Category Archives: Primary 3
Meet the Teacher
Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended Meet the Teacher tonight. If you were unable to attend all the presentations are now available on the blog.
Thank you to the house and vice captains who welcomed our guests, acted as tour guides and helped you to complete the evaluations – if you would like to complete an online evaluation, please do so here.
P3 Learning Letter Term 1 & Meet the Teacher
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 1 in Primary 3. All of the children have settled well into P3 and we are looking forward to a
busy and fun term. So far, the children have participated in a community building fortnight where we have
been getting to know each other, creating our community contract and becoming familiar with our new class
routines. We also had a mini focus on our school aim of developing our skills and celebrating achievements.
We have begun our new IDL context for learning, Dinosaurs, and are looking forward to our class trip to the
National Museum of Scotland.
Miss Sherlow
Mid Calder Primary Wins National Award for Excellence in Digital Teaching and Learning
Wednesday 6th September – Mid Calder Primary and Nursery School have gained 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.
22 primary schools from cities and towns across Scotland were recognised for their work on digital technology in the classroom at a special presentation ceremony.
Recognised by Education Scotland and supported by HP, Microsoft and Intel, the award is designed to encourage and recognise schools that make the best use of digital technology in the classroom.
Shirley-Anne Somerville, Minister for Further Education, Higher Education and Science, said: “This programme positively impacts upon pupils’ motivation to learn as well as recognising achievement by teachers and schools in advancing the integration of technology in the classroom. I commend all the primary schools receiving their digital schools award on their great achievement.”
Depute Head Teacher, Sarah Burton, of 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.”
Mid Calder Primary in West Lothian is now among 43 Scottish primary schools from across Scotland that are recognised for excellence in digital teaching and learning
Aims Assembly
On Friday we had an assembly to share our new school aims that the pupil council rewrote into child friendly language. Each stage took a different aim.
- P1: We aim to have fun and interesting learning where everyone tries their best.
- P2: We aim to live by our school values and have a welcoming school.
- P3: We aim to develop our skills and recognise achievements.
- P4: We aim to provide an exciting place to learn and to learn about things that interest us.
- P5: We aim to connect our school life to our home life and our local community.
- P6: We aim to become independent learners by making our own choices and decisions.
- P7: We aim to be prepared for transitions and the world of work.
The nursery also created a video to share their values with us.
P3 Community Contract
Primary 3 have had a fun first two weeks getting to know each other and building our class community. We have been demonstrating our team work and creative skills through a series of challenges, as well as showing off our maths, writing and digital abilities.
To help us to have an amazing year in Primary 3, we created a community contract. We discussed each of our school values and what they meant to us, thinking carefully about how we could show each of the values both in school and in the playground. We all designed our own emoji to add to our contract to make it colourful and eye catching in our classroom.
September School Newsletter
Dear Parent/Carer
When we left school for the holidays in June everything seemed in place for the start of the new school session, but we have begun the session with no P7 teacher. We are very pleased Miss Tuke has secured a permanent position as principal teacher in East Lothian but it has altered the planning we had in place for our upper primary children. However, we have been very fortunate to have Mr Clancy return to the school and he will work with Mrs Redmond to teach the P7 class until we have a new Acting PT in position. Despite this setback we have had a very good start to the new term and the children seem very settled in their new classes. The new Primary 1 children have already embraced the school routine for coming in with Miss Prior and Mrs Walker having lovely quiet classes to begin the day.
The children have been looking at the school aims, with each class taking an aim and looking closely at what it means for us in our school. They will present to each other at our assembly this week so everyone will be aware of what the aims mean to the children and staff and that these are the aims we will live and learn by.
I have high expectations of what I believe our children can achieve and having spent a lot of time in classes over the first few days I believe our children and staff have high aspirations of what they can achieve. I thought I would share a poem about always doing your best and if we all do our best then we can reach these aspirations we have! Mary McKenzie
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Cunnigar Term 4 House Party
There was a great sense of achievement as Cunnigar won the House Cup for Term 4. Holly and Sean organised a Glitz and Glam Party, with games, food and lots of dancing. A big well done to all the Primary 7s in Cunnigar who helped to organise the party.
Sports Day
On Monday, we had a great sports day in the sunshine! The pupils enjoyed taking part in all of the activities. Congratulations to the winning house, Almondell! Thanks to everyone involved in organising the day and to those who were able to come along and support.
Term 4 Celebration Assembly
Today we had our final Celebration Assembly. The Technical Troopers past and present were recognised for their contributions across our whole school community, from supporting teachers to setting up for CEMs, presenting to WL Head Teachers and staff to organising our Digital Award Accrediation. They have worked very hard to embed digital learning across our school and nursery.
We awarded Remarkable, STEM Superstars and Top Scorers for the term. Congratulations to everyone who received an award.
Congratulations to Cunigar for winning the house cup this term.
