Category: Ben Lawers
Book Week Scotland Sumdog Competition – Results So Far!
Leader board so far …
Mull, Shetland & Orkney
1 – Dylan S
2 – Max
3 – Leah
Bluebell & Bramble
1 – Rachel
2 – Euan
3 – Poppy S
3- Amel
Ness, Rannoch, Tay
1 – Cameron Fe
2 – Max
3 – Ananya
Bens
1 – Belle
2 – Mateo
3 – Jaxon
Poppies for Sale
Ben Lawers & Ben Lomond will be going around classes selling Poppies this week for a donation. @poppyscotland pic.twitter.com/KTu6oBJzWh
— Calderwood_Primary (@Calderwood_Pri) November 9, 2021
Home Learning Choice Boards Term 2
Term 2 Learning Letters
As part of our Communication @ Calderwood strategy, please find below a learning letter for your child’s clan. This will give you an overview of some of the learning taking place in and across clans from now until the Christmas holidays.
Term 2 Learning Letter Mull Orkney Shetland
Term 2 Learning Letter Bluebell Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Bramble Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Ness Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Rannoch Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Tay Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Ben Lawers_Lomond
Calderwood Goes Planting!
Today all the Clans had the opportunity to get outdoors, braving the rain, and plant bulbs. We were really excited to spend time with different Clans – Ben Lawers and Ben Lomond should be so proud of the support they gave to younger children in our community.
We did this to play our part in the nationwide Edina Bulb Project – you can find out a little more about this by clicking here. We were really excited to explore our learning about the needs of a plant even further and cannot wait to see these bulbs begin to sprout in spring!
Bring Your Own Device – Ben Lawers & Ben Lomond
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is an initiative offered across all West Lothian schools to give children the opportunity to safely use their own devices in school.
At all times, children will also have access to school devices such as netbooks and iPads, this is an opt in programme.
Please watch the video below that the children have made. If you would like your child to take part, please read and complete the contract with them. This will start on 19th October. 2021.
In Calderwood Learning
In Calderwood: Opening Week
Ben Lawers & Ben Lomond’s Last Week at Mid Calder!
It was with a little sadness we said goodbye to our (rather small) classroom at Mid Calder.
We started the day with a reflection activity called “Head, Heart, Bin, Bag” where we talked and wrote about:
- Head- what we learned about ourselves
- Heart- what we loved the most
- Bin- what we wanted to leave behind
- Bag- what we were bringing with us to Calderwood!
Lots of us are bringing our maturity, leadership skills and our responsible qualities!
As part of our Invisible String topic, we looked at how we are all connected to each other. We found out we’re connected through our likes, dislikes, interests, friends, families and values.
We also wrote a beautiful piece of personal writing about who our strings are connected to. We got to write a personal recount about a time when we were apart from someone we loved. We included lots of feelings and emotions words to describe how that felt and discussed ways that help us when we have difficult emotions.
We also had a lot of fun creating art pieces in the outdoors. Each group worked together to create a picture that showed their feelings. I think the apple face is happy!
Mrs Clarkson and Miss Watt have been teaching us different games that help our logic, problem solving and thinking skills. Cards, dominoes, draughts and ‘9 man morris’ are the ones we’re the most competitive with!
We ended our week with a little Friday party and can’t wait to begin our adventure at Calderwood!
