On Saturday night, some of the pupils from Primary 1-3 braved the weather to come and sing some of their nativity songs at the Kirk of Calder Parish Church. They sounded fantastic and there was a real sense of community spirit shown by the number of people who came along to attend the service and to support them.
This morning P1-7 enjoyed a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk from Hopscotch Theatre.
Learning Intention: We are learning to use our research skills to answer the key questions about Roald Dahl that we have created
We are learning to present our findings in an interesting way
A successful personal project will include:
As a homework challenge, Primary 5, P5/4 and P4 were asked to think about 5 key questions they would like to find the answers to about the life and works of the famous author, Roald Dahl. We were given a month to complete this and, last week, we shared our findings with the class. In P5, we also used the new knowledge we learned to help us to write our script for our class assembly. We think it is fair to say, Roald Dahl lead a very interesting life!
For example, did you know that he could speak 3 languages- English, Norwegian and Swahili.
Did you know that during the Second World War at 23 years old, Roald joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot.
Did you know that Roald Dahl published 17 children’s books, 2 rhyme books, plus 2 autobiographies, 2 adult books, 51 adult short stories and more.
Did you know that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was recently voted number one in the top 100 fiction books all children should read before leaving primary school.
Did you know that the inspiration for Willy Wonka’s infamous Inventing Room came from being a taster for the famous chocolate making company, Cadbury’s.
Six of our Magical Mediators were invited along to the Scottish Mediation Conference on Friday. It was a school trip with a difference, as we had to get two trains in order to get to Queen Margaret University, and our day started at 7:45am, some of us felt a little sleepy!
We managed to fit in some numeracy work, as we had to calculate how much money we needed at the shop, and we used our prior learning to calculate the duration until our train arrived. We bumped into Carol Hope our Peer Mediation trainer at the platform at Waverly and we got the train to Musselburgh together.
First of all we listened to a keynote from Kenneth Kressel from the Psychology of Mediation. Some of it was a litte bit difficult to understand but it allowed us to reflect on what time of mediator we are. It also was our first time in a huge lecture theatre (and university).
We then attended a workshop with Mediator Magician Nick Patel (who has worked with the famous Magician Dynamo). He reminded us of all the important skills and knowledge we need to be a mediator, while showing us some tricks. In the second workshop we discussed the challenges and solutions to peer mediation being sustainable in our schools, here we had the opportunity to share our magical mediators story and learn from other schools.
On the way home we reflected on the day, some of us thought it was ‘The best day ever!’. Our next steps are to share this event with the other magical mediators and discuss as a group how we can develop the magical mediators service. A big thank you to Roxan and Carol for inviting us to this event, and to our parents for dropping us at the train station. Miss Burton said we demonstrated excellent communication skills and that we represented MCPS in a positive way.
Roxan the Peer Mediation Network Coordinator send an email to say:
So glad to hear your pupils enjoyed it – it was such a great, positive day! Your pupils were all so lovely, clever, motivated, and talented and it was our pleasure to have them there. Nick was also very very impressed with the peer mediators, and said it reflects very well on their teachers and trainers! The rest of the conference delegates were also delighted with the presence of the young people. Overall, it was a very happy day! Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you to the PSA for organising our Christmas Raffle.
The PSA Christmas Raffle will be drawn on Friday 11th after the last school concert. Raffle tickets can still be handed into the school and you will have the chance to enter the Christmas raffle during the Christmas Concerts this week . The prizes so far have been donated from –
Thank you for supporting the school and good luck.
On Friday Mid Calder community braved the weather and turned up at MCPS for our Christmas Fair. The PSA had organised lots to do from face painting to Christmas crafts, shopping to delicious refreshments, and there was a special visitor too! A huge thank you to our PSA and staff for organising the fair, and to our P7 helpers. Also thank you to everyone who came along to support our school, there was a real community atmosphere.
If you couldn’t make it along there will be a chance to enter the raffles during our Christmas Concerts this week.
There will be another opportunity for pupils to attend a clinic for flu vaccination if they have not already received the flu vaccination at a school/clinic.
Location:
Livingston Football Club Stadium
Almondvale Suite
Alderstone Road
Livingston
EH54 7DN
Date: Wednesday 9 December 2015
Time: Drop in 3.30pm – 6.30pm
The last two weeks in Primary Four have been very busy indeed!
In maths the children have been very busy weighing in grams using kitchen scales marked in increments. They have also been solving lots of mild, spicy and hot number challenges and talking about all the different strategies they can use to solve a number problem. Multiplying and dividing using arrays and times tables have also been keeping our brains busy!
Our IDL topic is continuing. This week the children have been recording advertising jingles to go with the chocolate bars they have invented. They have been considering what their market is interested in, such as relaxation, fun or health. We are currently very busy making eye catching posters that could be displayed on bus stops and poster boards around the country!
Last week’s Dahlicious dress up day was lots of fun. Here are some pictures of our fabulous costumes and of us playing chocolate races.
This week Primary Two have been very busy preparing for our Nativity ‘Are we Nearly There Yet?’ which will be shown this week coming on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th December. We would like to thank all of our parents and carers who have provided us with super shepherd and angels costumes. We are all looking wonderful and we are really looking forward to our performance!
Looking forward to seeing you all soon,
Primary Two.
Over the last couple of weeks P.5/4 have been studying the novel ‘Storm’ by Kevin Crossley-Holland. Here is what we have learned this week.
Learning intention: We are learning to understand how authors use settings to create different feelings or moods.
Success Criteria: I can draw the setting from ‘Storm’ using evidence from the text.
I can use interesting and ambitious vocabulary to describe the marsh.
Firstly, we practised finding evidence in the text to support our ideas.
Then, we looked for information about the setting in the text.
Next, we chose whether to draw our setting in winter or summer. We then spent time drawing whilst looking back at the text to help us.
Finally, we wrote WOW words to describe our setting and then up-levelled these using a thesaurus.
“I thought it was really fun because I enjoy drawing.” (Lewis)
“I enjoyed reading the story because I like looking at the illustrator’s pictures of the setting.” (Erin)
“I really liked how the author described the ghost and the marsh.” (Owen)
“I found it fun working in pairs when we used a thesaurus.” (Eloise)
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