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Mid Calder Primary School Bake-Off! Read all about it!

February 23, 2016 User deactivated 1 Comment

Mid Calder Bake-Off!

Why not read a recipe?

The Bake-Off is back! Bigger and better than ever! Mid Calder Primary School’s BookLions is proud to present The Mid Calder Bake-Off! Get out your whisks and put on your aprons because it’s coming to Mid Calder Primary School hall, on Thursday 3^rd March 2016.

It will be at 1:30pm-2:30pm, so bring your cakes and bakes to the hall in the morning, where we will be waiting to collect your sweet treats. We promise we won’t eat them!

If you have any gluten-free or nut free cakes and bakes please inform us, and we will add this to your description card. If you have used any Fairtrade products in your bakes, we will have a table for that too.

The Categories are:

Nursery

P1-P3

P4-P5

P6-P7

Parent/family etc

Staff

The cake designs can be to do with your favourite book/character or they could just be a normal design. Remember to bring a copy of the recipe you used when baking or bring in the book for everyone to see. Reasons being to make sure everyone knows what they’re eating and that they’re allowed it, also reading is what we encourage and we thought it would be fun to let you read the recipes yourself!

We will have special guest judges and your parents, carers, grandparents will also be invited in during this time. We invite you to take another cake home to try (and the recipe) for a small donation, if you want to take your own cake home afterwards please let us know when delivering it to the hall. The donations you make are to raise money for our school library, to get it into better condition. Oh, and did we forget to tell you about the prize? Your cakes and bakes will be judged before parents and carers arrive. The prize will be a… surprise because that’s the best kind!

Finally, if you have any old books or books you don’t read anymore, we will be having a book swap table, to get you reading.

We hope you will put in the effort to get baking and bring in some delicious cakes and treats, for everyone to enjoy!

Hope you get busy and get baking!

From, Erin Leitch, Eloise Cowie and Neve Cormack, members of the BookLions

Community, Community Crusaders, Health & Wellbeing, Junior Leadership Teams, Outside of School

Community Crusaders visit Cunigar House!

February 22, 2016 User deactivated 6 Comments

During our last JLT session, the Community Crusaders went to Cunigar House in Mid Calder village to visit the tenants that live there. We went to Cunigar House to get to know our older community and to share our learning with them.

We brought along some games such as Kapla and Dominoes and some of our reading books and writing jotters.

Some of us enjoyed drawing pictures with the tenants.

“Cool Joe created a picture of Harry, Lucas and I.”- Naomi S, P1.

“At our table we enjoyed playing dominoes with Mrs. McCormack, Lewis and the ladies of Cunigar House.”- Ben S, P4.

“I enjoyed playing Castle Chase with Joy, and I think she enjoyed playing too.”- Erin C, P5.

“I shared my learning about Number Talks with Michael.”- Georgia S, P3.

“I drew Beth’s two budgies in a cage for her. One was green and one was blue. I also drew the school badge.”- Hana, P5/4.

At the end of our time there we joined together to sing ‘Caledonia’ and ‘Ye Canny Shove Yer Grannie’. The tenants seemed to really enjoy our singing. We all signed a card at the end to say thank you for having us and we hope to see you all again.

Have a look at some of our photos and videos of our time there! 🙂

Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Primary 1, Technologies, Uncategorized

Internet Safety in P1a

February 17, 2016 Mrs Smith 1 Comment

Last week as part of Internet Safety Week, P1a spent some time talking about the computers, laptops, tablets etc that we use at school and at home. We discussed how we use them for different purposes such as research or playing games, and how we sometimes use the Internet to do these things. We also talked about the importance of looking after our devices, and taking care when we handle them. The next day we began exploring different types of Personal Information and we discussed whether or not we would share this with others, especially with people we don’t know. Then, we related this to keeping ourselves safe online by watching and discussing a short cartoon called ‘Hector’s World’.

Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Technologies, Uncategorized

Staying Safe Online

February 13, 2016 User deactivated 1 Comment

On Thursday, as part of internet safety week, P4 took part in activities about staying safe on the internet. We looked at the types of messages that can be sent to people online and got into groups to discuss how they made us feel. Our feelings ranged from curious to angry.

We watched some films that showed how photographs we put up online can get used by different people and we learnt how to block people we don’t know and how to report things we weren’t sure about.

Finally we got into our house groups and made posters about how to stay safe online.

We know lots of tips about staying safe, ask us for our advice!

Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Primary 7, Technologies

Be smart, Be like P7/6

February 12, 2016 Mrs Murray 1 Comment

This week P7/6 were learning about how to be safe on the internet. We used the Be like Bill concept and made up our own to create the perfect internet safety pupil.

This is P7/6.

We don’t post personal information on the internet.

We keep our password private and don’t talk to people we don’t know.

We don’t post photos of other people without their permission.

We are kind to our friends and don’t post cruel comments. We don’t post when we are going on holiday.

P7/6 are smart.

Be like P7/6.

Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Primary 7, Technologies, Uncategorized

P7 Internet Safety

February 12, 2016 Miss Anderson 2 Comments

On Tuesday the 9th of February it was Internet Safety Day. P7 took part in some activities based on Internet Safety. Miss Anderson gave us some cards with actions on them such as, you are annoyed, disagree with everyone, you are sad, agree with everyone. We then had to walk around the classroom and when someone spoke to you we had to act them out to create the online feel. Miss Anderson then showed us some online messages and comments,we then had to go to the emotion that it made us feel; upset, happy, curious, laugh it off, not bothered, angry and worried. We then discussed why the messaged made us feel a certain way. Finally we watched a video about the ‘Magna Carter’ ( a document that establishes the principle that everyone is subject to the law) of online rules. As a class we then thought about what rules we would like to see the internet have to ensure that everyone is safe online.

We hope that everyone has a fantastic but safe February break!

Miss Anderson & P7

Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Technologies

P6 Internet Safety Aware!

February 12, 2016 Mrs Ross Leave a comment

Primary 6 have focused on developing our awareness of how to be safe online.

Learning Intention:

We are learning to identify online internet safety issues

Success Criteria.

We can identify a variety of strategies available to us to keep safe online.

We can identify where to go to report online issues

We can use websites to access information and use guidance in an appropriate way.

During our Health sessions, we investigated CEOP and what it means for children who use the internet, whether using a PS4, an iPad or another device.

We used “Think You Know” to examine different advice about how we can keep ourselves safe. We participated in a mature and responsible discussion about known issues and how we can talk to a trusted adult about online written abuse or content which is in appropriate.

We created keeping safe online posters to highlight the issue further, making sure that we used the icon for CEOP as a way of reporting internet content.

Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Internet Safety, Technologies

Parental Information: Safer Internet Day

February 10, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Safer Internet Day 2016 – Friday 12th February at the new Bathgate Cinema
West Lothian Council is inviting parents and carers to meet industry experts on internet safety, at the end of a week in which information on keeping children safe online will be promoted through the Council’s Facebook and Twitter accounts, in support of Safer Internet Day 2016.

What is Safer Internet Day?
Globally, Safer Internet Day involves over a hundred countries, and is supported by the European Commission and national Safer Internet Centres across Europe. In West Lothian, an event is being hosted at the new Bathgate Cinema offering advice on setting parental controls on any kind of device, from technology industry experts.

What will be happening on the day?
Police Scotland’s School Link Officers will introduce and provide commentary on the CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) films, giving parents and carers first-hand experience of the internet safety lessons pupils receive in school.

The CEOP film screenings will take place at a free event at the new Bathgate Cinema (formerly St. David’s Church, George Street) on Friday 12 February from 10:00 to 12:00.

Not to be confused with the Regal Community Theatre, the new Bathgate Cinema is in St. David’s Church on the pedestrian precinct in Bathgate, opposite Boots.

The event is free and open to everyone.

Expert advice will then be offered at information stalls from 12 noon until 3pm, with representatives including staff from retailer Game, Vodafone, and Police Scotland.

What the Leader of the Council said:
Leader of West Lothian Council John McGinty, said: “Safer Internet Day provides the opportunity to highlight positive uses of technology and to explore the role we all play in helping to create a better and safer online community.

“The internet is integral to life today, and will play a crucial role in the future of our young people. It is vitally important that children, and the people who care for them, understand that what is posted online today can have a massive impact on their future, both positively and negatively, and the importance of staying safe online.”

For more information visit:

http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/saferinternet

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Health & Wellbeing, Internet Safety, Primary 2, Technologies

Primary Two have been learning all about internet safety.

February 9, 2016 User deactivated 2 Comments

‘I am developing my knowledge and use of safe and acceptable conduct as I use different technologies to interact and share experiences, ideas and information with others.’ TCH1-08a

Learning Intention: We are learning how to stay safe online

Success Criteria: I can create a poster show different ways in which I can stay safe online.

This week as part ‘Safer Internet Day,’ we have been thinking about different ways in which we can stay safe online. We had lots of wonderful ideas and we made our own e safety posters to show how we can stay safe when we are using the internet.

Mr Nelson.