A very well done to all of this weeks Clan Connects Certificate winners.
Category: Calderwood Counts
🔢 Maths Week Scotland in Edinburgh Clan!
Edinburgh Clan had a fantastic time celebrating Maths Week Scotland! We have been very busy developing our numeracy skills, challenging ourselves and most importantly, having lots of fun with maths…
Throughout the week, we explored place value and learned lots of new mathematical vocabulary. We practised partitioning numbers, identifying greater than and less than and developed our understanding of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000. We worked hard to explain our thinking and use our new mathematical language confidently.
We also took part in the Maths Week Scotland Sumdog competition, which was a big hit! Everyone enjoyed logging on, answering questions and trying their best to earn points for our class. 🎮🌟
However, our favourite part of Maths Week Scotland had to be our active maths games. We loved getting up, moving around and working together while practising our maths skills. It was a great reminder that maths doesn’t always have to happen sitting at a desk.
In fact, we enjoyed our quick-fire maths activities so much that we have now introduced Daily 10 into our classroom routine. The class are really enjoying the challenge and it gives us a fun opportunity to keep practising place value, multiplication, division and other important number skills every day.
What a brilliant week of learning, teamwork and mathematical fun.
Well done, Edinburgh Clan! 🌟
Ben Lomond’s Maths Week
To celebrate Maths Week, Ben Lomond took part in the exciting Mission M Possible challenge hosted by Scottish Mathematical Council. We enjoyed putting our problem-solving skills to the test, using team work to tackle a range of mathematical challenges.
We also combined maths with art by creating colourful artwork inspired by the artist Wassily Kandinsky! Using circles to represent different place values, pupils designed their own unique pieces of art before swapping to challenge each other to calculate the total value.
Maths Week Scotland: Measuring Fun in Rannoch Clan!
This week, Rannoch Clan have been taking part in Maths Week Scotland by developing our skills in measuring. We have been learning how to read scales by identifying intervals and using them to read measurements accurately.
We were also delighted to welcome some of our adults from home into the classroom for our Sharing the Learning. Together, we completed an estimating and measuring activity that we had learned previously. We estimated the lengths of different classroom objects before measuring them with rulers and comparing our predictions to the actual measurements. We also enjoyed completing a maths word search.
It was lovely to share our learning with our families and show them the skills we have been developing in class. Well done, Rannoch, for your enthusiasm and hard work during Maths Week Scotland! 📏⭐
Financial Education Sessions
Last week, our P3-7 clans took part in Financial Education Sessions, kindly delivered by Money Advice Scotland.
These sessions looked at Introduction to Money, Budgeting for Events, and Banking and Borrowing.
The children thoroughly enjoyed these sessions and learning about such an important subject.
Tummel Clan’s Creative Calculations
This week, we learned about a famous artist called Wassily Kandinsky. We learned that he is well-known for creating abstract paintings using shapes, lines and colour. In Numeracy, we have been exploring place value, with pupils learning to build numbers to 1,000 and 10,000. Inspired by Kandinsky’s “Several Circles”, we created abstract art using size to represent our chosen number, broken into its individual place value parts.
We also had a lot of fun creating our own origami animal bookmarks to celebrate this year’s Maths Week theme, ‘Maths Tales’. Origami involves turning a flat piece of paper into a 3D object, requiring lots of spatial awareness! We also discussed the fractions involved as we folded the paper into halves and quarters. As we creased the paper, we realised how important the relationship between the lines and angles created are to the final design of the origami creation!
Tay Clan – Maths Week Scotland
Tay clan have been exploring the water cycle, climate change, habitats and food chains through the context of rivers (our Tay clan namesake). This week we explored our key question ‘why does it rain so much in Scotland and where does it come from?’. We also discussed ‘what is weather and how does it exist?’, looking at where it comes from, how it forms clouds and why and how we measure rainfall.
We learnt about meteorologists and why they measure rainfall and why this is necessary. We decided to make our own rain gauges to measure the amount of rain that falls in our area. We used our measuring skills, that we have been learning in maths lessons, to support us to complete this challenge. We will explore how to collect, record and analyse our data in future lessons.
Leven Clan- Maths Week Scotland
This week as part of Maths Week Scotland, Leven Clan became Meteorologists!
Through our IDL topic – Calderwood Clan Explorers we have been learning about water, where it comes from and what creatures live in and around the water. The questions that everyone wanted to know was.. “Why does it rain so much at Calderwood?”.
In answer to this question we have explored the water cycle and why and how weather differs in different areas around the globe. We then used our knowledge of measurement to create a rain gauge from recycled plastic bottles.
Next week we will collect data from our rain gauges to measure how many centimetres of rain fall there has been.
Maths Week Scotland – Schiehallion
In our learning over the last few weeks, Schiehallion have been investigating and learning about place value – making sure we understand the value of each digit within a number. Specifically this week, we have been looking at multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and even 1000.
We wanted to transfer this learning into some art work – so we created Mondrian art designs using 3 digit numbers as our stimulus. The children used two 3 digit numbers to create a sum, and then used the corresponding dienes blocks to create their pictures.
For example, if our sum came to 675, you would need to use six 100 blocks, seven 10 blocks and 5 single blocks.
I think you’ll agree that they came out really well.
Finding our way in Schiehallion
Schiehallion have had an excellent first 2 weeks settling back into Calderwood life after our summer holidays. We have been very welcoming to the new pupils and champions who are now in our clan.
We have really enjoyed playing Getting to Know You games, as well beginning our PE lessons. We have also been learning about measure and forces, making posters, which you can see below.
This week we held our pupil council elections. We discussed what would make a good pupil council representative, and then a number of the students campaigned for election. This included making posters and making a speech to the rest of the clan
