Category: Ness
Burns Poetry Competition
At Calderwood we currently have a Scottish focus for learning. All clans will participate in a Scottish/Burns Poetry competition in clan. All children will be encouraged to participate in their own way – whether that is filmed, performed to their clan or to their champion on 27th January. The finalists will be put forward to a whole school competition on Friday 3rd February.
Please see below the options of poems the children can choose to learn.
Early and First Level
Second Level
Happy First Birthday Calderwood!
Chapter 2 of our First Week in Calderwood!
Clan Changeover Transition Challenge 1: Clan Capsule
Calderwood Clan Championships
Array Cities in Ness Clan
L.I. I am learning to create arrays and use them to find multiplication facts.
Ness Clan have been getting crafty this week, creating their own Array Cities! They enjoyed using different colours and shapes to create their buildings. They had to create equal rows of windows on each building, experimenting with different shapes and sizes. They counted the rows and columns to find multiplication facts. Some of Ness clan challenged themselves to find matching division facts to create fact families. They discussed their cities with one another.
Next steps: Building up their knowledge of different multiplication facts and beginning to use quick recall to mentally make these calculations.
Term 4 Learning Letters
Ness Clan’s Bird Boxes
Ness Clan have been honing their design skills and learning all about the birds around Calderwood in Taylor Wimpey’s bird box competition. Find out more about what we have been up to in our fabulous SWAY here:
Autism Awareness in P3 and P4
L.I. I am learning about autism and that we all have differences and similarities.
Ness, Rannoch and Tay clans have been finding out all about autism for World Autism Acceptance Week. We shared our prior knowledge about autism and then read some stories to find out more. We recognised that autism is one of many things that make someone unique and we celebrated this by making venn diagrams to show our similarities and differences. Some of the pupils were keen to share their knowledge with others so we made a video showing our understanding and ideas about autism and why awareness is important.
Watch our video here:
