Category Archives: Transition
P7 Leaving Assembly for Parents/ Carers
On Monday this week we invited our Primary 7 parents/carers and invited guests along to celebrate our Primary 7’s journey through Mid Calder Primary. They shared memories, sang reflected on their learning throughout their time with us. There was tears and lots of laughter from our audience. Thank you to everyone who came along to support the event and to the P7 staff for supporting the pupils to organise the event.
M & Ds Leavers Trip
Primary 7 had a fantastic time at their annual Leavers Trip to M&Ds today! They displayed their growth mindsets and ‘have a go’ attitudes by challenging themselves to try out new experiences … And the staff did too! They lived the school values by being responsible, respectful and enthusiastic. A big thank you to the PSA for finding this trip.
P7 Fun Trip 2016
See You Again by P7
P1 Transition
Nursery children have enjoyed teaming up with Primary 1 to create their own butterfly. They worked cooperatively to design and plan their beautiful butterflies. Thank you to Primary 1 staff and pupils for making us feel so welcome. 
Nursery to Primary 1 Transition
The afternoon preschool pupils enjoyed another session in the Primary 1 class. They have been listening to the story, Oliver’s vegetables and drawing a picture of themselves in a garden. They can discuss many plants and bugs found in our gardens.
Hints and Tips for P1 Parents
This afternoon we invited the parents and carers of our Nursery children who are transitioning to Primary 1 to a transition workshop. The Primary 7 pupils took the parents on a tour of the school and they had the chance to visit the P1 classrooms. We also shared some hints and tips for P1 from the current P1 parents which you can find below.
Hints and tips from P1 Parents
Nursery / Primary 1 Transtion
The children were very excited about the start of their transition into Primary 1.They met up with some of their friends from last year. 
The children were very excited about the start of their transition into Primary 1.They met up with some of their friends from last year.
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Responsible Roles: Magical Mediator Training
There was a lot of excitement in the upper area this morning as the Primary 6s found out their Responsible Roles which they will start in term 4 of P6 and into P7. Each Primary 6 pupil completed a job application form, which were of a very high standard and were then allocated an appropriate role dependent on their skills, qualities and experiences.
The Primary 7 pupils with the support of Miss Burton put together a training session for the new P6 Magical mediators. They started with a job description and an overview of what the job required. We then took part in a selection of community builders which helped us to focus on the skills and qualities needed to be a mediator, and which also put us in the role of the disputants. Following this we went through the 5 stages of a mediation and the Primary 7s showed us a mediation scenario, then we had time to try out our own scenarios with the Primary 7s supporting us. Finally we ended with a question and answer session, the Primary 7 pupils offered a lot of very useful advice.
Thank you so much to the Primary 7s for training us and we are looking forward to our work experience shadowing opportunity in the new term.
Here is the Magical Mediators training video that the P7s made:
