Category: Calderwood
Creativity Champion 2022/23
Support & Challenge Champion
Creative Calderwood – STEM
Today we were delighted to host the Primary Science Development Officers from authorities across Scotland. They were all given a tour of our school building and heard all about the amazing STEM learning which is going on every day at Calderwood Primary School!
Click here to see the Sway for yourself and catch up on the highlights from a Year of STEM at Calderwood.
Request for items for UPCYCLING CRAFT STALL at C in the Park
The Bens have decided to run an upcycling craft stall for C in the Park and are looking for some items that you may have lying around and no longer use.
The items that we are looking for include:
-Old nail polishes
-Plastic take away tubs
-Used or unwanted art sets with acrylic paints, glass paint, paintbrushes etc
-Unwanted strings of beads, jewelry, used or unwanted jewelry making sets
-White or cream tiles from 95mm x 95mm to 150mmx150mm
-Clear varnish
Any small items can be sent in with your child and brought along the Ben Lawers or dropped off at office, making clear what the items are for.
Jubilee Celebrations
A gentle reminder that the children can dress up/down in party clothes tomorrow (2nd June) to celebrate our Jubilee Lunch for a small donation.
Ben Lomond’s Cross Country Challenge
The West Calder High School Cluster Cross Country Competition took place on 24th May 2022 and saw the children from Ben Lomond Clan take on 1.3km of undulating terrain. All the children in this Clan completed the race, hit the targets they had set for themselves and showed huge positivity throughout.
The results are in and we are delighted to announce that a child from Ben Lomond Clan came first in the Boys Race! As a result, they will be attending the Pan-West Lothian event next session to compete against the winners of the other Primary School Clusters.
Many thanks to Kat Stark and all at Active Schools West Calder for organising the event and supporting us on the day.
Into Calderwood – P1 Information 2022/2023
Below is everything you need to know about your child starting Primary 1 at Calderwood.
Welcome & Induction Pack
Welcome to Calderwood Primary 1
Parent Information Evening
Clan (class) formation
Calderwood Clans Formation 22_23
Play in Primary 1
Play in Primary 1 at Calderwood
Transition Project
We’re going on a Buddy Bear Hunt Transition Project
Weekly Home Transition Challenges
Rannoch Clan – Multiplication and Division
Rannoch clan have been learning about the different strategies we can use when multiplying and dividing such as making arrays, repeated addition/subtraction, skip counting and making equal groups.
This week, we explored the relationship between multiplication and division. We created arrays, using different items, to show multiplication calculations and learnt that if we swap the numbers round, we get the same answer. We explored even further and found that we could use the same array to find division facts. This led us to exploring fact families. We built arrays and found all the multiplication and division facts related to them and put these into our fact family houses.
We realised that a fact family is made up of 3 numbers and that we can solve division calculations if we know the related multiplication facts. This might help us to solve division calculations more quickly.
Bring Your Own Device- P4s Tay and Rannoch
At Calderwood, digital technologies is at the heart of our curriculum as we believe it is a fundamental tool for supporting learning and providing pupils with the skills for life, learning and work. Therefore, we would like to offer the Primary 4s from Tay and Rannoch the opportunity to participate in ‘Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)’, where the pupils are permitted to bring their own personal device in to school to support their learning in the classroom.
The P4s from Tay and Rannoch have been discussing BYOD at school by exploring the risks and benefits for their learning. The pupils and champions have collectively created a BYOD charter that highlights the rules and expectations of using your own device. The pupils have also created a video to further explain what BYOD is and to demonstrate the rules that must be followed. Please take some time to read the charter and video we have created with your child. The video can be accessed through this link:
If you would like your child to participate in the BYOD programme, please fill out the form below by Wednesday 18th May 2022. Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding the BYOD programme.
