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We were fortunate enough to have a visit from some members of P7A today. They were sharing their learning and experiences of using a Profile folder on One Note. A profile is a snapshot of a young person's best achievements at a given point in time. The content of the profile is decided by the young ... Continue reading "Profiling in P6"

Fun was had by all on Tuesday at our party. We played games, danced & sang along with music. We also had some yummy snacks.

This week we have been working on our editing skills. We were given a sentence with lots of mistakes and had to work with our partner to correct it. There were missing capital letters, full stops and lots of spellings to correct. It made us really think. Hopefully this will help us edit our own ... Continue reading "P3a Literacy"

We used concrete materials to work on division. We started off dividing by 2 as we all know that table. Once we worked one out we wrote the sum on our table. We worked out lots of different sums. Then we moved on to dividing by 3 and some of us even tried dividing by ... Continue reading "P3a Division"

In P7 we are looking at ethical living and exploring what this means for our future, our health and the choices we make. The pupils were interested in researching the egg industry. Have a look at some pf the infographics we create to display our learning, we did some by hand and some using Canva ... Continue reading "Eggcellent Ethical Living in P7A"

Primary 1 have had fun during Scots Week. We have read lots of stories in Scots, enjoyed different activities and loved hearing everyone say their chosen poem. At the assembly tomorrow P1b are excited to present what they've been learning about. They had great fun doing Heid, Shooders, Knaps and Taes' and singing 'Three Craws'. ... Continue reading "Primary 1"

In P6 we started by looking a whole range of Scots words and trying to decipher what they may mean....most of us knew Mingin! For the ones we were less sure of we used a Scots online dictionary. Once we had worked out the Scots translation, we used these words in a variety of ways. ... Continue reading "P6 Scots Week"

This week has been Scots Week at East Calder. P2/1 have enjoyed listening to stories about Katie Morag. We were really surprised and excited to receive a letter from her! She was asking us to design a new tartan skirt. Her one had been ruined when she was trying to deliver the mail. We used ... Continue reading "Learning inP2/1"

We were fortunate enough to have a visit from West Lothian Museum services this week. Linking with our current Social Studies context we enjoyed a morning 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 times,even though we have ... Continue reading "Victorian Artefacts Handling Session P6"

We are learning to write an explanation text. We have been working hard to explore the features of an explanation text and this week, we created our own. We used our "magic box" to choose a random partner and we wrote our first explanation text on the desks. We love writing on the desks with ... Continue reading "P3B Literacy"