Creative Calderwood – Page 6 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Ness Clan’s Bird Boxes

Ness Clan have been honing their design skills and learning all about the birds around Calderwood in Taylor Wimpey’s bird box competition. Find out more about what we have been up to in our fabulous SWAY here:

Le Clan Cafe

Chefs @ Calderwood

This week Rannoch Clan worked alongside Ness and Tay to begin our new IDL learning. First of all, we had a feel in Mrs Scobie’s big bag and described what we felt inside it, using interesting adjectives. Inside the bag were different cooking items and we learnt what we would use them for.

In the next few weeks we are going to learn about food and develop our culinary skills to become cooking champions and the finest chefs in Calderwood.

Our first task was to complete our chef ID cards. We watched a video and then afterwards reflected on the skills and qualities that a chef might have. We wrote our names and drew our faces on our own ID cards. We also wrote our favourite food and our current cooking skills.

We then wrote down 3 things that we would like to achieve and develop through our learning about food. Hopefully over the coming weeks we can get better at cooking and maybe help out at home.

Scottish Contexts for Learning

Scottish Poetry Calderwood Competition

As part of our Scottish focus for learning and Burns Day on 25th January the children are participating in a Poetry Recital Competition and have taken home a range of Scottish Poems. The children should choose one poem to learn. The children should learn the poem by heart and use the following success criteria. All children should learn their poem however this is no expectation that they need to recite it in front of the clan if they feel uncomfortable. They also have the option to film their recital, do it to the teacher privately, or as a group. As you will see below, some clans have the same option of poem – this is as these classes are working within the same Curriculum for Excellence level and allows for differentiation. In clan qualifying recitals will take place on Friday 21st January and finals will take place on Friday 28th January (these will be filmed for your viewing).

First Level Success Criteria: