Just a reminder that it’s the PSA Sci-Fi and Superhero Dress Down Day on Friday 4th May. Come to school in sci-fi or Superhero fancy dress (or in your ‘normal’ clothes if you prefer!) Please, no football tops.
£1 donation payable on the day.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact psa-midcalder@hotmail.co.uk
Thank you.
Some important dates for P7…..more information will follow as soon as we have it.
Tuesday 5th June, Wednesday 6th June, Thursday 7th June – Transition days
Thursday 17th May – Health Day. Pupils should arrive for 9.30am, dressed and ready in PE kit and suitable footwear. Outside jackets may be required as some activities will be outside. (It is preferable that they arrive dressed in PE kit, although there will be changing rooms available).
Pupils must all take a packed lunch as they will not be able to purchase food from the school dinner hall that day.
The event will end at 2.30pm.
Pupils should make their own way to and from JYHS.
Tuesday 12th June and Wednesday 13th June – Transition days
Thank you for your continued support.
Have a look at the adventures our nursery children are having in the outdoors and in the local community. We regularly visit our school wilderness area, where we use our senses to spot the changes in season, identify mini beasts and also use our numeracy skills to count the daffodils! We are also gaining confidence when climbing, balancing and jumping and we know how to keep ourselves safe.
We visit our community to sing to the residents at Cunnigar House, visit the local cafe, and look at the interesting buildings on the way.
We have been very excited to welcome tadpoles to our nursery and have enjoyed caring for them. We have dug out a pond for them in our nursery garden and we are looking forward to seeing how the grow and change over the next few weeks.
Take a look…….
Head Teacher: Ms Thurlow (starting soon)
Acting Depute Head Teacher: Mrs Ramsay
Principal Teacher: Mrs Ross (returning 14th May)
Nursery: Mrs Murray
Primary 1P: Miss Prior
Primary 1W: Mrs Walker
Primary 2: Mrs Smith
Primary 3: Miss Sherlow
Primary 4: Miss Clark
Primary 5A: Miss Anderson
Primary 5C: Mrs Campbell
Primary 6: Mr Renshaw
Primary 7/6: Miss Richmond
Primary 7: Mrs Redmond/Mrs Ramsay (Mrs Ross from 14th May)
Support for Learning: Mrs Kellner
Reduced Class Contact Cover: Ms Brolls
PEF Numeracy Development Officer: Ms Allsopp
Nursery EYO: Mrs Findlay
Nursery Nurses: Mrs Aikman Mrs Murphy Mrs Williamson
Pupil Support Workers: Ms Smith, Mrs Combe, Miss Robertson, Mrs Rashid, Ms Anderson, Mrs Clark
Brass Instructor: Mr Traynor
Admin Staff: Mrs Bokhari; Mrs Mackay
Business Support Manager: Mrs Deerness
Facilities Management Staff: Mr King, Mr Sommerville, Mr Bowie
Calderwood
As we were the winning house last term, we will be having another House Party! This will be on Friday 11th May, 9.30am until 10.30am.
We have decided we would like to have a Pyjama Party, so if you are in Calderwood House, please bring your pyjamas/onesies/slippers to change into that morning. We will be playing games and having fun (and food!) in the Hall. We will come round classes and remind you nearer the time. Thank you 🙂
Olivia – House Captain
and James – Vice Captain
A huge thank you to everyone in the community who came along to support Mid Calder Primary School at their annual Spring Fair, and for all your kind donations. With your help we made an impressive £1076.27, Well done everyone.
A Special thank you too for the help from the parents, teachers and P7s before and during the fair.
Curious and Curiouser
The P5s and 6 parent helpers went on a STEAM outing to The National Museum of Scotland on the 23rd of April 2018. We were met by the two Ruths – Ruth the Enabler and Ruth the Director of Public Programmes (and a parent of Theo) and were introduced to the curious world of possibilities that are our National Museums. Ruth told us about the 25000 objects on display and roused our interest in how we might explore further the excess of 1 million artefacts across all their museums. We were told we might see only 100 in 1 day! Lots to spark the imagination…
We started in the Wildlife Photography exhibit with the finalists in a worldwide annual competition and some very young entrants under 10 years. We then had the challenge to find interesting ways to digitally photograph some of the animals in the Natural World galleries. We are going to select and edit from these to have our very own wildlife photography competition. Our next creative challenge was to sketch in some of the other galleries. Theo suggested the diorama of Scottish wildlife in the basement and we started to draw in our artists ‘sketchbooks’ and did quick drawings as well as more detailed studies with notes. These will be used in creating an artwork back in class.
