Miss Quinn

Hello Folks,

In Stirling Clan we had the best time on our trip to Dynamic Earth. Some of the clan highlights where our visit to the Planetarium and touching an ice berg. Stirling clan done a fantatstic job recalling all their learning about the rainforest and really impressed the expert in our workshop.

We have also loved getting outside, even if it is really chilly, to develop our fundemental skills in football. Having finished basketball we are learning that there are a lot of skills in team work and communication that are the same. We have been exploring successful shooting, accurate passing and controlled dribbling in our sessions and mini games.

Stirling Clan Learning

Stirling Clan Counts

Hello folks,

This Term in Stirling clan we have loved investigating our namesake Stirling City. We have looked at mapping the town using grid refrences and key landmarks. We have created symmetrical landmarks and looked at shadow and perspective in art. Through our grid refrences we have explored cardinal points, angles and transformation.

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Thistle Clan 5.5.23

What a fantastic start to term 4 for Thistle Clan!

We have got straight in to exploring our Cultivating Calderwood Focus. Have a little look at our journey so far

In PE we have been investigating cross country running, spot us developing our stamina, endurance, pace and strength here:

In Literacy we have been investigating information reports. We have had a go at our cold piece, remembering what we knew from last year. We then marked this against our targets and got to work investigating the key language features of an information text. Once this was done we used our notes from reading to build a plan as a whole clan and then write a model piece all together. This will now help us as we begin to write with more independence.

Thistle 31.3.23

What a fantastic term we have had in Thistle. Our Engineering focus has been so much fun and you can follow our lesson and journey here:

We have also really enjoyed learning all our new skills in Basketball. We have developed our triple threat, defence tactics and applied them all to games. Check out our progress here:

We are also all so grateful for all your donations, we began our planting journey this week and hope to continue this after the spring holiday.

Careers Talks – Parent/ Carer Support

We are looking for volunteers to come in and speak to primary 3 to 7. The week we are looking to do this is 15th to the 18th May 2023. It will also be within school hours 8:45 until 15:15. We would be looking for a small talk about your job and what it entails. It would be only one presentation and we would look to match you with a clan who have been learning about a similar subject to your occupation. Feel free to bring in any resources, videos or props to help. It would be to speak to individual clans.

If you are one of the amazing members of our community who have already signed up last year using our careers form then we don’t need you to fill this in again.

Thistle loves Scotland

We have been really enjoying learning all about Scottish words and phrases. We have been creating some very special poems to share with our families at Calderwood Caledonia evening. We investigated the clans associated with our surnames and re-created their tartans.

We have been investigating famous scots and have focused as a whole clan on Mary, Queen of Scots. We have been learning about bias, exploring how people lived in the 1500’s and designing our own crests and shields. We are very excited for all our visitors to see our timeline we have created.

We have been exploring Scottish words and translating them into standard English, we loved hearing stories such as Clan MacWee and Mr Men come to Scotland.

Using Scottish maps we have explored co-ordinates and plotted cities, mountains, rivers and landmarks.

In PE, we have been learning skills such as rhythm, timing and the polka in Scottish Country Dancing. We have also been developing our understanding of tolerance and respect when dancing with new partners.

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Thistle at Christmas!

We have had such an exciting time at the end of Term 2. We had our final rounders competition against the children of Bramble where we use all our skills and teamwork that we have been developing to secure a victory.

We had also decided we wanted to raise some money for those more vulnerable at this time of year. In small teams we chose a charity that was important to us, researched a recipe and worked to a budget. We then came together in the STEM studio to make our bakes, created adverts through our persuasive writing and sold them to primary 4 and 5 children. We were delighted by our success and raised a joint total of £74.06 for Sick Kids, Cancer Research UK and Children in Need.