Our Pupil Council looked at our school improvement plan for this year and completed a carousel to consider what this would look like, sound like and feel like in our school.
We will share this with the rest of the children in our classes.
Today our Pupil Council went along to Woodmuir Primary School, along with Addiewell Primary for the finale of our Cluster Learning Walks. The Pupil Council gave us a presentation about their school.
We asked the Pupil Council some questions about their school:
We also asked Ms Hamilton, their Head Teacher some questions about her job:
There were lots of things that we found interesting about Woodmuir Primary:
Thank you to our tour guides and answering our questions.
A big well done to Harry for helping Miss Burton navigate her way to Woodmuir (after getting lost!).
Today our Pupil Council went along to Addiewell Primary School, along with Woodmuir Primary to continue our Cluster Learning Walks. The Pupil Council gave us a presentation about their school and showed us a video.
We asked the Pupil Council some questions about their school:
We also asked Mrs MacMillan, their Principal Teacher some questions about her job:
There were lots of things that we found interesting about Addiewell Primary:
Thank you to Charley, Jessica-Lee and Ryan for being our tour guides and answering our questions.
As a school we have recently created new school aims from information we gathered from pupils, parents and staff. Our new aims are:
Our new Pupil Council rewrote the aims into child friendly language, these will be displayed in classes.
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!
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?
What Mid Calder Primary sounds like?
What Mid Calder Primary  feels like?
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.
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!
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:Â pupil-version-sip-16-17
Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) parent information session. For those who were unable to attend, here is the PowerPoint that some of our Technical Troopers, Pupil Council and House Captains brilliantly presented. Thank you to those pupils for giving up their time to share our BYOD journey so far.
http://www.slideshare.net/midcps/aal-and-byod-parent-information
Today at our Pupil Council Meeting we discussed different achievements we would like to complete by P4 and P7.
For example by P4 it might be:
By P7 it might include:
Look out for our finished achievement lists!
Today during Junior Leadership time, the Technical Troopers and Pupil Council had a meeting to look at a Bring Your Own Device Contract. In groups we brainstormed all the ways we needed to behave in order to be responsible and respectful, if could bring our devices to school.
Watch this space!
