Today our House and Vice Captains led us in our last House Meeting for this school year. We played lots of different community builders. We would all like to thank our House and Vice Captains for organising our House Meetings this year.
Category Archives: Health & Wellbeing
Mid Calder Gala Football
Congratulations to our football team who won the Jak Truman Cup at the Mid Calder Gala Football Competition! Thank you to our coaches who helped us train.
West Lothian Track & Field Event
MIDCALDER PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPIL RECOGNISED IN GLOBAL ROAD SAFETY WEEK COMPETITION
Kaylie Preston, a pupil at Mid Calder Primary School has been awarded runner up position in a Scottish Junior Road Safety Officer (JRSO) competition.
To support Global Road Safety Week 2017, hundreds of children throughout Scotland entered the competition to design a poster to highlight the dangers of speeding.
Now in its fourth year, the United Nations Global Road Safety Week runs from 8 to 14 May and seeks to raise awareness about the dangers of speeding through its #SlowDown campaign.
Pupils from JRSO participating primary schools were encouraged to get imaginative and enter the competition through their own choice of media.
A total of 616 pupils from 37 primary schools entered with a range of impressive and informative poster designs, including traditional hand drawn entrees to digitally created designs as well as some accompanied by a selfie.
Pupil Kaylie Preston impressed the judging panel with her excellent road safety poster design that carried the messaging: ‘#NoSpeeding.’
The overall first prize went to five year old Isra Ahmed, a primary 1 pupil at Milton Primary School, South Lanarkshire, with her creative design that kept it simple yet impactful with the message: ‘Read the sign, take your time.’
The overall first prize went to five year old Isra Ahmed, a primary 1 pupil at Milton Primary School, South Lanarkshire, with her creative design that kept it simple yet impactful with the message: ‘Read the sign, take your time.’
Michael McDonnell, director of Road Safety Scotland, said: “The enthusiasm of young people and schools across the country never ceases to amaze me, and the quality of the submissions shows great imagination.
“Hopefully, the underlying reasons for the competition and Global Road Safety Week will be brought home to the children and strike a chord with their teachers and parents. The road environment can be dangerous and inappropriate speed choice is a major factor in the type of injuries vulnerable people can suffer.
“JRSOs do a fantastic job of promoting road safety messages in their schools and it’s encouraging to see so many schools getting involved and putting Scotland on the global road safety map. A massive thank you and well done to all those involved.”
A further 26 runners up and 77 commendations were awarded to pupils from schools in Aberdeenshire, East Dunbartonshire, Midlothian, Moray, North Lanarkshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, and West Dunbartonshire.
All schools who entered received a participation certificate.
For further information or to view the competition entrees, visit: http://jrsocompetition.com/competition-gallery-2017
P2/3’s Scary Assembly on the 12th of May 2017
P2/3 were busy preparing for their Assembly last week. They made some multi-media presentations with the help of Kevin and the Technical Troopers (Ben< Jamie, Myah and Rhuaridh). We made a thrilling music video in the style of Michael Jackson. Our bones were moving in the Skeleton Dance and some of the moves from the Thriller original. We presented facts that we had learned from our Healthy Bodies IDL topic and we put these into our own words. We worked in groups to edit our presentation to match the pictures to the script we had made. here were some of the fascinating facts that we researched:
Jessica found out that your bones grow until you are 30 years old.
Daisy D. – You cannot see your skeleton but it holds your body in shape. Like a giraffe you have 7 bones in your neck.
Naomi – The bones are healthy. They are good. They keep you strong. Your heart beeps. Here is a question: why does your heart beat?
Answer:to pump blood around your body.
Daisy F. – Without bones you would be as wobbly as a jellyfish.
Our key questions that we are learning about are:
1. What are the main organs in my body and how do they function in a healthy body? HWB 1-05a, SCN 1-12a
2. What is a healthy body? How do I look after my body? HWB 1-15a, HWB 1-28a, SCN 1-12a
3. How does the food I eat affect my body? TCH 1-04a, TCH 1-04c, HWB 1-15a
4. What is a healthy mind? How can I look after my mind and who can I look to for support? HWB 1-05a
5. What is the link between the mind and body? HWB 1-05a, HWB 1-15a, HWB 1-28a
Many thanks to Annalise’s Mum and big sister for helping with the stage make-up. The ghouls and skeletons were very scary indeed!
Thank you for everyone who came to our Assembly.
P2/3 Term 4 IDL Topic – Healthy Minds/Healthy Bodies
How does your hair grow?
How do lungs work?
What is an unhealthy environment?
What shape is the heart?
What is inside our bones?
Kevin from Enjoy-a-Ball did a bleep test to see how fit we are and now we are going to do some fitness training to increase our stamina. We are also learning how to relax using yoga.
If anyone has an interest in Health and can come in to answer questions they would be very welcome. A good website for research is www.cyh.com/HealthTopics.
P3 Problem Solvers 21st April 2017
P3 had to solve problems based on finding number sequence rules doing the activity of Hopscotch! They worked in trios and had to explain their thinking as they worked together. Some children saw the odd and even patterns whilst others saw the number sequence and could predict what would be the next few terms in that sequence. Just brilliant. They will be working together again in the coming weeks with miss Clark and Miss Brolls.
Bike-tastic Skills Fun Afternoon for P2/3
P2/3 had a lot of fun and learned about bike safety on the 20th of March 2017. Ian from Lowport Activity Centre came to lead bike games, talk about his interest in bikes and cycling and check whether our bikes were roadworthy. He told us that we need to check our brakes regularly and that we need to have a well-fitted helmet to keep ourselves safe.
Some of us were skidding and were clearly very skilled already and for others we gained in confidence as we weaved in and out of the bike trails in the playground. There are lots of cycle tracks near Mid Calder so here is hoping we are now ready to cycle beyond the school gates!
St Patrick’s Day in the nursery !
Today we celebrated St Patrick’s Day in the nursery. We had shamrock toast for breakfast, created our own pots of gold at the end of the rainbow then participated in some Irish dancing. The dancing had some tricky maneuvers, but we felt healthy afterwards.
