This week the nursery children had a delicious treat! After picking the potatoes from the nursery garden last week, Mrs Aikman and some of the boys and girls made potato soup to have as snack. The children helped read the recipe, chop the ingredients, write the menu and the the best bit………. they were able to eat it! They enjoyed dipping their bread and were delighted with how tasty it was.
Today the Magical Mediators were invited to attend the Young Talks Conference at Dundee University organised by the Scottish Mediation Network.
We listened to presentations from Tam Baillie (The Children and Young People’s Commissioner in Scotland), Nick Patel (a Mediation Magician) and from people who have a full time career in Mediation. We also attended two different workshops.
We were one of two schools who were asked to share our peer mediation journey. Keira, Anna, Sean and Caitlin presented at the school’s showcase to over 100 participants.
We took part in a Skype video chat with a school in America, it was interesting to see how peer mediation operates in another country. We also watched a video about peer mediation in Scotland and it was lovely to see our P7 peer mediators from last year.
The biggest surprise of all was when we received the award for our Outstanding Contribution to Peer Mediation in Scotland by a School and the prize of a free mediation training session from Jeremy Scuse (the managing director at Catalyst Mediation Ltd).
We our so proud of our Magical Mediators, both from last session and this session and all their achievements – congratulations!
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/peer-mediation-mid-calder-primary-school
We would like to invite Primary 4 and 5 parents and carers to a Dalguise Information evening on Thursday 15th September at 6:30pm.
Come along and meet your child’s new teacher on Thursday 8th September at 6:30pm. You will have the opportunity to find out what your child be learning and explore some of the resources they will be using. We look forward to seeing you.
Due to the ongoing success of our Magical Mediator programme, our Magical Mediators have been invited along to attend and present at the Young Talk Conference at Dundee University. Unfortunately due to limited spaces all our Magical Mediators are not able to attend, to ensure everyone felt included we created a video as part of our presentation.
It has been a busy week in Mid Calder Nursery. We have met new friends who have started their very first day at nursery. We have welcomed them and made them smile.
We have also enjoyed playing with friends that we already knew from last session. We have been building together, sharing and cooperating with other children. We have enjoyed helping the teachers make snack and learned new cutting and spreading skills. We also practiced our counting and decided together how many of each item we got to have for snack. We have been dancing and put on a show for the other children and enjoyed making castles in the sand.
We even managed to find numbers in the jewellery box! Can you see what number it is?
Outside in the garden the boys and girls have been building dens, playing in the mud kitchen and they were very excited to dig up the potatoes they grew with Mrs Aikman. We are going to use them to make potato soup next week. We are looking forward to another busy week in the nursery next week.
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