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Book Week Scotland 2017, English & Literacy, Primary 2, Uncategorized

Book Week in P2

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Last week the children in Primary 2  were very excited to receive their Read, Write,  Count bags as part of  the Book Week Scotland event.

First, Primary 5 children were welcomed into the classroom to  present the bags to the younger boys and girls. They explored the contents of the bag together, and spent a little time choosing and reading one of the books.

We were then joined by family and friends later in the afternoon, and had lots of fun playing some of the suggested number games using the resources in the bag, as well as completing some of the tasks related to the book ‘Mr Tiger Goes Wild’ by Peter Brown.

At the end of the afternoon we listened to author Kes Gray read his story of Quick Quack Quentin which was the other book in our Read, Write, Count bag. There was lots of fun and laughter as we worked out what our names would sound like if the letter A was missing!

Kes Gray is one of our favourite authors in Primary 2, so please ask us about some of the other books we have read that were also written by him.

Thank you to everyone to came to visit. We hope you enjoyed exploring the Read, Write, Count bags as much as we did.

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Nursery Book Bag Gifting

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The nursery children were very excited today as it was the day of our book bag gifting and all our anti-preschool children were receiving their bag with lovely new books and activities inside. Our preschool children were not forgotten and were delighted to receive a new book to take home.

Some of our parents and grandparents attended the gifting and along with the children were very excited about our special visitor. The Book Bug came along to our nursery to give the boys and girls their gifts. The children enjoyed giving him hugs and high fives and loved showing him our new nursery. After our gifting the parents and grandparents went with the children in to their key groups and the teachers read the group one of the books from the anti-preschool bag. The adults were able to observe our voting system and were involved in choosing what book each group read. We used the title, cover and author to help us make the decision. We all then enjoyed reading together and listening to the stories, discussing afterwards what we liked about it.

This was a lovely way to spend our session at nursery and a super way to encourage families to read at home together and learn more about the books they enjoy.

Thank you to everyone who supported this event.

 

 

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Thank you from Miss Burton

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As you know, Friday was my last day at Mid Calder, for now, while I go on a secondment. I just wanted to thank our whole school community for their kinds words, cards, messages and gifts – I am overwhelmed by your generosity.

A big thank you to our staff and children for my leaving assembly, which had me hysterically laughing and crying all at once. It always surprises me how well our children know me!

As I said when I first found out I was leaving, our memories are our greatest treasure and, for me, my greatest memories during my time at MCPS are of your children. We have had so many positive experiences and I hope that I have supported them to ‘believe, achieve and succeed’ and make memories that they will remember in years to come. I made the video below to share some of my happiest memories with them.

I look forward to keeping up with your adventures on our school blog, twitter and visiting school events.

Kind regards,
Miss Burton

 

Community, Events, Mid Calder 40th Anniversary, Primary 5, Uncategorized

Open afternoon in P5a

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Wednesday afternoon was very busy in P5a as we opened our doors and showcased our business models. All of the children have been working extremely hard over the past few weeks to ensure that their models, of their business, were reflective of the business that they wanted to open in Mid Calder. Over the past few weeks the children have made a business plan and a floor plan in the design of their shops/business, finally we put all of this into practice and started making our shop/business models. The parents/carers that visited us on Wednesday were very impressed with all of the hard work that the children have been putting into their models and were on hand to give advice as to how the children could improve them and some even contributed to the building of our models. Next week we will be sharing our sales pitch with the rest of the class and we will have 3 business that will go onto the final stage of our ‘Dragons Den’. We will keep you updated as to what business is the final winner.

P5a would like to thank all of the parents/carers that took the time to come and see what we have been learning.

Hope you all have a fab weekend.

 

Miss Anderson & P5a

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P4’s Open Afternoon at Mid Calder Main Street!

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This term P4 have been learning about businesses in Mid Calder to celebrate Mid Calder Primary School’s 40th Birthday! Each group chose a shop in Mid Calder to research. We took on challenges like:

  • Finding out about the opening times of our shop.
  • Creating an opening hours sign.
  • Conducting research on the internet to find out the prices of services and goods in our shop.
  • Making posters to persuade people to visit our shop.
  • Making a shop sign and logo.
  • Creating colourful and creative price lists using ICT.

We then used all our research and hard work to open up our shops in our very own fabulous Mid Calder Main Street!

Here are some photos to show the fun we had along the way!

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P2 Open Afternoon

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This week, Primary 2 threw open their shop doors, and invited family and friends to come and buy!

As part of our Mid Calder IDL topic  we have been exploring the different shops that exist in Mid Calder. We learnt about the different types of goods and services available. We investigated and discussed matters such as signs and logos, opening and closing times and the range and cost of items for sale.

We then decided to work together in pairs or in small groups to create our own shop especially for the Open Afternoon. We made a plan and then set about making the signs to provide information for our customers and the goods that we wanted to sell. We made some winter themed cards in two different sizes.

When the doors opened, business was brisk, and soon our customers were buying big cards for 20p and small cards for 10p.  We  calculated total costs and worked out how much change to give back to customers.

Finally, the customers helped with a little bit of Market Research by sharing some ideas about what new kind of sweet they might like to see for sale in the future.

Thank you to everyone who came along and joined in with our activities.

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Back in time with Primary 5C!

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As part of Mid Calder Primary School’s 40th Birthday celebrations, we decided to look back across the last 4 decades at the news and culture of the 70s, 80s, 90s and Noughties.

As a homework task, P5 were asked to research a particular decade and share what we had found with the rest of the class. It was surprising how many things from 40 years ago are still with us, like Queen Elizabeth, Star Wars and James Bond movies!

We had lots of fun researching the fashions, movies and music of each decade and all our parents (and teacher!) were able to help us out with their memories of years gone by.

We thoroughly enjoyed sharing our learning with our parents and carers at assembly – we especially enjoyed dressing up in the fashions of the day!

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New shop opens in Mid Calder!

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P5a have fully embraced the challenge of creating a new shop for Mid Calder main street. As a class we have  been looking at what shops we have in our main street and if it fits the purpose of living in the 21st century. We first drew a map of our village and identified what shops/businesses we had and where they were situated. Once we had completed this we then discussed the needs of our village and what could we benefit from. All of the children had to justify why they had made their choice of what shop they would open in the village and all  were very enthusiastic about designing and making their own shop/business. We have also been looking at measure which will help us when we start to make a model of our shop/business. We will be making our shop/business models over the next few weeks and then the children will have to make a pitch as to why their business should be chosen for Mid Calder main street……..look out for our fantastic designs on future blogs.

Have a great weekend.

Miss Anderson & P5a

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Primary 4 invite you to see our Mid Calder businesses!

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This week Primary 4 have been learning how to write an invitation to persuade someone in their family to visit Mid Calder’s open afternoon.

We are learning to write an invitation.

  1. *I can write to someone I know.

*I can use persuasive language to encourage someone to come to my event.

*I can include the date, place and time of my event.

*I can use a colon in the appropriate places.

Primary 4 will be sending out their invitations this week and look forward to their visitors coming to see their new businesses!