Category Archives: Profiling
P1 Learning Sways
Please find below the QR Codes and website links to P1’s Learning Sways in Literacy and Language, Maths and Numeracy and IDL.
These will be updated regularly throughout the year/term.
Language and Literacy Sway Link: http://bit.ly/2gXzBVT
Numeracy and Maths Sway Link: http://bit.ly/2wV7Y3J
Toy Story IDL Sway Link: http://bit.ly/2wVGYB6
Curriculum Reading Overview
Curriculum Rationale
Please find below our new Curriculum Rationale that has been written in consultation with pupils, parents and staff.
Our School Vision Statement
All members of our learning community ‘Believe’ in themselves and thus ‘Achieve’ the best they can which will ultimately enable them to ‘Succeed’ in all they do.
Believe in yourself, Achieve your best, Succeed in all you do.
Our School Aims
- We aim to prepare all our young people with the skills, knowledge and attributes for the challenges of the future.
- We aim to create a learning environment which stimulates, challenges, supports and provides opportunities to develop independent learners.
- We aim to deliver an innovative and creative curriculum which is relevant to our children’s lives and promotes personalisation and choice.
- We aim to provide high quality learning and teaching experiences to enable every child to reach their full potential.
- We aim to foster our core values through creating a positive and welcoming school ethos.
- We aim to support each child’s skills and talents through recognition and celebration of individual achievements.
- We aim to promote effective partnerships between home, school and the wider community.
Our School Values
- Enthusiastic – I am passionate and excited by learning.
- Friendly – I show compassion towards others and am considerate of their feelings.
- Inclusive – I accept others and appreciate diversity.
- Respectful – I am considerate and courteous to others.
- Responsible – I am accountable for my learning and my actions.
- Successful – I try my best individually and as a team member.
P2/1 Castles Evaluation
On Friday P2/1 evaluated their learning about Castles.
We discussed the knowledge we had learned – the information we now know about castles, the skills we developed – the things we did to learn about castles. We also discussed what went well and how it could be even better.
Some of our favourite learning activities included:
- building castles at home and school
- visiting Stirling Castle
- Our Ball in the Hall with our buddies
Profiling Tool
The documents below show what your child will be learning when they are working withing a specific level. This should help you support their learning at home. Our pupils use these profiling tool when they are setting individual and group targets.
iAchieve in P5
At Mid Calder we recognise that profiling it creating a holistic overview of the child as a learner through reflection and dialogue. This is central to practice in recognising achievement, profiling and reporting.
What is profiling?
Profiling means that learners will be engaged in regular, on-going discussions with staff about their progress. This should be a continuous process for all learners from 3 to 18.
iAchieve
iAchieve is our new approach to achievement which is being used in all our cluster schools. Each child now has a copy of their iAchieve level (you can download these here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/public/mcps/uploads/sites/2949/2016/09/iAchieve-Level-4.pdf
This is used to track their achievements inside and outside of school. When they have achieved three of the tasks in each box they will receive a certificate in class or at a Friday Assembly and move on to the next area within their level, for example if they complete Brilliant Bronze for Responsible Citizen they will move on to Super Silver.
If the achievement has been completed at home the pupil can fill out an iAchieve sheet which are available from their class teacher or Primary 4 to 5 have the option of using their private iAchieve blog: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/mcpsiachieve2010/
Using the iAchieve Blog:
- Google MCPS Blog to access the school blog
- Select iAchieve, Primary 5 from the tab along the top
- Pupils enter their Glow username and password
- At the top they can click add, new post or on the right hand panel they can click add a new post
- The blog post should link to their iAchieve pathway
- Tick the categories for the post including:
- Award
- 4 Capacities
- Value
- Level – 5
- And any other relevant category
- Tag their name by typing in their name and clicking add
- Add a title
- Write their post (you will see examples on the blog):
- Title of achievement from their pathway (in bold and colour)
- Summary of achievement and what they learned
- What school value they lived (the school value can be in bold and colour)
- If you wish to add a photo:
- Click on add media
- This will ask you to browse for the photo on your computer
- Click insert into post
- Click Publish
Download these instructions: iAchieve-in-p5
iAchieve Level 5: iAchieve Level 5
iAchieve in P4
At Mid Calder we recognise that profiling it creating a holistic overview of the child as a learner through reflection and dialogue. This is central to practice in recognising achievement, profiling and reporting.
What is profiling?
Profiling means that learners will be engaged in regular, on-going discussions with staff about their progress. This should be a continuous process for all learners from 3 to 18.
iAchieve
iAchieve is our new approach to achievement which is being used in all our cluster schools. Each child now has a copy of their iAchieve level. You can download these here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/public/mcps/uploads/sites/2949/2016/09/iAchieve-Level-4.pdf
This is used to track their achievements inside and outside of school. When they have achieved three of the tasks in each box they will receive a certificate in class or at a Friday Assembly and move on to the next area within their level, for example if they complete Brilliant Bronze for Responsible Citizen they will move on to Super Silver.
If the achievement has been completed at home the pupil can fill out an iAchieve sheet which are available from their class teacher or Primary 4 to 5 have the option of using their private iAchieve blog: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/mcpsiachieve2012/
Using the iAchieve Blog:
- Google MCPS Blog to access the school blog
- Select iAchieve, Primary 4 from the tab along the top
- Pupils enter their Glow username and password
- At the top they can click add, new post or on the right hand panel they can click add a new post
- The blog post should link to their iAchieve pathway
- Tick the categories for the post including:
- Award
- 4 Capacities
- Value
- Level – 4
- And any other relevant category
- Tag their name by typing in their name and clicking add
- Add a title
- Write their post (you will see examples on the blog):
- Title of achievement from their pathway (in bold and colour)
- Summary of achievement and what they learned
- What school value they lived (the school value can be in bold and colour)
- If you wish to add a photo:
- Click on add media
- This will ask you to browse for the photo on your computer
- Click insert into post
- Click Publish
Download these instructions here: iAchieve-in-p4
Level 4 iAchieve: iAchieve Level 4
iAchieve
We launched our new approach to achievement last week at Meet the Teacher. Each child now has a copy of their iAchieve level (you can download these below) and this is used to tracked their achievements. When they have achieved three of the tasks in each box they will receive a certificate in class or at a Friday Assembly and move on to the next area within their level, for example if they complete Brilliant Bronze for Responsible Citizen they will move on to Super Silver.
If the achievement has been completed at home the pupil can fill out an iAchieve sheet (found below) which are available from their class teacher. Primary 4 to 6 have the option of using their iAchieve blog (the link to these blogs are above and pupils will require their Glow password as these blogs are private) and Primary 7 can use Didbook, to record their achievements.
Our Achievement Assemblies will now be Celebration Assemblies, these will celebration our achievements for that term and pupils will be presented with a Literacy and STEM Award as nominated by their class teacher. The parents/ carers of that pupil will be invited along to the assembly.
Learning in Early Level
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.
