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P4 Learning Letter

September 9, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 1 in Primary 4. I hope you have all had a peaceful and relaxing summer, and are feeling ready for our first term of this session. We have spent the first two weeks of term building our community and we had a focus on the value of responsible. Our IDL context this term is Crazy Climates and we are looking forward to learning about the weather and climate in The Rainforest, The Artic and Scotland. Our trip to Dynamic Earth on 3^rd October will consolidate this learning.

Miss Prior & Ms Richmond

P4 Teachers

Learning Letter P4 Term 1

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/meet-the-teacher-p4

Events, Fundraising, PSA

Dress Down Day: 23/09/16

September 6, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Events, Fundraising, PSA

PSA AGM

September 6, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Health & Wellbeing

P4a Class Community Contract

September 5, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

In P4a we have agreed that:

We take responsibility for our actions.
We include everyone.
We are enthusiastic about our learning,
We are friendly and help each other.
We respect staff, pupils, visitors and property.
We are successful because we always try our best.

Events, Health & Wellbeing, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 7

Living Our Values Assembly

September 3, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

During our Building Our Community each stage had a different value to think about. On Froday at assembly they presented their value to the school community. We had songs, raps, videos and presentations.

Nursery: Friendly

P1/ P2/1: Successful

P3/2, P3: Enthusiastic

P4: Responsible

P5: Inclusive

P6, P7/6, P7: Respectful

Achievements, Anytime Anywhere Learning, Events, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Technologies

Class of 2016

September 3, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Every year West Lothian Council holds a ‘Class of …’ so Head Teachers can share interesting and new practice and they can find out about what’s new in education. On Friday Mrs McKenzie was invited along to Class of 2016 to share how we use ICT to support our learning and teaching at Mid Calder Primary. You can view the video below.

Achievements, Events, Health & Wellbeing, News, Primary 7, Responsible Roles, Uncategorized

Magical Mediators Receive Scottish School Award

September 1, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Today the Magical Mediators were invited to attend the Young Talks Conference at Dundee University organised by the Scottish Mediation Network.

We listened to presentations from Tam Baillie (The Children and Young People’s Commissioner in Scotland), Nick Patel (a Mediation Magician) and from people who have a full time career in Mediation. We also attended two different workshops.

We were one of two schools who were asked to share our peer mediation journey. Keira, Anna, Sean and Caitlin presented at the school’s showcase to over 100 participants.

We took part in a Skype video chat with a school in America, it was interesting to see how peer mediation operates in another country. We also watched a video about peer mediation in Scotland and it was lovely to see our P7 peer mediators from last year.

The biggest surprise of all was when we received the award for our Outstanding Contribution to Peer Mediation in Scotland by a School and the prize of a free mediation training session from Jeremy Scuse (the managing director at Catalyst Mediation Ltd).

We our so proud of our Magical Mediators, both from last session and this session and all their achievements – congratulations!