Today (Friday 1st December) Primary 1 pupils will be bringing home tickets for their Christmas shows!
Each pupil has 3 tickets per performance with dates and times as follows:
Tuesday 12th December
9.15am Skye and Shetland
10.45am Mull and Orkney
2pm Ness and Linlithgow
Wednesday 13th December
9.15am Mull and Orkney
10.45am Ness and Linlithgow
2pm Skye and Shetland
If your child is absent today, we will issue the tickets when they return.
Join the Aberdeen Rainforest Rangers as they travel through the layers of the rainforest:
This week, Aberdeen learned about the significance of Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights. We heard the Hindu story of Rama and Sita, discussed its main message, and then made paper lanterns to symbolise the victory of light over darkness. Our special visitors brought with them a selection of items used in their celebration of Diwali and were kind enough to share their family traditions and answer some keen questions! We were even treated to a taste of some traditional coconut ladoo. Thank you for enriching our understanding of this important festival.
Dundee clan have had a great week celebrating Book Week Scotland. We made a collaborative poster of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ which is our class novel and have displayed this in our Discovery Den.
We also enjoyed a visit from a real-life author- Jo Wilcox who shared one of her stories with us.
On Friday, We dressed up as some of our favourite characters from books and enjoyed a book tasting session with our families. We were able to share some of our learning about the rainforest too. We shared our animal factfiles, our rainforest story and our layers of the rainforest flip book.
We are so excited to launch this years Calderwood Careers! This is an opportunity for P4 -P7 to apply for a lunch time job around our school. If you would like to apply for a position, please complete the application form by Monday 13th November. This can be completed at home or school. Remember to be confident and share all the amazing skills you have!
Aberdeen Clan have had a very busy start to Term 2!
As Calderwood Rainforest Rangers, we have enjoyed starting to learn more about rainforests and the different species of plants and animals that live in this unique habitat. We were amazed to learn that rainforests are home to more than half of the world’s species of plants and animals – despite only covering around 6% of the Earth’s surface! We read “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry which encouraged a lot of discussion around the importance of protecting our environment. We also created our own flappy fact files to share our knowledge of the different layers in the rainforest.
In Maths, we created right angle eaters and went on an angle hunt in the classroom. Our hungry eaters discovered lots of 90 degree angles and we found that we were even able to create right angle shapes with our bodies!
Our narrative focus for writing has allowed us to begin to explore different types of figurative language which can be included in our writing to make it more entertaining. We had a lot of fun discussing ideas for our own Haunted House stories and we look forward to writing more stories set in the rainforest.
Mrs De Leun from the National Youth Choir of Scotland has continued her visits to help us learn about rhythm, pitch and music notation. We have loved having the opportunity to sing in class and get involved in the fun games which have helped to support our learning.
Last week, we had so much fun celebrating Halloween! We dressed up for our party where we were able to dance and play games with our friends from Dundee and Stirling – we all agreed it was spooktacular!
Dundee Clan have got off to a great start in term 2. We began our learning about the rainforest through reading the book ‘The Great Kapock Tree’ by Lynne Cherry. We loved listening to this and had so many questions and wonders that we want to explore further. So far, we have learnt about the 7 continents in the world, where rainforests are in the world, why they are so warm and wet and what animals live there through exploring habitats. We were surprised to learn that there is more than one rainforest in the world and that people live in the rainforest! We look forward to learning more.
We have really enjoyed our visits from Mrs De Luen from NYCOS – The National Youth Choir of Scotland. We have learnt about keeping the beat in music, rhythm in music using notation and words to support us, and the pitch in music identifying high and low sounds as well as being introduced to notation. We played lots of games to support our learning and particularly loved having the parachute out.
We are learning about a new genre of writing – narrative writing (story writing). We are confident with the purpose, structure and language features of this genre and have had a go at creating a scary story – The Haunted House, together as a clan. We loved learning about onomatopoeia words and how these types of words can add excitement and interest to our story writing. We are looking forward to creating narrative texts based in the rainforest.
On Wednesday 1st November, we attended the West Lothian Sportshall Athletics Competition at Craigswood Sports Centre. We took part in a number of different track and field events, competing against other Primary 7’s in the authority. The Bens put in a tremendous effort and showed resilience and sportsmanship! 
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