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Community, Events, Interdisciplinary Learning, Mid Calder Gala 2015, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Celebrating 100 Years of Mid Calder Gala

June 2, 2015 Miss Burton 11 Comments

Nursery to Primary 7 have been working on a mini learning context about Mid Calder, as they are celebrating their 100th year of Gala Days this year. Classes have been taking part in lots of different activities from walks through the village to orienteering, map reading to investigating the history of Mid Calder. Each class produced a photo frame of their learning, photos of the frames will be displayed at the front of the school on Gala Day and the Gala committee will display the frames in the village.

Click here to listen to the Nursery pupils sing a song they made about Lizzie Bryce.

Community, English & Literacy, Events, Expressive Arts, Musical, Primary 7

Pirates of the Curry Bean

May 28, 2015 Miss Burton 6 Comments

Community, English & Literacy, Events, Expressive Arts, Interdisciplinary Learning, Musical, Primary 7

Pirates of the Curry Bean: Lumbago Lullaby

May 28, 2015 Miss Burton 5 Comments

Community, English & Literacy, Events, Expressive Arts, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 7, Uncategorized

Pirates of the Curry Bean

May 27, 2015 Miss Burton 11 Comments

Visitors travelled from across the UK and even Europe, to Mid Calder Primary School this week to view the Primary 6 and 7 production of Pirates of the Curry Bean. The Primary 6 and 7 pupils and staff have worked very hard over the past 6 weeks to pull everything together, it was great to see the pupils taking a lead in everything from acting to singing, lights to dancing, props to prompting … a true team effort from the pupils who were facilitated by their teachers and school staff. It definitely was better than ‘alright on the night’ with the pupils being the true stars of the show! We received lots of lovely feedback from our guests who commented on how it was nice to see the pupils being so involved in the production, the jokes were great, a fantastic show and a it was a real feel-good show.

A big well done to all the pupils, staff and parents for their team effort in making the show such a huge success.

Watch this space for some video clips … coming soon!

Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, School News, Sporting

Sports Day

May 26, 2015 Miss Burton 1 Comment

This week we had our Mid Calder Primary School Sports Day, which for the first time in a very long time managed to happen on the day we had planned it, thanks to the sunshine. The children took part in a variety of potted sports in their house teams and the favourite by far was the tug of war, which even some of the teachers joining in!

A big well done to Mrs Mitchell, our P.E. teacher for organising Sports Day for us and for the Primary 7 helpers. A big thank you to all the parents, family and carers that came along to support the event.

The winning house will be announced at assembly on Friday.

Community, Events, Fundraising, PSA

Spring Fair

May 19, 2015 Miss Burton Leave a comment

On Friday, the PSA help our annual Spring Fair, there was a great turn out from parents, family, staff and pupils and we managed to raise the grand total of £1,386.41. A big thank you to all who attended and supported the event, and thank you to the PSA for organising.

Community, Events, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 1, Primary 2

The Scottish SPCA visit P1, P2/1 and P2

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We were all very excited yesterday when the SSPCA visited our school to talk to us about and show us what they do to help out the animals across Scotland.

Lee, the Animal Welfare Officer, was very interesting and we all listened intently while she explained how she rescues and treats all different types of wild and domestic animals.

It was great to be able to handle and try on the specialist equipment Lee had brought with her. It was funny when Niamh tried on Lee’s high visibility jacket she wears at night time and near roads – it was slightly too big!

We learned that if we see people being cruel to animals we must tell an adult and someone will be there to help them. The SSPCA do a great job and we really enjoyed the visit. Thank you for our fancy pencils, we really like them 🙂 .

Community, Healthy Families, Healthy Children 2015, Interdisciplinary Learning, Primary 1, Primary 2

P2/1 Visit to Pizza Express

April 29, 2015 User deactivated 1 Comment

P2/1 were very excited last week when we visited Pizza Express. We traveled by coach and arrived just after 9.15am on Thursday morning. We begun by washing our hands and putting on our aprons. We had to use our hands to carefully roll out the dough and make a nice circle. We kneaded the edges to make our pizza crust.

The chef helped serve the peseta which we spread over the dough by tapping the pizza tray. Then, we were able to add our toppings! We had lots to choose from including cheese, tomato, ham, pepperoni, chicken, onion and mushroom.

We had a drink of juice while we waited on our pizzas cooking. When they were ready, we ate them at our table.

Delicious! Yummy! Mmmm!

Now we know how to prepare and cook a pizza, look out Papa John!

Niamh said of the experience, ”I felt happy when we went to Pizza Express because we got to make our own pizzas”.

Emme also agreed that she really enjoyed the trip – especially the coach journey!