context in P4"

'We were making Earth Day pictures for Earth Day' Zoe. 'We learned to look after the planet' Michelle. 'We learned to pick up litter so sea animals don't die- they might become extinct. We should not be cutting down so many trees.' William. 'We have to learn to look after plants' McKenna. 'We made little ... Continue reading "P2A Learning"

This term we have moved on the learn about writing Explanations. We started off looking at an Explanation titled Why a Goalkeeper's Job is Important. We learned about the sections of the writing Title, Identifying Statement, Explanation Sequence & Summary Statement. We then looked at the text and highlighted the nouns. After that we spoke ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"