English and Literacy – Mid Calder Primary School Learning Blog

May 11, 2020

Phonic Books To Read Online

Here are some books you can read online to revise some of the letter sounds and blends we have been learning.

For P1 and P2 pupils:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/24766.html

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/24760.html

For P2 and P3 pupils:

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/api/interactives/24762.html

For those that would like more challenge in their reading, PhonicBooks have created a short series of online books and activities.

Here is the link to the first book in the Moondogs At Home Series:

This book covers the spellings <a> <ai> <ay> <a-e> and <ea> for the sound ‘ae‘.

https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/content/uploads/2020/04/Staying-home-mini-book-small.pdf

Here are some work sheets and games to accompany the book:

https://www.phonicbooks.co.uk/content/uploads/2020/04/moon-dogs-at-home-book-1-worksheets.pdf

November 10, 2019

Primary one have been working hard over this term to learn about the 7 different describing bubbles (colour, shape, number, position, texture, doing and size), using our new whole school writing resources.

We have been using and choosing different bubbles to help us describe ourselves, our class mates and different objects.

Last week we went outside to explore and describe autumn trees, focusing on texture.

This week, we focused on shape and applied what we have learned so far to describe our class T-Rex, who appeared in our class with a mysterious egg!

May 24, 2019

Digital Learning Week 2019

February 13, 2019

Mardi Gras Carnival and Celebrations for Scotland Loves Languages Week!

Pupils in P6/7 and P7 have participated in a week long programme of learning opportunities, incorporating many different skills for life and learning, across curriculum areas. We have been focusing on applying our spoken French language skills, whilst learning about French culture and celebrations. We have created elaborately designed masks for Mardi Gras; we have used and learned French vocabulary for describing our school, resulting in a fantastic “Voici Mon Ecole” video; we have learned how to participate in a Mardi Gras carnival procession, including our drumming and dancing skills; and finally have been learning how to cook crepes!
Lots of very exciting IDL learning, shared also with Mrs Green from the 1+2 Modern Languages development team, who brought her conversational French skills into our classes! We loved speaking French with her!

January 16, 2019November 13, 2020

Welcome to Mid Calder Nursery and Primary School blog.

Our school vision creates a very positive ethos within our school; all members of our learning community ‘Believe’ in themselves and thus ‘Achieve’ the best they can which will ultimately enable them to ‘Succeed’ in all they do.

Our nursery vision is ‘Playing to Learn, Learning to play‘.

We aim to prepare all our young people for the challenges of the future. Our learning environment aims to stimulate, challenge, support and provide opportunities to develop life skills.

We take positive steps to promote effective partnerships between home, school and the wider community. We have an open door policy and you will, as parents, be made most welcome at all times. We hope you enjoy looking at ‘life’ within our school and nursery and we would welcome comments under any blog posting.