School Blog

What a fabulous few weeks we've had baking up a storm! The scent of cookies drifting along the hallway has got a few tummies rumbling! Well done to all our bakers who did a great job making some delicious vegan chocolate chip cookies. Yum!

We are pleased to welcome the Travelling Book Fair back to East Calder Primary. The book fair offers a wide range of affordable books for all ages. It helps us to promote the joy of reading and foster a love of books. It also allows us to fund raise to buy more books for our ... Continue reading "The Travelling Book Fair returns!"

This we we were working on the Meta Skill Social Intelligence. This meant we were communicating, collaborating and leading. We listened to the story Jack and the Beanstalk and thought about the characters and main points. We discussed how the characters would act, what they say and talked about how the story would be better ... Continue reading "P3A Hubs Week 2"

P1C enjoyed their skills hub. We learned about percussion instruments through a listening game. Then we made shakers from recycled materials and rice. We listened to a piece of music shaking our shakers to the beat. We had a discussion about critical thinking and creativity skills and everyone was able to identify when they had ... Continue reading "P1C Innovation Hub"

This week we have continued to increase opportunities for members of the class to lead their own learning and contribute to school improvement. We already involve pupils more in curriculum design by encouraging them to use Pupil Voice when choosing an IDL concept and by offering the choice in what format they display many ... Continue reading "P6 Leading their own Learning"

In our first self management skills hub the 'Pet Care' group were learning all about looking after a horse. They were visited by Cid the Shetland pony. The hub group started by discussing his anatomy and how each part of his body was used to communicate and how we take care of his needs. The ... Continue reading "Skills Hubs Week 1- Self Management"

We were working on Meta Skill of INNOVATION. We had to use our creativity to come up with a new wild animal, thinking about how it moved, where it lived, how and what it ate and how it defended itself. We got to choose if we worked on it individually, in a pair or in ... Continue reading "P3A Hubs Week 1"

We are all so excited that today is the launch of our new skills hubs. These hubs have been in development since August as part of our School Improvement Plan and have been consulted widely on.

Today Primary 4B got 2 new pet gerbils in school. They decided to call them Tom and Jerry. Welcome to ECPS Tom and Jerry

On the 2nd March this dynamic duo entered their first competition at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh. They came second in both Cheer and Hip Hop! They both received a medal and have another competition in May. Well done ladies!!

This term we are working on our division. We learned a new strategy called Bar Modelling. We then worked with a random partner to show our knowledge. This will also help us work out fractions of a number. We were asked to let the architects know what we thought about different aspects of our new ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"

This week we have been completing lots of work inspired by the story Ruby's Worry. It will be used for a West Lothian Council Creativity in Literacy Competition. Please see Sway to find out about our learning. P3A Creativity in Literacy We based our competition entry on the book Ruby's Worry by Tom Percival. This ... Continue reading "P3A Learning"