Calderwood Can Certificates were given out to all these fantastic pupils. We had a variety of literacy work, numeracy work and lots of certificates for going above and beyond. Well done to all.
Category: Clan News
Calderwood Can: Friday 19th April
Well done to our Calderwood Can certificate holders on Friday!
They enjoyed their Calderwood Cuppa straight after our Connects, with Mrs. Warden and Miss Connor.
Dundee Clan – Similarities and Differences
Dundee clan have been learning about what makes us all different and unique.
We began with creating our own unique fingerprint showing what makes us unique as a person. No two fingerprints were the same!
We explored our similarities and differences further by working with others in our clan to find out what we share with each other and what is different. We loved finding out more about each other – our families, religion, and languages spoken amongst many others.
We completed our learning with Autism Awareness Week, exploring autism to understand this further.
We created paper chain people, which we decided to link together and display in our clan, to celebrate our differences and how we are all unique.
Stirling 28.3.24
This week in Stirling we have been learning all about what makes us different and unique. As it is Austism Awareness and Acceptance week we have been learning about how to better understand autistic people. We have also been exploring what makes us all the same and what makes us different from one another.
Autism Acceptance Week: Aberdeen
In Aberdeen, we have been learning to respect each other’s differences. To celebrate Autism Acceptance Week, we discussed what autism is and shared our experiences. We understand that everyone is unique and we try our best to treat everyone with kindness. We created people paper chains and tried to include as many differences as we could. Our people paper chains will remain on our wall as a reminder to respect each other’s differences and treat people with kindness.
Schiehallion and Thistle – Ocean Literacy Trip
On Tuesday 26th March 2024 Schiehallion and Thistle Clans had our second visit to Heriot-Watt University – we explored the University as a whole (including lecture theatres!), the National Robotarium and even spent time in the Oriam with an inflatable whale.
During the visit we learned all about Ocean Literacy and what happens when litter enters our waterways. We also had time with Whale experts and learned more about how robots can be used to film and interact with animals in their natural habitat.
Below are a number of pieces of learning inspired by our trip and photos of our trip:
P6 Euroquiz
Our amazing Schiehallion and Thistle Clans took part in the 2024 heats of Euroquiz alongside Primary Schools from across West Lothian on Thursday 21st March 2024. They were phenomenal ambassadors for the school and our top teams managed to achieve scores in the forties out of a total of 60 available points. Two teams came joint first place within our school with a gargantuan score of 43/60 respectively!
Many congratulations to St Joseph’s Primary School for scoring 55/60 and going forward to the Scottish Parliament for the next round. A huge thank you of course also goes to Zoe Gordon for facilitating and organising the Euroquiz and fuelling such an interesting, varied and expansive IDL topic at Calderwood Primary School.
“Hope” Anti-Bullying Production
Calderwood Primary had a visit from “Take Away Theatre” last month, who performed “Hope”, an anti-bullying production, to our P4-7 clans. P4 and P6 clans also participated in follow-up workshops. The performance was delivered by professional actors and was thought-provoking and entertaining for the children. The children were captivated throughout the performance. The workshops for P4 and P6 clans provided the opportunity for the children to explore the issues raised in the performance in greater depth. Through Health and Wellbeing lessons, children also completed activities in clan related to the performance.
Almond Valley Trip
Tummel, Tay, Rannoch, Leven and the P2s from Linlithgow had the best day at Almond Valley this week. We learned all about shale and the mining that used to happen in West Lothian. We saw lots of animals and learned about their habitat and what they eat. We also had lots of fun in the park. Thank you to all the adults who helped us on our trip. 
Dundee Clan – Engineering
As a clan we have continued to look at the Victorian era as this has really interested us. After looking at jobs children did in those days, we began to explore inventions. We found out that the Victorian era was a time of change and different things were invented to make life easier. From this we explored the different inventions around the industrial revolution and the invention of toys.
We explored a timeline of toy inventions and had a go at creating our own Victorian spinning top with very little materials. We came to realise that toys were very different to those we have now.
This led us on to our engineering project. We looked at the job of an engineer and objects around us that may have been engineered. From this we began to think about a toy we would like to create and began to come up with ideas and plan our inventions.
Finally, we made a final labelled drawing of our design along with a persuasive letter persuading an engineer to make our toy. Over the next couple of weeks we will work on presenting our designs to our clan and one will be chosen to represent our clan at the whole school Dragons Den competition.
We have also been enjoying our new class novel – Rivet Boy, which is based in the past when the forth rail was being engineered. We are really enjoying this story.
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