Category: Calderwood

Food Allergies and Halloween

Allergy UK run a ‘It’s Time To Take Allergy Seriously’ campaign, which includes a focus on the importance of being allergy aware during festivities and celebrations including forthcoming Halloween.
“For the parents of children with food allergies, Halloween especially, can present an extra reason to be frightened. It is estimated that 1 in 12 children are affected by food allergies and a recent poll indicated that nearly 69% of parents believe more awareness is needed of the potential risks of food allergies in children. 52% of respondents would feel more comfortable with their child trick or treating if houses identified as allergy friendly and were more aware.”
To ensure Calderwood is allergy inclusive we have attached a copy of Allergy Uk’s ‘More Treats No Tricks Halloween Guide’. This includes:
  • Recipes
  • Parents guide to stress less Halloween
  • Tips to be an allergy friendly host
  • Allergy safe logo to be displayed at your home (these are available within school also if you don’t have access to a printer)
  • allergy alert cards to send to neighbours or with houses displaying the allergy safe logo  (these are available within school also if you don’t have access to a printer)
  • Treats to avoid and alternatives.
Have a happy and safe Halloween.
Mrs McLaren

Spooktacular Baird Clan

Baird Clan have begun to get in the Halloween spirit this week by creating our own spooky characters! We started with a game of “table wars”, with each table giving examples of Halloween related vocabulary until only one table was left. We then created riddles in pairs or independently as a way of focusing on describing objects without using their names. Finally, we created our own monster characters and used adjectives, similes and metaphors to describe our creations. Next week, we will use our monsters as the basis of our own spooky stories.

 

 

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Halloween in Ben Lomond Clan

Ben Lomond Clan have been having a blast in clan this week with some spooky Halloween-themed activities.

We kicked things off by taking a look at Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ before adding our own Halloween twist to it. The children then crafted some amazing artwork inspired by this stunning piece, focusing on colour and creating texture with paint. 

We also took on a Halloween Code Breaker challenge, in which we used our teamwork skills and knowledge of four-digit addition and subtraction to crack a fun Halloween joke. We really enjoyed the challenge!

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Tummel Dioramas

Tummel Clan have been very busy exploring their namesake habitats, the Tummel River and Loch. To consolidate our learning, we upcycled materials to make a three-dimensional model of a scene called a diorama. We had to apply what we had learned about the habitat such as the climate, plants and animals. We also had to plan, share tasks and collaborate on the construction as we worked together in groups to complete our dioramas!

Our Very First House Meetings!

This afternoon, we had our very first House Meetings in our four houses:

Fallow, Red, Roe and Sika.

Our Junior Leadership did a fantastic job introducing themselves properly to all of our houses and sharing more about themselves.  The children then got the chance to speak to someone they didn’t already know, or find out something new about someone that they did know.

There was such a sense of belonging, particularly as the children wore their house colours.

We look forward to our next house meetings!

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Baird Clan Connects

On Friday morning, Baird Clan came together to share their learning with their families and the rest of the school community through their Clan Connects.

The children told us all about the Cost of the School Day and their important role in deciding how our Participatory Budget is spent.  They did an amazing presentation and we are so proud of each and every one of our learners.

Baird Clan then spent some time with their adults, sharing more of their learning.

Thank you to all parents and carers who were able to come along to support Baird Clan on Friday morning.

 

Ben Lawers 27.10.24

Hi Folks,

We have been enjoying Maths Week Scotland in Ben Lawers clan. In number, pupils have been exploring multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.We have been exploring the decimal point and using 0 as a place holder.

In maths we have been measuring the weight of every day objects using scales with Mr Gannon.

As part of our Calderwood Clan Explorers focus we have been exploring temperatures on mountains. By using what we know about negative number we have been comparing temperatures from the top and bottom of mountains, discussing what effects these temperatures and how to find the average temperature.

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