At our Calderwood Connects we discussed our Calderwood Cares approaches to celebrating successes and supporting us with our choices.
You can see some of our responses below:
Calderwood Connects: Our Clan is a Family
Category: Calderwood Curriculum
Book Week Scotland: Author Visit Information
Book Week Scotland 2023
Visit My Clan: Book Week Scotland
Book Week Scotland 2023 Learning Sways
Book Week Scotland- Book Drop
Calderwood PS is celebrating Book Week Scotland on Monday 13th- Friday 17th November. We are running a book drop initiative. Please find more information below:
Ben Lawers and Ben Lomond- West Lothian Sportshall Athletics Competition
On Wednesday 1st November, we attended the West Lothian Sportshall Athletics Competition at Craigswood Sports Centre. We took part in a number of different track and field events, competing against other Primary 7’s in the authority. The Bens put in a tremendous effort and showed resilience and sportsmanship! 
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
Calderwood Clan Explorers – Dundee
Calderwood Clan Explorers
Throughout the first term we have been exploring our namesake clan ‘Dundee’. We completed some research to find out where Dundee is located in Scotland and what important landmarks can be found there. We explored the Tay Bridge, the RRS Discovery ship, the V & A museum and Broughty Castle. We completed research through reading and researching online. We presented our findings to the rest of our clan.
In Maths, we discussed the rules of 1-line of symmetry. We practised this skill by using pictures of different landmarks from Dundee and drawing the other half of the picture to make sure it was symmetrical. We loved this. We realised a lot of buildings are symmetrical and discussed how this skill is used in architecture in the world of work.
We have been learning how to identify the location of a landmark on a map by using grid references.
Finally, we created a cityscape of Dundee. We explored warm and cool colours, discussing how these make us feel and how they are seen in a sunset. We created our sunset pictures using watercolours discussing how to blend the colours together. We explored how much water is needed to get the colour just right. After our pictures dried, we cut out our chosen Dundee landmark from black sugar paper to make our cityscape, These are displayed in our cabin and look beautiful.
Please click on the link to look at our Calderwood Clan Explorer Sway.
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Description Writing
Dundee Clan began their writing journey by exploring description writing.
We completed our first piece of writing, describing our favourite animal. We remembered to use the describing bubble to support us which reminds us to describe size, colour, texture, position, number, shape and what our animal does.
We explored the structure of description writing and learnt the names and purpose of the different sections in a description text. We have come up with hand signals to represent each section which will help us remind us about the order in which to build our descriptive pieces of writing.
Finally, we explored the language features of a description text, looking closely at the nouns, adjectives and pronouns, recording them in a grid that we can refer to later when writing our own descriptions.
We will continue to explore this genre of writing further by writing description texts and exploring descriptive passages in our reading lessons.
