Category: Bramble
Calderwood Clan Championships 2023
Bramble Clan ‘Cultivating calderwood’
Bramble clan are well under way with their new IDL ‘Cultivating Calderwood’.
We have been learning about the water cycle through reading and decided to create our own water cycle in a bag. We added our predictions of what we might see happen on to a post-it note and then discussed what was happening and learnt about the process of the Water Cycle.
Next, we have been looking at recycling and what reduce, reuse, recycle means. We did some note-taking in our reading lessons and then created posters about what we had learnt about these 3 areas. We are more aware of what we do already and what we might do to look after our planet by recycling. We have chosen to create art from items that need recycled as part of our home learning grid.
We planted sunflowers and have positioned them in our area on the windowsill. We are going to plot their growth on a labelled line graph. After day 13, we have seen a lot of growth and are very excited to see these each day, especially after the weekend. One of our pupils has planted an orange seed he brought in from home to see if it will grow. We planted 2 in different conditions – 1 in soil with water and sunlight and 1 with water and sunlight only. So far none of them have grown. We will continue to monitor this.
We planted some seeds at the end of last term, in our school garden and discussed what a plant needs to grow. We applied this knowledge to explore what a sunflower needs to grow and what the life cycle of a sunflower might look like. We drew the life cycle of a sunflower, showing each stage of its life and what it will look like. These are displayed on our IDL learning wall in our corridor.
Art
We explored different art methods in different clans with Mrs Scobie, Miss Ali or Miss Quinn. With Miss Quinn, we looked at 1 point perspective art looking out of a greenhouse towards a house. With Mrs Scobie we looked at 1-point perspective looking into a greenhouse. With Miss Ali, we used watercolours to draw flowers. We were very pleased with our results. These are displayed in our area.
Finally, we have been exploring the different parts of a flower. We have learnt the names of each part, their purpose and what they look like. To look at these and identify these in real life, we dissected a tulip. We then placed each of the parts on a flower lab mat, stating the length and purpose of each. We enjoyed this exploration and even extracted pollen from the stamen. We were fascinated to find out that a flower has both male and female parts.
We have been extremely busy and are so excited to learn more!
Science Centre Trip
Bramble Clan had a fantastic trip to the Glasgow Science centre in Term 3 alongside Bluebell and Thistle. There was much excitement on the bus and we loved all the hands on activites. The I-max Cinema experience was incredible, taking us on a 3D experience on a real space station.
Please take a look at the bottom of this sway to see us in action on our trip.
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Bramble Clan -Term 3
Multiplication circles
We all had a think about our learning in numeracy and felt that we needed to work on our times tables a bit more as knowing these will help us in many other areas of Numeracy and Maths. We made a times tables booklet which includes all our times tables from 2-12. We worked on a challenge, called multiplication circles, to find patterns in our times tables. We connected numbers from each of the times table, creating a shape/pattern in the circle such as pentagons and stars. We also could see that some of the times tables created the same shape/pattern so this helped us to understand relationships between different times tables. Primary 5 learnt this 1st and then taught the primary 4’s how to do this task. We were fascinated at the results.
Planting
We have been learning about how seeds become plants and wanted to have a go at this ourselves. This week we were able to go outside and plant a variety of seeds with Bluebell and Thistle. We all planted our seeds in a pot and have placed them in our school garden. We hope that over the Easter holidays these will grow. Our nursery children are going to help to water them while we are not in school. We enjoyed learning about planting and how a seed grows and have lots of questions about which we will explore in the new term.
Engineering
We have been learning about the engineering process through IDL lessons. We discussed different inventions and how they have affected our lives. We also looked at the history of different Scottish inventions and what problems these solved. This then led us on to thinking about what we might invent ourselves. We thought about a problem locally, internationally or globally and came up with a solution to solve the problem by creating our own invention. We drew a labelled diagram of our invention and wrote a persuasive letter to an engineer, asking them to invent it, giving reasons why this should be invented. We loved being creative and designing our own inventions. Look in our class notebooks in TEAMS to find out what we designed.
Reading – Note-taking
We have been learning to take notes on a text. We have been recording key words and phrases from different texts into different note-taking formats – some of us like to use mind maps and some like to put our notes into sections. Some of us also like to add pictures to our notes. This helps us to remember all the information.
