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Outdoor Learning Workshop

This week Primary 7 had an outdoor learning workshop arranged by Karen in the Nursery.
We went over to the park and an Ecologist also named Karyn put together a few environmental exercises such as: working out the age of the trees, collecting different leaves, labelling parts of a tree and using a maths experiment to measure how tall the trees were.
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In Autumn all the leaves on the trees change colour because of a chemical called chlorophyll, then the leaves fall off the tree. Trees that do that are called deciduous trees. Trees that stay the same all year round are called evergreen trees.
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Karyn also taught us several different types of trees such as: birch, oak, spruce, cherry blossom, silver birch and horse chestnut.
Our first activity was to gather different types of leaves. Altogether we had to gather 12 different types of leaves. Some of them were; beech, birch, holly,(do not touch holly, it’s spiky!) oak, ash, alder, horse chestnut (a conquer tree) silver birch and sycamore.
The second activity was figuring out how old the trees were. One way of figuring out the age is cutting it open and counting the rings inside of the trunk but we weren’t going to do that! So instead, we got a piece of rope which had a knot every 25 centimetres and wrapped it round a tree. Then we counted each gap in 10s and that is how old the tree is.
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There were also other activities including races to label parts of a tree.
Our overall experience would be 5 stars as we thoroughly enjoyed the activities!

By Talia and Hannah

Rosh Hashanah Assembly

P7 had been working very hard to prepare a great Rosh Hashanah Assembly for the rest of the school. Each class participated in the assembly.
P1- sang a song about apples.
P2- recited a poem about honey.
P3- presented their beautiful pomegranate art work.
P4 – made challah but it was just too yummy not to eat so instead they showed us the cloths that they designed especially for their challah.
P5 – performed a great, entertaining water dance called Ufshaftem Mayim.
P6 – sang the akeadia song which was about Avrahams big test at Mount Moria.
P7- all wrote their own parts about different aspects of Rosh Hashanah for the assembly.
Abi, Pippa, Leah, Talia, Aisha, Hannah and Ben performed a dancing extravaganza for the song Dip Your Apple by Fountainheads.
Abi inP7 also played her guitar and sang a new Rosh Hashanah song called Shana Tova, Happy New Year (Rosh Hashanah Song for Children)
We think that we can speak for everyone when we say the assembly was a huge success.

By Pippa and Abi

Dojo Points

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As you may know most classes in the school have started using dojo points. Dojo points is a reward website where each student has their own Kung Fu avatars.
You can gain Dojo points by being well behaved and doing good things! We came up with our own ways to earn points: being responsible, participating, being persistent, respectful, team work, time keeping and working to a high standard.
When we earn 150 dojo points as a class or more then we get to choose our prize such as: lunch in the park, sitting beside whomever we want, a party, etc.
If an individual person earns 15 dojo points or more, then they also get to choose from a few choices such as: sitting on a cushion, writing in pen, packing up five minutes early, etc.
Hope you have found this blog interesting!

By Talia & Zainab

Forest Schools

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Forest schools is when young children go outside into the woodland area and explore by being innovative.
Last week a group of children went to find an appropriate area for us to start our innovative scots invention.
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This week we were split into groups of 3 and 4. When we arrived in our designated area, we found materials which we could use and thought of possible inventions which we could make.
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We had to plan using a template given to us. We had to answer: what materials we could use, ideas that we could invent and draw and label our chosen invention.
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We had a very fun time and can’t wait until next week to start building!

By Rachel and Sergei

Safety In the Park

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On Thursday 25th of August we had a school trip to Arthurlie house, in Barrhead for an educational event called  Safety In The Park.

Safety in the Park is an event to teach young children about drugs, road safety, law and your health and wellbeing. It included activities which warned you about electricity, fire safety and cyber safety.

First we were split into groups then we went to our activities.

