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/
The Into Film Festival is a free, annual, nationwide celebration of film & education for 5-19 year olds and as a school we have attended the festival for the past 3 years. After the pupils have watched the film they analyse it in class and complete a film review activity.
Primary 4 watched Ice Age Collision Course, Primary 5 watched Inside Out and P6-7 viewed Alice Through the Looking Glass in 3D.
Primary 3 and 3/2 visited Edinburgh Zoo to view My Neighbour Totoro a Japanese fantasy film. They also took part in a workshop and had a quick tour around the Zoo.
Thank you to all the parent helpers who helped support the cinema visits.
Scottish Book Week: 21st-25th November 2016
Reading Challenge
To celebrate Scottish Book Week we are asking pupils to take a photo of themselves reading for pleasure in an usual place. To share your photo you can:
These photos will be displayed in our new library area,
SumDog Reading Contest
We are holding a SumDog Reading Challenge from 21st -24th November. There will be a P1-2, P3-4 and a P5-7 contest.
Your child can take part in this challenge at home or in school, and the winners will be announced at Assembly on 25th November.
Reading Open Afternoon
Parents and carers are invited to join us on Thursday 24th between 1:30-2:30pm to find out how we teach reading and how you can support reading at home.
The Nursery session will run from 10-11am for morning pupils and 1:30-2:30pm for afternoon pupils.
Last week Primary 4 and 5 started George’s Marvellous Medicine, their new IDL context for learning. As this will have reading as a key curricular focus, and the story follows the characters of George and his Grandma, we would like to invite our Grandmas, Grandpas and other relatives of the older generations to join us in a ‘Novel Natters’ session on Monday 21st November at 2pm. This will be a lovely opportunity for the children to read pieces of their own work to their Grandparents…we just hope that you are all a lot nicer and friendlier than George’s Grandma!
We look forward to nattering to you then.
Education Scotland visited our school to ask pupils and staff about digital learning in our school. They created a video which you can watch by clicking here. Well done to our Technical Troopers for explaining our journey.
“Education should prepare young people for jobs that do not yet exist, using technologies that have not yet been invented, to solve problems of which we are not yet aware.” Richard Riley
In Mid Calder Primary School, we share this vision and we believe that in providing learners with a rich range of learning experiences in the digital and physical world we are developing a range of skills, knowledge and attributes to enable them to be confident and competent in the world of learning, life and work.
West Lothian’s investment in infrastructure has provided us with the flexibility of an Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL) wireless network which allows connectivity for school and personal devices alike. This has enabled learners to be partners in their learning, offering a range of personalisation and choice opportunities whilst promoting Health and Wellbeing through the recognising of their rights and responsibilities.
Through our case study we hope you recognise the positive impact embedding digital technologies into the life and ethos of our school has had on our school community.
This week West Lothian are running a Sum Dog Maths Competition, all pupils from P2-7 can take part in this challenge at school and home. Pupils who top the leader board will receive a certificate.
On Friday P5 showed P3/2 how they could log in and find the competition.
Good Luck!
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.
On Friday our P6 and 7 pupils walked to the war memorable in Mid Calder to pay their respects by laying a poppy wreath. The rest of the pupils marked Rembrance Day with a 2 minute silence.
Learning Intention: We are learning to skim and scan for information.
P5B have been using the First News newspaper to develop our reading skills this week. We learned about the skills of skimming for gist and scanning for specific information, then applied these skills when taking part in a news quiz. We were read a set of questions related to articles in this week’s First News edition and had to skim and scan to locate the answer as quickly as possible. We have also been learning how to ask and answer a range of questions about a text through our new IDL context, George’s Marvellous Medicine.
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We are learning to combine two sets of items and say how many there are altogether
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I can count the items in each set
I can combine the sets
I can say how many there are altogether
We have been very busy this week practising early addition skills. We count carefully and can record our results as a simple number story.
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