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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Thank you to our children, parents/carers and champions who have had a key role in deciding our values and developing our Curriculum Rationale. Please see below our Curriculum Rationale, we would like your feedback on this.
Curriculum Framework Calderwood Nursery
What a year it has been for our very first Basketball Teams. We have been lucky enough to have not just ONE but TWO teams competing this year – KNICKS & LAKERS
Mrs Morrison and Mrs Robertson have been so proud of how every team member has developed throughout this past year. We have demonstrated fantastic teamwork and an abundance of core basketball skills. Through participating in our conferences at WCHS and Armadale Academy, we have also been able to demonstrate excellent sportsmanship, resilience and utter determination.
Our Knicks have one final conference to attend and will hopefully progress onto the silver playoff weeks – GO KNICKS!
Thank you to all parents who have come along to support us over these past few months!
The Bens had a phenomenal opportunity to take a trip to the newly-opened National Robotarium. Ben Lomond and Ben Lawers had the most amazing day being ambassadors for our school, showing off their robotics and coding knowledge, and exploring new AI technologies.
Please see the Sway created by Ben Lomond all about their trip:
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On Friday 21st April, Roe House had their term 3 celebration. The pupils hosted their own pyjama party that included party games, hot chocolate and treats! The pupils enjoyed playing musical statues and corners as a house. Well done to Roe for your hard work in term 3.
Well done to all of our learners who received a Calderwood Can Certificate this week. It was great to see lots of success in Calderwood Counts and lots of empathy and respect being displayed across the school. We are so proud of your achievements!
Ben Lomond have created their own sway which reflects their own experiences of the camp.
They hope you enjoy looking through their work 🙂
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Happy Easter everyone! Please find a social story regarding holidays 🙂
See you soon!
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.
What a fantastic term we have had in Thistle. Our Engineering focus has been so much fun and you can follow our lesson and journey here:
We have also really enjoyed learning all our new skills in Basketball. We have developed our triple threat, defence tactics and applied them all to games. Check out our progress here:
We are also all so grateful for all your donations, we began our planting journey this week and hope to continue this after the spring holiday.
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