Log into Glow to see Mid Calder Primary School’s choir singing ‘Rocking Around the Christmas Tree’ for the WL Digilearn competition.
Category Archives: Achievements
P5 Christmas Music Video
Log into Glow to view the P5 video for the WL Digi Learn Competition.
Kirk of Calder Choir Concert
A big thank you to our P6 and 7 pupils who attended the Kirk of Calder Christmas Choir Concert on Friday evening. They sang some Christmas songs and songs from their Alice show. A fantastic performance from our choir.
Nursery Nativity
Today our Nursery performed the A-Z of Christmas for their parents and families. Thank you to our P6 buddy’s who narrated the performances, Ben who helped with sound, Grace and Leah who played the piano, the PSA and to everyone who came to support our pupils. We definitely have lots of creative confident individuals in our Nursery, well done!
Mid Calder Torch Light Procession
On Saturday evening some of P1-3 pupils sang a selection of their Nativity and Christmas Concert songs at Mid Calder Kirk. They also joined in for the Gala Torch Light Procession. Thank you to everyone who attended.
Alice: The Musical
Tonight and yesterday afternoon Primary 6 and 7 showcased their creative talents through Alice: The Musical! This term, the pupils through their interdisciplinary learning context of Alice invested setting and characters, looked at imagery, wrote their own scripts, compared and contrasts different versions of Alice and watched Alice Through the Looking Glass as part of the Into Film Festival.
They brought together all their musical, dramatic and artistic skills to put together a performance of Alice. A big well done to all our Primary 6 and 7 pupils who all contributed to the show in different ways, and a big thank you to our upper school staff. Thanks to the PSA who provided refreshments at the concert and to Williamston Primary for lending us their costumes. Thanks to everyone who made it along to the performance to support the children.
West Lothian Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/westlothiancouncil/videos/10154200142190838/Â
Mr Anderson very kindly recorded our performance which is available on the West Lothian video channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCLCya5doA
Green Flag Renewal!
A big congratulations to everyone on the renewal of our Eco Green Flag, especially to Mrs George and last years Eco Junior Leadership Team.
We received the following feedback from Eco School Scotland:
 I am delighted to confirm that your school has successfully renewed Eco-Schools Green Flag Award status. This is an outstanding achievement, so please pass on our congratulations to everyone involved. Interim Assessment Report Well done to everyone at Mid Calder Primary for successfully renewing your Green Flag status. I enjoyed reading your application and was pleased to see that you had maintained steady progress since your last award, monitoring progress well and sharing your successes with the wider school community via the school blog. The members of the Eco Junior Leadership team have been working hard to keep the campus litter-free, reduce waste in school and encourage a range of Biodiversity to your outside space. In addition, you are to be warmly commended for your community litter picking activities and I am sure that you will enjoy exploring the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as part of your future Eco work.
Stars of the Future!
Miss Anderson, Miss Sherlow and MissBurton went along to Howden Park Centre on Saturday to watch some of our pupils perform in Cinderella. We really enjoyed the show, well done girls, what a fantastic achievement!
SumDog Reading Competition Winners
West Lothian SumDog Maths Champs!
Primary 4b pupils at Mid Calder Primary School have come first in the West Lothian SumDog Maths competition run across all West Lothian Council Primary Schools. Donna McMaster, Head of Education (Development) at West Lothian Council representatives from SumDog visited the school  yesterday to congratulate the class and to present them with their winning trophy.
