Mull – Page 7 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

West Lothian Running Week Champions

Calderwood joined many schools across West Lothian to take part in West Lothian Running week as organised by Active Schools.

The children used apps and measuring tools to measure out the distance for their clan:

P1 Pupils – 100m

P2 Pupils – 200m

P3 Pupils – 400m

P4 Pupils – 600m

P5 Pupils – 800m

P6 Pupils – 900m

P7 Pupils – 1km

Our Ben Clans advertised the event.

Calderwood are taking part in WL Running Week – we’re up for the challenge! @ActiveS_Wcald @ActiveWL #CalderwoodCares #CalderwoodCommunity pic.twitter.com/mNdUQBsAnS

— Calderwood_Primary (@Calderwood_Pri) October 25, 2021

Ben Lawers & Lomond have been creating posters to offer advice for our cluster running competition. @ActiveWL @ActiveS_Wcald #CreativeCalderwood pic.twitter.com/BzfR9xukiq

— Calderwood_Primary (@Calderwood_Pri) October 28, 2021

The children below placed in the top 15, across all schools, for their age. A huge congratulations to them all!

Calderwood Counts – West Lothian Sumdog Competition!

Today a member of our Ben Lomond Clan had the special privilege of announcing the start of the Sumdog Maths Competition to all our Clans during our Calderwood Connects.

This Competition is open to all primary aged children in West Lothian Council. It began today (26.11.21) and will run until Thursday 2nd December. All members of our Calderwood Community can access Sumdog by clicking here and using their unique username and password. Our School Code is calderwood2.

Within minutes of the competition opening we had a member of our Ben Lawers Clan on the leader board! We very much hope this was the start of a very exciting trend for our Calderwood Community – good luck and happy competing.

Book Week Scotland

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

Home Learning Choice Boards Term 2

Term 2 Home Learning Mull Shetland Orkney

Term 2 Home Learning Bluebell Bramble

Term 2 Home Learning Grid Ness

Term 2 Home Learning Rannoch Clan P3

Term 2 Home Learning Grid Rannoch Clan P4

Term 2 Home Learning Tay Clan

P4-7 Home Learning Ben Lawers_Lomond

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!

Mull October Update

In Mull, we have been continuing to explore and practise our letter and number formations. This week, we have focused on a and 4.
With our letter ‘a’ we have practised the formation and investigated the short and long vowel sounds. The short ‘a’ appearing in words such as: ant, apple, alligator where as the long ‘a’ sound appears in: apron, angel, ace. It can be tricky to get our heads around this but this helps build those initial literacy foundations which will be built on.

We have also investigated the number 4. We practised how to form the number 4 and had our friends choose our best formation. We also learned all about collecting and counting groups of 4 item. We noticed that on our number 4 hunt, the number can appear a little bit different, sometimes it looks more like a triangle shape. We also noticed the written word for 4 FOUR and what a 4 looked like on a dot pattern or on a tens frame. Starting to build on to our number bonds and knowledge of addition, we used our bunny ears to show different ways of making a 4. This may be 3 fingers on one bunny ear and 1 finger on another bunny ear or using double 2.

Sparking some curiosity this week was the item in our curiosity box. Lots of questions posed:
What is it?
How does it feel?
Where does it come from?
It must be from a hot country because it is so big!
How heavy is it?
Is it a cucumber?
Can you eat it?

The item was a gigantic courgette that Mrs Robertson grew in her garden. It was the only piece of veg in her vegetable patch that wasn’t eating by the wild bunny rabbits.

We are really looking forward to our Halloween themed week next week with some extra special spooky learning!