As you will know a team of Education Officers and Head Teachers visited our school this session to look closely at three quality indicators from How Good is Our School. During this time they observed learning; spoke to pupils, parents, staff and partners. From this focused visit the school has updated its self-evaluation summary.
You can read the full report here:
Welcome to Mid Calder Nursery and Primary School blog.
Our school vision creates a very positive ethos within our school; all members of our learning community ‘Believe’ in themselves and thus ‘Achieve’ the best they can which will ultimately enable them to ‘Succeed’ in all they do.
Our nursery vision is ‘Playing to Learn, Learning to play‘.
We aim to prepare all our young people for the challenges of the future. Our learning environment aims to stimulate, challenge, support and provide opportunities to develop life skills. We celebrate attainment and achievement gained not only in school but within the children’s personal lives through our ‘Living our Values’ certificates and iAchieve Gold, Silver and Bronze awards.
We take positive steps to promote effective partnerships between home, school and the wider community. We have an open door policy and you will, as parents, be made most welcome at all times. We hope you enjoy looking at ‘life’ within our school and nursery and we would welcome comments under any blog posting.
Mary McKenzie
Head Teacher
At Mid Calder Primary we have 4 houses; Almondell, Calderwood, Cunigar, and Linhouse.
Each pupil and member of staff are assigned to a house and each house has a Primary Seven House Captain and Vice Captain. Using Class Dojo (an online class points system) pupils can receive house points by demonstrating the school values, displaying positive behaviour and for personal successes. Around the school and in the playground pupils can also receive catch me cards from members of staff which will have one house point, these points are added to their Class Dojo. On a Friday pupils total their points; within each class, each house have a top scorer, the top scorers names are submitted to a house raffle that will happen once a term, the winner for each house will receive a prize. Individual points will also be added to the house points and these totals will be shared at assembly. (Primary Sevens have the responsibility of collecting the house points and top scorers). Each term the winning house can negotiate a reward for their success.
Address: Mid Calder, West Lothian, EH53 0RR
Phone number: 01506 882 092
Email: wlmidcalder-ps@westlothian.org.uk
Acting Head Teacher: Mrs McKenzie
Depute Head Teacher: Miss Burton
Principal Teacher: Mrs Ross
Nursery: Mrs Diamond; Mrs Murray
Primary 1a: Mrs Smith
Primary 2/1: Mrs Walker
Primary 3/2: Ms Brolls
Primary 3: Miss Clark
Primary 4a: Ms Richmond
Primary 4b: Miss Prior
Primary 5a: Mrs Stewart
Primary 5b: Miss Sherlow
Primary 6: Mr Renshaw
Primary 7/6: Miss Anderson
Primary 7: Miss Ross
Support for Learning: Mrs Kellner
Reduced Class Contact Cover: Mrs Redmond
Nursery Nurses: Mrs Findlay; Mrs Aikman
Pupil Support Workers: Mrs Brown; Mrs McCormack; Mrs Coombe; Mrs Findlay; Miss Robertson
Brass Instructor: Mr Traynor
Admin Staff: Mrs Bokhari; Mrs S Findlay
Business Support Manager: Mrs Deerness
Facilities Management Staff: Mr King; Mr Sommerville; Mr Hopper
The school’s catchment area consists of the village of Mid Calder, both the conservation village itself and the new housing estates to the west of the village.
