Dear Parent/Carer,
Thank you all for your support and encouragement during a busy second term. ‘Alice the Musical’ was a great success and I hope that you enjoyed seeing your child participate in it. There is lots to look forward to this term including our new IDL context: The Mid Calder Election. The children are looking forward to learning about how society functions and will hopefully have an interesting and engaging experience when forming their own political parties and voting for a class Prime Minister. Also, we are currently preparing for our class assembly where we will be celebrating National Storytelling Week. I hope you can join us for that.
Mr Renshaw
Category Archives: Information for Parents
Learning Letter P5
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 5. We are looking forward to a busy and fun term. The highlights of last term
included our George’s Marvellous Medicine topic and our trip to the cinema. We were also excited to start
this term off with our Dragons’ Den pitches to a guest panel of exclusive Dragons. We have now begun our
new IDL context for learning, Natural Disasters, and all of the children in P5 will be involved in the West
Calder High School cluster handball festival on 15th February.
Miss Sherlow and Mrs Campbell
Learning Letter P6/7
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 7/6. Last term we held an amazing show, ‘Alice in Wonderland’. All of the children were very
excited about this and our final show was amazing. Thank you for all of your help towards making this special for the children. We can’t wait to go and see ‘Alice the Musical’ performed at the Playhouse shortly. This term the children are looking forward to learning about democracy and how society works, this will accumulate in class elections and each class will have a class president. P7 have started some transition work with Dr Cherry from W.C.H.S where they have been learning some technical drawing skills and will shortly visiting the High School to make a spatula.
Dates for up and coming events:
Wednesday 25th January – ‘Alice the Musical’
Monday 21st February – Visit to Scottish Parliament
Monday 6th March P7 – The Risk Factory
Learning Letters P7
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary Seven. We are looking forward to a very busy term, focusing and concentrating on lots of hard work and effort into our Maths, Reading and Writing. We will be using our context for learning in our IDL to engage with current social and political news, studying and investigating Scotland in the year 2017. This will culminate in an exciting trip to Edinburgh to visit the Scottish Parliament, to learn about democracy.
Mrs Ross
Dates for up and coming events:
Alice In Wonderland theatre trip: 25th January
Risk Factory trip: 6th March
Scottish Parliament trip: 21st February
Learning Letters P2/3
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 2/3. All of the children have settled well into P2/3 and we are looking forward to a busy and fun term. Last term we enjoyed the BFG topic and our performance for a school panto. The highlights of the term ahead include our trip to Modern Art 1 in Edinburgh to look at the work of Joan Eardley and the sculpture gardens. All pupils have also now joined a Junior Leadership Team and look forward to making positive changes within our school this year.
Miss Brolls
P2/3 Teacher
Primary 3 Learning Letter Term 3
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 3. All of the children have settled back in to class and are looking forward to lots of fun in Term 3. The highlights of last term included our BFG topic, a trip to Edinburgh Zoo as part of the Into Film Festival and our BFG Christmas Show.
Miss Clark
P3 Teacher
Primary 1 Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 1. The highlights of last term included looking more closely at a variety of Fairytales through reading the story of The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We read all our favourites, and enjoyed exploring characters and settings. Creating a happy, alternative ending to the story of The Gingerbread Man was a lot of fun too! Thank you to everyone who came along to our Open Afternoon during Scottish Book Week. The children very much enjoyed sharing their learning with you.
Performing the Nativity was another highlight of Term 2, and I’m sure that you will all agree that the children did a fantastic job.
Mrs Smith P1 Teacher
Primary 4 Learning Letter Term 3
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 4. All of the children worked hard during term 2 and we are looking forward to a busy and fun term 3. The highlights of last term included our George’s Marvellous Medicine IDL context, especially our ‘Natter to Nana and Papa’event. This term we are looking forward to our From Field to Fork context and our STEM context later in the term.
Miss Prior & Ms Richmond
P4 Teachers.
Nursery Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Mid Calder Nursery. We had a very busy time in Term 2, looking at different materials and how we could use them to build and using vocabulary such as hard, soft, rough and smooth. We participated in several science experiments, where we investigated how a car would move down a ramp when travelling on different surfaces and we also looked at the changes in ice as it freezes and melts again in changing environments. We loved the excitement in the run up to Christmas and enjoyed sharing this special time with your children. The children enjoyed taking part in a variety of Christmas activities and we hope you agree, performed brilliantly at their Christmas show. This term as part of the school Burns celebrations the children are learning “Wee Willie Winkie” in Scots. The children are working hard to learn this and will be sharing it with the other children in the school. Please help your child to learn this poem. A copy can be found on the school blog. Please feel free to wear some Tartan to nursery on 25th January.
Kind regards,
Mrs Murray, Mrs Diamond, Mrs Aikman and Mrs Findlay.
Primary 2/1 Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 3 in Primary 2/1. The highlights of last term included our Cops and Robbers IDL context for learning. Thank you to everyone who came along to our Open Afternoon during Scottish Book Week. The children very much enjoyed sharing their learning with you. Performing in the Nativity and the BFG Christmas was another highlight of Term 2, and I’m sure that you will all agree that the children did a fantastic job.
Miss Burton & Mr Glancy
P2/1 Teachers
