Category Archives: Expressive Arts
Pirates of the Curry Bean: Lumbago Lullaby
Meet the Pirates
Pirates of the Curry Bean – Introduction
Pirates of the Curry Bean
Visitors travelled from across the UK and even Europe, to Mid Calder Primary School this week to view the Primary 6 and 7 production of Pirates of the Curry Bean. The Primary 6 and 7 pupils and staff have worked very hard over the past 6 weeks to pull everything together, it was great to see the pupils taking a lead in everything from acting to singing, lights to dancing, props to prompting … a true team effort from the pupils who were facilitated by their teachers and school staff. It definitely was better than ‘alright on the night’ with the pupils being the true stars of the show! We received lots of lovely feedback from our guests who commented on how it was nice to see the pupils being so involved in the production, the jokes were great, a fantastic show and a it was a real feel-good show.
A big well done to all the pupils, staff and parents for their team effort in making the show such a huge success.
Watch this space for some video clips … coming soon!
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
This week M & M productions visited us to put on a performance of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The pupils enjoyed the performance and will now follow this up in class with a piece of writing around the play.
Pirates of the Curry Bean
Ahoy there me hearties! This here be a reminder that the squid sucking buccaneers in Primary 6 and 7 have been working their unwashed socks off for you to sail away on an adventure with them in their show, Pirates of the Curry Bean. Come and join us on the docks of Old London Town on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th May at 7pm for the piratical musical that’s sure to make you shake yer booty! Tickets can be seized from Captain Bokhari and Admiral Ritchie at the school office for the scurvy price of £3 each. Don’t monkey around and get yourself on board before the anchor is away…
Come on a history walk with P4/3
This week in P4/3, we went on a walk around Mid Calder village because we are learning about and celebrating 100 years gala. We wanted to know more about the history of Mid Calder and how the village has changed from then till now.
As we walked through the village, we were using tally marks to record how many hairdressers, pubs, restaurants and convenience stores we could see.
We also used four adjectives and one simile to describe Calder House, and looked at the difference between Market Street years ago and now. We know that the difference is that years ago the road was wider because there were no pavements as people could safely walk at the sides of the road as there were no cars.
Finally, we sat in the grounds of Kirk of Calder church and sketched a section or different parts of the church building whilst having our snack.
“I had fun learning about the history of Mid Calder”.- Eve Stirrat
“It was interesting finding out that they had no pavements in the olden days”.- Euan Roberts
“I enjoyed putting tally marks down on how many hairdressers, pubs, restaurants and shops there are and I enjoyed working with my partner”. Kiera Brown
“I enjoyed working with my partner and sketching part of the church”. Aiden Hardie
Pirates of the Curry Bean: Monkeys
P3 Spring Flowers
LI: We are learning to create 3D spring tulips using paper folding.
This week the children have been brightening up the P3 area with beautiful and colourful spring flowers. The children created the flower petals by carefully folding the paper three times. They managed this very well and chose lovely colours for their petals to match their vase shape. The children really enjoyed this art lesson and were extremely proud of their art work on display.
