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Community, Curriculum Areas, Expressive Arts, Health & Wellbeing, Nursery

The Willow Tea Room/ Pop in and Play.

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086 “Mrs Barber told us her mum sewed the Willow Pattern,” said Ava. “We designed our invitations after Mrs Barber told us the Willow story.”092Bernice said, ” I was helping to hang the bunting. I made some bunting to make our nursery nice like the cafe we visited.”078“I’m doing the food in the tea room, I was collecting the stuff from the tables.” said Ava.036Zara’s mummy came, she had a scone.

CIMG0032 “Mummy came to our nursery for Mother’s Day, she had a scone,” said Charlie.

Ruaridh said, “It was Wednesday, she came that day. She ate Mrs Findlay’s cake. I eated a biscuit and a wee cake.”

Parents’ comments:

“Wonderful opportunity to involve parents! Kids and parents equally enjoy this. Nice to bring parents together too. my child  was so excited to share her nursery experience with mum.”

“Lovely scones! Great oppportunity to play with my daughter, she loved showing me round,”

“Tea party was lovely, very nice to be treated. Loved the victoria sponge.”

Community, Nursery, Uncategorized

Afternoon Nursery visit the Post Office.

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CIMG0083CIMG0086CIMG0092CIMG0105 The afternoon class had very special letters to post. They were inviting guests to a tea party in the nursery. Cayla said,” 1,2,3,4,5,6 people walked to the Post Office.  We wore shiny jackets so people know we are a nursery group.”

Max said, ” We saw mole hills.”  Jake and Cayla found the Post Office sign in the village.

Jake said, ” we posted some letters, I put a stamp on the letter, 63p for the stamp.” Jessica received her change and receipt from the lady.

Lacy said, “I was looking at other things to buy in the Post Office, they sell newspapers and comics.” Jake said, “the letter came the next day.”

We hope all our guests come to the tea party.

Achievements, Community, English & Literacy, Events, Outside of School, Primary 5, Primary 7

West Lothian Schools Burns Festival 2016

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Following our school Burns Competition, Lexie (P4), Cailin (P5), Luca (P6) and Abby (P7) were selected by our panel of judges to represent our school at the West Lothian Schools Festival 2016.

Tonight the four pupils attended the competitions at St. Kentigern’s Academy and recited their poems to the judges from Fauldhouse and Crofthead Burns Club and to an audience of guests from all across West Lothian.

Abby received the award for best verse speaking in the Primary 6/7 category. She received a Burns Trophy and an individual trophy. She will now be invited along to the National Burns Competition.

A huge well done to the pupils who confidently represented our school at this competition, and to their parents and teachers for supporting them.

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http://youtu.be/6lvJFAccqs0

 

Book Lions, Community, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Outside of School, Technologies, Uncategorized

4 Days to go till the ‘Mid Calder Bake-Off’!

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Hope you have all had a great weekend and  managed to make the most of the fantastic weather…..but also hope you’ve been thinking, planning and shopping for you Bake-Off entry. I know Miss Burton has decided to bake for the first time…shopping was stressful for her and she had to ask myself where to buy ‘condensed milk’ in the supermarket…well done Miss Burton we look forward to seeing the finished bake.

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Just a small reminder it’s only 4 DAYS to go – The Book Lions look forward to receiving all your contributions on Thursday morning. Parents/family if you could hand yours into the front office on Thursday morning a member of the Book Lions will be there to give you a form and receive your bake and recipe…we then look forward to seeing you in the hall from after 1.30!

Pupils please remember to bring your entry in appropriate packaging (if you would like this returned let us know on the day). We will distribute a card for you to complete and hand in with your bake (on Thursday) at school on Wednesday – don’t worry if you loose it we will have more on the day. Please don’t forget to bring a copy of the recipe to be sold/donated with your cake and remember to bring in your own donation to take another cake away!

We will also have a book swapping stall – so look those books out now and bring along any day this week.

Signing off…..lets get baking!

Ms Allsopp and The Book Lions

Events, Homework, Maths & Numeracy, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, School Improvement Plan, Uncategorized, Useful Websites

Curriculum Evening: Maths

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On Thursday night we invited parents and carers along to find out about our world of Maths at Mid Calder Primary. As you know Maths is on our school improvement plan for the second year, we began in the hall discussing with parents our journey with maths so far. Then the Numeracy shared with us some information about SEAL (stage of early arithmetical learning) and how parents can support at home.  This was followed by workshops in classes demonstrating what a typical maths lesson looks like and how parents can support their child at home. A big thank you to everyone who supported the event and to our house and vice captains who helped with the smooth running of the event.

