Category: Calderwood

Over the last two weeks, Baird Clan have been using the book “Our Clan is a Family” as a context for our learning. We have discussed how the idea of our Clan being a family relates to our school value of belonging, and how we can demonstrate this around the school. While making our clan charter, we spoke about one of Miss Boden’s favourite sayings, “we are just like popcorn, our learning all pops at different times”. We used this quote as the basis for our clan charter.

We have also looked at the importance of resilience and working as a team. We started with a small team game where each team had to balance a hula-hoop on their fingers and get it to touch the floor. We soon realised without good communication this was extremely tricky! As a clan, we looked at some successful teams from this year’s Olympics, and discussed what made them a good team. We were surprised to see that many of the skills were ones we used in our own Clan team.

We have had so much fun getting to know each other in Rannoch clan these past 2 weeks!

We have been focusing on the book ‘Our Class is a Family’. We read the book together and shared our thoughts on what makes our clan a family. This then led us on to create our clan charter, where we discussed the UNCRC and decided on what we thought should be our clan expectations for the year. We made sure to link it to our school values of ready, respectful and safe!

We have enjoyed taking part in different STEM challenges to develop our teamwork skills. Rannoch clan have also created some wonderful drawings of their family and have loved building friendships with each other.

We have had a wonderful time getting to know each other in Tummel Clan!

As we begin to build our clan community, we explored the story “Our Clan is a Family” and discussed its meaning. We agreed that our clan room should be a safe place where everyone feels confident to be themselves and make mistakes. We recognised that we each have similarities but that we are all unique and should respect each other’s differences. We talked about what makes a good friend and had fun creating friendship bracelets for those closest to us!

Throughout the first two weeks of school, Ben Lomond clan have been busy exploring the school building and our new Clan Room.

We delved into the book ‘Our Clan is a Family,’ which inspired us to play games that help us identify what connects us, what makes us different, and what makes us a team. We also made displays to reflect this and to decorate our new home. We enjoyed engaging in STEM challenges to further develop our teamwork skills.

In addition, we located Ben Lomond on a map and considered the activities we could do there and the animals that live there. We used this information to create unique table names including ‘Loch Porpoises’, ‘Highland Golden Eagles’, Wind-Surfing Sea Birds’ and ‘Fresh Water Otters’. We look forward to exploring this further through our new IDL topic.

Thank you so much to everyone who was able to attend the parent/carer camp presentation this evening on Teams.

Please see the attached slides.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

2024 Camp Parent Meeting Presentation