Dates for your Diary Updated
| Date | Event | Time |
| 9th November 2017 | Nursery Big Family Read Launch | 10:30am-11am
2:30-3pm |
| 10th November 2017 | P5C | 11.10am |
| 21st November 2017 | Nursery Pop in and Play | 9:30-10:30am |
| 22nd November 2017 | School Open Afternoon | 1.30 – 3pm |
| Nursery Pop in and Play | 1:30-2:30pm | |
| 24th November 2017 | P6 Assembly | 11.10am |
| 27th November 2017 | School Photographs | |
| 30th November | Scottish Book Week Gifting Event Nursery – P3 | See separate letter |
| 12th December 2017 | School Panto. | 9.15am |
| P7 Party | 1.10 – 3.10pm | |
| 13th December 2017 | Nativity Show | 2pm |
| 14th December 2017 | P6 Party | 1.15 – 3.10pm |
| Nativity Show | 6pm | |
| 15th December 2017 | P5 Party | 10.30 – 12.30pm |
| 18th December 2017 | P4 Party | Morning |
| P3 Party | Afternoon | |
| 19th December 2017 | P2 Party | Morning |
| P1 Party | Afternoon | |
| 20th December 2017 | Nursery Nativity | 10:15 am |
| 21st December 2017 | Church Service | 1.15pm |
| Nursery Party | Parents welcome at 10:30am | |
| Nursery Party | Parents welcome at 2:30pm | |
| 22nd December 2017 | Celebration Assembly | 11.10am |
| School Holidays Start |
Please click here to download: Term 2 Dates For Your Diary – parents
Burton’s Budgies
The Budgies had a fantastic time at school camp. Every child took part on all the activities and lived by our school values. I had a great time working with this group.
P2 Mid Calder Museum
At the end of our IDL topic about Dinosaurs, Primary 2 invited P1 and P7 to their Museum.
First, we made posters to inform the classes that the museum was about to open, and we put them up all around the school.
Then, we discussed the things we particularly enjoyed about our own visit to the National Museum of Scotland, and we talked about the kind of things we thought would have made our visit even better. For instance, we really enjoyed handling the dinosaur bones and looking at the huge skeleton models, but we thought that a short film about dinosaurs would have been really interesting too.
Thinking about these points, each Dino Discovery Team planned their own display. They had lots of amazing ideas! Soon, we had displays that included
- digging for fossils in the sand
- sorting dinosaur models into herbivores and carnivores
- working as a team to build an enormous jigsaw and name the dinosaurs
- using netbooks to create dinosaur pictures
- a quiz
- a short film clip about a stegosaurus
Primary 2 wanted their visitors to have lots of opportunities to pick things up and handle them, to play and to be creative as they learned about dinosaurs. They also created Fact Files about different dinosaurs, and carefully chose non-fiction books to display as well.
P4’s Amazing Dinosaur Assembly!
Primary 4 enjoyed presenting their Dinosaur Assembly today and had lots of fun sharing their learning from last term!
The boys and girls enjoyed:
- Learning scripts and adding their own special touch to them!
- Taking on different roles like dinosaurs and explorers.
- Sharing facts with the audience.
- Showing the audience how to sort dinosaurs into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores using a Venn diagram.
- Talking about the different stages of the fossilization process.
- Sharing their stories about ‘A dinosaur in my classroom!’.
- Managing ICT equipment by becoming Technical Troopers.
Well done Primary 4 for bringing dinosaurs back to life!
PSA Halloween Disco
A big thank you to our PSA for organising such a fun and creative Halloween Party. Two of our house and vice captions attended a PSA to discuss what the pupils would like at the Disco and the PSA used this information to plan our exciting parties. Thank you to all the pupils, parents and staff who attended the discos.
Nursery Term 2 Learning Letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
Welcome to Term 2 in Mid Calder Nursery. We had a busy first term, getting to know each other, making new friends and enjoying our new building. We learned new routines, both inside and outside the nursery. The children risk assessed each area themselves and decided how they could play safely and learn successfully. We learned more about what we could do in each area and how we could use the new resources. The children and staff also talked a lot about what values we aimed to live by in the nursery and we created our nursery charter. This helped us during our first planner about friendship. We have all been showing qualities of a good friend, listening well, being kind and caring and sharing our space and resources with others.
Mrs Murray, Mrs Aikman, Mrs Murphy, Mrs Williamson and Mrs Findlay.
Nathans Granny visit!
Yesterday Nathans Granny Came In To Help Us Make Some Christmas Cards!
Here are some photos.
Nursery Sway: Autumn
Nathan’s Grannie Lends a Brown Owl Hand!
Twit-twhoooooooo Christmas card pow-wow!
Nathan’s Gran, a former Brown Owl, dusted off her feathers and came into P4 to help the class prepare hand-crafted Christmas cards to fund raise on Parents Afternoon and Evening. The children had already made small paintings in the style of Alice Druitt at Gingerpaws card designs as an Art lesson and these were carefully double and triple-mounted to make roll cards with special inserts and made-by stickers.
The children all got to die-cut precise circles from their artworks to mount onto their cards. They hope that you will pay £2.00 for a unique card that will fit a standard 6 by 6 envelope. Have a look when you visit for your appointment on Wednesday and see what creative crafters we have at Mid Calder. More classes to create special one-off cards for sale soon.
Other children will be able to make Christmas cards from P3-7 in the Wednesday Get Crafty After School Club 3.15-4 p.m. Sign up soon as there is only 12 places.
Any crafty parent helpers will be most welcome.
Many thanks in advance,
Miss Brolls
