School Blog

Please see the attached flyer regarding the Open Evening at West Calder High School on 26th September. We appreciate that the majority of our children will be at camp, and we have passed on this feedback to the High School. WCHS P7 Open Evening September 2024

In Leven clan, we began our learning about description texts by creating our own sea creatures using line, shape and colour. We then wrote a description explaining our creature to our peers. We tried to use interesting adjectives in order to bring our sea characters to life and make the description exciting for the reader.... Continue reading Leven: Description Wriring

Ben Lomond Clan have been delving into the art of descriptive writing. We began this journey by writing about our namesake munro. This was a cold piece of work to see what we remembered from last year. We focused on using adjectives to describe Ben Lomond. The 'describing bubble' resource helped us to think about... Continue reading Descriptive Writing in Ben Lomond

Over the last couple of weeks in Schiehallion we have been looking at descriptive writing. To begin with, we wrote a 'cold piece' to see what we managed to remember from last year. We wrote about Schiehallion, as we wanted to explore our namesake munro. After we had written our cold pieces, we started... Continue reading Schiehallion - Descriptive Writing

In Tummel Clan, we have been learning how to write a quality description. From our prior learning, we were able to discuss elements of the describing bubble which is used as a prompt to help us add interesting detail to our writing. As Calderwood Clan Explorers investigating the meaning behind our clan name, we are... Continue reading Tummel: Description Writing

In Rannoch this week we have started to look at descriptive writing. We began by writing our cold piece on a sea creature that we had designed and created in our art lesson. We made sure to add lots of detail so we had lots of parts to describe! Since then, we have explored description... Continue reading Rannoch Clan - Description Writing

In Burns clan we identified what we already know about descriptive writing, as we completed our cold assessment. A cold assessment means we had no help from our champion and everything we wrote about was based on all our amazing and creative knowledge from previous learning. Our topic was 'all about me' and we used... Continue reading Burns clan - Descriptive Writing

To show what we know about writing a description text, Tay clan created their own sea creatures using line, shape and colour and then wrote a description. The more detail we added to our picture, meant that we would have more to describe in our writing. We then wrote a description of our creatures. We... Continue reading Tay Clan - Description Writing

This week, Baird clan have began to learn about descriptive writing. We started by creating self portraits that included visuals of our hobbies and interests. In reading, we used the game "Guess Who" to focus on using adjectives to describe others as well as ourselves. Towards the end of the week, we completed our cold... Continue reading Descriptive Writing in Baird

Hello Hello! We have begun to explore description writing in Ben Lawers Clan. We have already written our cold piece to see how much we remember from last year. We wrote about our clan namesake, Ben Lawers. Then Miss Quinn gave us feedback based on the description targets for P5. Next, we have explored... Continue reading Ben Lawers - Description Writing 6.9.24

WL Dyslexia Scotland - Parent Masterclass 12th September 2024

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