LI: We are learning to cook a healthy meal.
SC: I can stay safe when preparing food.
I can prepare a healthy meal using different ingredients.
I am developing my cooking skills.
In P4BÂ yesterday, we worked together to safely prepare a healthy meal of lentil soup using the school’s mobile kitchen unit, it was lots of fun and tasted DELICIOUS!
Ingredients:
– 230g of red lentils
– 4 large onions
– 500g of carrots
– 6 pints of ham stock
– salt and pepper
Primary 2/3 have been learning about weight. We used scales to compare the weight of different classroom objects. Then we used some 10g weights in the scales to compare with the classroom objects. 
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!
This week as part of our IDL topic, we visited East Bangour Farm in Broxburn. We had previously researched facts about cows including what they eat, where they sleep and what they produce. The visit to the farm was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about cows in a real life context. We were able to see that the cows how the cows are organised into groups. fed, sleep and milked on a daily basis. This included a chance to feel what being milked was like, using the suction machines. Additionally, we looked and smelled what the cows were fed, where they sleep and general living habits.
Fortunately, at the end of the visit we were able to hold baby lambs as their mother had given birth before our visit. We had fun guessing all their names which was revealed at the end of the trip.
A huge thank you to Jim and all his farm at East Bangour Farm for letting us come and learn more about cows and all the hard work that is involved in looking after them. Additionally, we would like to say thank you to The Royal Highland Education Trust for organising our visit and ensuring we had lots of fun!
Primary 3 had a fantastic afternoon at our Burns Supper. We enjoyed dancing, singing and poetry. We really enjoyed tasting our Cranachan and tattie soup! Here are some of our photos:
The Global Machars Foodbank Appeal January/February 2017
The Global Citizenship JLT would appealled for food items for a Burns Supper meal for poor children in Dumfries and Galloway where Rabbie Burns grew up as a child. In his day boys would go poaching for fish or catching rabbits and taking gulls eggs to help families eat but nowadays lots of boys and girls don’t have enough to eat. Naomi came up with the idea to make them a Burns Supper meal through a foodbank donation.
We made up an action plan to ask for donations, box up the foodstuffs and distribute the made-up boxes. The contained:
UHT milk 1 litre
*Tins of Scotch Broth or Leek and Potato soup
Tins of Cullen Skink
*Tins of haggis
Tins of Mince
Tins of Stewing Steak
*Tins of boiled potatoes
*Tins of carrots
Tins of peas
Packets of Smash potato
*Packets of shortbread
*Tins of fruit cocktail
Tins of custard
We found out by researching foodbanks that poor folk often don’t have enough personal care items so they asked for donations of soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste too!
Many many thanks,
Yours aye,
the Global Citizenship JLT.
Today, P4b had a fantastic day at East Bangour Dairy Farm and we learned so much! The trip began with a tour around the calf sheds, where we were taught about how calves are brought up and fed. We were then taken into the milk shed, the farmer showed us where the milk is stored, how the cows stand in the milk pit and we were also able to try out the machine that milks the cows with our fingers.
At the end of the trip we were able to sit in a huge tractor and the farmers then introduced us to one day old baby lambs and we were even allowed to hold them!
We had a brilliant time and it was a fantastic experience! Thank you so much to the staff of East Bangour Farm and Karen from RHET.
We are now collecting Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers.
Congratulations to all those families who received a Smoke Free Homes Award as part of the P7 Drug and Tobacco education from West Lothian Drug & Alcohol Service.
The documents below show what your child will be learning when they are working withing a specific level. This should help you support their learning at home. Our pupils use these profiling tool when they are setting individual and group targets.
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