Author: Miss Small

Book Week in Rannoch Clan

To celebrate Book Week Scotland, Rannoch clan worked together to create their own front covers for our clan novel, ‘Land of Roar’. Everyone put so much effort into their designs and they turned out amazing. It was very hard for us to pick a winner!

We also completed a book quiz where we scored 7/10 which was a super effort. Some of us also swapped some books with each other and were very excited to have a new book to take and read at home. Some of us also donated some books to the school for other children to read.

Finally, on Friday some of us dressed up as our favourite book characters. The costumes were fantastic and I loved hearing all about your favourite books!

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Share the Learning – Rannoch

This week, Rannoch clan had the opportunity to share their learning about descriptive writing. At our Share the Learning event, we invited parents and carers along to demonstrate our hard work and show them all the learning which has went in to making our description writing so amazing!

We demonstrated the text map we had learned about Wolf Spiders, showed them how we structure a description text and explained what needs to go in each section. We also had the chance to show our Communicates and I’m an Author jotter to our adults. We loved reading them our favourite pieces writing and showing how much we have learned from our cold piece to our hot piece!

Thank you to everyone who came along!

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Rannoch Clan – Maths Week Scotland

As part of Maths Week Scotland, Rannoch clan have been using their measuring skills to conduct an experiment! Within our IDL topic called ‘Calderwood Clan Explorers’, Rannoch have been learning about Loch Rannoch, the water cycle and the big question ‘why does it rain so much in Scotland?’.

To answer this question, we decided to make our own rain gauges to measure the amount of rain that falls here in Calderwood. We constructed these using recycled plastic bottles and used our knowledge of measuring to create a scale on the side of the bottle in centimetres. We then placed our bottles somewhere safe in the playground where we can record, explore and analyse the data next week.

Rannoch Clan – Description Writing

In Rannoch this week we have started to look at descriptive writing. We began by writing our cold piece on a sea creature that we had designed and created in our art lesson. We made sure to add lots of detail so we had lots of parts to describe!

Since then, we have explored description writing further and started to look at the tools which will help us with writing. Rannoch enjoyed reading the Mr Men book about Mr Tickle and used this as our next descriptive writing piece. Firstly, we used the describing bubble to create a plan for our writing which helped us come up with some great adjectives to describe Mr Tickle. Then we looked at the correct structure of a descriptive piece.

Rannoch clan created some wonderful descriptions of Mr Tickle this week!

Welcome Back Rannoch!

We have had so much fun getting to know each other in Rannoch clan these past 2 weeks!

We have been focusing on the book ‘Our Class is a Family’. We read the book together and shared our thoughts on what makes our clan a family. This then led us on to create our clan charter, where we discussed the UNCRC and decided on what we thought should be our clan expectations for the year. We made sure to link it to our school values of ready, respectful and safe!

We have enjoyed taking part in different STEM challenges to develop our teamwork skills. Rannoch clan have also created some wonderful drawings of their family and have loved building friendships with each other.

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