To celebrate Safer Internet Day, Ben Lawers took part in an investigation into Fake News. We looked at how to spot Fake News and which sources of information a reliable. We also had a go at creating our own Fake News stories, to see if we could fool our classmates.
Calderwood has signed up for SUSTRANS big walk and wheel, which begins on Monday 11th March and runs until Friday 22nd March. We will be tracking how our children are getting to school – whether they walk/bike/scoot etc.
Previously we have won this competition and it would be great to win again!
This week we have been learning about Fairtrade and cocoa farmers for our explanation writing. We learned about a group of farmers called the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative, which consists of approximately 65,000 farmers.
We learned what Fairtrade is and how it works. Fairtrade gives different farmers (for example banana, coffee and cocoa farmers) a fair price for their products. We made lots of notes about the different stages of cocoa bean farming and worked in pairs or independently to make a colourful and informative leaflet. We also used our genre targets to make sure that our writing followed the correct structure, used complex connectives amongst other things to make our writing as informative as possible. We also got to taste some Fairtrade chocolate and bananas to compare them to non-Fairtrade products.
All in all, it was very fun and interesting to learn about this topic.
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
During the February break- a group of 6 local children completed some litter picking in the local area- on one of the streets close to school (Cameron Gardens) which had been impacted by a lot of rubbish!
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:
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