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Events, Expressive Arts, Modern Languages, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Uncategorized

Le Petit Monde visits Mid Calder

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This week we were delighted to welcome Tania Czajka, a french puppeteer to the school. Tania has her own puppet company called Le Petit Monde. The ethos behind all Tania’s shows are to introduce and develop french in a fun and stimulating way. Prior to Tania’s visit we had been set a challenge to learn some french. Fortunately for us we had completed our homework task of learning all the words and songs for the show. The show ‘Lapin Wants to Meet Santa’ was based on a naughty rabbit looking for something to heat him up, until he came up with a chocolat chaud or hot chocolate. As Lapin was sleeping Santa appeared on the stage and talked to the children in french. Through the performance there were many opportunities for audience participation and interaction with the different puppets, which made the show very entertaining. A big thank you to Tania for coming to perform for us and help us develop languages in the school in a fun and engaging way.

Events, Health & Wellbeing, Primary 7, Transition, Uncategorized

West Calder High School

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On Tuesday the primary 7 s went up to West Calder High School as part of the to  ‘Big Get Together’. Several other schools went to the event including all of our cluster schools and some S1’s, who previously came to Mid Calder, were also there. While we were there we got taught some social dances including The Dashing White Sergeant, The Virginia Reel and The Heel and Toe Polka. First we danced to traditional music which was quite easy then we changed to some modern music which was a bit confusing. We had a snack of crisps and a drink of juice as we were so exhausted after all our dancing. Afterwards we went back to the hall and  played a series of games which were corners ,best dancer,musical statues and the Macarena. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and we look forward to going up to high school for transition and seeing some of our other  old and new friends.

By Caitlin, Ayla  and Harry

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English & Literacy, Events, Expressive Arts, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Primary 6, 7/6 and 7 Alice success!

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Myself, Miss Anderson and Mr Renshaw were so proud of our pupils following the success of our Alice the Musical Show.  To celebrate the hard work and dedication shown by all pupils, we held a movie premiere afternoon in class, sharing snacks and having a sing-along to our show, viewed through the West Lothian Council youtube channel.  It was lovely to see how all of the different teams of pupils, pulled together to pull off a great performance.

Have look below at some of our cast photos taken on the night time performance…

Fantastic job again boys and girls,

Mrs Ross, Miss Anderson and Mr Renshaw

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English & Literacy, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Book Week – Alice in Wonderland

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Alice in Wonderland has taken over P7/6! During book week we have been comparing and contrasting the original Alice In Wonderland with the modern adaptions and of course the original novel by Louis Carroll. We have discovered that books can let your imagination run free and inspire you to improve your own writing.  The novel has been quite challenging due to the language and craziness in it, at times it can be hard to follow and very hard to visualise what Wonderland might look like. To help us do this we have been referring back to the original Disney version of 1951.

We have used the films, the novel and of course our own ‘Alice the Musical’to inspire us to create a new front  cover or a scene in Alice in Wonderland.

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Miss Anderson & Cailin McKenna

Achievements, Community, English & Literacy, Events, Expressive Arts, Fundraising, Musical, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Alice: The Musical

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Tonight and yesterday afternoon Primary 6 and 7 showcased their creative talents through Alice: The Musical! This term, the pupils through their interdisciplinary learning context of Alice invested setting and characters, looked at imagery, wrote their own scripts, compared and contrasts different versions of Alice and watched Alice Through the Looking Glass as part of the Into Film Festival.

They brought together all their musical, dramatic and artistic skills to put together a performance of Alice. A big well done to all our Primary 6 and 7 pupils who all contributed to the show in different ways, and a big thank you to our upper school staff. Thanks to the PSA who provided refreshments at the concert and to Williamston Primary for lending us their costumes. Thanks to everyone who made it along to the performance to support the children.

 

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West Lothian Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/westlothiancouncil/videos/10154200142190838/ 

Mr Anderson very kindly recorded our performance which is available on the West Lothian video channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqCLCya5doA

Events, Nursery, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Mid Calder Reading Challenge

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To celebrate Book Week Scotland,  MCPS were set a reading challenge- to take a photo of ourselves reading for pleasure in an unusual place. We were inundated with weird and wonderful pictures of some very unusual places, and it looks like everyone had lots of fun taking part in the challenge. A big well done to all those who tweeted us their photos, or brought them into school on paper or on their own device.

 

Even some of the staff got involved…

English & Literacy, Primary 7, Reading IDL 2016, Uncategorized

Primary 7 Book Week

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In Primary Seven, we have celebrated Book Week by focusing our work on comparing and contrasting the modern and older adaptations of Alice in Wonderland, with the original Lewis Carroll novel.

We have found some challenges when reading the novel – the language used when the book was originally written in 1865, has been difficult to follow at times whilst reading.  We have also found that Lewis Carroll is a less descriptive author, compared to some modern day authors, therefore we have found visualising Wonderland quite challenging.  We have had to refer back to the 1951 Disney version to help us to think about setting.

We are currently working on developing our knowledge of what a synopsis is and how to write one, within the context of a film review.  We’re looking forward to being able to give our “Star Ratings” to each of the versions we have studied.

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