Feedback from parents included:

  • ‘These evenings are great to get ideas as to how to help my child at home’.
  • ‘Our daughter talks a lot about the strategies she is learning about’.
  • ‘My child is very enthusiastic when doing Maths homework’.
  • ‘This was a good insight into how my child is learning and developing within Maths’.
  • ‘We can see the improvements being made, keep up the good work’.

School Overview:

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/school-overview-58754805

Numeracy Team Input:

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/numeracy-team-parents-information

Nursery:

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/nursery-58754877

Primary 1:

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/p1-58757153

Primary 2/3:

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/p2-3-58759172

 

Primary 4/5:

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/p45-58755712

 

Primary 6/7

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/p67-maths-presentation

Community, Interdisciplinary Learning, Nursery, Uncategorized

What is happening in our Nursery?

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Having our scones.
Having our scones.

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This week some of the morning group visited the local cafe in the village.  We wanted to find out what we could serve in our Willow Tea Room in the nursery. We all walked down wearing safety jackets. “On the way we spotted numbers on people’s doors, 15,16,17,18, 19,20″ said Imogen. Carlie said, ” We held hands to cross the road and used good listening ears and looked left and right to cross safely.” “In the cafe we all sat at the tables and looked at the menu,” I had a scone and apple juice,” said Rocco.  Amelia-Jo said, “We paid money.” We had a super time, learning lots on the journey and experiencing a visit to a cafe.

Community, English & Literacy, Events, Health & Wellbeing, Information for Parents, Maths & Numeracy

Mid Calder Primary School Bake-Off! Read all about it!

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Mid Calder Bake-Off!

Why not read a recipe?

The Bake-Off is back! Bigger and better than ever! Mid Calder Primary School’s BookLions is proud to present The Mid Calder Bake-Off! Get out your whisks and put on your aprons because it’s coming to Mid Calder Primary School hall, on Thursday 3rd March 2016.

It will be at 1:30pm-2:30pm, so bring your cakes and bakes to the hall in the morning, where we will be waiting to collect your sweet treats. We promise we won’t eat them!

If you have any gluten-free or nut free cakes and bakes please inform us, and we will add this to your description card. If you have used any Fairtrade products in your bakes, we will have a table for that too.

The Categories are:

Nursery

P1-P3

P4-P5

P6-P7

Parent/family etc

Staff

The cake designs can be to do with your favourite book/character or they could just be a normal design. Remember to bring a copy of the recipe you used when baking or bring in the book for everyone to see. Reasons being to make sure everyone knows what they’re eating and that they’re allowed it, also reading is what we encourage and we thought it would be fun to let you read the recipes yourself!

We will have special guest judges and your parents, carers, grandparents will also be invited in during this time. We invite you to take another cake home to try (and the recipe) for a small donation, if you want to take your own cake home afterwards please let us know when delivering it to the hall. The donations you make are to raise money for our school library, to get it into better condition. Oh, and did we forget to tell you about the prize?  Your cakes and bakes will be judged before parents and carers arrive. The prize will be a… surprise because that’s the best kind!

Finally, if you have any old books or books you don’t read anymore, we will be having a book swap table, to get you reading.

We hope you will put in the effort to get baking and bring in some delicious cakes and treats, for everyone to enjoy!

Hope you get busy and get baking!

From, Erin Leitch, Eloise Cowie and Neve Cormack, members of the BookLions

 

 

English & Literacy, Global Citizens, Health & Wellbeing, Information for Parents, Newsletter, Religious & Moral Education

February 2016 Newsletter

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Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope that you had a lovely mid-term break and it is hard to believe that we are on the countdown to Easter. We have  a busy term ahead with our STEM focus week; celebrating Fairtrade Fortnight and National Book Day. We also celebrated Mrs Bokhari’s silver anniversary as this month marks her 25th year of working in Mid Calder Primary School.

Just to give you forward notice – the primary school will be closed on Thursday 5th May due to the Scottish Parliamentary Election and on Thursday 23rd June due to the European Union Membership Referendum. The nursery will be open as usual on these dates.

Nicola Thompson

Head Teacher

2016-02-23 February Newsletter

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