On Thursday some of our Pupil Council and Technical Troopers took part in a Glow Meet with some pupils from Williamston Primary School. Some classes at Williamston Primary already use Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), so we decided we would ask them some questions about their journey, including the benefits of BYOD and how they resolved any issues they came across. A big thank you to the P6s who gave gave some of their lunch time to meet with us, we have lots to think about.
This morning the Pupil Council held a Morning Blether to explain to parents what profiling is, how we are profiling at Mid Calder Primary School and how was can improve our approaches to profiling.
We also shared a new profiling tool that our staff have created in order for parents to understand what a level looks like in Maths and Language. This will be launched at the Curriculum evening on February 25th at 6pm and will be made available to all parents at this event and on the blog.
Thank you to the Pupil Council for organising this event and to the parents who attended, you can find a copy of the PowerPoint below.
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/profiling-morning-blether
This morning we invited parents along to join Breakfast Club with their child/ren as part of Breakfast Week celebrations. We had a great turn out, thank you to Mrs Findlay and all the parents who supported this event.
This week P7 joined in with our cluster primary schools for our second Maths transition Glow Meet with West Calder High School. The context for learning was percentages, we were able to demonstrate our prior knowledge of percentages and learn some new strategies too! Thank you WCHS.
This week as part of the Farmhouse Breakfast Club Week Mrs Findlay has worked with the children to organise a number of events to promote the importance of eating a healthy breakfast as well as promoting our school breakfast club.
To link with our Burns celebrations the children decided on a multi-cultural breakfast to promote that we are ‘One Scotland’ and we celebrate the range of cultures of people who live in Scotland. The children enjoyed croissants, bagels, selection of meats, porridge, lentil dahl, sweet noodles.
Today at our Pupil Council meeting we discussed the concerns we had about bring our own device and came up with some solutions.
On Thursday some of the Pupil Council and Technical Troopers are having a Glow Meet with the Pupil Council at Williamston Primary. They are using BYOD and we think we could learn lots of them.
Our new school devices are almost ready to use on our Anytime Anywhere Learning network … We are very excited abut the possibilities this will have for us and our teachers!
This week in Primary 7 we have been consolidating our learning about fraction from P6 and progressing on to new learning.
In number talks we have been looking at strategies to help us with division.
In mental maths we remembered how to find a fraction of a number, for example 1/6 of 24. We know that our multiplication and division facts help us quickly recall the answers to these questions.
I can create a set of equal fractions and can decide if fractions are equal.
• I can use my knowledge of table facts and multiples to decide if fractions are equal
• I can create a series of fractions which are equal using my knowledge of table facts and multiples
In today’s lesson at our stations we:
Sum Dog: We had to find a fraction of a shape, order fractions and calculate equivalent fractions. When we are Sum Dog we are trying to develop our accuracy so we always score between 80-100%, we know that accuracy is important because we want to get the correct answer as quick as possible. We have been learning how to eliminate answers that do not make sense.
Game: We used the new fraction resources to make equivalent fractions, for example 1/3 = 2/6
Teaching table: We used the textbook to explore how to calculate equivalent fractions when pictures and diagrams are not available. We also completed some problem solving activities.
How to help at home:
Today we had our Burns Assembly. Please see the video below for the Nursery’s contribution.
It is quickly approaching time for our residential. We would like to invite you and your child to an information evening on Monday 8th February at 6pm. We will put all the information shared at this session on the blog, for those who are unable to attend.
I have attached a clothing list to this letter in order for you to start preparing for the residential. This list will be discussed at the information evening.
Pupils will be expected to arrive at school at 7:30am on Monday 7th March and will arrive back at school at approximately 4pm on Friday 11th March.
