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Community, Events, Interdisciplinary Learning, Maths & Numeracy, Primary 5

Getting our business heads on in the Middle Area

February 4, 2016 Miss Sherlow 2 Comments

This afternoon, P4, P5/4 and P5 were lucky enough to have a second visitor to come and help them with their IDL topic, Grand Designs. Mrs Deerness, the school’s Business Manager, spoke to the middle area about her job of helping Mid Calder Primary to make the most of our school budget from West Lothian Council. We learnt all about council tax and what this is used for, how much money our school is given to spend each financial year and what this might be spent on. Mrs Deerness even told us how much money is given to spend on each individual pupil in the school, which made us appreciate all of the resources we have even more! We asked lots of thoughtful questions to deepen our understanding about budgets and finance.

A big thank you to Mrs Deerness for coming in to speak to us. We know that this knowledge of budgeting will help us when we are making the tough decisions in our classroom designs.

Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Outside of School, Primary 5, Sporting

Primary 5 Handball Festival

February 3, 2016 Miss Sherlow 6 Comments

Today, our Primary 5 pupils headed to East Calder Sports Center to demonstrate their handball skills against other schools in our cluster. P5 did a fantastic job representing Mid Calder Primary, demonstrating all of our school values as well as great sportsmanship, team work, communication skills and motivation to achieve. Well done Primary 5!

Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Pupil Council, Uncategorized

Morning Blether: Profiling

January 29, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

This morning the Pupil Council held a Morning Blether to explain to parents what profiling is, how we are profiling at Mid Calder Primary School and how was can improve our approaches to profiling.
We also shared a new profiling tool that our staff have created in order for parents to understand what a level looks like in Maths and Language. This will be launched at the Curriculum evening on February 25th at 6pm and will be made available to all parents at this event and on the blog.

Thank you to the Pupil Council for organising this event and to the parents who attended, you can find a copy of the PowerPoint below.

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/profiling-morning-blether

Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing

Breakfast Club Open Morning

January 29, 2016 Miss Burton 1 Comment

This morning we invited parents along to join Breakfast Club with their child/ren as part of Breakfast Week celebrations. We had a great turn out, thank you to Mrs Findlay and all the parents who supported this event.

Community, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 5, Uncategorized

Grand Designs

January 27, 2016 Miss Sherlow 4 Comments

This afternoon, the middle area were lucky enough to have a special visitor to come and help them with their IDL context, Grand Designs. Mr Cargill, the Depute Headteacher at West Calder High School, came to share some wisdom and words of advice based on his experiences of being involved in the design of the new high school. He discussed the budget for the school, how some of the money might be spent, and how he knows that tough budgeting decisions will have to be made based on what’s best for the learners and staff in the school. He also shared the questions that those involved in this process have been asking themselves, some of which were the questions we have been asking during our own design challenge. We also learned about the different places Mr Cargill has gone to find ideas to help him. He even travelled as far as Liverpool to visit a newly built school, speak to those who now learn and work in the school, and to take pictures to remember ideas that he liked. Although we might not make it to England to get some great ideas, we were certainly inspired by the creative layouts and designs he showed us.

A big thank you to Mr Cargill for sharing his experiences. We can’t wait to use what we have learned in our classroom designs and to share our finished designs with him!

Community, Events, Fundraising, PSA, Uncategorized

PSA minutes of January meeting

January 25, 2016 User deactivated Leave a comment

PSA January 2016 minutes

The date of the next meeting is Wednesday 10th February 2016 at 7pm in the staff room. All parents/carers invited to attend.

Community, English & Literacy, Events, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, School News

Mid Calder celebrate Burns in braw style!

January 22, 2016 Mrs Ross 8 Comments

On Friday 22nd January, Mid Calder Primary participated in their annual Burns/Scots poetry celebration.

Pupils from Nursery, right through to Primary Seven, we asked to develop their knowledge and understanding of Scots language by learning a selection of poems. Each class selected two representatives who then recited their chosen poems to the whole school community.

Mr MacFarlane, Mrs Bokhari and Mrs Ross were asked to judge the participants- the winners of each stage from P4-7 will represent the school at the West Lothian recital competition. Thank-you to Mr MacFarlane and Mrs Bokhari for their excellent judging skills.

Many thanks to the Vice Captains for compering the morning and welcoming our visitors into school.

A huge thank-you to the parents and carers who came along to show their support during the morning. Also a huge thank-you to all of the parents and carers from the school community who helped prepare poems with all of our learners at home. The level of commitment and effort when learning these difficult pieces of text, was phenomenal.

Well done to the girls from Primary 5 and Primary 7 who were keen to share their skills and talents in Highland dancing. What a fantastic performance!

All of the pupils and staff members participated in preparations for the assembly with enthusiasm and dedication – another example of successful learning in Mid Calder Primary School!

Community, Events

Merry Christmas

December 22, 2015 Miss Burton Leave a comment

We would like to thank you all for your support to your children and our school during 2015. Merry Christmas and we look forward to an exciting and successful 2016.

Merry Christmas!