This week our three Primary 7 Junior Road Safety Officers attended a West Lothian JRSO Induction Event at Broxburn Primary School.
During this event our JRSO’s developed their knowledge of Road Safety, received brilliant resources and were given training on how to present information to an audience. The JRSO’s really enjoyed their afternoon and are very excited to share what they have learned with the JRSO Junior Leadership Team and with the rest of the school.
Today we hosted the Scottish Cup as part of Hibernian Football Club #Persevered Tour. This tour visits 114 venues across Edinburgh and the surrounding areas, and they shared the story of their victory and shared message of the importance of preserving.
You can view our photos on their Flickr account.
Find out more about the tour at: http://persevered.co.uk/
At our house meetings this week, we started off by taking part in community builders. We were then set the challenge to create a mascot for our house.
P 3/2 and P3 were watching The BFG this week as part of their digital literacy IDL topic. We thought of themes and questions to form our own research questions about measurement, friendship and different animations about giants.
We enjoyed our treats of popcorn and whizztastic sweets!
The nursery children had lots of fun for Hallowe’en. They were dressed up and took part in some spooky activities including dooking for apples, floating and sinking pumpkins in the water tray and some pumpkin art. Snack was chocolate spider cakes with crunchy legs and satsumas with pumpkin faces
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Congratulations to Linhouse who won the House Cup in Term 1.
The pupils and staff of Linhouse joined together for a PJ party today organised by Jamie and Freya. The party included corners, games, dancing and lots of yummy food. A big well done to the house captain, vice captain and all the Primary 7s who helped to organise and run the party.
Well done Linhouse!
Below you will find a copy of the Young Talk Telegraph which features our P7 Magical Mediators.
Today the children in the nursery went on an adventure in to Calder Wood to find some Autumn treasures. We had a very exciting walk through the woods and were lucky enough to see and hear some interesting things. When the boys and girls were quiet they could hear the river, birds singing and an aeroplane. They found acorns, Autumn leaves of every colour, snails, berries, blackberries and apples! The children drew and wrote about what they had seen on their recording sheet. They also found a very large bear that had escaped from the school and was sitting on the branch of a large tree having a rest! The nursery boys and girls rescued him and took him back to the school safely.
We loved our time learning in the outdoors!
At Mid Calder we recognise that profiling it creating a holistic overview of the child as a learner through reflection and dialogue. This is central to practice in recognising achievement, profiling and reporting.
What is profiling?
Profiling means that learners will be engaged in regular, on-going discussions with staff about their progress. This should be a continuous process for all learners from 3 to 18.
iAchieve
iAchieve is our new approach to achievement which is being used in all our cluster schools. Each child now has a copy of their iAchieve level (you can download these here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/public/mcps/uploads/sites/2949/2016/09/iAchieve-Level-4.pdf
This is used to track their achievements inside and outside of school. When they have achieved three of the tasks in each box they will receive a certificate in class or at a Friday Assembly and move on to the next area within their level, for example if they complete Brilliant Bronze for Responsible Citizen they will move on to Super Silver.
If the achievement has been completed at home the pupil can fill out an iAchieve sheet which are available from their class teacher or Primary 4 to 5 have the option of using their private iAchieve blog: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/mcpsiachieve2010/
Using the iAchieve Blog:
Download these instructions: iAchieve-in-p5
iAchieve Level 5: iAchieve Level 5
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