Through note-taking we have been taking notes on different processes such as how an earthquake happens, how sound travels and how a seed becomes a plant. We have found these topics very interesting and have built our vocabulary and knowledge through our note-taking lessons.
We have also used these notes to help plan and write explanation texts in writing. We have really enjoyed learning about the different processes and writing about them.
School trip
There was a buzz of excitement around the P4/5 corridor as we went on our 1st Calderwood School trip to the Glasgow Science Centre. We watched a movie about a space station in the I-Max cinema. We loved wearing our 3D glasses and were trying to touch all the images. It was fascinating! We also loved all the hands-on activities to touch and explore, especially the wonky house! A ggreat time was had by all.
We have had yet another busy and exciting term! Well done Bramble Clan.
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Learning about Scotland in Bramble Clan
This term our learning has been focussed on Scotland.
In writing, we have been learning how to write Haiku poems. After learning and practising the rules, we decided to write Haiku poems based on a Scottish theme. We created a tartan design as a background to our poems, taking care to follow the line patterns and shapes commonly found on tartan. These are displayed on our clan area wall and we hope to share them with you when you come to visit us next week when we share our learning.
In reading, we have listened to and read lots of Scottish stories and texts and have been understanding and reciting Scottish Poems for our poetry competition. We have learnt a variety of Scottish words such as dreich, bairn and fankle. We gathered a list of words together and matched them up to the correct meaning. Some of the scots words have made us really laugh like bahookie, crabbit and keek.
In P.E, we have been working together with Bluebell clan to learn Scottish country dances. We used skills in resilience, tolerance, co-ordination and stamina to support us in learning these dances. We have learnt the Canadian Barn dance, Gay Gordons, St Bernards Waltz and the Flying Scotsman. We have enjoyed this learning and have realised it is fun but exhausting too!
In outdoor P.E, we have been learning to play traditional outdoor games such as rock, paper, scissors, hoop and Peevers. We are learning to play games that need as little resources as possible that we can play together at school or home and we are using our creativity skills to come up with new rules and games. We have loved learning and playing these games together and have shown great sportsmanship, teamwork and creativity.
We have been learning about the life of Mary, Queen of Scots and have been investigating all the key moments in her life. We learned about where and when she was born, about James V, how she became Queen at a very young age and about her life in France. We worked with Bluebell and thistle to learn about her early life. We have used our researching skills to find out more using devices and books we have borrowed from a local library. We have been creating a timeline of all the important events in Mary’s life and have chosen different ways to share what we have found out. We have chosen to draw pictures, build models, write birth/death announcements and created drama freeze frames with added captions which we have then collated and added to our timeline displayed in class. We are enjoying the freedom of choice in sharing our learning in different ways and seeing our work added to the timeline as we learn more about Mary’s life.
Scottish Recital – Clan Winners
Last Friday we celebrated Burns by reciting poems in our clans. The children were absolutely amazing! The hard work, perseverance and confidence was excellent to see, whether on Teams, See Saw or in person. A huge thank you to our families to supporting our children to learn and perform in their own way.
Each clan voted for their winner. Congratulations to our clan winners below. If your child was a winner you are invited to watch your child compete and recite their poem in front of the judges tomorrow.
FAO Parent of Primary 5 pupils – Bramble & Thistle Clans
Your child has been recently involved with a music initiative called ‘Artistic Rhythms’ with Limelight Music. They have been learning and creating music inspired by world artworks from 3 countries in 3 continents – Tanzania, Brazil and Scotland. These countries have been chosen for their rich cultural heritage, which often brings the art forms of dance, music, poetry, rhythm and visual art together.
The block of learning is due to come to an end and the last session will be held on Tuesday 7th February. While I appreciate the short notice and other opportunities to visit school that week are already in place, Limelight would like to invite you in to share what your children have been learning. We will record the final sessions for any parents unable to attend and this will be shared at our ‘Caledonian Clan Celebration’ event.
There are two sessions, your child will know whether they participate in the first group before break or the second group after break.
Session 1 – 10.00 – 10.25
Session 2 – 11.15 – 11.45
We look forward to sharing this amazing learning and welcome you to join in if you wish.
