Rannoch Clan had a fabulous time at their Christmas party this week. The children danced and sang along to their favourite Christmas songs and played some different festive games. We played Christmas corners, pass the parcel and even had a best dancer competition! It was a lovely, fun afternoon to celebrate the festive season as a clan.
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As the term draws to a close, I would like to wish all of our Calderwood families a restful break. We look forward to seeing everyone return on 6th January.
Christmas Party
This week Burns had lots of fun at their Christmas party on Wednesday. We played lots of fun games such as musical chairs and musical statues. We also got a yummy festive snack at our party too! This gave us lots of energy for all the dancing we did!
Pinocchio Pantomime
On Wednesday afternoon we had a pantomime which was a twist on the story of Pinocchio. We demonstrated being a fantastic quality audience as we sat sensibly throughout the show and engaged. We had so much fun at the pantomime and loved helping Pinocchio out. After the pantomime we reflected on the main takeaway from the story – the importance of believing in yourself. We explored the impact that determination and believing in yourself has on your wellbeing and achievements.
We are delighted that our Primary 1 show “Ready, Steady, Elf!” performances will take place on:
Tuesday 10th December
9.15am Mull and Orkney
2pm Shetland and Skye
Wednesday 11th December
9.15am Bluebell and Bramble (P1s only)
2pm Mull and Orkney
Thursday 12th December
9.15am Shetland and Skye
2pm Bluebell and Bramble (P1s only)
Tickets will be in your child’s bag today sent home by their champion. Each child has 3 tickets per show for you to attend. Tickets will be collected at the main door when you arrive.
iPay will be open for any donation’s families would like to make towards the P1 Christmas shows. The money raised will be used for the costumes used in the performance and refreshments at the shows.
Tay clan have been enjoying drama lessons based around story telling. This week, we had a go at hot-seating. In hot-seating, we pretend that we are a character and answer questions, from others, as if we were in that particular character’s shoes. We listened to the end of a story, as we have been working on endings to our own stories in writing, and then our group members asked us questions based on the story we had heard. We all had a turn and loved pretending to be someone else. It really got our imaginations switched on!
We have also been learning about advent this week: what it is and how it is celebrated. Through this learning, we decided to create our own clan advent calendar and base it around the value of kindness. We came up with a kindness challenge for each day of Advent and created our very own kindness calendar. We are very excited to start using this next week. We have also made our very own, unique, Tay clan Christmas wreath to hang in our clan room.
We have had a busy week in Burns clan!
At the start of the week we started our new math’s concept, adding decimals. We used Aldi brochures and created a roast dinner before adding up the total cost.
Later in the week we were exploring film making as part of our new IDL topic. We had so much fun creating scripts for our mini movies. We also met our movie star Ted the bear.
In addition we explored St Andrew’s day, learning about the history and legacy of St Andrew. We also created some Scottish flags using different shades of blue to add tone and dimension.
For Book Week Scotland 2024, Muir Clan created some beautifully detailed alternative front covers for the novel we are reading in clan.
They were displayed in class and everyone had the opportunity to vote for three of their favourite designs.
1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place
We also created fun fact files based on what we already knew and from these, quiz questions for other groups to answer. We focussed on creating fun and engaging questions like True/False, multiple choice and missing words.
We all enjoyed basing our learning around books and reading and our favourite part was being able to give our buddies their reading bags and reading with them in the arena.
Schiehallion have had a really fun week doing lots of different activities linked to Book Week Scotland. We started the week by designing new covers for our favourite books. Some of the clan chose to create a new cover for our class novel ‘The Last Bear’ – while others chose their own books.
We also took part in a number of quizzes as well. The clan had a lovely time guessing the ‘Staff Shelfies’ where they played detective to try and work out which book shelf belonged to each member of staff. They also took part in a book quiz organised by Mrs Rodford from Primary 6.
The clan then had a surprise visit from Miss Melrose on Thursday, who came to do some reading with the clan while Mr Allan went down to read to Bluebell.
Schiehallion had a lovely week, and are looking forward to continuing our reading over the coming weeks.
To celebrate Book Week Scotland, Rannoch clan worked together to create their own front covers for our clan novel, ‘Land of Roar’. Everyone put so much effort into their designs and they turned out amazing. It was very hard for us to pick a winner!
We also completed a book quiz where we scored 7/10 which was a super effort. Some of us also swapped some books with each other and were very excited to have a new book to take and read at home. Some of us also donated some books to the school for other children to read.
Finally, on Friday some of us dressed up as our favourite book characters. The costumes were fantastic and I loved hearing all about your favourite books!
