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Category Archives: Health & Wellbeing
Primary 5 Handball Festival
Today, our Primary 5 pupils headed to East Calder Sports Center to demonstrate their handball skills against other schools in our cluster. P5 did a fantastic job representing Mid Calder Primary, demonstrating all of our school values as well as great sportsmanship, team work, communication skills and motivation to achieve. Well done Primary 5!
House Meeting: BYOD and Internet Safety
Last week we had our first House meeting of 2016 and the House and Vice Captains decided the focus should be on Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and internet safety, as these are currently hot topics of conversations in our school.
As usual we started the meeting going over the plan for the meeting and expectations. Then the house members took part in a community builder. The House and Vice Captains showed us a video about internet safety as it is Internet Safety Day soon.
This led on to telling us about Bring Your Own Device, this is something the Technical Troopers and Pupil Council are leading. We had to create a post-it pledge to show how we would follow our school values of responsible and respectful if we became a BYOD school. The House and Vice Captains have taken these post-its and created a school crest.
Thank you to the House and Vice Captains, and P7s for organising such an interesting house meeting.
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/house-meeting-3
Morning Blether: Profiling
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
Breakfast Club Open Morning
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.
Farmhouse Breakfast Club Week
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.
P2 Christmas Party
P2 had their Party on Wednesday afternoon. What a long morning for them to wait….but…they made it! I am sure you will agree how fantastic they looked and what fun they had. See below the programme as the party happened….
May we take this opportunity to wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas.
Ms Allsopp and Mr Nelson
P3 Christmas Party
Well it was also “the season to be jolly…” in Primary 3….a great Party was had by all.
The party started with a little bit of dancing and modelling our Christmas outfits. Everyone looked fabulously christmassy…and our programme was as outlined below!
Laughter, music, munching and crunching….Thank you P3 for the best party ever!
Mrs Allsopp and Miss Kerr
Christmas Concert: Choir
Engaging Parents in PE
Lornshill Academy, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Saturday 30thJanuary 2016, 9.30am – 1pm
Education Scotland would like to offer parents/carers an opportunity to develop an understanding of how a high quality physical education (PE) experience supports learning across the curriculum.
The day will demonstrate how this can be extended with a strong home-school partnership.
During the day participants will have the opportunity to hear key messages and attend workshops which exemplify these. There will be the opportunity to engage in conversation with presenters, fellow parents and colleagues.
Aims of the day are for participants to:
- understand how PE has evolved and recognise the difference between physical education, physical activity and sport*
- understand the importance of physical education in supporting learning
- find out how partnerships can be developed between home and school
This event runs from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm.
If you wish to attend you can register on:
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/newsandevents/events/2016/eventgeneral_tcm4873266.asp
