Category Archives: Junior Leadership Teams

Community, Health & Wellbeing, Heathy Heroes

Cluster Sports Clubs

February 3, 2017 Mr Renshaw Leave a comment

There are currently two sports clubs that are running at West Calder High School and are for primary aged pupils. Please see the information below:

Swimming lessons on Fridays at West Calder High School

Active Schools & Swim IT are running a swimming club for all pupils in P1-P7 every Friday at the West Calder High School Pool. The swimming lessons are aimed at non swimmers but all ages and abilities are welcome.

P1-P3: 13.15-13.45

P4-P7: 13.45-14.30

The lessons start on the 3rd February – 23rd June.

Please note that no lessons will run on the: 10^th February, 31^stMarch, 7^th April, 14^th April, 21^st April & 30^th June.

Each lesson will cost £2

If you would like to book a place for your child please contact Fiona Donald at Swim – IT on Fiona@swim-it.co.uk and 07833433956.

GRC Triathlon Club on Wednesdays at West Calder Primary School;

This community club delivers alternate training sessions with one week swimming and one week gym fitness with games. Its open to all pupils aged 8-16 and runs from 6-7.15pm and costs £2 per session. This club is already in action so if you would like to join please get in touch with Coach Robert Ovens on 07971417877 or visit grctri.wordpress.com for more information.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Information for Parents, Primary 5, Primary 7, Technical Troopers, Technologies

Bring Your Own Device Update

January 25, 2017 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

This week, the Technical Troopers met to discuss the use of Bring Your Own Device in MCPS to find out what is going well and what can still be improved. As we are still in the trial phrase of Bring Your Own Device, we have decided to allow children in P5-7 who have a signed BYOD contract to use their own device during Free Time Friday. The Technical Troopers brainstormed the benefits and possible problems that could occur with this, and also discussed the possible consequence of the contract being broken during Free Time Friday.

We decided that all of the details outlined in our Responsible Use contract will still stand. This will be reviewed regularly to ensure that our pupils, staff and devices remain safe. You can see a copy of our Responsible Use contract here. If you would like your child to engage with Bring Your Own Device, copies of the contract can be obtained from the class teachers in P5-7.

In addition to this, and following on from our taster session from Google at the end of last term, we have recently purchased a set of 10 Virtual Reality headsets. These can be used with most smart phones using the ‘Expeditions’ app. Google Expeditions takes children on virtual trips all over the world, allowing them get up close with historical landmarks, dive underwater with sharks and even visit outer space! This is an exciting new use of Bring Your Own Device that we are looking forward to exploring.

Achievements, Eco, Events, Health & Wellbeing

Green Flag Renewal!

November 30, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

A big congratulations to everyone on the renewal of our Eco Green Flag, especially to Mrs George and last years Eco Junior Leadership Team.

We received the following feedback from Eco School Scotland:

I am delighted to confirm that your school has successfully renewed Eco-Schools Green Flag Award status. This is an outstanding achievement, so please pass on our congratulations to everyone involved. Interim Assessment Report Well done to everyone at Mid Calder Primary for successfully renewing your Green Flag status. I enjoyed reading your application and was pleased to see that you had maintained steady progress since your last award, monitoring progress well and sharing your successes with the wider school community via the school blog. The members of the Eco Junior Leadership team have been working hard to keep the campus litter-free, reduce waste in school and encourage a range of Biodiversity to your outside space. In addition, you are to be warmly commended for your community litter picking activities and I am sure that you will enjoy exploring the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as part of your future Eco work.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Community, Events, Pupil Council, Technical Troopers, Technologies

West Lothian’s Digilearn Event

November 27, 2016 Miss Sherlow Leave a comment

On Friday, Mid Calder Primary School were invited along to West Lothian’s Digilearn Event to share our journey to becoming an AAL and Bring Your Own Device school. As they were part of our Technical Troopers and Pupil Council Junior Leadership Teams during the key stages of this journey, Calum, Ben, Grace and Kirsty joined Miss Burton and Miss Sherlow to present to Head Teachers, teachers and a range of other practitioners from across West Lothian.

They did a fantastic job in sharing the ongoing process that MCPS are going through in our engagement with AAL and BYOD, and received lots of lovely feedback about about how professional and inspiring they were when presenting. Well done Calum, Ben, Grace and Kirsty!

Health & Wellbeing, JRSOs, Junior Leadership Teams, Uncategorized

JRSO – 2016 Induction Event

November 25, 2016 Miss Prior Leave a comment

This week our three Primary 7 Junior Road Safety Officers attended a West Lothian JRSO Induction Event at Broxburn Primary School.

During this event our JRSO’s developed their knowledge of Road Safety, received brilliant resources and were given training on how to present information to an audience. The JRSO’s really enjoyed their afternoon and are very excited to share what they have learned with the JRSO Junior Leadership Team and with the rest of the school.

Anytime Anywhere Learning, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Pupil Council, School Improvement Plan, Technologies

School Improvement Plan: Pupil Version

November 24, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

At our Pupil Council Meeting this week we looked at the School Improvement Plan and what this would look like, sound like and feel like in our school. The pupils worked together in small groups to use OneNote to collaborate together using the one document, with the other pupils supporting the younger ones.

Here is a copy of our School Improvement Plan in a child friendly version: pupil-version-sip-16-17

Health & Wellbeing, House Meetings, House Meetings, News, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5

House Meeting 2: House Mascot

November 13, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

At our house meetings this week, we started off by taking part in community builders. We were then set the challenge to create a mascot for our house.

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

Linhouse PJ Party!

November 2, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

Congratulations to Linhouse who won the House Cup in Term 1.

The pupils and staff of Linhouse joined together for a PJ party today organised by Jamie and Freya. The party included corners, games, dancing and lots of yummy food. A big well done to the house captain, vice captain and all the Primary 7s who helped to organise and run the party.

Well done Linhouse!

Health & Wellbeing, House Meetings

House Meeting 1

September 25, 2016 Miss Burton Leave a comment

On Friday we had our first House Meeting of the term. This was a chance for us to meet up with everyone in our house and welcome the new P1s. The House and Vice Captains set a task for us to look at the new school motto: Believe, Achieve and You’ll Succeed and what this would look like and sound like in our school. We are designing shields to display around the school.

http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/house-meeting-1