On Tuesday the 2nd of May we celebrated Yom Hatzmaut. Everyone was dressed up in blue and white.
P6 set up activities.
In P4 we made an Israeli flag, in P5 we decorated cookies which was hard. In P6 we played games and in P7 there was a quiz, it was really hard as well!
In the hall we did some Israeli dancing with our great teacher Shosh , we also played dodge ball and torpedo.
Finally we did a treasure hunt. We had so much fun, it was the best day EVER!!!!!!
Hadi and Emmen
As part of the Glasgow Science Festival P5 children in East Renfrewshire were asked to take part in Creating Engineers: K’nex Challenge 2017.
The children were given K’nex materials and opportunities to experiment with with the rods and connectors to look at the most effective designs to build a strong bridge and simple machine pulleys.
For the classroom heat the children were asked to design and build a bridge which can span across 2 desks and have a way of opening to allow boats to pass under. The bridge needed to be able to support the weight of a small bottle of water without collapsing and open to allow any size of boat through.
The children had to follow certain specifications and discuss, plan and draw their design with their partner.
Here are some of the finished bridges – 
The class winners were Jake, Jed and Amy and they will represent Calderwood Lodge in the cluster final in Mearns Primary School. Well done!
Mrs Connick
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On Friday 31st March primary 4,5,6,7 had a Seder meal in the lunch hall. Each class had something to do in it. The P4 class sang a song called Maneshtana, P5 ( our class ) did a small play about the four sons. P6 where asking and answering some questions that they came up with. P7 were leading the Seder and two people from their class were Ima and Aba. Rabbi Rubin came in spoke to us about the things we couldn’t have over Pesach.
By Edie and Abigail
On Thursday23rd March for Parents Night, Milla, Jessica, Imogen Sophie and Abigail all had a stall to raise money for Red Nose day.
They sold cakes, drinks, some chocolate cacti and rock candles.
They raised £125.49 which is fantastic!
They had some balloons for decoration and the advertising posters told the customers how much it was and what they could get.
They had a lot of fun and enjoyed it as well as raising money for a good cause.
Imogen and Abigail
We came to school in fancy dress.
Then the P7’s had a parade around the classes it was very funny.
Rabbi Rubin said the 10 sons to the whole school, then we went to do fun activities around the school.
In Primary 1 we ate Hamantashens and drank some juice while the Purim story was getting read to us.
In Primary 2 we made some masks and got to decorate them it was fun and we got to talk to our friends.
In Primary 3 we decorated our bags to give to our friends in primary 5 it was very fun and yummy I really enjoyed it
In Primary 4 we did dancing with Shosh. It was Israeli dancing
In our own class we got to do word searches and if you found all the words you got a dojo – we also coloured in some pictures
In Primary 6 we took part in a quiz it was really fun.
In Primary 7 we did some acting and role play, it was really funny .
by Sophie, Abigail, Imogen and Jake
Yesterday, Wednesday 8th of March, was P4 and P5’s Daffodil Tea.
We got to sing songs that were called, New Beginnings, The Season of Singing and Spring Fever.
We also did a presentation about Marie Curie, who she was and her legacy.
All our parents came and we had cakes, coffee and tea.
Primary 4 made chocolate pretzels, plant pots and biscuits. And our class made books, cards and butterflies with jelly beans as the wings.
We raised £269.08 for Marie Curie’s charity and £101.86 for Save the Children.
We enjoyed raising funds for these great causes and would like to say ‘Thank You’ for all of the kind donations.
Hadi and Abby.
This week we started preparing for our Daffodil Tea with the Primary 4s. We practised our little show about Marie Curie and made lots of things to sell for the Marie Curie charity.
Primary 4 decorated plant pots and we made sweetie butterflies as well as cards. We have enjoyed painting daffodils and making hyacinth flowers – although they were tricky at first!
We had help with our teacher Mrs Connick [our teacher] and Miss Reid the P4 teacher.
Our favourite bit was practising our songs.
By Michael, Izzah and Jessica.
