Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 2 in Primary 1. The highlights of last term included our visits from Bobby Bear and our trip out to Almondell and Calderwood Country Park. We hope you enjoyed reading about our activities and looking at the photographs on the School Blog. This term we are looking forward to learning all about Fairytales through reading the story of The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. We are also beginning to practise our Nativity.
Mrs Smith
P1 Teacher
This week some of our Nursery and P1 pupils featured in the West Lothian Courier and Daily Mail, as progress for our new Nursery is well underway.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/new-1-million-nursery-built-9217901
‘Alice’ the musical is well under way and in preparation for this P7/6 have been looking at play scripts and how they differ from stories.
LI: We are learning to identify the differences between a play and a story.
SC: I can identify stage directions
I can identify dialogue.
I can confidently discuss the differences.
Pupils have been looking at a story and how this could be changed into a script. Children had to identify dialogue and stage directions then had the opportunity to write their own dialogue and stage directions and act this out in front of the class. I can safely say, we have a very talented bunch in P7/6.
All of the upper area are working very hard at the moment to perfect our performances for the show in a few weeks time. We are very busy making props and scenery and everyone is involved. We look forward to sharing our talents with you soon.
Miss Anderson
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 2 in Mid Calder Nursery. We had a busy first term, getting to know each other and making new friends. The children created their own pizza shop, ‘Pizza World’. They managed the shop, took orders, made menus and even cooked their own pizzas. We hope you all enjoyed them! We enjoyed our Autumn walk to Calder Wood. It was exciting to watch the children learn in the local environment and fantastic for the staff to observe the knowledge the children shared about their surrounding area. This term the children are continuing to show an interest in the building of our new nursery. We will build on this topic and plan our learning from the ideas of the children.
Nursery Staff
Nursery Learning Letter
This term’s IDL focus, linking Literacy and Expressive Arts, is all about getting musical and creative with Alice in Wonderland.
In our Literacy lessons we have been learning about playscripts as a genre and how they differ from a traditional story text.
Learning Intention:
We are learning to identify the features of a playscript.
Success Criteria:
I can identify the purpose of a playscript text.
I can confidently discuss the differences between a fictional text and a script.
I can explain what stage directions, dialogue and actions are, relating them to how an actor would use them in real life.
We have begun working on Alice the Musical, our wonderful production, and are all busy learning lines, dance routines and movements and of course, tuning our voices to be able to sing the tracks. We look forward to sharing our show with you and showing off all of the different talents we have in Mid Calder Primary!!
This week we have been learning about firework safety. This included watching Fireman Sam explain about how to handle sparklers. The children also made pictures of fireworks, watched a short clip of a firework display, talked about firework noises and tried to move about like fireworks. For snack we made sparkler biscuits.
This week Primary 3 looked at recipes. As our topic this term is The BFG we decided to write a recipe on how to make the BFG’s favourite drink, Frobscottle! We discussed the different ingredients that would be included in the recipe and came up with a set of instructions. We then followed the recipes we had written to make and taste our very own Frobscottle. Emma thought the Frobscottle was fantastic!
This week, P5a have been busy designing and making their own Roman shields.
We studied different Roman Army tactics and practised organising ourselves into the different formations.
We took our shields out to the playground and protected ourselves with different formations.
The Testudo (also known as The Tortoise)
“It looks like a shell” (Grace)
“No-one could shoot arrows or anything from above.” (Fraser B)
The Testudo was harder than we thought it would be!
“There was not enough cover at the back. The tall people had to crouch down. If I didn’t crouch down, I wouldn’t have had any cover on my head.” (Jamie H)
The Orb
“We were all holding shields in a circle so hard for anyone to get in. Some were facing the front and some facing the back so we can’t get attacked by our enemies.” (Jamie P)
“It is safer inside. It is more dangerous to be on the outside.” (Connor)
The Wedge
P5b’s Army arrived so P5a went into The Wedge formation.
“It made people move out of the way and they couldn’t get past.” (Luke)
P5a then got in to a defence position to fight off P5b.
“It is safe at the front under the shields as any weapon coming down will just bounce off the shields.”
P5a marched a victory lap around the playground!
“The marching was funny. We all had to step at the same time. We had to keep pace to show we are coming together and we are all important.” (Olivia)
“We could be marching to go to war. They do it in four file.” (Jack)
P 3/2 and P3 were watching The BFG this week as part of their digital literacy IDL topic. We thought of themes and questions to form our own research questions about measurement, friendship and different animations about giants.
We enjoyed our treats of popcorn and whizztastic sweets!
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