Dear Parents / Carers,
What an exciting but extremely busy term ahead for everyone involved with Mid Calder Primary School.
Primary 7 have begun the countdown for transition to High School and the nursery children have started transition arrangements for moving up to P1. It is an exciting but nervous time for them and I am sure as parents you will experience the same feelings.
P3 got together on the 5th of may to solve a problem by Acting Out a Situation and Looking for a Pattern. Ask them how they got on. What did they use to help their group? Did they find all possibilities? What did they find difficult? Did they work systematically?
It was a ‘classic’ problem to solve – The Tower of Hanoi
Last Friday Primary 3 presented an assembly all about our Baby Gym Challenge. We had to work really hard when designing, building and selling our baby gyms so we couldn’t wait to share our learning with everyone.
Ignatius: “I was so excited to go on stage and hold up my ‘nose’ picture!”
Lewis C: “When I was doing the Boss Baby Rap I was really nervous but I enjoyed it!”
Carla: “I enjoyed doing the Boss Baby Rap because I got to do some funny dance moves.”
Ben: “At first I didn’t want to be a Boss Baby. But once I had done it I wasn’t so nervous and enjoyed it after all!”
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 4 in Primary 2/3. Welcome back after our Easter Break. Last term we enjoyed the Bike Design Process topic and our visits from parents and the bikeability session outside. All pupils are engaged with the JLTeams and litter-picking was an April event. The P3s enjoyed their multisport afternoon on the 26th. Our new topic is Healthy Minds and Healthy Bodies so we look forward to more fitness and learning life skills to make us healthier!
Miss Brolls
P2/3 Teacher
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 4 in Primary 3. All of the children have settled back in to class and are looking forward to lots of fun in Term 4. The highlights of last term included our Burns Supper, a trip to Jupiter Art Land and our Baby Gym Challenge. This term Primary 3 have lots to look forward to with our class assembly, a trip to the Multi-sports festival and lots more!
Miss Clark
P3 Teacher
What is inside our bones?
Kevin from Enjoy-a-Ball did a bleep test to see how fit we are and now we are going to do some fitness training to increase our stamina. We are also learning how to relax using yoga.
If anyone has an interest in Health and can come in to answer questions they would be very welcome. A good website for research is www.cyh.com/HealthTopics.
This morning we welcomed parents and friends along to our Celebration Celebration so that pupils could receive their STEM Super Star and Remarkable Reader Awards. We also announced the Top Scorers for each house and a big well done to Almondell who won the House Cup for last term.
Miss Sherlow presented those pupils who came in the top 50 of the West Lothain SumDog Competition with a certificate.
Lewis and Ross, both past pupils from our school who now attend West Calder High shared their achievements with us. They reminded us it was important to achievement academically and in other areas of life, and also to have fund along the way. A big thank you to Lewis and Ross for joining us.
P3 had to solve problems based on finding number sequence rules doing the activity of Hopscotch! They worked in trios and had to explain their thinking as they worked together. Some children saw the odd and even patterns whilst others saw the number sequence and could predict what would be the next few terms in that sequence. Just brilliant. They will be working together again in the coming weeks with miss Clark and Miss Brolls.
Primary 3 received a letter from Natalie and baby Ailish asking us to design and build a baby gym. We decided to make the Baby Gym Challenge our topic this term.
We have enjoyed working in small design teams to design and build the ultimate baby gym to meet baby Ailishs’. needs. We worked hard to create 4 toys to help develop Ailishs’ sense of touch, smell, hearing and sight.
This week Natalie and baby Ailish came to visit and look at our baby gyms. Here are some pictures that show this lovely visit:
A big well done to everyone who participated in the PSA Easter Egg Competition. Mrs Murray and Miss Sherlow had a difficult job judging the competition! Mrs Learmont from the PSA presented the winners with an Easter Egg at the Church service today. Thank you to the PSA for organising this event.
