Calderwood Routines: Break and Lunch

Break Time

We have made some changes to our break times at Calderwood. This change will take place from Wednesday 21st September. Please see the following changes below:

P1-P3 will have break together from 10:30am-10:45am.

P4-P7 will have a break together from 10:45am-11:00am.

Lunch Time

Our Calderwood Careers has launched! All of the pupils have had a fantastic first week in their new job. They have nurtured, encouraged and created a happy and safe environment in our playground. They are in the process of creating a timetable for their different areas of the playground- this is a chance for them to lead learning and activities. They will be sharing their careers at our Calderwood Connects on Friday!

P2 and P3 Clans Interdisciplinary Learning: Calderwood Careers

We are so excited to launch the P2 and P3 interdisciplinary learning context called Calderwood Careers. In this context, we will be learning about the world of work and the different jobs in our society. We will be exploring 3 different types of jobs:

  1. Calderwood Constructors: builders and architects
  2. Calderwood Cooks: chefs and bakers
  3. Calderwood Consultants: doctors, nurses, pharmacy and other health care professions.
  • We are looking for some support and help with our learning from our Calderwood community. We are hoping to build our play areas across our clans to reflect these different jobs, and therefore if anyone has any toys, dressing up, equipment or learning materials can you please drop these in to our school office. We would really appreciate it!
  • We are also looking for any volunteers who specialise in the jobs above to come in to our school and speak about your job role. Please fill out the form if you can help us!

We have asked all pupils in the P2 and P3 clans to bring in a 500ml plastic bottle for Monday 12th September to use in their Calderwood Consultants theme.

Thank you for supporting our school again!

The P2 and P3 clans!

Term 1 Learning Letters

We are so excited for the learning journey all pupils will be embarking on during Term 1 at Calderwood Primary School. Our whole school theme for our interdisciplinary learning this term is on the concept Maths. You will see that our champions and pupils have planned creative and innovative Maths learning contexts. Please find the learning overview for each stage for this term below:

Term 1 – P1 Learning Letter

Term 1- P2 Learning Letter

Term 1- P3 Learning Letter

Term 1-P4 Learning Letter

Term 1 – P5 Learning Letter

Term 1 – P6 Learning Letter

Term 1 – P7 Learning Letter

 

 

Languagenut

We would like to say a massive thank you to our Parent Council at Calderwood Primary School for providing the funding to have the programme Languagenut in our school. This learning and teaching resource was at the heart of our 1+2 modern languages curriculum last year, and we are so excited for this to continue for the next 3 years. Thank you very much to everyone in the Parent Council for making this happen. Calderwood does languages! Please find further information about Languagenut below:

 

What is Languagenut?

 

Languagenut is a learning and teaching resource used in Calderwood for delivering our 1+2 modern languages curriculum. This is a digital resource that pupils can access at school and at home with their own username and password. Calderwood trialled this resource last year and found many benefits to our pupils learning, for example:  

 

  • It allows pupils to practise the 4 main skills needed for learning a modern language: listening, talking, reading and writing. 
  • It gives access to 6 different languages; French is available for our whole school and Spanish can be accessed for our 2nd language for P5-P7 clans. 
  • There are a variety of fun and interactive games that the pupils can select from. 
  • It allows the pupils to decide what they need to work on, for example: sentence building, grammar, vocabulary, phonics and verbs. 
  • Champions can set assignments, review pupils’ work, provide feedback and monitor pupils’ completion of tasks.  
  • Languagenut provides an opportunity for whole school and council competitions where pupils can receive certificates and prizes.  
  • Champions can use this to create their own learning activities for the pupils in their clan. 
  • Pupils can earn points for their achievements and can monitor their learning.

 

How will this be taken forward in our school?

 

  • All pupils will get a login card with their username and password. They will have a card to keep at home which will be issued after the September break.
  • We will host our first Calderwood School Competition to show our learning in French in Term 1.
  • We will get involved in West Lothian Council Languagenut competitions.

