Category Archives: Community

Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Outside of School, Primary 7, Sporting

Gala Football Team

June 12, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Congratulations to our Gala Football Team who came a close second in the competition.

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

Mid Calder Gala Day 2016

June 12, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

A big thank you to everyone who walked with the school during the Gala Day Parade – your costumes were fantastic! A big well done to our Gala Relay Team.

Community, Events, Expressive Arts, Musical, Outside of School

The World’s Largest Djembe Drum Ensemble

June 2, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Today Primary 6 were record breakers as they participated in The World’s Largest Djembe Drum Ensemble along with schools from across West Lothian. We are wearing purple hats!

http://youtu.be/BjrHy5moNGY

Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing, House Meetings, House Points, News, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Sporting

Sports Day 2016

May 31, 2016 Miss Burton 1 Comment

The sun was shining on Mid Calder this morning as P1-7 went up to the field to take part in Sports Day. There was a range of activities on offer including: football shoot out, welly throwing, obstacle races, hurdles and lots more. A big thank you to Mrs Mitchell, our P.E. specialist for organising such a successful and enjoyable Sports Day and thank you to all the parents and families who came along to support the event.

Congratulations to Calderwood who were the overall winners!

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Community, Events, Maths & Numeracy, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Sciences, STEM 2016, Technologies

STEM Open Morning

May 27, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

This morning, MCPS opened its doors to parents, carers and friends in order for pupils to exhibit their learning through our STEM (Sciences, Technologies, Engineering ad Mathematics) contexts for learning. This included:

P1: The Garden

P2-3: The Great Deserted Island

P4-5: Project Planetarium

P6-7: CSI

Our guests spent time in their children’s classes taking part in a wide range of activities including; designing space crafts of the future, information sessions, demonstrations, Science investigations and lots more.

We also used this time to ask parents for their input into our Curriculum Rationale, the the results of which will be shared soon.

Thank you to everyone who came along to support the event.

Community, Events, Fundraising, PSA

Spring Fair 2016

May 23, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

The sun shone on Mid Calder on Friday as we opened our doors for our annual Spring Fair organised by our PSA. Pupils past and present, families, staff and members of the local community joined together at MCPS and took part in a range of activities and events from the bouncy castle to tombola, various stalls to face painting.

A big thank you to the PSA who organised the event and to everyone who attended. We raised a huge £1773.97.

Community, Community Crusaders, Fundraising, Information for Parents, Parent Mail, PSA, Term Dates

Mid Calder School Calendar

May 17, 2016 User deactivated Leave a comment

Do you ever wish that you had all the key school dates at the start of the school session?

The PSA have worked with the Community Crusaders to produce a one stop shop calendar for the school session 2016-2017. Each month is decorated with the children’s artwork.

Dates include: Christmas parties, Sports days; School nativities etc

Calendars are available to buy from the school office at a cost of only £5. Closing date for orders will be Friday 20th May 2016.

Click here to see an example of the calendar: August 2016

Community, Expressive Arts, Primary 7

Mid Calder School Choir

April 29, 2016 User deactivated 2 Comments

Have a listen to our amazing school choir singing ‘Glorious’.

A lot of hard work learning lyrics and even some harmonies. Well done guys!

Community, English & Literacy, Useful Websites

WL Library Services: e-books

March 13, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

eBooks

Download eBooks to a wide variety of devices for free

How do I register?

Simply register on the site with your library barcode and PIN (usually the last four digits of the phone number we have on record for you), then login and start searching.

What can I borrow?

You can borrow or reserve up to six ebooks for free from the West Lothian eBooks(Opens in a new window) site, and download them to a wide variety of devices.

There are hundreds of books to choose from on this site, and thousands more copyright free titles on sites like Project Gutenberg(Opens in a new window) and Obooko(Opens in a new window)

New eBook Collections

We have created several new collections of ebooks: Tartan Crime, Modern Women, Nordic Noir,Family Sagas, Most Popular and Just Returned, so click on the Collections Tab(Opens in a new window) to see what’s available.

How long can I borrow them for?

You can borrow ebooks from between 1 and 21 days. You select the loan period once you have chosen the titles you want to download, and the ebooks expire from your device at the end of the selected loan period.

eBooks can be download to an ebook reader, tablet, smart phone, computer and laptop,. They cannot be downloaded to the Kindle reader due to Amazon’s policy, but can be downloaded to a Kindle Fire.