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Every Friday we work on our handwriting. We practice our letters lots of different ways - white boards, smart board, jotters and wipe clean boards. We work on our letter formation so that we do it correctly in all of our work. Later on this year we will start to join letters so really need ... Continue reading "P3a Handwriting"

We have been working hard to develop ball control skills in P.E. We enjoyed taking our P.E outside on Wednesday for the first time in a while. We used the basketballs to bounce to a partner and the aim of the game was to try and make sure the ball only bounced in the hoop ... Continue reading "P.E in Primary 3B"

In Numeracy, we have been using our new geo boards to help us learn multiplication. We always use a concrete, pictorial and abstract approach and we talk about the groups we make to show a calculation. We have been using the geo boards to make arrays. Last week, we worked hard to make groups ... Continue reading "P3B Showing Creativity in Numeracy"

In our Literacy lessons we are looking at the features and layout of a Procedure. We discussed the 4 parts to a set of Instructions Title Goal Materials Steps We also looked at adding a Top Tip and diagrams to help our reader! Using these skills in an everyday context we had a fantastic melted ... Continue reading "Using our Literacy Skills in an Everyday Context"

This week Primary 1 have been very busy learning about measure. We used a balance scale and have been using the words heavier and lighter to describe the objects we weighed. We then estimated what we thought some classroom items might weigh then recorded how many cubes it took to make the scale balance. We ... Continue reading "Primary 1"

We have been learning about money and have had a great time playing in our class shop. We are beginning to recognise different coins and starting to add coins together. We also love to play the 'topmarks toy shop' game in the iPads. We have been extending our vocabulary during our learning about the weather. ... Continue reading "Learning in P2/1"

Congratulations to our P7 Netball team who competed in the South Livingston Netball League matches at West Calder High School. Everyone played fantastic Netball and were a credit to ECPS.

Congratulations to our P7 Sportshall Athletics Team who won the WLC East Conference competition. The team will now represent West Lothian at the East of Scotland Regional event on the 1st of March 2023. Well done to everyone involved and good luck at regionals!

We had another informative visit from Alan Hamilton. We looked at what it was like for children during WWII, covering: jobs, accommodation, evacuees, toys, rationing and sweets! It was useful to link our findings with the UNCRC and our rights today. The pupils felt inspired by Alan's information on WWII games, so we decided to ... Continue reading "Children during WWII"

The children (and staff!!) have been getting ready for Christmas. Mr Fazakerley made an amazing Christmas tree for the Hive which the children helped to decorate. We have also designed our own Christmas jumpers whilst wearing our Christmas jumpers! We wrote letters to Santa and made Christmas pictures using different 2d shape. Super learning and ... Continue reading "Christmas has arrived in The Hive!"