 

Explore Languagenut here!

Calderwood Careers

We are so excited to launch this years Calderwood Careers! This is an opportunity for P4 and P5 pupils-Bluebell, Bramble and Thistle clan-to apply for a job around our school. A sway has been attached for you to look at the different jobs that are being advertised for. We need creative, nurturing and confident individuals! If you would like to apply for a position, please complete the application form by Monday 29th August 2022. This can be completed at home. Remember to be confident and share all the amazing skills you have! Mrs Grieve will be in contact with all successful pupils after the deadline.

Please apply here!

What is Calderwood Careers?

Calderwood Careers

Good luck with your applications!

Mrs Grieve

Bring Your Own Device- P4s Tay and Rannoch

At Calderwood, digital technologies is at the heart of our curriculum as we believe it is a fundamental tool for supporting learning and providing pupils with the skills for life, learning and work. Therefore, we would like to offer the Primary 4s from Tay and Rannoch the opportunity to participate in ‘Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)’, where the pupils are permitted to bring their own personal device in to school to support their learning in the classroom.

The P4s from Tay and Rannoch have been discussing BYOD at school by exploring the risks and benefits for their learning. The pupils and champions have collectively created a BYOD charter that highlights the rules and expectations of using your own device. The pupils have also created a video to further explain what BYOD is and to demonstrate the rules that must be followed. Please take some time to read the charter and video we have created with your child. The video can be accessed through this link:

If you would like your child to participate in the BYOD programme, please fill out the form below by Wednesday 18th May 2022.  Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding the BYOD programme.

 

Measuring fun in Tay!

This week Tay clan have been learning how to measure length using metres, centimetres and millimetres. We discussed how when measuring length we are investigating how high, wide or long something is. We also explored a range of measuring tools we would have to use in our learning, such as: rulers, measuring tapes, metre sticks and trundle wheels.

As a starter to our lesson, we were set a challenge to find objects in our clan area that were 5mm, 30cm and 1m long. We managed to find lots of things in our clan and we were very surprised with how short 5mm actually is!

As a clan we were set a car race challenge. We had to build a ramp that would allow our racing cars to travel the furthest. We were able to select our own materials for making our ramp. We had to let our car go down the ramp, estimate how far it had travelled and then check our estimations using different measuring tools. Some of our cars travelled more than 4m long! Miss Redmond was also very impressed by our creativity in building the ramps.

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What has happened in Tay Clan?

This week, we have been learning how to structure a narrative text in writing. We have learned that a narrative text should have: a title, an orientation, a complication and a resolution. 

Across this week, we have engaged in different activities to help us learn the structure of a story. We played a jigsaw game, where we all got a different part of the text. We had to match up and make a complete story. Miss Redmond was proud of how quickly Tay clan managed this! We have been applying this into our reading where we have had to describe and predict the plot of our reading book.

Today, Tay clan arrived into the classroom to find all the laptops on the tables with the words: Game Over. Tay received an email from Mrs Blair to let them know she had found the laptops like this when she arrived at school and found Miss Christie’s car in the car park. As a clan, we decided to plan and write our own narrative story about what had happened here at Calderwood. We created a box-up plan describing the setting, characters and language features we would include in our story.

As we were writing our story, we did a checklist to make sure that the 4 main parts of the structure were included. Tay clan will now be able to use this story example to help them plan and write their own narrative texts next week.

The investigation of this event today still continues. Why did the laptops say game over? We have added the orientation of our story for you to read:

It was a dark and gloomy morning in Calderwood. Miss Christie had forgotten her pass and was locked in Calderwood Primary School. She tried to call for help but there was no signal. It was 3 o’clock in the morning and the lights were flickering on and off, and no one was in sight.

Miss Christie tip-toed nervously up to Tay clan and got out her laptop. She went on to Teams to try and call the other champions in the school. However, no one answered.

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