Category: Calderwood Can

Ben Lomond’s Cross Country Challenge

The West Calder High School Cluster Cross Country Competition took place on 24th May 2022 and saw the children from Ben Lomond Clan take on 1.3km of undulating terrain. All the children in this Clan completed the race, hit the targets they had set for themselves and showed huge positivity throughout.

The results are in and we are delighted to announce that a child from Ben Lomond Clan came first in the Boys Race! As a result, they will be attending the Pan-West Lothian event next session to compete against the winners of the other Primary School Clusters.

Many thanks to Kat Stark and all at Active Schools West Calder for organising the event and supporting us on the day.

Calderwood Can: 11/03/22

Our Ben Lawers and Lomond Clans started British Science Week by organising and teaching a Science Friday Takeover with all our clans.

They nominated children from each clan for a certificate for their contribution and participation in the science tasks!

Congratulations everyone and thank you to our Ben Clans for organising such a successful event.

Scottish Poetry Recital Clan Competition

Our children have been busy learning their Scots and Burns poems the past two weeks, at home and school. Today the children who wanted to enter the clan competition recited their poem for their clan. Congratulations to all our children who recited their poems, their was a real buzz of excitement across Calderwood!

 

The clans then had a secret vote for who they thought should represent their clan at the Calderwood competition, they used the success criteria to help with this. Tay clan used an online form for their votes.

Congratulations to our clan competitions! These children will represent their clan in the Calderwood Poetry Recital next Friday which will have a panel of judges.

The children were also very excited to make a phone call home to share their news!

 

Scottish Poetry Calderwood Competition

As part of our Scottish focus for learning and Burns Day on 25th January the children are participating in a Poetry Recital Competition and have taken home a range of Scottish Poems. The children should choose one poem to learn. The children should learn the poem by heart and use the following success criteria. All children should learn their poem however this is no expectation that they need to recite it in front of the clan if they feel uncomfortable. They also have the option to film their recital, do it to the teacher privately, or as a group. As you will see below, some clans have the same option of poem – this is as these classes are working within the same Curriculum for Excellence level and allows for differentiation. In clan qualifying recitals will take place on Friday 21st January and finals will take place on Friday 28th January (these will be filmed for your viewing).

First Level Success Criteria:

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Second Level Success Criteria:

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The choice of poems your child can choose from can be found below:

 

Mull

Wee Willie Winkie

Orkney

Roguey Poguey

Shetland

The Wee Rid Motor

Bluebell

Twa Leggit Mice

Bramble

Coulter’s Candy

Ness

Nessie

The Crocodile

Twa Leggit Mice

Rannoch

P3

The Gowk

The Snawman

P4

Street-Talk

The Sair Finger-Walter Wingate

Tay

Street-Talk

The Sair Finger-Walter Wingate

Ben Lawers

Graffiti

A Dug, A Dug

Street Talk

Ben Lomond 

A_Red_Red_Rose

The Selkirk Grace

The Banks of Nith

(By Robert Burns)

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