Well done to all our Calderwood Can certificate winners this week!
The Can certificates were given out for a range of achievements across Calderwood Counts, Communicates and Creativity linked to our school values.
They all enjoyed their Cuppa with Mrs Warden and Miss Connor.
Well done to all our Calderwood Can certificate winners this week!
The Can certificates were given out for a range of achievements across Calderwood Counts, Communicates and Creativity linked to our school values.
They all enjoyed their Cuppa with Mrs Warden and Miss Connor.
Well done to everyone who presented at Dragon’s Den with their inventions.
The judges were Gayle Duffus, Education Director with the Wood Foundation and Dr. Sam Clark from Heriot Watt University.
Our winners were celebrated at Connects on Friday and received their prizes!
As part of World Thinking Day, pupils in P1-3 and P4-7 wore their rainbows, brownies, guides and scouts uniforms to school.
We celebrated them at Connects and share their photos below
This term, our clan has been transported back in time! Primary 5 have been delving into the days of the Scottish Wars of Independence, while Primary 4 have been uncovering the rich local history of our area with Miss Small and Mrs Scobie.
As part of our exploration of the Scottish Wars of Independence, Primary 5 have been learning about the lives of knights. We were captivated by the significance of heraldry, learning how the colours and symbols on a shield could tell a story about a knight’s family, values, and achievements. Inspired by their discoveries, the clan worked together in groups to design and create their own shields. Each team carefully selected colours and symbols to reflect their unique qualities.
Yesterday, we turned our attention to the beauty of Scots language as the pupils took part in our Scots poetry recital. We were absolutely blown away by everyone’s efforts! Each performer memorised their chosen poem with incredible skill, demonstrating clear pronunciation, expressive actions, and a deep understanding of Scots words.
After the recital, the class held a secret ballot to choose their stage winners. The room buzzed with excitement as votes were counted, and cheers erupted as the winners were announced. We are now eagerly looking forward to seeing how our stage winners get on at the Calderwood Scots Poetry Recital next week. We know they’ll do themselves and our clan proud!
Tay clan had a fantastic Christmas party on Monday morning.
To kick off our Christmas party, we put on our playlist of chosen songs, and had a wee boogie to get us warmed-up. After that, we had a fantastic game of Christmas Corners. We also had a best dancer competition. Dancing and taking part in the games made us thirsty and hungry so we took time out for a snack and juice, provided by our lovely helpers, which was served on our Christmas placemats we had designed ourselves. Finally, we took part in some fun dances – chu chu wa and the Macarena. We loved dancing to these! The time went by so fast and were sad to see it come to an end. We had a blast together.
We loved learning, practising and performing our song for the Christmas Celebrations – Count on Me at Christmas. We loved exploring the value of kindness and spreading kindness to others because…..kindness costs you nothing! We hope you all enjoyed it too.
We also had a fantastic Christmas lunch together too. Such fun and wholesome times to spend together as a clan.
We are delighted that our Primary 1 show “Ready, Steady, Elf!” performances will take place on:
Tuesday 10th December
9.15am Mull and Orkney
2pm Shetland and Skye
Wednesday 11th December
9.15am Bluebell and Bramble (P1s only)
2pm Mull and Orkney
Thursday 12th December
9.15am Shetland and Skye
2pm Bluebell and Bramble (P1s only)
Tickets will be in your child’s bag today sent home by their champion. Each child has 3 tickets per show for you to attend. Tickets will be collected at the main door when you arrive.
iPay will be open for any donation’s families would like to make towards the P1 Christmas shows. The money raised will be used for the costumes used in the performance and refreshments at the shows.
Tay clan have been enjoying drama lessons based around story telling. This week, we had a go at hot-seating. In hot-seating, we pretend that we are a character and answer questions, from others, as if we were in that particular character’s shoes. We listened to the end of a story, as we have been working on endings to our own stories in writing, and then our group members asked us questions based on the story we had heard. We all had a turn and loved pretending to be someone else. It really got our imaginations switched on!
We have also been learning about advent this week: what it is and how it is celebrated. Through this learning, we decided to create our own clan advent calendar and base it around the value of kindness. We came up with a kindness challenge for each day of Advent and created our very own kindness calendar. We are very excited to start using this next week. We have also made our very own, unique, Tay clan Christmas wreath to hang in our clan room.
This week, Tummel clan finished reading The Last Bear by Hannah Gold. The Last Bear follows 11-year-old April Wood on a journey to Bear Island, where she discovers a stranded polar bear affected by climate change. Despite being told no bears remain, April befriends and helps him, embarking on a courageous mission to return him home. The story taught us the importance of protecting our planet, showing kindness, and remembering that young people can make a difference!
As we approached the novel’s conclusion, we planned and performed a short drama to depict April and Bear’s final journey to Svalbard. Our performance focused on key narrative elements—orientation, complication, and resolution—which later guided us in writing our own narrative scripts based on the drama.
Our Tummel Primary 5s had an amazing time at the pantomime watching Cinderella! The excitement reached new heights when one of our lucky clan mates was invited on stage with the mischievous Fairy May. After weeks of hard work crafting our own narrative scripts, it was truly inspiring to experience a live performance. We all agreed—it was a fantastic show!
