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We finished our models today in Lego Club. Great fun!

Something strange was in our mystery box this morning. A few of us tried to guess. Some said a number 2, which was quite a good guess. Others couldn't find anything. After lots of discussion round what sort of shape it was, Harris worked out it was a question mark. We looked at the shape ... Continue reading "P3 Literacy"

Book Week Scotland is almost here! From Monday 14th November we will be celebrating all kinds of books. Please look out for this newsletter which has all the information about Book Week Scotland at East Calder Primary School. We are delighted to be able to invite parents and carers of Primary 1, 2 and 3 ... Continue reading "Coming Soon! Book Week Scotland 2022"

Our new phonics sound in Literacy this week is the "sh" sound. This morning, we had the opportunity to be word detectives to help us spell "sh" words. We worked with our partner to spell "sh" words using the letters written on the sticky notes. We challenged ourselves and some of even used extra letters ... Continue reading "Word Detectives in P3B"

Primary 5 and Mrs Campbell were delighted to welcome Alan Hamilton into school on Thursday afternoon. Alan has previously been a regular visitor to our school, working with P6s and P7s on their World War IDL contexts. He is a mine of information about WW1, WW2 and everything in between! Alan came to speak to ... Continue reading "P5's Special Visitor"

Primary 2 learned all about Remembrance Day and the reason that we wear poppies. They did super writing and created poppies using different materials in the classroom.

This week Primary 1 have been learning all about 2D shape. We named the shapes and used them to make shape pictures. Some of us went outside for a Shape Hunt and we used things we found to create our own shapes. Others took turns to use the feely bag, and, without looking, describe what ... Continue reading "Primary 1"

We love a challenge in P3B! This morning, we took part in a new learning activity to practise reading and writing our Fry's words. We learned how to create a word search. We each created our own word search, however; we worked with a partner and Miss Marra saw lots of great teamwork. In Smart ... Continue reading "Literacy in P3B"

We were extremely luck to have Alan Hamilton visit us this week in Primary 7. He shared his experiences and knowledge of war and he let us pass around his war medals! We learned about the how WWII started; he used an interactive time lapse map to show how it spread all around the word. ... Continue reading "Book Week and WWII in P7"

On Wednesday morning, 23 of our Primary 7 pupils represented us at the West Lothian 'East Conference' Sportshall Athletics event. All of the children did an excellent job competing in 13 different events against 7 other schools. Everyone was a credit to our school!