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.
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!
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.
Early & First Level Success Criteria:
Second Level Success Criteria:
Aberdeen Clan have been learning to recognise money and its value. After discussing the difference between needs and wants, we worked in groups to create our own shops. We had to consider how best to market our products including different pricing strategies. After some window shopping, we were set a budget and had to work out if we had enough money to buy the items on our wish list! We worked out how much more money we would need or if we would receive any change.
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:
See for yourself just how fab it was!:
