Category Archives: Community
Christmas Concert: Primary 6-7
Primary 5’s Roald Dahl Assembly
On Friday, Primary 5 demonstrated all of the new knowledge and skills they have been developing through their IDL topic of Charlie and the Chocolate factory. They invited parents, carers and the school to attend their class assembly to celebrate the life and works of the author, Roald Dahl. Primary 5 thoroughly enjoyed sharing their learning and can’t wait to find out what their next wonkalicious golden challenge will be. Stay tuned…
Torch Light Procession
On Saturday night, some of the pupils from Primary 1-3 braved the weather to come and sing some of their nativity songs at the Kirk of Calder Parish Church. They sounded fantastic and there was a real sense of community spirit shown by the number of people who came along to attend the service and to support them.
Christmas Raffle Prizes
Thank you to the PSA for organising our Christmas Raffle.
The PSA Christmas Raffle will be drawn on Friday 11th after the last school concert. Raffle tickets can still be handed into the school and you will have the chance to enter the Christmas raffle during the Christmas Concerts this week . The prizes so far have been donated from –
- PSA Luxury Hamper
- School Staff Luxury Hamper
- Partylite
- Blair Castle
- Butterfly & Insect World
- Dundee Heritage Trust
- Park View Coffee Shop
- Linlithgow Union Canal Society
- New Lanark World Heritage Site
- Royal Commonwealth Pool
- Edinburgh International Climbing Areana
- Camera Obscura
- Potter Around
- The Scotch Whisky Experience
- Hopetoun House
- The Falkirk Wheel
- Rosslyn Chapel
- The Retreat Health & Beauty Salon
- Jupiter Artland
- Edinburgh Bus Tours
- Sue Hunter Creations
- Edinburgh Filmhouse
- Bang Tidy Tans
- Scottish Seabird Centre
- Forth Bridges Cruise
- Nicola Adams Forever Gifts
- Variouse Toiletries donated by Parents
Thank you for supporting the school and good luck.
Christmas Fair 2015
On Friday Mid Calder community braved the weather and turned up at MCPS for our Christmas Fair. The PSA had organised lots to do from face painting to Christmas crafts, shopping to delicious refreshments, and there was a special visitor too! A huge thank you to our PSA and staff for organising the fair, and to our P7 helpers. Also thank you to everyone who came along to support our school, there was a real community atmosphere.
If you couldn’t make it along there will be a chance to enter the raffles during our Christmas Concerts this week.
PSA Meeting Agenda: 9th December
Nursery Nativity AM
This morning the Nursery AM group had a very successful performance of The Very Grumpy Sheep. A big thank you to everyone who joined us to support the pupils.
P4-7 Parent Drop In: Using ICT to Support Homework
Thank you to all of you who attended the 4-7 parent drop in session, looking at how to use ICT to support learning at home.
If you were unavailable to attend you will find out more information by clicking below:
Here is the feedback from those who attended:
Tickled Pink:
- It was excellent to see SumDog and to know more about Purple Mash. Both will be good learning tools made fun for the children.
- Sum Dog and Purple Mash both look like fun programmes for learning.
Sum Dog:
- My child loves it can use it independently.
- They have never been so keen to do maths homework before this.
- Likes to compete with friends.
- Quick, fast, keeps the mind ticking.
- Feels like a game.
- Can do it on their own, therefore it doesn’t seem like homework.
- Instructions really clear and formative.
- I now understand what Sum Dog does.
- Excellent way for them to learn in a fun way.
Purple Mash:
- Really caught their imagination.
- My child loves it.
- Great that they can use it independently.
- Looks like a great tool. Many thanks to Anna for her clear explanation.
Green for Growth:
- Purple Mash can have some aspects that are quite difficult
- Would be good to have written work to back up Sum Dog
- Clearer instructions of what homework is and what is ‘nice to do’
