This week MCPS had their Christmas Lunch. We were lucky enough to have a team of Primary 7s serve us our lunch, and our teachers joined us wearing their Christmas jumper. Some children commented that is was ‘The best lunch ever!’. A big thank you to Mrs Ritchie in the office and all the dinner ladies for organising our Christmas lunch.
This afternoon the Nursery PM group had a very successful performance of The Very Grumpy Sheep. A big thank you to everyone who joined us to support the pupils.
This morning the Nursery AM group had a very successful performance of The Very Grumpy Sheep. A big thank you to everyone who joined us to support the pupils.
LI: We are learning about primary sources of evidence.
SC: I can describe some ways that we find out about life in the past.
LI: We are learning to compare toys in the past to toys in the present.
SC: I can identify things which are the same and things which are different about toys in the past compared to toys in the present using primary sources.
Today, both Primary 1 classes enjoyed a visit from a member of West Lothian’s Museum Services. She brought a range of old baby and children’s toys for us to analyse, including a teddy bear, a humming top, a whip and peerie and a rolling hoop. As we learned about the old toys, we compared them to the toys which we like to play with today in order to identify similarities and differences. For example, we identified that some of the very old toys were made from metal, wood and paper mache, and weren’t very colourful. However, most of our toys are made from colourful plastic. One similarity that we all agreed on was that all of the old toys and our own toys are great fun! We especially enjoyed playing with the cup and ball, whizzer and wooden acrobat.
Mid Calder’s Eco Junior Leadership Team have been working hard to combat litter in our indoor and outdoor school environment. After carrying out a litter survey, they created an Action Plan for reducing litter, whilst raising awareness of the negative impact of litter on the environment. The children identified the creation of a school wide Anti-Litter Policy as one of their actions. At their last meeting they brainstormed lots of ideas to include in the policy under given headings. Please check out their results!
Mid Calder Primary Anti-Litter Policy
We are learning to investigate and re-created well-known number patterns involving square numbers.
Today in Maths we investigated square numbers. We first of all used counters to represent square numbers and patterns, then we had to work out the calculation we would need to use to calculate square numbers. For example, 2² is 2 x 2. The we played a game were we had to calculate square numbers and we completed a written activity.
Support at home: You can support your child at home by helping them learn square numbers for example; 1×1, 2×2, 3×3, 4×4, 5×5, 6×6, 7×7, 8×8, 9×9, 10×10
We have spent the last 5 weeks making some decorative memory pages for our own scrapbooks. We have included baby photos, pets, friends and family, holidays, birthdays and lots of other exciting experiences.
Here is a photo of us with all of our fabulous scrapbooking pages.
Here are some comments from our scrapbooking team:
“This has been a fun experience . Try it out!”
“Scrapbooking rules!”
“I didn’t realise how much I loved scrapbooking!”
“Scrapbooking is the best!”
Ms.Snobel
If you wandered into Mid Calder Primary School this morning, you might have seen some slightly unusual sights. Mr Willy Wonka, for example, taking the register to the office. Or Violet Beauregarde, Fantastic Mr Fox and Matilda playing spelling games. Or even an Oompa Loompa lighting a candle to celebrate advent! But, it was all for a very good cause. As Primary 5, Primary 5/4 and Primary 4 have been learning all about the life and work of Roald Dahl through their IDL context of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we decided to hold a ‘Dahlicious Dress Up Day’ to commemorate 25 years since his death. We dressed up as our favourite characters from his many fantastic novels and made a donation which will go to Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity. We raised £53.10 and we had a fantastic day full of fun and laughter.
A big well done to all those who made such a Wonkatastic effort for a very worthy and relevant cause!
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