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Achievement Awards, Achievements, Events, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Top Scorers

Term 2 Celebration Assembly

January 7, 2018 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

On December 22nd, we welcomed parents and friends along to our Celebration Assembly so that pupils could receive their STEM Super Star and Successful Speller awards. We also announced the Top Scorers for each house.

A big thank you to Mr Welsh for inspiring us by sharing his interpretation of our school motto, Believe, Achieve, Succeed, and for presenting our Primary 3 pupils with their certificate for coming first in West Lothian’s Sumdog Maths Contest. Certificates were also awarded to our pupils who came in the top 50 in the competition.

Well done to all of our award winners!

Events, Primary 3, Uncategorized

Primary 3’s Christmas Party

December 19, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

“Tis the season to be jolly…” and Primary 3 were certainly feeling jolly today when they celebrated at the P3 Christmas party.

We kicked off the party with a game of Eggs, followed by Christmas themed Corners. Next, we played an energetic game of Ollie Ollie Octopus. After that, we stopped for a bite to eat in to replenish our energy, then got back to party mode with a game of Killer 12. We then played a game that Lucas invented called Shark Attack. We also showed off our dance moves and sang along loudly to our favourite songs. Everyone had a fantastic afternoon 🙂 Merry Christmas Primary 3!

Community, Events, Fundraising, Interdisciplinary Learning, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Primary 3

Mini Mid Calder Main Street in P3

November 27, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

As part of our Mid Calder IDL context, Primary 3 have been learning all about the different businesses in Mid Calder. We began by using Google Maps to explore the Main Street and discuss the different goods and services available. We were then challenged to choose one of the businesses as our inspiration for creating our own Mid Calder shop. As part of our research, we created and carried out questionnaires with our chosen business, including questions about prices of goods and services, opening times, busiest days and most popular item. All of this information helped us when setting up our own companies.

Next, we had to give our shop a name and design a logo. We looked at well know companies to help us to create a simple yet eye catching design and a memorable name. We then had to consider which goods/services we would provide in our shop, focusing on one product or service in particular. We used Microsoft Word to create a price list and an advertising poster, using persuasive language to convince our customers to visit our shop.

Finally, we were ready for business and opened our doors to our parents/carers during our open afternoon. We sold our goods and services, calculating total costs and working out how much change to give back to our customers.

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported our businesses. We raised a grand total of £50.74 which we were very proud of.

Events, Learning Stories, Maths & Numeracy, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Supporting homework, Useful Websites

West Lothian Maths Contest on Sumdog

November 10, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

P1-7 have been entered to take part in Sumdog’s West Lothian Maths Contest. This runs from 10-16th November and can be played at both home and at school using the Sumdog website or app. All pupils should have their Sumdog log in their homework diary/ book.

The children have to answer 1000 questions and their score is based on accuracy, not speed or winning games. There are also prizes to be won and certificates will be given out at assembly for those children in the top 50 from across West Lothian.

Good luck everyone!

Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths & Numeracy, Primary 3

Money in Primary 3

November 7, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

We are learning to find different ways to pay an exact amount

Success Criteria:

– I can exchange coins and notes for different ones which have the same value
– I have explored how a total can be made in different ways
– I can use the coins and notes I have to pay the exact amount for an item in a variety of ways including using the fewest coins

Linked to their IDL context, Mid Calder, Primary 3’s learning in maths has been focused on money. This week, we have been exploring how we can use different combinations of coins to pay for the same items. We have been using our addition skills to calculate the total of a set of coins, then working out lots of different ways to make the same total. We have been using concrete materials like coins to support us, looking at pictorial representations of different amounts, as well as exploring abstract addition and subtraction money calculations through our number discussion. We have also been taking part in a Money Challenge on Sumdog.

Highlands 2017, Primary 7

The Eagles soared through camp

November 6, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

The Eagles had a fantastic time at Loch Insh and, throughout all of the activities that we took part in, every member of the group showed a ‘have a go’ attitude and dared to try things that they’d never tried before. Everyone demonstrated our school values throughout the trip, particularly being enthusiastic, successful and inclusive by cheering each other on, being supportive when people were feeling a little unsure and by having lots of fun and smiling.

Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 3

Dinosaur Invasion in Primary 3

October 24, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

We have been learning to write a story about a dinosaur invasion at Mid Calder Primary School

Success Criteria: I use features specific to an imaginary story including:
– an interesting opening sentence to ‘hook’ my reader in
– a description of the dinosaur
– a description of what happened
– my thoughts and feelings
– an interesting setting for my story
I can use adjectives to paint a clear picture in my reader’s head

This week, Primary 3 arrived into our classroom to find that it has been destroyed. We checked the CCTV footage and found out that we’d had a visitor, a very large visitor…

We used drama techniques to explore what we thought the tyrannosaurus rex might have done next during its invasion of our school. We improvised how we thought the rest of our pupils would react to seeing a dinosaur, then we created a still image using our body language and facial expressions to portray our thoughts and feelings.

We used these ideas to help us to write a story about the dinosaur invasion, describing what the tyrannosaurus rex got up to in Mid Calder Primary and how we reacted. We included lots of adjectives to help us to paint a clear picture in our reader’s mind. Some of us definitely enjoyed describing the teachers getting eaten a little bit too much…

Events, Interdisciplinary Learning, Learning Stories, Primary 2, Primary 3

Mr T.Rex Visits Mid Calder

October 13, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

Today Primary 3, Primary 4 and Primary 2 had a very special visitor, Mr T. Rex. At the beginning of their Dinosaurs IDL context, Mr Rex wrote each class a letter asking for their help, as he believed that the people were forgetting about the dinosaurs. He challenged P2, P3 and P4 to set up a Mid Calder Museum to teach other pupils and keep the memory of dinosaurs alive, and we enthusiastically accepted this request.

This week, we held our museums and shared our new knowledge and skills with Primary 1 and Primary 7. We loved showcasing our learning and we felt that we definitely helped Mr T. Rex. We were extremely excited to meet the man himself and asked him lots of relevant questions about his job and his experience of finding fossils. He was able to teach us lots of new and interesting facts about palaeontology and different dinosaurs.

A colossal thank you to Mr T. Rex for coming to visit. What an end to a very exciting week, and a fantastic IDL context. We have loved journeying back to the land before time to stop the memory of dinosaurs from becoming extinct.

Achievement Awards, Achievements, Events, House Points, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Top Scorers

Term 1 Celebration Assembly

October 13, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

This morning, we welcomed parents and friends along to our first Celebration Assembly of the 2017-18 session. We acknowledged the success of pupils from across the school and nursery with out STEM Super Star and, in line with our School Improvement Plan, our new Successful Speller Award. One member of each of the 6 groups from our recent Loch Insh residential were also presented with an award.