Category: Calderwood Communicates
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World Book Day!
Today we had great fun in Calderwood Primary School celebrating World Book Day. To spread the love of reading even further your child will have a £1 book token which you can find out more about by clicking here.
To celebrate World Book Day, the Ben Clans were able to be reading buddies with Mull, Orkney and Shetland Clans. The younger children became authors this morning as they wrote all about space. This fun was shared by the older children too, they were given time to free-write and could share this with their buddies later in the day.
Mull Clan, Bens Lawers and Ben Lomond:
Orkney, Bens Lawers and Ben Lomond
Shetland, Bens Lawers and Ben Lomond
In Ness and Rannoch Clan the children have been learning about different setting in books. To celebrate World Book Day they searched the libraries to find books with different setting and then used new and exciting adjectives to describe the settings they found.
World Book Tay Token
As part of World Book Day every child at Calderwood Primary & Nursery will receive a book token to take home.
How to use the book token:
More information can be found here:
Le Clan Café
Introducing our Le Clan Café! Directed, organised and hosted by our fabulous P4s from Tay and Rannoch. We can’t wait for Friday 18th March!
Languagenut West Lothian Competition
Languagenut are running a competition for West Lothian and we would love for all of Calderwood to get involved! This competition will run from the 1st until 31st March. The pupils can compete in this competition at home and in school. They should login to their Languagenut at home and complete different tasks to help them extend their language vocabulary. The pupils should complete any home learning tasks that have been set for them and have the choice to select any other tasks they wish to complete. They will receive points for each activity that they finish. We can’t wait to see you using Languagenut at home and helping Calderwood earn points in West Lothian’s Competition!
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Burns and Scottish Celebrations at Calderwood
Scottish Poetry Recital Clan Competition
Our children have been busy learning their Scots and Burns poems the past two weeks, at home and school. Today the children who wanted to enter the clan competition recited their poem for their clan. Congratulations to all our children who recited their poems, their was a real buzz of excitement across Calderwood!
The clans then had a secret vote for who they thought should represent their clan at the Calderwood competition, they used the success criteria to help with this. Tay clan used an online form for their votes.
Congratulations to our clan competitions! These children will represent their clan in the Calderwood Poetry Recital next Friday which will have a panel of judges.
The children were also very excited to make a phone call home to share their news!
Scottish Poetry Recital Competition
There has been a buzz of excitement in the playground, at the cafe, and in our clans as children have been practising their poems this week. Good luck everyone! #CalderwoodCan #CalderwoodCourage #CreatingOurStory
