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Thursday 2nd February: Movie Night

 

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Bring a cushion or a pillow to sit on, wear your PJs or Onesie and tuck into a snack with juice whilst chilling out to a good movie and good company It costs £2.50, which includes juice and snack.

Whilst every effort is made to accommodate certain special dietary requirement, please ensure your child is aware of the foodstuffs they can consume. Add dietary requirements to the back of the booking slip. DO NOT provide your child with their own snack and juice. Any questions please ask the PSA via their e-mail.

Please fill out the form below (one per child) and return to the school in a sealed envelope marked MOVIE NIGHT, together with your payment, by Monday 30th January. The pre-payment is to ensure there will be enough snacks and juice for everyone. We accept walk-ins on the night but cannot guarantee them the snack and juice. They must be signed in. No photography/mobile phones Please only allow younger children to wear onesies if they won’t need assistance in the toilet.

*COLLECTION INSTRUCTIONS —

All children must be collected by a responsible adult

P1-4 Children will be ready to leave the school by 7:50pm PLEASE be waiting for your child at that time.

P5-7 will be held back until 8pm We will call out names and bring child forward for collection. We ask that you stand well clear of the collection area until that time to allow other parents access.

P1-4 : Leaving by the MAIN DOOR by primary year, starting with P1. Please gather at front path/grassy area, but stand clear until your child’s year is leaving.

P5-7 : Leaving by the NEW PLAYGROUND exit (front of school, door with metal stairs). Please gather in the new playground area to pick up your child.

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Dress Up Day

Friday 3 February

(Thursday 2 February for Nursery p.m.)

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Come into school in fancy dress or your “going out” clothes!

Please, no football tops.

There will be a Dress Up Day in school on
Friday 3 February (Thursday 2 February for Nursery p.m. class).

If you wish to take part in this activity, please come in dressed in fancy dress, or your “going out” clothes and bring a £1 donation.

This will be added to the school playground fund.

The PSA is a registered charity. Charity number: SC044390

Building Snow Castles in P2/1

Einartas had a great idea to go outside and build snow castles as part of our Castles interdisciplinary learning. Some of decided to work on our own, in pairs, in small groups and in larger groups. We had to use items that we found to create a castle. Some us added a flag created a moat and made turrets as we had been learning about the features of a castle in class. As a group we explained to the rest of the class the features of our castle and how we made it.

 We are learning to write a description of our ice castle.

  • I can describe what the castle looked like using wow words.
  • I can use sentences to describe the castle.
  • I can use capital letters and full stops.

When we went back in our class we talked to our learning partner about what our castle looked like. Then we wrote a description of our castle. We realised that we were so excited we forgot to add in wow words so during our buddy time, our buddy’s helped us to uplevel our writing  by using wow words.

 

Primary 1 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 1. The highlights of last term included looking more closely at a variety of Fairytales through reading the story of The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.   We read all our favourites, and enjoyed exploring characters and settings. Creating a happy, alternative ending to the story of The Gingerbread Man was a lot of fun too! Thank you to everyone who came along to our Open Afternoon during Scottish Book Week. The children very much enjoyed sharing their learning with you.

Performing the Nativity was another highlight of Term 2, and I’m sure that you will all agree that the children did a fantastic job.

Mrs Smith          P1 Teacher

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Primary 4 Learning Letter Term 3

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 4. All of the children worked hard during term 2 and we are looking forward to a busy and fun term 3. The highlights of last term included our George’s Marvellous Medicine IDL context, especially our ‘Natter to Nana and Papa’event. This term we are looking forward to our From Field to Fork context and our STEM context later in the term.

Miss Prior & Ms Richmond

P4 Teachers.

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Nursery Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 3 in Mid Calder Nursery. We had a very busy time in Term 2, looking at different materials and how we could use them to build and using vocabulary such as hard, soft, rough and smooth. We participated in several science experiments, where we investigated how a car would move down a ramp when travelling on different surfaces and we also looked at the changes in ice as it freezes and melts again in changing environments. We loved the excitement in the run up to Christmas and enjoyed sharing this special time with your children. The children enjoyed taking part in a variety of Christmas activities and we hope you agree, performed brilliantly at their Christmas show. This term as part of the school Burns celebrations the children are learning “Wee Willie Winkie” in Scots.  The children are working hard to learn this and will be sharing it with the other children in the school.  Please help your child to learn this poem.  A copy can be found on the school blog.  Please feel free to wear some Tartan to nursery on 25th January.

Kind regards,

Mrs Murray, Mrs Diamond, Mrs Aikman and Mrs Findlay.

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Primary 2/1 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 2/1. The highlights of last term included our Cops and Robbers IDL context for learning. Thank you to everyone who came along to our Open Afternoon during Scottish Book Week. The children very much enjoyed sharing their learning with you. Performing in the Nativity and the BFG Christmas was another highlight of Term 2, and I’m sure that you will all agree that the children did a fantastic job.

Miss Burton & Mr Glancy

P2/1 Teachers

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January Newsletter

Dear Parents / Carers,

I do hope you had a lovely Christmas. I would like to wish everyone a Healthy and Happy New Year.

The children have all settled back into school routine and are now thinking about their next topics, including learning a Scottish Poem for the Burns competition.

Having completed an audit about our resources for Reading and Spelling we have begun to update and extend the resources within the school. It is lovely to get new books into circulation and supply the children with high quality resources to use both at home and in school. I would like to thank all parents who took time to complete our evaluations; this information will feed into our School Improvement Plan and help determine how we continue to take it forward. Our staff have been working closely with West Calder cluster schools to further develop the understanding of ‘Growth Mindsets’, ‘Building learning Power’ and ‘Visible Learning’. They will be, in conjunction with all cluster staff, implementing small tests of change within their classrooms. Information to report on the outcomes will be available to parents on our Standards and Quality leaflet next session.

School is not just about children extending their knowledge but about everyone within our learning community ‘learning’ in some capacity. We intend to have another open afternoon this session, to share our learning with you. We hope you will put this date in your diary and come along and enjoy seeing what your children are achieving. The date for this will be Wednesday 15th march at 1.30pm. If you have any ‘skills’ or ‘expert knowledge’ you would be will to share with staff and children in our school please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Mary McKenzie

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