Take a look at Shetland’s Nativity trailer.
Coming to screens near you!
Category: STEM
Mull Nativity Trailer
Take a look at Mull’s Tinsel – The Nativity Trailer.
Coming to screens near you!
Scottish Sumdog Holiday Maths Contest!
A huge good luck to all the Calderwood Primary children as they have now been entered into the Scottish Sumdog Holiday Maths Contest!
The contest will run between today (17th December) and 23rd December. Your child can access the competition by logging in via the following link and using their unique username and password along with the school code Calderwood2:
https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in
This competition is a fantastic way to compete against lots of other Primary students, have fun and develop numeracy/maths skills at the very same time. Good luck and we hope you all really enjoy the holidays when they come. If your child has forgotten their details, please do get in touch with the school office as we’d be more than happy to assist.
Tay Clan’s Christmas Craft Sale
Tay clan have been making Christmas baubles for our Christmas craft fundraiser. We got to decide on the creation we wanted to make and what treats we wanted to put inside. Some of our clan have created baubles for their pets. To advertise our Christmas baubles we have created sways. Please take a look at our Sways below.
You can purchase them on Friday 17th December at a price of £2.50 each.
Don’t Litter Make Calderwood Glitter!
Calderwood Counts – West Lothian Sumdog Competition!
Today a member of our Ben Lomond Clan had the special privilege of announcing the start of the Sumdog Maths Competition to all our Clans during our Calderwood Connects.
This Competition is open to all primary aged children in West Lothian Council. It began today (26.11.21) and will run until Thursday 2nd December. All members of our Calderwood Community can access Sumdog by clicking here and using their unique username and password. Our School Code is calderwood2.
Within minutes of the competition opening we had a member of our Ben Lawers Clan on the leader board! We very much hope this was the start of a very exciting trend for our Calderwood Community – good luck and happy competing.
Book Week Scotland Sumdog Competition – Results So Far!
Leader board so far …
Mull, Shetland & Orkney
1 – Dylan S
2 – Max
3 – Leah
Bluebell & Bramble
1 – Rachel
2 – Euan
3 – Poppy S
3- Amel
Ness, Rannoch, Tay
1 – Cameron Fe
2 – Max
3 – Ananya
Bens
1 – Belle
2 – Mateo
3 – Jaxon
Calderwood Tackles Climate Change
Ness, Rannoch and Tay clan have been learning about COP26 together, finding out what it stands for, what it is, why it is happening, and what it means for us and have been learning about climate change with Miss Christie in our STEM lessons. Through our learning, we wanted to explore climate change even further.
Today, Ness, Rannoch and Tay clan were visited by Miss Connor, our RAISE Primary Science Development Officer in West Lothian, who gave us an introduction to the science behind climate change.
We discussed what the words climate and climate change meant and why climate change is happening. We then looked more deeply into greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide, learning about the links between CO2 and climate change.
Following this discussion, we all carried out an experiment to see if we ‘could see CO2’. After making predictions of what we might see happening in the experiment, we added sugar to a test tube of warm water and mixed it till the sugar had dissolved. We then added some yeast to the mixture before, finally, placing a balloon over the top of the test tube. We waited for approximately 10 minutes to see what might happen. We found that the balloon inflated, showing that a gas had been created. This helped us to understand how carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere and trapped, causing the planet to become warmer. We really enjoyed carrying out the experiment and checking our predictions.
After completing the experiment, we discussed why climate change matters to us and what we can do to help. We look forward to looking deeper into this in the coming weeks. Thank you so much to Miss Connor for allowing us to learn and think more about climate change.
#WL_STEM
Our First 2 Weeks In Calderwood Nursery
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 29th October and ends on 4th November and the second starts on 26th November and ends on 2nd 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.
