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A few new models built this week.

Primary 7 thoroughly enjoyed their trip with Alan Hamilton yesterday, Alan is a friend of the school, a veteran and an expert in all things to do with WWII. He set up an activity for us to discover some different war graves, when we found the correct graves we laid some commemorative crosses for Remembrance ... Continue reading "Visitor in P7"

Literacy in P6-An Explanation An Explanation We have been looking at the Explanation Genre. This genre explains how or why something happens. We decided to link our Literacy to our current IDL context of Natural Disasters. We also used our ICT skills by researching a Natural Disaster of our choice. We created notes in our ... Continue reading "P6 -Literacy An Explanation"

Well done to our Primary 7s who took part in Sportshall Athletics last Wednesday. The pupils worked really hard as a team and showed outstanding behaviour in front of the other schools. Everyone enjoyed taking part in the activities and cheering on their fellow pupils. We have now received our score and I can ... Continue reading "Sportshall Athletics 2023"

This week we recapped the time work we should know from P2 of o'clock, half past & quarter past. We worked in pairs to test each other. Then we challenged each other to try to tell quarter to times. We will continue to work using analogue clocks and start to use digital times next week. ... Continue reading "P3 Learning"

This week has been busy finishing off our climate posters and working in groups to display the correct animals that live in those climates. We have started to look at counting in 2's, 5's and 10's and are discussing how this links to multiplication. We enjoy working on Sumdog in class as part of our ... Continue reading "This week in P2"

Our Book Fair from Scholastic Travelling Books has arrived! The Book Fair is packed with hundreds of the best children's books for all ages - from award-winners and the newest titles to pocket-money pick-ups and treasured classics. The range includes picture books, early readers, chapter books, books for reluctant readers, older fiction, non-fiction, home learning ... Continue reading "It's here! Our Book Fair opens on Monday."

On Thursday, 9th November, P5A visited East Calder Library with Mrs Campbell and Mrs Robertson. We met Deborah the librarian who told us all about how to become a member and explained all of the different services the library provides. We did some reading activities and then listened to a story. Lots of us were ... Continue reading "P5A Library Visit"

In Numeracy, we have been learning to use subtraction strategies and we have been learning to find the most efficient strategy. We have been using our Numeracy Tools to support our learning. We love sharing our strategies with each other. Our first calculation was 23 - 13. One group worked with Miss Marra and ... Continue reading "We are working hard in P3/2!"

Congratulations on winning a bronze medal at the East Lothian Gala. You shared with us that you swim for Broxburn Amateur Swimming Club and that you achieved your medal for the butterfly stroke. Congratulations,we are all really proud of you!