Calderwood Curriculum – Page 28 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Calderwood Connects: 05/11/21

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Our First 2 Weeks In Calderwood Nursery

This week is WL Running Week. Our partner Active Schools have set us a challenge to complete a running race of various distances. Our results will be shared across West Lothian up against the other schools.

We’ve also been working on these 3 challenge questions to stimulate our interest in running and its benefits.

How can we promote our Running Event?
How can we record / measure our runs – any digital ideas?
What makes an effective runner?

Click the Sway below to see the launch of Running Week. We will update this Sway throughout the week with any action!

Go to this Sway

Mull October Update

In Mull, we have been continuing to explore and practise our letter and number formations. This week, we have focused on a and 4.
With our letter ‘a’ we have practised the formation and investigated the short and long vowel sounds. The short ‘a’ appearing in words such as: ant, apple, alligator where as the long ‘a’ sound appears in: apron, angel, ace. It can be tricky to get our heads around this but this helps build those initial literacy foundations which will be built on.

We have also investigated the number 4. We practised how to form the number 4 and had our friends choose our best formation. We also learned all about collecting and counting groups of 4 item. We noticed that on our number 4 hunt, the number can appear a little bit different, sometimes it looks more like a triangle shape. We also noticed the written word for 4 FOUR and what a 4 looked like on a dot pattern or on a tens frame. Starting to build on to our number bonds and knowledge of addition, we used our bunny ears to show different ways of making a 4. This may be 3 fingers on one bunny ear and 1 finger on another bunny ear or using double 2.

Sparking some curiosity this week was the item in our curiosity box. Lots of questions posed:
What is it?
How does it feel?
Where does it come from?
It must be from a hot country because it is so big!
How heavy is it?
Is it a cucumber?
Can you eat it?

The item was a gigantic courgette that Mrs Robertson grew in her garden. It was the only piece of veg in her vegetable patch that wasn’t eating by the wild bunny rabbits.

We are really looking forward to our Halloween themed week next week with some extra special spooky learning!

Sumdog in Calderwood

We’re delighted to announce that very soon your child will take home a card detailing their username, password, and school code for Sumdog.

There are some exciting competitions in the not-so-distant future (during which we get the opportunity to try our tenacity against schools in the whole of West Lothian Council) – the first begins on 29^th October and ends on 4^th November and the second starts on 26^th November and ends on 2^nd December. We cannot wait to see what Calderwood is made of!

These competitions and Sumdog will be familiar to some but please do read on if you need further information or just fancy a refresher:

Our clans can develop their Calderwood Communicates skills through accessing Grammar and Spelling on Sumdog. They can also explore their Calderwood Counts understanding through challenging themselves in Numeracy and Maths activities. The fun doesn’t stop when the children exit their clans – they are most welcome to explore learning on Sumdog at home using the log in details supplied on their cards; Children will be periodically set tasks by their Champions on Sumdog to complete at home and can also extend and support their learning through free-choice activities.

Please click here to access Sumdog

Primary 1 – 3 Playground Collection

Dear parent/ carer,

A gentle reminder that no adults should enter the playground at collection time until 3:05pm, when our champions will open the gate. Parents/ carers should not open the gate. Can you please share this information with whoever collects your child from school. The reason this is in place is because children use the playground for learning up until 3:05pm.

Kind regards,

Miss Burton

Building Our Calderwood Curriculum

Bring Your Own Device – Ben Lawers & Ben Lomond

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an initiative offered across all West Lothian schools to give children the opportunity to safely use their own devices in school.

At all times, children will also have access to school devices such as netbooks and iPads, this is an opt in programme.

Please watch the video below that the children have made. If you would like your child to take part, please read and complete the contract with them. This will start on 19th October. 2021.