Category: Calderwood
Participatory Budget – Thistle and Schiehallion as Agents of Change
Thistle and Schiehallion have been leading a whole school and wider community project about how to spend the Participatory Budget for our school and the overall cost of the school day.
When gathering our data, we needed to ensure that the whole school and our wider community had their say. The children decided they wanted to do this by hosting a whole-school event where pupils gathered in our Discovery Den to learn about the Cost of the School day and Participatory Budget, through fun and engaging activities. This was organised, run, designed and created by members of Thistle and Schiehallion Clans.
Schiehallion Clan also created, produced and edited their own Clan Calderwood Connects to teach families and our community about Poverty in Scotland, the Cost of the School Day, the History of Schooling and the History of Money. After their Clan Calderwood Connects we asked people who had watched the Clan Connects to have a say in our anonymous Survey. Thistle and Schiehallion Clan supported each other to collect data after the Calderwood Connects from our Community through this Survey. If you want to support us, you can Click here to find out a little more about how you can use your views to help!
Watercolour Wonder in Thistle and Schiehallion
In Schiehallion and Thistle Clan we have been exploring art techniques associated with watercolour. We explored nine separate techniques which are often used to create paintings when using watercolour; making our own reference sheet to use for future pieces of artwork. Following this, we analysed pieces of artwork created by unknown artists to identify the techniques they had used and the impact this had on the overall piece.
We have drafted a final watercolour painting and are looking forward to completing our final piece soon!
Promoting Culture and Diversity at Calderwood
At Calderwood, we strive to promote and develop cultural diversity within our school. We would be grateful if you could complete the attached questionnaire and return to us by 15 March.
Many thanks for your support.
Foodbank Collection
During the Harvest and Christmas period, Calderwood Primary School collected 259.8kgs.
This results in a total of 619 meals.
Thank you to all of our families for your support.
Cost of the School Day Family Survey
This term, Schiehallion & Thistle Clans have been leading a project gathering data from pupils, staff and parents about the cost of the school day. They have been researching facts about what poverty looks like in Scotland and the UK.
Further to this, they have been seeking opinions from the pupils in our school about how to spend the participatory budget and are now looking to our Calderwood Communities and families for their feedback. Click here for more information about the participatory budget in Scotland’s schools.
Please take five minutes to complete this anonymous online FORM.
You are welcome to share this form with other members of our community so we get a wide variety of experiences and opinions gathered.
The pupils from Primary 6 clans will be analysing this data as part of their maths curriculum, therefore the reason we have ensured they are anonymous.
We look forward to sharing Schiehallion & Thistle’s findings from this data soon. Our aim is to help support our families and community during the cost of living crisis and use the data to inform how we spend the participatory budget – which you can find more information about through the link above.
Kindest regards,
Mrs Curtin & Mrs Clarkson
Partnership for Parents
Aberdeen: Safer Internet Day
Aberdeen clan celebrated Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 6th February. We watched a BBC Live Lesson which focused on technology of the future and provided an insight into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We were amazed by the concept of driverless cars! We made notes and then created posters to share our new knowledge.
Dress Down Day Fundraiser
We are delighted to announce that our recent Dress Down Day has raised an amazing £423.34. This money will be donated to The Warm Hub in East Calder. Thank you to our generous Calderwood families for your donations!
After School Clubs
We are delighted to be in a position that we can once again offer after-school clubs for our pupils. These will be a range of champion led after school clubs and those ran by external organisations.
We will be offering 3 blocks of after school clubs over the next few months:
Block 1 (P1 and P2) – 19th Feb – 26th Mar
Block 2 (P3 and P4) – 15th Apr – 13th May
Block 3 (P5 – P7) – 20th May – 17th June
P1 and P2 Parents will be contacted soon with more information about the clubs on offer and a form to complete if they would like their child to attend.
