Category Archives: Mid Calder 40th Anniversary

Community, Events, Fundraising, Interdisciplinary Learning, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Primary 3

Mini Mid Calder Main Street in P3

November 27, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

As part of our Mid Calder IDL context, Primary 3 have been learning all about the different businesses in Mid Calder. We began by using Google Maps to explore the Main Street and discuss the different goods and services available. We were then challenged to choose one of the businesses as our inspiration for creating our own Mid Calder shop. As part of our research, we created and carried out questionnaires with our chosen business, including questions about prices of goods and services, opening times, busiest days and most popular item. All of this information helped us when setting up our own companies.

Next, we had to give our shop a name and design a logo. We looked at well know companies to help us to create a simple yet eye catching design and a memorable name. We then had to consider which goods/services we would provide in our shop, focusing on one product or service in particular. We used Microsoft Word to create a price list and an advertising poster, using persuasive language to convince our customers to visit our shop.

Finally, we were ready for business and opened our doors to our parents/carers during our open afternoon. We sold our goods and services, calculating total costs and working out how much change to give back to our customers.

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported our businesses. We raised a grand total of £50.74 which we were very proud of.

Interdisciplinary Learning, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Primary 1

P1W’s Travelling Ted Open Afternoon

November 26, 2017 User deactivated Leave a comment

Last Wednesday, we invited our relatives and friends to our class to see our showcase of learning on our IDL context of “Travelling Ted visits Mid Calder”, to help us celebrate the school’s 40th birthday this year.

Through our IDL context we have developed our sense of place as well as our understanding of our local environment. We have studied and located the key features and landmarks of Mid Calder and discussed the different journeys we make. We have also explored the stories of “We are going on a bear hunt” by Micahel Rosen and “Leaf man” by Louis Ehlert, utilizing our outdoor environment and things we have collected to enhance our learning.

We were all very excited to share our learning with our families and friends and we were able to confidently say what we had learned over the past 6 weeks. Thank you to everyone who was able to visit and well done to the children in P1W!

Mid Calder 40th Anniversary

A busy week in Primary 6!

November 24, 2017 Mr Renshaw Leave a comment

Primary 6 have really enjoyed their IDL context this term: Mid Calder Memories. It has culminated in an open afternoon for parents and carers on Wednesday and our class assembly today. Thank you to everyone who managed to make it along to either event.

Throughout this topic, the pupils have learned a lot about designing and creating their own business fit for the streets of Mid Calder. This has involved a big focus on market research, estimating measurements, drawing to scale, using suitable materials for building and pitching to an audience. These skills for life will be further developed throughout the year.

Community, Events, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Primary 5

Open Afternoon in P5C

November 24, 2017 Mrs Campbell Leave a comment

L.I. We are learning to design a shop to serve the local community

S.C. I can justify my choice of business

I can make a plan of a shop

I can create a model of a shop

I can choose suitable materials for building my model

Primary 5C have been working hard on building their models of their chosen businesses.

After careful consideration, each group decided on a business which they thought would do well in the village of Mid Calder. The children had to make a basic business plan, giving details about the product or service their business provides and who their target market was likely to be.

After that, they began to design their premises with floor plans and a shop front design.

Finally, they began the fun part – building models of each business.

After working on their models for a week or so, Primary 5 were very excited to share their designs with their parents, carers and family members during our Open Afternoon.

It was great to have so many adults in class to help and we were all very impressed at their fantastic creativity. Lots of parents enjoyed a Blue Peter moment, creating furniture , sweets and cakes, ball pits, climbing frames, bookshelves and more using just junk materials and lots of imagination!

The children loved having so much extra help and it was fantastic to hear them enthusiastically discussing their businesses and designs. A huge thanks to everyone who was able to attend, your contributions definitely made a big difference to the success of our models.

Community, Events, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Primary 5, Uncategorized

Open afternoon in P5a

November 24, 2017 Miss Anderson Leave a comment

Wednesday afternoon was very busy in P5a as we opened our doors and showcased our business models. All of the children have been working extremely hard over the past few weeks to ensure that their models, of their business, were reflective of the business that they wanted to open in Mid Calder. Over the past few weeks the children have made a business plan and a floor plan in the design of their shops/business, finally we put all of this into practice and started making our shop/business models. The parents/carers that visited us on Wednesday were very impressed with all of the hard work that the children have been putting into their models and were on hand to give advice as to how the children could improve them and some even contributed to the building of our models. Next week we will be sharing our sales pitch with the rest of the class and we will have 3 business that will go onto the final stage of our ‘Dragons Den’. We will keep you updated as to what business is the final winner.

P5a would like to thank all of the parents/carers that took the time to come and see what we have been learning.

Hope you all have a fab weekend.

Miss Anderson & P5a

Community, Events, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Uncategorized

P4’s Open Afternoon at Mid Calder Main Street!

November 24, 2017 Miss Clark Leave a comment

This term P4 have been learning about businesses in Mid Calder to celebrate Mid Calder Primary School’s 40th Birthday! Each group chose a shop in Mid Calder to research. We took on challenges like:

Finding out about the opening times of our shop.
Creating an opening hours sign.
Conducting research on the internet to find out the prices of services and goods in our shop.
Making posters to persuade people to visit our shop.
Making a shop sign and logo.
Creating colourful and creative price lists using ICT.

We then used all our research and hard work to open up our shops in our very own fabulous Mid Calder Main Street!

Here are some photos to show the fun we had along the way!

Community, Events, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Nursery, Nursery Information, Nursery Learning Stories

Nursery Official Opening

November 22, 2017 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Today we welcomed Executive Councillor for Education, David Dodds to officially open our new nursery building.

We showcased our school’s musical talents by the nursery children singing a song, Leah played the keyboard and the P6 pupils sang a song from the Lion King. Invited guests included Jim Cameron, Head of Education, Mvairi Lynch, Early Years Development Officer, and other representatives from the council as well as Keith Earley, contracts manager from Hadden Contraction. Representatives from the Parent Council and PSA also joined us.

Thank you for everyone who came along to help us celebrate.