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Back in time with Primary 5C!

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As part of Mid Calder Primary School’s 40th Birthday celebrations, we decided to look back across the last 4 decades at the news and culture of the 70s, 80s, 90s and Noughties.

As a homework task, P5 were asked to research a particular decade and share what we had found with the rest of the class. It was surprising how many things from 40 years ago are still with us, like Queen Elizabeth, Star Wars and James Bond movies!

We had lots of fun researching the fashions, movies and music of each decade and all our parents (and teacher!) were able to help us out with their memories of years gone by.

We thoroughly enjoyed sharing our learning with our parents and carers at assembly – we especially enjoyed dressing up in the fashions of the day!

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New shop opens in Mid Calder!

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P5a have fully embraced the challenge of creating a new shop for Mid Calder main street. As a class we have  been looking at what shops we have in our main street and if it fits the purpose of living in the 21st century. We first drew a map of our village and identified what shops/businesses we had and where they were situated. Once we had completed this we then discussed the needs of our village and what could we benefit from. All of the children had to justify why they had made their choice of what shop they would open in the village and all  were very enthusiastic about designing and making their own shop/business. We have also been looking at measure which will help us when we start to make a model of our shop/business. We will be making our shop/business models over the next few weeks and then the children will have to make a pitch as to why their business should be chosen for Mid Calder main street……..look out for our fantastic designs on future blogs.

Have a great weekend.

Miss Anderson & P5a

English & Literacy, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary

P6 – Creating Questionnaires

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In Primary 6 we have been learning about and creating our own questionnaires.

 

Learning intention:

We are learning to write a questionnaire.

Success Criteria:

I can include:

  • a relevant title
  • numbered questions
  • simple language to ensure the reader understands
  • an appropriate structure

 

We have been learning about questionnaires because we wanted to survey the local community as part of our IDL context, Mid Calder Memories. We wanted to find out whether the businesses in Mid Calder serve the needs of the community. As part of our topic, we will be creating our own business for Mid Calder so getting the views of the community was very important. We decided that a good way to survey our local community was to use a website called Survey Monkey so that all of our friends and relatives could log on and answer our questions. Here are some pictures of our questionnaires. What do you think?

Please help us gather as many opinions as possible by completing our questionnaires. The links and QR codes are in homework jotters. Thank you!

 

English & Literacy, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Primary 7

Mystery at Calder House

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We are learning to create an interesting setting for our story.
I can use features specific to an imaginative story:
– exciting vocabulary in my story to engage the reader.
– adjectives to describe the setting.
– Calder House as a setting for my story.

– I can use paragraphs to organise my writing.
– I can use past tense.

As part of their IDL context for learning P7 are exploring Mid Calder. They were set the challenge to write a mystery story set in Calder House. First of all they researched Calder House and completed their plan. We then discussed different types of adjectives and vocabulary we would use to describe the house. Next they looked at an example on the board and assessed it using the Success Criteria. After that they wrote their mystery stories and self assessed them.

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Fantastic Fork and Field Trip

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This week primary 7/6 went to the Fork and field. We were taken on a tour around the restaurant. We were showed how the drinks were made at the bar and the menu was an Ipad. We even got to taste a cocktail made of fruit. We were also shown the toilets. A local artist called Harry painted the beautiful designs on the walls. Angela, the Fork and Field owner was really helpful and answered all our questions.
We asked questions such as:

How do you attract customers? Answer: Social media, fliers.
In Fork and Field what is your business strategy? Answer: To advertise on social media.
Who helped you in the progress? Answer: A whole team of worker, designers, etc.

It was good trip and everyone had fun and enjoyed it.