Finally, we went to the Science and Technology galleries where there is a lot of fun stuff in their great new exhibition spaces – highlights were:
My favourite part of the museum was the Energy exhibition because of the Fun activities:Matthew C
My favourite part was the basement because I saw all the fossils and I also liked the exhibition Oliver doak
My favourite bit is when we got to do free time I loved the hamster wheel. And the exhibition the pictures were cool: Sophie G
I loved playing with the plasma ball and I loved looking and at the pictures though some were really sad . Charlotte C
I had a good time at the museum my favourite part was seeing what we weigh as an animal : Kaylie P
My favourite bit was all of it especially the exhibition we saw weird crazy funny happy and sad things it was a really good experience I had a amazing time me and primary 5 had a great time and I deffinetly go back : Freiah T
The museum was very big and packed with enormous adventures it was also extremely fun one team which was my team lost track of time and almost missed the coach until Miss Anderson found us. We got lost because we were so amused by the wonders of the museum. My favourite area was the animal area because it was very interesting and mesmerising (did you know most of the stuffed animal skin is real!) I also had fun designing a bike but I only got 1/5 stars my star was for her position apparently she could see well. I would go back to visit the museum again to see the art exhibition again and to see Tim Peakes space craft. I HAD AN AMAZING TIME! :Joni Rafferty
I loved when we went to the energy bit it was my fav bit I liked the hamster ball it was fun :katy
It was very fun when we sketched the animals .My fav part was the dinosaur bones and the stuffed animals .I found the Viking grave cool because it was a skeleton bones.Emme E
I HAD to then take Miss Anderson’s class to visit my favourite secret part but I’m going to keep that a secret and you will have to discover it for yourself. The only clue that I can divulge is that it is watched over by a mysterious Bog Lady?! AND I didn’t even get to take the pupils to the rooftop for a great view of Edinburgh. A million or more reasons to return. Miss Brolls and P5A
Look out for P5C blogpost of their recount of the visit and for our photography exhibition!
This morning the nursery had a very special visitor…Charlie Dog. Charlie is a therapy dog who works with lots of children and used to be a regular visitor in our school. The children were very excited and asked lots of questions…
“Why is he deaf?” Daisy
“Why does his tail wag?” Liam
“How old is Charlie?” Molly
Carol told us that Charlie was 14 and went to hydro therapy to help his legs and because he was old he had lost his hearing. Erin told us that Charlie wags his tail when he is happy. We really enjoyed our visit and look forward to Charlie coming back to visit the afternoon children.
To help us remember our well being indicators we decided to give them names, SAFE Sophie, RESPONSIBLE Nina and Flynn the dog, ACTIVE Alfie, INCLUDED Pom Poms, Achieving Alex, RESPECTFUL Rookies and NURTURED Cookie. The children shared how the indicators helped them and decided to create a book to help them remember what the indicators were. Anyone who visits our nursery can have a look through our fantastic book to see our wonderful drawings and read what the children have written.
I would like to say a huge thank you to children and staff for the lovely assembly yesterday afternoon. I love singing and it was amazing to hear all the different songs from every class and the nursery. The dancing from the girls using modern pipe tunes was brilliant – I do wish I had even a tenth of your energy. The tunes on the piano and the Scots poem made the afternoon complete. Thank you so much for all you lovely cards and thoughtful words, you have been very kind.
This morning I travelled around Europe with the P7 children in their assembly and ended up in France which by total coincidence will be my first adventure.
I would like to thank children, staff and parents for all the lovely gifts I have received, it was really kind of you. I have been very lucky to finish my career in education with such amazing children, I will look back with great fondness to the time I have spent with everyone at Mid Calder Primary School. Thank you, Mary McKenzie
