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Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities. In Reading Comprehension, we are focusing on prediction this term. We learned that "prediction" means having a good guess about what we think will happen next in a text. Texts come in a variety of different forms and we used an exciting ... Continue reading "Literacy and Numeracy in P3/2"

The Hive children have all returned from the summer break and are now settled back in to their school environment and ready to learn. We have done a variety of Maths and Literacy activities, at our workstations and through play!

We have been very busy in our science lab since we returned to school! In our first week back we were growing rainbows, creating crystal geodes, planting rainforest and desert biodomes and beginning to set up a wormery (no worms have been added yet!) We have also started our topics for the term: P1 & ... Continue reading "Science at ECPS"

We listened to a story and thought of all the positional language we heard. We then worked with a partner to write down all the words we could think of. We watched a short video and discussed where items were in a house using the vocabulary we had learned. We started learning about writing a ... Continue reading "P3 Literacy & Numeracy"

This week in Primary 4A we have been exploring numeracy tools in class. We have been looking at using tools to help count, solve calculations and order numbers. We have been exploring Cuisenaire rods, Numicon and number lines. We have been completing daily number talks and building our bank of strategies to find the most ... Continue reading "Primary 4A Numeracy"

This week we have continued to take part in our literacy and numeracy activities. We have started looking at 2D shapes this week and thinking about the properties of these. We continue to look at our numeracy learning through numbers before, after and in-between up to 100. We continue to use play throughout our lessons ... Continue reading "This week in P2"

This P5 pupil successfully completed the Summer Reading Challenge 2023 and shared his favourite book with us - a great achievement, well done!

What a great start everyone has made to Primary 1. We've all been learning our school routines and making new friends. We have started learning our phonics and this week have been practising 's' and 'a'. We continue to work with numbers; sequencing, ordering, writing and counting. We have been learning about the 4 listening ... Continue reading "Primary 1"

Our P7 Pupil Leadership Group are being selected next week. Their first job will be to organise a coffee morning to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Research. We are opening this event to our local community!

Article 29: We have the right to develop our talents and abilities. are going to start using the PM approach to support us in Writing, however, we have started to think about how we can improve and "bump up" our writing using our "Literacy Bump It Up Wall." Miss Marra showed a picture on ... Continue reading "P3/2 Literacy Bump It Up Wall"