School Blog

We are pleased to welcome the Travelling Book Fair back to East Calder Primary. The Book Fair offers a wide range of affordable books for all ages. It helps us to promote and encourage a love of books and reading for enjoyment. It also allows us to fund raise to buy more books for our ... Continue reading "Coming Soon!.. The wonderful Travelling Book Fair"

We have been working so hard in P2A. We have been continuing to use addition strategies in Numeracy. We use concrete tools to make calculations and then write the algorithm. We have also been learning to use a counting on strategy. This amazing learner is using cubes to partition 20. He made 11 + ... Continue reading "Primary 2A"

P1a had an exciting time during Maths Week, filled with outdoor learning and creative exploration. We practised our counting skills by chasing and popping bubbles, turning a fun activity into a great way to build number sense. Using natural materials like sticks and stones, we created counting collections and carefully ordered them by size, developing ... Continue reading "P1a - Maths Week"

As part of Maths Week Scotland, we engaged in a wide range of activities designed to make learning fun and meaningful. Pupils participated in the Sumdog Competition, created pictures using a variety of shapes, and designed hundreds square art pieces. They also explored construction by building shapes with magnetic cubes and used star shapes in ... Continue reading "Math Week in P3A"

This week, our young mathematicians took their learning outdoors and explored numbers, shapes, and patterns in creative and playful ways. We collected natural materials and used them to compare sizes, order objects, and make discoveries about measurement and classification. We also had lots of fun clapping and counting bubbles as they floated through the air—an ... Continue reading "Maths week in Primary 1C"

We discussed our school rules and what they mean for us. To show our agreement of keeping to the rules - Ready, Respect, Safe we created our superhero selves. Look carefully and you may even see a Super Teacher!! We have started off the year well and to help us we have been playing different ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"

We have had a great start to the year in P2A. We love our new classroom and we have enjoyed seeing our old friends from P1. We have also enjoyed making some new friends and becoming a fantastic team as one class. Here are a few pictures of our classroom. Article 24: We have the ... Continue reading "Primary 2A"

We are off to a flying start in Primary 1C, we have been practising our new sounds and number writing. We have been showcasing our creativity using technologies and other tools like PlayDoh to help us with our counting and 1:1 correspondence. As a class, we have loved exploring our class story 'The Smeds and ... Continue reading "Primary 1C"

Please find attached the NHS guidance for those that have asthma. Take care, Alison Hamilton Asthma return to school 2025

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.