Category Archives: Information for Parents

P7 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 4 in Primary 7. In this last term the children are looking forward to planning and developing their knowledge and understanding of STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Exciting and challenging lessons and activities will be completed by the pupils, using the context of CSI style investigations.  Here the pupils will have the opportunity to develop reasoning and logical thinking within problem solving scenarios.  We are excited about P7 leavers’ activities. P7 are now in the process of transferring their responsible roles onto P6.

Miss Anderson

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Primary 5 Learning Letter Term 4

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 4 in Primary 5. We are looking forward to a busy and fun final term. The highlights of last term included hearing from specialist speakers linked to our Grand Designs topic, attending the Handball Sports Festival, our Samba workshops and trip to Howden Park, and taking part in futsal sessions. This term we have started our new IDL context for learning, Project Planetarium and are looking forward to our session with Cosmos Planetarium.

Miss Sherlow

P5 Teacher.

 

Learning Letter P5 Term 4

Primary 6 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 4 in Primary 6.  This term the children are looking forward to planning and developing their knowledge and understanding of STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Exciting and challenging lessons and activities will be completed by the pupils, using the context of CSI style investigations.  Here the pupils will have the opportunity to developing reasoning and logical thinking within problem solving scenarios.  We also have another exciting trip to look forward to, linked to our Health and Wellbeing topic for next term.  This will be a busy but exciting term and we are looking forward to continuing to work hard and progress well.

Mrs Ross

Dates for up and coming events:

28th April:  Parents Sex Education Evening at 6 p.m.

9th May:  Primary 6 trip to Edinburgh Zoo

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Primary 4 Learning Letter

Dear Parent/Carer,

Welcome to Term 4 in Primary 4. We are very much looking forward to working with Primary 4 over the next few weeks. The highlights of last term included hearing from specialist speakers linked to our Grand Designs topic, our NYCOS workshops and attending the benchball Sports Festival. This term we have started our new IDL context for learning Project Planetarium and we investigating ways we can share our learning using Glow. We are looking forward to our session with Cosmos Planetarium. You can follow our learning on the school blog: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/mcps/category/learning-stories/primary-4/

Miss Burton and Mrs Redmond

Learning Letter P4 Term 4

 

Great Edinburgh Run – Playground Fundraising

Liam (P3) and Alivia (nursery) are running in the Great Edinburgh run next Sunday and are hoping to raise funds towards the playground fund which the school and PSA are raising money for.

Below is a link to their Crowdfunding page, if you are able to spare anything, no matter how small – they would be very thankful.

https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/MidCalderPSA?utm_id=101

March 2016 Newsletter

Dear Parent/Carer,

It was lovely to see you last week at the Parent Consultations; as always our P7 pupils did a great job welcoming and looking after parents/carers and keeping everyone to their ten minute appointment. As a school we strive to continually improve our practice and would appreciate if you could spare five minutes to complete our Survey Monkey questionnaire which can be found on: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RR5ZD56 by Friday 15th April.

I hope you are able to join us in the Kirk of Calder church on Thursday 24th March as we celebrate Easter. As always we require parents/carers to walk with us to and from church and we would appreciate if you could meet us in the infant playground at 1.10pm.

I wish you all a relaxing Spring break and I hope the sun continues to shine. I look forward to welcoming pupils back on Monday 11th April.

 

Nicola Thompson

Head Teacher

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