Calderwood Communicates – Page 3 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Recently we had a Capturing Calderwood Day, gathering evidence about learning, teaching and assessment. One of our pupil council children shared ‘Our champions help us feel our learning in our heart’.

Thank you to Broxburn Primary for joining us.

You can see some of the evidence in the Sway below.

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Safer Internet Day 2024

To celebrate Safer Internet Day, Ben Lawers took part in an investigation into Fake News. We looked at how to spot Fake News and which sources of information a reliable. We also had a go at creating our own Fake News stories, to see if we could fool our classmates.

Bluebell’s Fairtrade Learning

This week we have been learning about Fairtrade and cocoa farmers for our explanation writing. We learned about a group of farmers called the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative, which consists of approximately 65,000 farmers.

We learned what Fairtrade is and how it works. Fairtrade gives different farmers (for example banana, coffee and cocoa farmers) a fair price for their products. We made lots of notes about the different stages of cocoa bean farming and worked in pairs or independently to make a colourful and informative leaflet. We also used our genre targets to make sure that our writing followed the correct structure, used complex connectives amongst other things to make our writing as informative as possible. We also got to taste some Fairtrade chocolate and bananas to compare them to non-Fairtrade products.

All in all, it was very fun and interesting to learn about this topic.

Calderwood Poetry Competition 2024

A huge well done to our clan champs, who represented their clans at the competition!

Introducing our Clan winners …

Introducing our level winners …

Thank you to Mrs Bates and Miss Armstrong for organising the event. A huge thank you to out judges Margaret Anderson from the Burns Federation and Mrs Povey a community friend of Calderwood.

Scottish Poetry Competition

At Calderwood we currently have a Scottish focus for learning. All clans will participate in a Scottish/Burns Poetry competition in clan. All children will be encouraged to participate in their own way – whether that is filmed, performed to their clan or to their champion on 26th January. The finalist will be put forward to a whole school competition on Friday 2nd February.

Please see below the options of poems the children can choose to learn.

Primary 1 Scottish Poems

Primary 2 Scottish Poems

Primary 3 Scottish Poems

Primary 4 Scottish Poems

Primary 5 Scottish Poems

Primary 6 Scottish Poems

Primary 7 Scottish Poems

Early & First Level Success Criteria: