Category Archives: Learning Letters

P7 Learning Letter Term 2

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 2 in Primary 7.  This term we began with demonstrating that we were confidence individuals who could represent our school at a cluster wide event.  On October 26th P7 pupils travelled to Excite at East Calder to participate in Sportshall Athletics, competing against four other cluster schools.  All of the pupils demonstrated excellent sportsperson-like attitudes and were a credit to our school.  Our focus for IDL learning is our production of Alice the Musical.  Pupils are currently working very hard to learn songs, lines and dances to create a fantastical and magical production, which we are all excited to share with you!

Mrs Ross

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Learning Letter P1: Term 2

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 2 in Primary 1. The highlights of last term included our visits from Bobby Bear and our trip out to Almondell and Calderwood Country Park. We hope you enjoyed reading about our activities and looking at the photographs on the School Blog. This term we are looking forward to learning all about Fairytales through reading the story of The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg.  We are also beginning to practise our Nativity.

Mrs Smith

P1 Teacher

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P4 Learning Letter: Term 2

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 2 in Primary 4. All of the children have settled well into P4 and we are looking forward to a busy and fun term 2. The highlights of last term included our Crazy Climates context, a trip to Dynamic Earth and our P4/5 school camp to Dalguise. All pupils have also now joined a Junior Leadership Team and look forward to making positive changes within our school this year.

Miss Prior & Ms Richmond

P4 Teachers

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Nursery Term 2 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 2 in Mid Calder Nursery. We had a busy first term, getting to know each other and making new friends. The children created their own pizza shop, ‘Pizza World’. They managed the shop, took orders, made menus and even cooked their own pizzas. We hope you all enjoyed them!  We enjoyed our Autumn walk to Calder Wood. It was exciting to watch the children learn in the local environment and fantastic for the staff to observe the knowledge the children shared about their surrounding area. This term the children are continuing to show an interest in the building of our new nursery. We will build on this topic and plan our learning from the ideas of the children.

Nursery Staff

Nursery Learning Letter

P2 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 1 of Primary 2. I hope you all had a relaxing summer break. We are looking forward to a busy and exciting term. Over the first few weeks we have been working hard to establish a positive and effective classroom ethos. This has included getting to know each other, and creating our own Community Contract, which helps pupils, staff and visitors to understand how the school values and children’s rights are respected within our classroom.

Mrs George, P2/1 Teacher

Learning Letter P2 2016 T1

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P7/6 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 1 in Primary 7/6. All the children are settling well in to P7/6 and over the last fortnight we have been doing a lot of community building exercises to ensure that the children get to know each other. This term the children are looking forward to learning about the World War 2. The children will soon be asked to join a Junior Leadership Team and we look forward to making positive changes within our school this year. Children will be challenged each morning with quick start activities including Maths, Literacy and thinking problems to stimulate their learning in the morning.

Learning letterT1 P6-7

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P6 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to our first term in Primary 6. All of the children are settling well into P6 and we are looking forward to a busy and fun term. There is lots to look forward to including our new IDL context: World War 2. The children are excited and motivated to learn and are already sharing facts about the topic and stories from their family histories. Also, all pupils are soon to join a Junior Leadership Team and look forward to making positive changes within our school this year.

Mr Renshaw

P6 Teacher

Learning Letter P6 Term 1

P1 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 1 of Primary 1. I hope you all had a relaxing summer break. In school we are looking forward to a busy and exciting term. Over the first few weeks we have been working hard to establish a positive and effective classroom ethos. This has included getting to know each other, and creating our own Community Contract, which helps pupils, staff and visitors to understand how the school values and children’s rights are respected within our classroom.

Mrs Smith, P1 Teacher

Learning Letter P1

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P5 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 1 in Primary 5. All of the children have settled well into P5 and we are looking forward to a busy and fun term. So far, the children have participated in a community building fortnight where we have been getting to know each other, creating our class charter and becoming familiar with our new class routines. We also had a mini focus on our school value of being inclusive. We have begun our new IDL context for learning, The Romans, and the children have created a set of questions that they would like to find the answers to  and we will be exploring these through the topic.

Miss Sherlow and Mrs Stewart

P5 teachers

Learning Letter P5 Term 1

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