Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 3. All of the children have settled back in to class and are looking forward to lots of fun in Term 3. The highlights of last term included our BFG topic, a trip to Edinburgh Zoo as part of the Into Film Festival and our BFG Christmas Show.
Miss Clark
P3 Teacher
With our up and coming Burns celebrations, we are learning to recite some of our national bard’s best loved poems.
Please leave a comment below to show that you can log onto the school blog, in the event of any Winter weather issues – leave your name and which poem you are learning for reading homework.
Please also find the choices for P7s Burns poems at the bottom of this blog post.
Many thanks, Mrs Ross.
Red Red Rose by Robert Burns
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.
And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ ’twere ten thousand mile!
To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady’s bonnet at church by Robert Burns:
Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlan ferlie!
Your impudence protects you sairly:
I canna say but ye strunt rarely,
Owre gawze and lace;
Tho’ faith, I fear ye dine but sparely,
On sic a place.
Ye ugly, creepan, blastet wonner,
Detested, shunn’d, by saunt an’ sinner,
How daur ye set your fit upon her,
Sae fine a Lady!
Gae somewhere else and seek your dinner,
On some poor body.
Swith, in some beggar’s haffet squattle;
There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle,
Wi’ ither kindred, jumping cattle,
In shoals and nations;
Whare horn nor bane ne’er daur unsettle,
Your thick plantations.
Now haud you there, ye’re out o’ sight,
Below the fatt’rels, snug and tight,
Na faith ye yet! ye’ll no be right,
Till ye’ve got on it,
The vera topmost, towrin height
O’ Miss’s bonnet.
My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out,
As plump an’ gray as onie grozet:
O for some rank, mercurial rozet,
Or fell, red smeddum,
I’d gie you sic a hearty dose o’t,
Wad dress your droddum!
I wad na been surpriz’d to spy
You on an auld wife’s flainen toy;
Or aiblins some bit duddie boy,
On ’s wylecoat;
But Miss’s fine Lunardi, fye!
How daur ye do ’t?
O Jenny dinna toss your head,
An’ set your beauties a’ abread!
Ye little ken what cursed speed
The blastie’s makin!
Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread,
Are notice takin!
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,
And ev’n Devotion!
Myself, Miss Anderson and Mr Renshaw were so proud of our pupils following the success of our Alice the Musical Show. To celebrate the hard work and dedication shown by all pupils, we held a movie premiere afternoon in class, sharing snacks and having a sing-along to our show, viewed through the West Lothian Council youtube channel. It was lovely to see how all of the different teams of pupils, pulled together to pull off a great performance.
Have look below at some of our cast photos taken on the night time performance…
Fantastic job again boys and girls,
Mrs Ross, Miss Anderson and Mr Renshaw
In Primary Seven, we have celebrated Book Week by focusing our work on comparing and contrasting the modern and older adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, with the original Lewis Carroll novel.
We have found some challenges when reading the novel – the language used when the book was originally written in 1865, has been difficult to follow at times whilst reading. We have also found that Lewis Carroll is a less descriptive author, compared to some modern day authors, therefore we have found visualising Wonderland quite challenging. We have had to refer back to the 1951 Disney version to help us to think about setting.
We are currently working on developing our knowledge of what a synopsis is and how to write one, within the context of a film review. We’re looking forward to being able to give our “Star Ratings” to each of the versions we have studied.
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 2 in Primary 3. This term our topic is The BFG which is also the theme of our P2-3 Christmas show. We will be spending time each week preparing for the show and letters will go out over the next few weeks with your child’s part in the show and any costume/clothing they may need.
Miss Clark P3
This term’s IDL focus, linking Literacy and Expressive Arts, is all about getting musical and creative with Alice in Wonderland.
In our Literacy lessons we have been learning about playscripts as a genre and how they differ from a traditional story text.
Learning Intention:
We are learning to identify the features of a playscript.
Success Criteria:
I can identify the purpose of a playscript text.
I can confidently discuss the differences between a fictional text and a script.
I can explain what stage directions, dialogue and actions are, relating them to how an actor would use them in real life.
We have begun working on Alice the Musical, our wonderful production, and are all busy learning lines, dance routines and movements and of course, tuning our voices to be able to sing the tracks. We look forward to sharing our show with you and showing off all of the different talents we have in Mid Calder Primary!!
This week for Mid Calder Money Week, we have been investigating through our IDL topic, the value of money from 1940 compared to 2016.
Learning Intention:
We are learning to convert money and compare costs from 1940 and 2016.
Success criteria:
I understand the names of old money
I can confidently discuss all coinage and notes from 2016
I can change from pennies to modern pence
I can change from shillings to modern pence
Through our challenge, we looked at the different values of money from now and then – we were surprised to find how differently money was used during WW2. We then began the tricky process of conversion – we used old pennies and new pence to start with and then added in shillings. We used examples of foods available during rationing and calculated the costs related to modern money.
On day three of the challenge, we had to design a rationed meal for four people using our knowledge of old money, and we planned a meal using ingredients and cost. We presented our findings to a high standard. We then participated in a valuable plenary session where we explained our learning and evaluated against our learning intention. We really enjoyed the activities and liked discovering the value of money from 1940.
Primary 7 have been using our IDL context to learn and research about what a biography is, it’s features and what differing types there are. We began the week by researching about our groups’ political leader from WW2 – Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Josef Stalin. We used a variety of texts in our reading lessons to look at some examples of current famous people’s biographies to gain a good understanding as to what a biography should look like and include. We then used our research to plan our War leader biography, completing the write up and self assessment. As part of our IDL context and research, we were also challenged to create life size art creations of the leaders, using measurement skills and their real life heights. We focused in on attention to detail, from fashion, to iconic objects which the leaders were known to carry or use – the final results are fantastic. We have proudly displayed our leaders around our classroom. Pictures to follow!
Learning Intention:
We are learning to write a biography using accurate information, sequenced in chronological order.
Success criteria:
I can include date and place of birth.
I can write about family/childhood information and education.
I can detail what this political leader was famous for.
I can include detail about their involvement in World War 2.
I can include information about place, date and circumstances of their death.
My information has been written in full sentences and follows chronological order.
A big thank-you to the parents/carers who were able to attend our Meet the Teacher evening last night. For those who were unable to attend, please find our Term 1 Learning Letter attached to this blog post. This details some of the curricular information for Primary 7 this term and focus for both Literacy and Numeracy.
As our IDL context for learning this term is World War 2, if there are any family artifacts or stories which the pupils would like to share, please feel free to bring these into school. This is a fantastic way for the children to share some of their family history and to further develop their talking skills.
Many thanks for your continued support,
Mrs Ross
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/p7-meet-the-teacher-2016-2017
