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Pupil Council, School Aims

New School Aims

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As a school we have recently created new school aims from information we gathered from pupils, parents and staff. Our new aims are:

  • We aim to prepare all our young people with the skills, knowledge and attributes for the challenges of the future.
  • We aim to create a learning environment which stimulates, challenges, supports and provides opportunities to develop independent learners.
  • We aim to deliver an innovative and creative curriculum which is relevant to our children’s lives and promotes personalisation and choice.
  • We aim to provide high quality learning and teaching experiences to enable every child to reach their full potential.
  • We aim to foster our core values through creating a positive and welcoming school ethos.
  • We aim to support each child’s skills and talents through recognition and celebration of individual achievements.
  • We aim to promote effective partnerships between home, school and the wider community.

Our new Pupil Council rewrote the aims into child friendly language, these will be displayed in classes.

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Junior Leadership Teams, Uncategorized

Fairtrade Fortnight

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This year Fairtrade Fortnight takes place from 27th February to 12th March.

Fairtrade Fortnight 2017 is all about Fairtrade Breaks.

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The Junior Leadership Team have been learning about Fairtrade, and would  like to encourage others to participate in this event.

To do this, they have created a competition for all Primary 1-7 classes. This involves collecting as many Fairtrade labels as possible over the two week period. The class with the most labels will win an extra Break time.

They also suggested having Fairtrade Fridays during these two weeks. They would like to encourage as many people as possible to bring a Fairtrade snack for Break time on both these Fridays (but no nuts please).

 

 

Community, Events, Primary 5, Primary 7, Pupil Council

Cluster Pupil Council Learning Walk

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Our Pupil Council decided that they would like to organise a Learning Walk in different schools so they could find out what it is like to be a pupil in a different Primary school. Our cluster schools Addiewell Primary and Woodmuir also agreed that they would like to join us.

Today was the first part of the learning walk, pupils from Addiewell and Woodmuir joining us. The Pupil Council put together a presentation with information that they would like to share about our school.

https://www.slideshare.net/midcps/pupil-council-learning-walk

Then we had a question and answer session, the pupils asked us and Miss Burton questions about our school, some of them really made us think!

  • What is the best thing about our school?
  • How do our assemblies run?
  • Do you feel safe in school and why?
  • How does the Pupil Council run?
  • How does the Pupil Council organise events?
  • What sporting events do we take part in?
  • Why did you want to become a teacher?
  • How do you ensure the teachers plan interesting learning?

Then the Pupil Council took the pupils on a tour around the school, the pupils from the other schools then gave us some feedback about our school. They all commented on how we had a fun and welcoming school which was bright and open.

What Mid Calder Primary looks like?

  • It is very open.
  • I like the library.
  • The displays are colourful.
  • the new Nursery building looks good so far.
  • P.E. looks good.
  • Open space.
  • Very creative.
  • Tidy.
  • Pretty.
  • Very productive.
  • Big.
  • More children than our school.
  • A lot of work happening.
  • People look like they are having fun.

What Mid Calder Primary sounds like?

  • Sounds very welcoming.
  • Loud.

What Mid Calder Primary  feels like?

  • Happy.
  • Hard working.
  • Friendly atmosphere.
  • Warm.
  • Fun.
  • Our school – Addiewell.

Thank you to the pupils from Addiewell and Woodmuir and Mrs  MacMillan and Miss McLaren for visiting us, we look forward to visiting your schools soon.

Learning Letters, Primary 7, STEM 2017

Primary 6, 7/6 and 7 Cool Chemistry

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The Upper block are really looking forward to beginning our STEM topic for Term 3!

Have a look at our key questions which we will be aiming to answer during this five week topic.

  1. How do we ensure a fair and accurate test that has proved or disproved a hypothesis?
  2. What changes occur to different materials when introduced to another substance?
  3. What can affect the rate and how well substances dissolve?
  4. How are soluble and insoluble materials separated in water?
  5. Are there changes to substances which can be reversed?

Keep an eye out for photos and videos of our up and coming experiments on our blog page!

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Primary 2, Primary 3

Build-a-Bike Art Sculptures P2 and 3

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P2/3 have started their design product challenge as part of STEM term. We will be looking at the stages in the design process – from recognising a need, developing a design brief, creating a design and product and then evaluating it – phew!

To start us off we are looking at bicycle wheel through Art – looking at spokes, tyres and their circular shape. We made 3-D wheel tiles using rolling, cutting, imprinting and next time we will look at decorative techniques in claywork. Not quite the Great Pottery throwdown but nearly – catch it on BBC2.

We will be looking at bike accessories and trying to make some of these following the design process. Take a close look at bikes around you.