During our Building Our Community each stage had a different value to think about. On Froday at assembly they presented their value to the school community. We had songs, raps, videos and presentations.
On Friday we held our annual House Captain Election. The presentations this year were of a very high standard and all P7s worked very hard to put together their manifestos under strict time limits. A big well done to all the Primary 7s who ran for election and congratulations to our new House and Vice Captains.
Cunnigar:
House Captain: Holly
Vice Captain: Sean
Almondell:
House Captain: Charlie T
Vice Captain: Louis
Calderwood:
House Captain: Zach
Vice Captain: Grace
Linhouse:
House Captain: Jamie
Vice Captain: Freya
Every year West Lothian Council holds a ‘Class of …’ so Head Teachers can share interesting and new practice and they can find out about what’s new in education. On Friday Mrs McKenzie was invited along to Class of 2016 to share how we use ICT to support our learning and teaching at Mid Calder Primary. You can view the video below.
P5a explored some Articles from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to help create our class charter.
“We looked at the rights of children.” (Kuba)
“We went into pairs to think about the right and drew a picture of what it means to us.” (Freya)
We voted on how to display our charter. “We made scuba divers and creatures for our underwater theme.” (Daniel).
We have all been working very hard earning Well Done Tokens and Dojo points for following our charter and living our class values.
P3/2 decided to make a rainbow display to show their class contract. They are all the sunshine gold at the end of the rainbow! We had a lot of fun painting whilst making our rules for this year. We are all feeling very enthusiastic about the year ahead😊Miss Brolls
This week the nursery children had a delicious treat! After picking the potatoes from the nursery garden last week, Mrs Aikman and some of the boys and girls made potato soup to have as snack. The children helped read the recipe, chop the ingredients, write the menu and the the best bit………. they were able to eat it! They enjoyed dipping their bread and were delighted with how tasty it was.
Today the Magical Mediators were invited to attend the Young Talks Conference at Dundee University organised by the Scottish Mediation Network.
We listened to presentations from Tam Baillie (The Children and Young People’s Commissioner in Scotland), Nick Patel (a Mediation Magician) and from people who have a full time career in Mediation. We also attended two different workshops.
We were one of two schools who were asked to share our peer mediation journey. Keira, Anna, Sean and Caitlin presented at the school’s showcase to over 100 participants.
We took part in a Skype video chat with a school in America, it was interesting to see how peer mediation operates in another country. We also watched a video about peer mediation in Scotland and it was lovely to see our P7 peer mediators from last year.
The biggest surprise of all was when we received the award for our Outstanding Contribution to Peer Mediation in Scotland by a School and the prize of a free mediation training session from Jeremy Scuse (the managing director at Catalyst Mediation Ltd).
We our so proud of our Magical Mediators, both from last session and this session and all their achievements – congratulations!
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/peer-mediation-mid-calder-primary-school
Due to the ongoing success of our Magical Mediator programme, our Magical Mediators have been invited along to attend and present at the Young Talk Conference at Dundee University. Unfortunately due to limited spaces all our Magical Mediators are not able to attend, to ensure everyone felt included we created a video as part of our presentation.
Below you will find copies of our Profiling Tools for Early Level. This show what your child will be learning about in Maths if they are working at Early Level.
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