Calderwood PS is celebrating Book Week Scotland on Monday 13th- Friday 17th November. We are running a book drop initiative. Please find more information below:
Category: Calderwood Communicates
Term 1 – Dundee Clan
Term 1
We have had an extremely busy and exciting term 1 in Dundee Clan. Please click on the links to access all the sways which show our learning and hard-work for the term. These can also be found in TEAMS in the relevant folders.
Calderwood Can Explorers: https://sway.office.com/FlL3Pa94r8njCymc?ref=Link
Calderwood Communicates: https://sway.office.com/ahKrI0qWNH2GW9SK?ref=Link
Calderwood Counts: https://sway.office.com/f6fvZSk9mDTIEmHF?ref=Link
Calderwood Cares: https://sway.office.com/06aSfHkt0KTYWg0w?ref=Link
Description Writing
Dundee Clan began their writing journey by exploring description writing.
We completed our first piece of writing, describing our favourite animal. We remembered to use the describing bubble to support us which reminds us to describe size, colour, texture, position, number, shape and what our animal does.
We explored the structure of description writing and learnt the names and purpose of the different sections in a description text. We have come up with hand signals to represent each section which will help us remind us about the order in which to build our descriptive pieces of writing.
Finally, we explored the language features of a description text, looking closely at the nouns, adjectives and pronouns, recording them in a grid that we can refer to later when writing our own descriptions.
We will continue to explore this genre of writing further by writing description texts and exploring descriptive passages in our reading lessons.
Summer Programme: Free Sports activities at West Lothian Leisure Venues
Please see below the WLC funded summer programme activities being delivered by West Lothian Leisure as part of the West Lothian Get into Summer 2023 Programme.
The link to access a free place is –Â https://www.westlothianleisure.com/contact-us/summer-of-activity-enquiry/
| Swimming Crash Course Lessons | Bathgate Xcite | 10 – 13 July 10.00 – 10.50am
10 – 13 July 11.00 – 11.50am |
| Whitburn Xcite | 24 – 27 July 10.00 – 10.50am
24 – 27 July 11.00 – 11.50am |
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| Winchburgh Academy | 31 July – 3 August 10.00 – 10.50am
31 July – 3 August 11.00 – 11.50am |
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| Multi- Sports Camps | Bathgate Xcite | 3 – 6 July 9.30am – 3.00pm
17 – 20 July 9.30am – 3.00pm 7 – 10 August 9.30am – 3.00pm |
| Broxburn Xcite | 17 – 20 July 9.30am – 3.00pm
31 July – 3 August 9.30am – 3.00pm |
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| East Calder Xcite | 3 – 6 July 9.30am – 3.00pm
17 – 20 July 9.30am – 3.00pm 7 – 10 August 9.30am – 3.00pm |
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| Linlithgow Xcite | 24 – 27 July 9.30am – 3.00pm
7 – 10 August 9.30am – 3.00pm |
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| Winchburgh Xcite Sport & Wellbeing Hub | 10 – 13 July 9.30am – 3.00pm
24 – 27 July 9.30am – 3.00pm 31 July – 3 August 9.30am – 3.00pm |
Calderwood Can 🌟 09.06.23
Xcite Outdoors Summer Activity Programme
This summer Xcite Outdoors have an exciting programme of outdoor activities based out of Xcite Linlithgow. There are opportunities for young people and their families to take part in a range of outdoor activities such as:-
- Canoeing
- Kayaking
- Mountain Biking
- Archery
Activities are for children aged 8 years and over.
Xcite Outdoors – Summer Holiday Programme – Timetable – PDF for Schools – 2023
Take a look at the PDF link above for more information and how to sign up.
Calderwood Magic Miles 2023
Euro Quiz WL
A huge well done to our teams who competed in the West Lothian Euro Quiz this week. They represented our school fantastically. We are so proud of you!
Capturing Calderwood – Writing 14.03.23
The Ben’s IDL Showcase
Last week, the Ben’s took over the Discovery Den area.
They has been working on their IDL topic ‘Ancient Civilisations’ and had so much amazing work, they wanted to show it off and plan a school event. Here is what they had to say:
In 4 main groups, we chose our Civilisation of interest: Ancient Romans, Ancient Egyptians, the Aztecs and the Vikings.
We organised ourselves into sub-topics and worked for 5 weeks researching, learning, discussing, planning and creating beautiful, amazing pieces of work that demonstrated what we learned from our research.
We set wrote poems and stories, collected data, made PPT’s, cooked food, conducted science experiments, created art pieces, performed drama pieces and made videos.
We used our teamwork skills to work together to build a picture of what we discovered.
They invited members of staff and other clans around and presented beautifully and confidently, the learning and knowledge they had on their chosen topic. Well done Bens!