Here are our top 3 favourite activities:

1. The first of our favourite activity  was when a man taught us about safety on social media. He showed us a pretend Facebook account and we had to point out things that were unsafe. For example,   the girl let strangers follow her, she told people where she lived and told them that she was home alone.

2. Our second favourite activity was when a man told us  not to drink alcohol and if someone over age bought a drink for someone under age they would have to pay £5,000!( WOW!). When we were asked questions and got the answer right. we got to try on the drunk goggles. They looked like ski goggles but when you put them on it felt like you were in a simulator.

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3. The last fun activity was when a woman told us to go to our next activity around the corner and a woman came up to us and said,  “I’m your next activity, come with me.” So we did. She asked us our names and if we did anything nice during the summer holidays. Then out of nowhere a police man came up to us and as soon as we saw him we would be in trouble, we knew we were tricked that was an experiment to see if we would walk off with her.(a stranger)

By Pippa and Daniel.

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First Blog!

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As this is the first blog, of the year for primary 7 we will start off with the first day of school!

As we like to say (the last first day of primary school) because we are in the highest class now. It was nice to see our class mates again and our great teacher Mrs Fraser. We know our teacher’s great because we had her in P4 and now that we are in P7.

There are many new teachers in the school. I will first tell you about our Ivrit (Israeli language) teacher Mr Guetta. Mr Guetta is kind hearted and improves our Ivrit a lot by saying Ivrit words. Another amazing teacher called Miss Itcovitz teaches French and because of her we will remember lots of new vocabulary. Our class will make sure they will feel like they are at home in Calderwood Lodge.

The excitement of maybe becoming a house captain is coming. Each house represents teams for the school. There are 4 teams Emek, Galil , Negev and Sharon. Two primary 7s from each team will get to be the leader of their team. We really want to be house captain and we will try

our best for Emek and Negev . I hope you enjoyed our blog, bye.

By Ben. J  & Leah.N

Our final day in Amsterdam

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Day four arrived and flew by in a flash. We were very lucky that the sunshine really began to shine for us today and we got to enjoy our final morning and our visits to Zaanse Schans and Volendam with the sun blazing. The only downfall to this was the lack of wind! This made for some very still windmills.

Once we had checked out of the hotel, we were taken by our very friendly and knowledgable bus driver to Zaanse Schans, where we were able to wander around all the shops and the windmills and we even got to go on a mini tour of one of the windmills and go right to the top. We were told all about the functionality of the windmills and how they fill their time on days like today, when there is no wind! We even met a man selling paintings that spoke 18 languages! He was able to converse effortlessly with all of us in English, then Anna in Russian, Josh and Freddie in Hebrew and even a little Mandarin was exchanged.

After we all stocked up on some more souvenirs, we made our way to a little fishing village called Volendam. This place had very unique houses and our driver told us all about the competitions the locals have to keep the best gardens and the cleanest windows. The whole village was filled with beautiful shops, cafes and even a little stretch of a beach, where we all had a great time relaxing. We were taken to a cheese factory where we got a tour of the factory and got to sample lots of the cheeses. Lots of cheese was purchased for gifts and then we made our way back into the sunshine for some final fun.

Before we knew it, it was time to go to the airport. With a great flight, and no delays, we were back in Glasgow by dinner time where we were all met by all of the enthusiastic parents and siblings that must have been missing us a lot!

It has been such a fantastic and memorable trip with a really superb group of pupils (and even teachers). This will certainly be a week that we will remember forever.

We hope you enjoy the photos!

Day Three In Amsterdam

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Our third day in Amsterdam began with a bus and tram ride to the Portuguese Synagogue. This is the oldest Synagogue in Europe.  We were given audio guides to listen to information, telling us all about the history of the Synagogue and about the interior. Mrs Yedd then took us on an additional tour of the outskirts, which included the Treasure Chambers, The Winter Synagogue and the Women’s Gallery.  Then we went to The Children’s Museum and Ashkenazi Shul. There were lots of memories of the Holocaust here and it was really interesting.

