Use your Glow log in to view P6s entry for the WL Digi Learn Challenge.
Category Archives: Anytime Anywhere Learning
MCPS Choir- Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
Log into Glow to see Mid Calder Primary School’s choir singing ‘Rocking Around the Christmas Tree’ for the WL Digilearn competition.
P5 Christmas Music Video
Log into Glow to view the P5 video for the WL Digi Learn Competition.
P6 Mannequin Challenge
While P7 went to their Christmas party, P6 had some fun ….
Marvellous Advertising Posters
Learning Intention: We are learning to use persuasive techniques to create a poster advertisement.
Success Criteria:
A successful poster will include:
– A picture of the product
– The price
– A slogan
– Persuasive techniques
– Key information from the text
In P5B, we have been learning about persuasive language and techniques that advertising experts use to sell products. We used this to help us to create poster advertisements for our redesigned versions of George’s Marvellous Medicine as part of our Dragons’ Den challenge.
We were allowed to select which ICT software we thought would suit our task the best, then set to work creating our posters. We had to make sure that we used as many persuasive techniques as possible to sell our product to our customers.
When we thought we had met all of the success criteria, we posted our posters onto our Yammer page, then gave our peers two stars and a wish feedback.
We used our feedback to make changes to our poster to ensure that our final product met the criteria, and was as clear and as persuasive as we could make it.
We think you’ll agree that our final designs are very persuasive. Would you buy our ‘marvellous medicines?’
West Lothian’s Digilearn Event
On Friday, Mid Calder Primary School were invited along to West Lothian’s Digilearn Event to share our journey to becoming an AAL and Bring Your Own Device school. As they were part of our Technical Troopers and Pupil Council Junior Leadership Teams during the key stages of this journey, Calum, Ben, Grace and Kirsty joined Miss Burton and Miss Sherlow to present to Head Teachers, teachers and a range of other practitioners from across West Lothian.
They did a fantastic job in sharing the ongoing process that MCPS are going through in our engagement with AAL and BYOD, and received lots of lovely feedback about about how professional and inspiring they were when presenting. Well done Calum, Ben, Grace and Kirsty!
West Lothian SumDog Maths Champs!
Primary 4b pupils at Mid Calder Primary School have come first in the West Lothian SumDog Maths competition run across all West Lothian Council Primary Schools. Donna McMaster, Head of Education (Development) at West Lothian Council representatives from SumDog visited the school yesterday to congratulate the class and to present them with their winning trophy.
Reading in P5A
We are learning to visualise characters, settings and actions by reading the text closely.
- I can use my imagination to form pictures in my mind.
- I can select the key language the author uses to help me to create pictures and can justify my thinking.
- I can use my own experiences to make connections.
This week in reading we were learning about the skill of visualisation. We started by visualising people in the school and our partner had to guess who we were talking about from our clues.
Next we listened to chapter 7 of George’s Marvellous Medicine and we had to made notes oh how the author visualised characters, setting and actions. Now we will use this knowledge to help us create a piece of writing.
As part of Scottish Book week we have been running different events:
Novel Natters
Primary 4 and 5 invited our Nanas, Papas and relatives of the older generation into school and we read a piece of our own writing linked to our IDL context for learning, George’s Marvellous Medicine. We had been asked to use our prediction skills to write chapter 7 of the book, using clues from the text and our knowledge of the author’s style to help us to make a realistic continuation of the story. Our Grandparents gave us ‘Nana’s Notions and Papa’s Praise’ feedback.
Book Week Afternoon
On Tuesday afternoon in P4 and P5 we had the choice of 2 different reading activities:
- Creating a story using apps on the iPad
- drama
- reading games
- using Purple Mash to create an animation
Miss Burton’s group created an animation of a book they had read. Click below to view some of the animations.
https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNDMx Freiah
https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNTg1 Freya and Niamh
https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNDU3 Joel and Sorley
https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzAx Maya
https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzEw Theo
https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzIw Saskia
https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzI4 Matthew C
https://www.purplemash.com/?~c3c9MjMxNzM5 Oliver
Reading in an Unusual Place
As part of Book Week we have asked pupils to tweet or bring in a photo of them reading in an usual place.
School Improvement Plan: Pupil Version
At our Pupil Council Meeting this week we looked at the School Improvement Plan and what this would look like, sound like and feel like in our school. The pupils worked together in small groups to use OneNote to collaborate together using the one document, with the other pupils supporting the younger ones.
Here is a copy of our School Improvement Plan in a child friendly version: pupil-version-sip-16-17
YamJam
This year, Primary 5B have been using Yammer to share their learning through their IDL contexts, George’s Marvellous Medicine and the Romans. We use Yammer to access useful websites, contribute our thoughts and ideas and to share new facts we have learned.
Today, we took part in a live YamJam session where we had the opportunity to ask questions about Yammer to some of the administrators of the Glow Yammer Network. We asked some thoughtful questions, and were able to answer other people’s questions as well.
