STEM – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Road Safety Competition

A huge well done to our the winners of the Taylor Wimpey Road Safety Competition. The winning designs below will be made into a banner.

Dragon’s Den

Well done to everyone who presented at Dragon’s Den with their inventions.

The judges were Gayle Duffus, Education Director with the Wood Foundation and Dr. Sam Clark from Heriot Watt University.

Our winners were celebrated at Connects on Friday and received their prizes!

Tay Clan – Maths Week Scotland

Tay clan have been exploring the water cycle, climate change, habitats and food chains through the context of rivers (our Tay clan namesake). This week we explored our key question ‘why does it rain so much in Scotland and where does it come from?’. We also discussed ‘what is weather and how does it exist?’, looking at where it comes from, how it forms clouds and why and how we measure rainfall.

We learnt about meteorologists and why they measure rainfall and why this is necessary. We decided to make our own rain gauges to measure the amount of rain that falls in our area. We used our measuring skills, that we have been learning in maths lessons, to support us to complete this challenge. We will explore how to collect, record and analyse our data in future lessons.

Leven Clan- Maths Week Scotland

This week as part of Maths Week Scotland, Leven Clan became Meteorologists!

Through our IDL topic – Calderwood Clan Explorers we have been learning about water, where it comes from and what creatures live in and around the water. The questions that everyone wanted to know was.. “Why does it rain so much at Calderwood?”.

In answer to this question we have explored the water cycle and why and how weather differs in different areas around the globe. We then used our knowledge of measurement to create a rain gauge from recycled plastic bottles.

Next week we will collect data from our rain gauges to measure how many centimetres of rain fall there has been.

Finding our way in Schiehallion

Schiehallion have had an excellent first 2 weeks settling back into Calderwood life after our summer holidays. We have been very welcoming to the new pupils and champions who are now in our clan.

We have really enjoyed playing Getting to Know You games, as well beginning our PE lessons. We have also been learning about measure and forces, making posters, which you can see below.

This week we held our pupil council elections. We discussed what would make a good pupil council representative, and then a number of the students campaigned for election. This included making posters and making a speech to the rest of the clan

Saving Seesaw Profiles: Primary 1-Primary 3

As Primary 3s move into Primary 4 they will no longer to use Seesaw but will move to Teams, it will take them a few weeks of training on how to use Teams before they start to use it as a journal.

For families who where at Calderwood Primary in 2022-23 we will archive those clans on Friday 19th July. This means you have 25 days to download their journal from their previous clan. You need access to a netbook, laptop or computer to do this and can do this as explained below: