Creative Calderwood – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Scottish Primary School Glee Challenge 2024

We are so proud of our wonderful Stag Squad, who took part in the Scottish Primary School Glee Challenge Edinburgh and Lothians Sectionals at Central Hall in Edinburgh on Thursday the 18th of April. The Stag Squad were competing against 6 other amazing choirs.

Our Stag Squad were excellent and the scores in the sectional were extremely close, but unfortunately they did not make it through to the Regional Finals this year.

The children gave really great, high energy performances of both of their songs and had a really fun evening.

Some feedback from the judges was that they absolutely loved Stag Squad’s version of “The Whole of the Moon”. The Stag Squad gave a superb, polished performance that showcased their wonderful teamwork, beautiful vocals and lovely movement. They displayed great volume and energy, which really filled the auditorium with sound.

Huge thanks to everyone who came along to support our Stag Squad on the evening, and to our fabulous champions Miss Truesdale, Miss McEwan and Mrs Love who spent time rehearsing with the Stag Squad and accompanying them to the event.

Schiehallion and Thistle – Ocean Literacy Trip

On Tuesday 26th March 2024 Schiehallion and Thistle Clans had our second visit to Heriot-Watt University – we explored the University as a whole (including lecture theatres!), the National Robotarium and even spent time in the Oriam with an inflatable whale.

During the visit we learned all about Ocean Literacy and what happens when litter enters our waterways. We also had time with Whale experts and learned more about how robots can be used to film and interact with animals in their natural habitat.

Below are a number of pieces of learning inspired by our trip and photos of our trip:

P6 Euroquiz

Our amazing Schiehallion and Thistle Clans took part in the 2024 heats of Euroquiz alongside Primary Schools from across West Lothian on Thursday 21^st March 2024. They were phenomenal ambassadors for the school and our top teams managed to achieve scores in the forties out of a total of 60 available points. Two teams came joint first place within our school with a gargantuan score of 43/60 respectively!

Many congratulations to St Joseph’s Primary School for scoring 55/60 and going forward to the Scottish Parliament for the next round. A huge thank you of course also goes to Zoe Gordon for facilitating and organising the Euroquiz and fuelling such an interesting, varied and expansive IDL topic at Calderwood Primary School.

Come and See Aladdin!

We are going to tell you about Calderwood’s first ever school show, Aladdin.

Bramble and Bluebell have been practising a lot for their upcoming show. We have been trying really hard with our singing, dancing and acting so we can do our very best for our show. We can’t wait to perform in front of our parents and school and show them all of the new skills we have learned.

At the Scottish celebration, P5 raised over £200 we were so happy we got all the money from the raffle. We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated items. With your help we have been able to buy face paint, costume and props to make our show even better.

You should buy tickets to see the show for yourself. It will take place in the Arena on Monday 11th March at 2pm and Wednesday 13th March at 6pm.Tickets are £2 and will be on sale via iPay on 29th February. Get your tickets quick to make sure you don’t miss out. You will be amazed!

We are proud of ourselves and our teachers for helping us create this show just for you.

Written by Bramble Clan

Calderwood Caledonian Celebration 2024

On Thursday evening we had a family night with children, champs and community.

Our choir entertained us with Scottish songs on our steps. A huge thank you for coming back to sing for us.

We served up oatcakes and cheese, shortbread and tablet in our STEM Studio. Thank you to our

children in the Bens and champs who made all the refreshments for us. Thank you to Mr and Mrs Findlay and Miss Bonnar’s gran, for making us the delicious tablet.

In the Arena we had our Ceilidh. Thank your to Fraser Patterson, for finding us a DJ and caller, also thank you to Almond Hearing for donating the juice and covering the cost of the DJ. Our Bens Clans had learned the dances in their PE lessons and were fantastic at demonstrating the dances, thank you for coming back to help.

On the Cafe, our champs ran a Stag Drive! Thank you to Fraser Patterson for donating the prizes!

Bluebell and Bramble organised a raffle to raise some funds for their school show. The total raised was £205.60!

Thank you to everyone who donated a bottle for the games in the foyer!

Thank you to Dale Miles, who came out to Pipe us in and out of the event, we really appreciate your time!

The grand total raised from the event was £828.27!

Thank you to the champs, children and everyone who gave up their time or donations to ensure the event was a success. Thank you to everyone who came along to support the event, it was great to see our community having fun together!

Calderwood Caledonian Celebration

Calderwood Christmas Choir 2023

The Bens IDL Showcase

It was that time of the term again for P7!

When they came together to show off all the work and learning they have been doing during their IDL projects!

This term, we used Mural to collaborate and find out our areas of interest. We then tried to group them together to come up with an over arching topic. This term it was: Global Conflict.

See our work and planning here.

We spent 6 weeks learning about the following sub-topics:

World Leaders

Global Politics and Governments

Human Rights

Wars Throughout History

How the Media talks about conflict

To Assess, we created a Rubric together, so we knew what we had to do to be successful:

Last Thursday, the big event happened and we invited Primary 4-6 clans to the Discovery Den to see what we had achieved. Here is some of our feedback:

“For each and everyone I really liked how much time you put into this and how much you knew and I can’t believe how much is happening in our lives and I can’t believe it is true. I can’t wait until the next showcase.” – Harlen

“It was amazingly awesome” – Rory

“I really liked the science parts that you put in and you knew so much and I can’t wait to ask my brother more at home!” – Amel

“I loved the torture game, I tortured Yuvi!” – Lewis

“I really liked it because there was so many details – like Arabic. In the torture game I liked how there was pictures” – Sara

“I loved the food!” – Kira W

“I loved the food and how much effort you put into making it” – Poppy

“I loved the Kahoot because we bet Mrs McGarvey” – Beni

“I loved the food and I liked the science experiment” – Rachel

“I loved the Kahoot!!!” – Yuvi

“I loved the wordsearch, it was easy” – Jed

“I loved how much effort you put in and the food. I loved that you had all the world leaders!” – James

“I loved it all and the food was so tasty” – Anav

See for yourself just how fab it was!:

Christmas Around the World

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