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Health & Wellbeing, Primary 5, Second Level

Kuksool Masterclass in P5

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On Wednesday this week Primary 5A and Primary 5C took advantage of the beautiful weather to go outside get involved in a brand new type of physical activity.

Emme from P5A was the latest pupil from her class to offer a Masterclass in a skill she has been learning. This week it was Kuksool – a traditional Korean martial art. Emme began by organising everyone into groups and teaching us a warm-up game. She then showed us a series of warm-up moves and chants to go along with them. We then practised a variety of  techniques to take our partners to the ground (safely!). Everyone participated very well and got involved. Miss Anderson and Mrs Campbell were particularly impressed by Emme’s organisational skills and her ability to hold the attention of more than 40 children on the field – not an easy task! Very well done, Emme

We had a brilliant session and are looking forward to the next time someone is able to come into school and share their skills with us – watch this space…

Enjoy the sunshine this weekend

Mrs Campbell and Miss Anderson

Information for Parents

Staffing update and other news/dates

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Staffing update and other news

We are pleased to share with you that Mrs Thurlow will join us at Mid Calder Primary School as our Head teacher from Monday 11th June.  Thank you very much to Mrs Brown, Head teacher at Kirknewton Primary, who has been here in the interim.

Mrs Kellner will begin her maternity leave at the start of June.  We wish her well and look forward to her visiting in the new session with baby Kellner.  Mrs Campbell will be leaving us in the summer and will be moving to another school within West Lothian.  We are sure you join with us in wishing Mrs Campbell all the best in her new post and to thank her for all she has contributed to our school.

The children will meet their new teachers on Thursday 7th June and spend some time with them that day.  We will send a Groupcall at the end of that day to let you know class teachers then.  Thank you for your continued support, the Staff Team.

Some dates for your information:

Wednesday 30th May ·         Gala Football Tournament in the evening
Thursday 31st May ·         P1 and P7 Dental Inspections
Saturday 2nd June ·         Mid Calder Gala Day

 

Wednesday 6th June ·         P6s at Cross Country festival 10am

·         P1 Induction Meeting for parents/carers 6pm
Thursday 7th June ·         School Changeover Day – Meet New Teacher 11am – 12.30pm

·         Pre-school children meet P1 teachers from 11am, parents tea/coffee and chat from 11am.

·         Nursery Dine Together (pre-school children and parents) 12noon – 12.30pm

 

Monday 11th June ·         Welcome to Mrs Thurlow

·         Sports Day (school) P1 – 3 in the morning and P4-7 in the afternoon (timings to be confirmed)
Tuesday 12th June ·         Rag Bag collection day

·         PSA Meeting 6.30pm
Thursday 14th June ·         P5s theatre trip to see Titanic
Friday 15th June ·         Celebration Assembly 11.10am

 

Wednesday 20th June ·         Nursery Teddy Bears Picnic: 10 – 11am for morning session and 2 – 3pm for afternoon session
Thursday 21st June ·         P7s Fundraising Fair p.m.
Friday 22nd June ·         10.15am Nursery Leavers Assembly

·         Nursery Open Afternoon for new Nursery pupils  12noon – 1pm

 

 

Monday 25th June ·         Nursery Trip
Tuesday 26th June ·         1.30pm P7 Leavers Assembly for parents/carers
Wednesday 27th June ·         Church Service 1.30pm

·         6.30 – 9pm P7 Leavers Party
Thursday 28h June ·         P7 Day out M&Ds
Friday 29th June ·         9am P7 Leavers Assembly for school

·         Holidays begin at 12.30pm

IS Day for staff on Monday 20th August, all resume on Tuesday 21st August.

 

Modern Languages, Second Level, Uncategorized

P6 French vocabulary

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P6 have been learning French vocabulary we learned the days of the week and the month. Monday – lundi, Tuesday- mardi, Wednesday- mercredi, Thursday – jeudi, Friday – vendredi, Saturday – samedi and Sunday is dimanche. Those are the days of the week in French. Here are the months January – Janvier, February – Février, May – Mars, April – Avril, May – Mai, June – Juin, July – Juillet, August- Août, September- Septembre, October – Octobre, November- Novembre and December is Décembre. These French words will help us if we ever go on holiday to France and also we can talk in French to our class mates and teachers. Here are some extra words. How are you – Comment allez-vous, What day is it – Quel jour est-il, What time is it – Quelle heure est-il and what is for dinner – Qu’est-ce qu’on mange. We also learned some other words such as can I go to the toilet. Written by Alicia,Iona and Caitlin

Digital Learning Week 2018, First Level, Primary 2, Technologies

Digital Learning Week in P2

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This week, as part of Digital Learning Week, Primary 2 have been developing their digital skills with a little help from the Technical Troopers. The children were keen to use Scratch Jr to explore coding. The three Technical Troopers from P7 and P6/7 provided lots of help and encouragement, and their great enthusiasm was soon inspiring P2 to try new things.

We also used Puppet Pals 2 to explore animation. First, we had to choose a space themed background, then think about different characters and objects that we could include as part of a simple story. Finally, we added sound effects and words to tell the story. The results were fantastic and we were very impressed by our efforts.

As part of our Moon Mission IDL work,  we also designed rockets on Purple Mash.

Digital Learning Week 2018, Early Level, Primary 1, Technical Troopers, Technologies, Uncategorized

P1P get Digital! #NDLW18

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As part of National Digital Learning Week P1P have been using digital technologies to enhance their learning accross the curriculum.

We started the week with a fantastic session from P7. We were introduced and shown how to use VR Headsets! We were able to explore emersive virtual tours of castles which linked brilliantly with our Castle IDL context. P1P loved how the VR Headsets made them feel like they were really in different locations. We also used Purple Mash to digitally paint castle related images using different textures.

We have continued to share our learning on our class Sways that you can find on the blog and our twitter. In class, we independently scanned QR codes linked to our Sways to recap and discuss our previous learning experiences. We love looking at pictures from our previous lessons.

The Technical Troopers also visited our class to introduce us to a new app ‘Puppet Pals’. We loved animating the different characters and adding our own pictures and voices to our stories. Some of us were able to record our digital puppets and show it the rest of the class through mirroring on our Promethean Board.

This week we have also continued to develop our reading skills on Teach Your Monster to Read, practise our numeracy and maths on Sumdog and explore coding on Scratch JR.

Digital Learning Week 2018, Primary 5, Second Level, Technical Troopers, Technologies

iMovie Masterclass in P5

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On Thursday this week, some of Primary 5A and Primary 5C were lucky enough to receive a lesson in how to use the iMovie app as part of Digital Learning Week. Jamie, Dylan, James and Euan came to our class to show us how to record and edit movies. We then all had a chance to go off and make our own short films, which was a lot of fun; these were then shared with the rest of the class. The p5s who were lucky enough to take part in this lesson will now have a chance to teach the rest of their class -they say the best way to learn is to teach someone else, so watch this space! Thanks to Miss Sherlow and the fab Technical Troopers for their input, we thoroughly enjoyed it.