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Learning Cafe

At Maddiston Primary School, we have a cafe for parents, carers and grandparents to come along, listen, join in and see what pupils have accomplished in school.  Our pupils will talk about and show what we are doing in school.  We share our projects, subjects and achievements.  The parents and children can also have a bite to eat and a cup of tea while they are there. 

 

Learning Cafe - December 2024 - Nurture 

Our learning cafe centred around celebrating our re accreditation of our Gold Rights Respecting Schools award.

We shared what rights mean to us and why they are so important and valued by our school community.

We shared nurture approaches within the school and what this looks like in our classrooms.

 

May Cafe 2024 - Pupil Participation

The third learning cafe took place on the 24th May with the focus of the cafe being on pupil participation in learning.  We had many confident individuals leading the stalls and sharing the ways in which they are actively involved in planning their learning.  Our P7 young leaders showcased the variety of clubs they lead for other stages in the school.  We also had the Rights Knights sharing lots of facts and information about the UNCRC as well as the Digital Leaders sharing some of their digital artwork projects they have been working on over the course of year.  We enjoyed taking part in Maths activties led by P7 and a wonderful perfomance from our Marvellous Maddiston Glee Choir.  The children felt very proud sharing their wider acheivements. Overall, a very successful day! 

March Cafe 2024 - Sustainability 

On Friday the 15th March we had our second learning cafe on sustainability.  We had lots of interactive activities including a gardening station, make your own bird feeders and Maddiston green passport which contains 20 sustainable goals to complete at home and school. 

November Cafe 2023 - Nurture 

On Friday 10th November, we held our first learning cafe of the year.  This time our focus was Nurture.  We had stalls encompassing all aspects of Nurture, including sharing work around our Health and Well-Being programme Emotion Works, Calm Corners and Safe Spaces within each class and mindfulness/relaxation approaches used across the school.

The photos showcase some of our nurturing practices.

November 2019 Learning Cafe

All of our learning cafes will be around the STEM subjects this year and our focus on November 29th was on Maths.  Once again, the cafe was very well attended and the pupils loved demonstrating their skills.  Each stage had a table where they demonstrated some of the areas of maths that they have been studying this year.  We also had a Big Maths table, a Fractions table and books and games.  This gave us an opportunity to show parents our whole school focus area of Fractions.   

May Learning Cafe

Our third learning cafe was held on 11th May and was a huge success.  There was a wonderful turn out of parents and carers for this cafe whose theme was languages.  The All Stars singing group opened our cafe and then everyone was free to visit the stalls.  There were three Spanish stalls run by P5-7 and three around Speech and Language. The nursery joined us to sing in French and show their counting.  We finished with everyone joining in our French five a day exercise.

Snack time

Pupils joined their parents and carers for a drink and a cafe in our dining hall after sharing the learning in the main hall.

French five a day

The Pupil Council encouraged everyone to join in with our French exercise at the end of the cafe 

January Learning Cafe

We held our second learning cafe on 19th January.  Once again, despite the weather, we had a huge turnout of parents and carers who attended with their children.  Our Rights Knights spoke about the rights of a child and everyone took part in an activity where they identified the needs and wants of a child.  P1-6 recited their Scots poems which they will be performing at our Scots Assembly on Wednesday 24th January.  some of our P6 pupils demonstrated a Number Talk and then everyone shared number talks with their parents and carers.  We finished our cafe with everyone taking part in Stop and Dance which is a weekly initiative that has been introduced in our school by the Healthy Heroes Citizenship Group.

Rights Respecting Schools

Scots Poetry

Needs and Wants Activity

Number Talk

October Learning Cafe


The first learning cafe of the year was about Our Achievements.