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Surprise visit to mark Digital School Award

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Pupils at Mid Calder Primary and Nursery School had a surprise visit from Donna McMaster, West Lothian Council’s Head of Service for Education Curriculum, Quality Improvement and Performance, recently.

Mrs McMaster dropped in to congratulate the school on gaining national ‘Digital School’ status for excellence in digital technology in teaching and learning.

The Digital Schools Award recognises the dedication and innovation shown by Mid Calder Primary in areas of leadership and vision, digital technology for learning and teaching, school culture, professional development and resources and infrastructure.

Donna McMaster commented: “I was delighted to have been invited to Mid Calder Primary School to congratulate pupils and staff personally on their achievement.

“Mid Calder is the second primary school to achieve the Digital Schools award in West Lothian, earlier this year Kirknewton Primary School was also recognised as a digital school.

“Bathgate Early Years Centre was the first facility to pick up the prestigious award in West Lothian, and it is believed to be the first early years centre in Scotland to achieve the accolade.

“It is fantastic to see the work which has been achieved to embed technology into the school ethos and how technology is being embraced by the pupils, staff, parents and carers.”

Depute Head Teacher, Sarah Burton, Mid Calder Primary, West Lothian said: “The Digital Schools programme offered our school a supportive structure to evaluate our digital learning journey and where we needed to go.”

“It has also enabled our Technical Troopers pupil group, to take on a valuable leadership opportunity within our school. We are very proud of how digital learning is embedded in our school from nursery to primary 7, and this award was a chance to celebrate this work and share with others.”

Events, Fundraising, House Meetings, Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, PSA

Coin Trail Winners

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On Friday, the PSA and House and Vice Captains organised a coin trail for money week and to raise money for school funds.

Longest line winners:

  1. Linhouse – 100 points & extra break
  2. Almondell – 75 points
  3. Cunnigar – 50 points
  4. Calderwood – 25 points

Total raised:

  1. Cunnigar – £181.10 – 100 points
  2. Linhouse – £152.84
  3. Almondell – £103.77
  4. Calderwood – £54.98

Total: £492.69

A big thank you to the PSA for counting the coins!

 

 

Early Level, Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 1, Uncategorized

Marvellous Maths in P1P

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LI: We are learning to sort, collect and display information.
We are learning about tally charts and pictographs.

SC: I can talk about my favourite toy and ask others about their favourite toy.
I can say what type of toy I have and record it in the form of a tally mark.
I can contrast and compare our favourite toy results with the P7’s favourite toys.
I can answer questions about the information that I have collected and displayed.

This week P1P have been learning how to gather and display information. During our Maths inputs we have developed an understanding of tally marks and have began to explore and use pictographs through a variety of practical, written and digital activities. We have also been able to use our new knowledge during our Toy Story IDL lessons to create a tally chart to show P1’s and P7’s favourite type of toy. It was really interesting to compare both the results and find out that both P1 and P7 had the same favourite… ‘cuddly toys’.

Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths & Numeracy, National Maths Week 2017, Primary 1

Maths week in P1W!

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Learning intentions:

  • We are learning to sort, collect and display data.
  • We are learning to collect and display information.
  • We are learning about tally charts and pictographs.

Success criteria:

  • I can talk about my favourite toy and ask my P7 buddy about their favourite toy.
  • I can say what type of toy I have (category) and put a tally in the correct place on a chart.
  • I can contrast and compare our favourite toy results with the P7’s favourite toys.
  • I can answer questions about the information that I have collected and displayed.
  • I can say how I get to school and contribute to a class pictograph.

In P1W this week we have been focusing on developing our information handling skills. We have learned about tally charts and pictographs and we have been able to apply our learning to our IDL lessons on toys.

We enjoyed sharing our favourite toys with each other and hearing about our P7 buddies favourite toys as well! We created a tally chart and marked our toys in the correct area. We then did this with our P7 buddies and compared our results. We found out that in P1W we liked cuddly toys the most but our P7 buddies liked figure toys the most.

We also spoke about how we get to school each day. We collected this information and made a class pictograph chart. We then made another one electronically, using Education City, about our favourite colours.

Well done P1W!