“I found it really interesting and it was very detailed.”  Hassan

“It was very interesting to see the oldest surviving Synagogue in Europe.” Rachel

Once we left the Synagogue, we went to the Jewish Heritage Museum. This museum had a huge section just for children. Four floors of great activities which allowed us to do arts and crafts, play various instruments such as the shofar, practise our Ivrit writing (which we know Shosh will be delighted to hear), and learn all about kosher kitchens and cooking. We also spent a lot of time in the adult section of the museum which took you through Jewish history and allowed us to see a lot of Jewish artefacts and learn about different people through time that have been Jewish. The museum was massive and we managed to see all of it. It was a really great afternoon.

We were pretty hungry after our busy start to the day, so we wandered along to a nearby park where we had our lunch and enjoyed playing on the swings and having ridiculous gymnastic and hopping competitions, which was very. The teachers were just delighted nobody had a hopping related injury!

To complete our day, we visited the Holocaust Memorial Centre. We visited an exhibition called ‘The demise of Abraham Reiss’ by Jeroene Krabbe. This artist painted nine pieces of art that told the story of his grandfather, who died in the war. These paintings were incredible and told a really important story. We also learned about the 600 children that managed to escape deportation with the help of the Jewish Resistance.

Our whole day has been so informative and has helped us to build a better picture of all the things we have been learning about in school. It has been quite a moving experience today, visiting all of these special Jewish places together as a class.

With one more day left, we’re excited to see what tomorrow brings.

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Day Two In Amsterdam

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Today was our second day in Amsterdam, and what a great day it has been. It was extremely busy and it is safe to say we are all very tired! We started our day with a big breakfast and made our way to one of Holland’s famous canal boat trips. The canal tour took us across the water, explaining about the history of Amsterdam and allowed us to see the capital’s great buildings and architecture as well as many famous spots around the city. We all managed to take some great photos.

The weather thankfully picked up from yesterday’s grey clouds and rain. We were lucky enough to even get a few hours of sunshine. It was at this point that we had a lovely walk through some of the tourist shops, where we all managed to buy a few souvenirs or two! Mrs Yedd even managed to buy herself a few badges for her collection, from her favourite shop! As we continued with our walk, we made our way to Dam Square, where we all enjoyed our lunch in the sunshine.

Recently, as part of our class Enterprise Topic, we all worked together in teams to create businesses where we sold a variety of products to the pupils of the school. We also sold badges, water bottles and pencil cases provided by the school. We had this great big Enterprise Day and raised £235. This money was to contribute to our Amsterdam trip. We decided, as a class, that a really wonderful way of spending this money would be to all visit Amsterdam’s Madame Tussauds Museum together. What a great decision! Everyone really enjoyed getting lots of pictures taken and posing with the wax statues of famous celebrities. With Mrs Santi’s selfie stick, we got a lot of very funny memories. We all thoroughly enjoyed doing this extra activity which had not been planned prior to the visit. It was a nice bonus that made all our hard work seem worthwhile. Even Mr Robson and Mrs Santi got some very funny photos too!

To complete our busy day, we walked round to the Anne Frank house, where we expanded our knowledge about World War Two and got a real insight into what we have been learning about throughout Primary 7. We were given a lesson about Anne’s life and how her life changed as she went into hiding before we entered the house. We were also told about the layout of the building which included the offices of Otto Frank’s business. We all found this time very emotional and fascinating as we have been learning a lot about Anne Frank’s life in school and it meant a lot to visit the actual house together as a class. This is a memory we won’t forget.

“I found the house very different in real life compared to the movies we have watched and some of the things we have read” – Rachel.

“It was a very overwhelming experience.” – Maddie.

“It was an exciting and interesting visit to the house.” – Hassan.

A big dinner finished off our day and it really has been a terrific day. We’re looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings.

By Freddie, Josh, Iman and Rachel