Calderwood Can 19.05.23
Category: Clan News
Ben Lawers Cross Country Event
Our Ben Lawers Clan did us very proud at our most recent cross country event at West Calder High School, where we had four of the girls place within the top seven and three of our boys finishing withing the top five. We were up against other schools from our cluster and our girls winning, secured Calderwood Primary School girls team to represent West Lothian in the next cross country event. Huge congratulations to everyone that participated and did themselves proud.
Well done Calderwood, next stop, the stars!!!
Thistle Clan 5.5.23
What a fantastic start to term 4 for Thistle Clan!
We have got straight in to exploring our Cultivating Calderwood Focus. Have a little look at our journey so far
In PE we have been investigating cross country running, spot us developing our stamina, endurance, pace and strength here:
In Literacy we have been investigating information reports. We have had a go at our cold piece, remembering what we knew from last year. We then marked this against our targets and got to work investigating the key language features of an information text. Once this was done we used our notes from reading to build a plan as a whole clan and then write a model piece all together. This will now help us as we begin to write with more independence.
Bramble Clan ‘Cultivating calderwood’
Bramble clan are well under way with their new IDL ‘Cultivating Calderwood’.
We have been learning about the water cycle through reading and decided to create our own water cycle in a bag. We added our predictions of what we might see happen on to a post-it note and then discussed what was happening and learnt about the process of the Water Cycle.
Next, we have been looking at recycling and what reduce, reuse, recycle means. We did some note-taking in our reading lessons and then created posters about what we had learnt about these 3 areas. We are more aware of what we do already and what we might do to look after our planet by recycling. We have chosen to create art from items that need recycled as part of our home learning grid.
We planted sunflowers and have positioned them in our area on the windowsill. We are going to plot their growth on a labelled line graph. After day 13, we have seen a lot of growth and are very excited to see these each day, especially after the weekend.  One of our pupils has planted an orange seed he brought in from home to see if it will grow. We planted 2 in different conditions – 1 in soil with water and sunlight and 1 with water and sunlight only. So far none of them have grown. We will continue to monitor this.
We planted some seeds at the end of last term, in our school garden and discussed what a plant needs to grow. We applied this knowledge to explore what a sunflower needs to grow and what the life cycle of a sunflower might look like. We drew the life cycle of a sunflower, showing each stage of its life and what it will look like. These are displayed on our IDL learning wall in our corridor.
Art
We explored different art methods in different clans with Mrs Scobie, Miss Ali or Miss Quinn. With Miss Quinn, we looked at 1 point perspective art looking out of a greenhouse towards a house. With Mrs Scobie we looked at 1-point perspective looking into a greenhouse. With Miss Ali, we used watercolours to draw flowers. We were very pleased with our results. These are displayed in our area.
Finally, we have been exploring the different parts of a flower. We have learnt the names of each part, their purpose and what they look like. To look at these and identify these in real life, we dissected a tulip. We then placed each of the parts on a flower lab mat, stating the length and purpose of each. We enjoyed this exploration and even extracted pollen from the stamen. We were fascinated to find out that a flower has both male and female parts.
We have been extremely busy and are so excited to learn more!
Science Centre Trip
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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Calderwood Nursery Curriculum Rationale
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
Calderwood Basketball
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!
Championing Coding: National Robotarium
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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Roe House Party Celebrations
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.
Calderwood Can Certificates- 21.04.23
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!
