Well done to our learners who received a Calderwood Can certificate this week! Our focus was on Calderwood Cares and we were very proud to see pupils demonstrating nurture, kindness and friendship towards others.
At Calderwood we pride ourselves in being at the cutting edge of practice, pedagogy and research. With this in mind, we are currently working with Alana Wilks at Heriot-Watt as part of our Engineering IDL topic.
We are taking part in a number of activities designed by Alana, which will stimulate skills and knowledge around the topic of engineering. In order to further research in this field we hope that parents and guardians would fill out online forms and support our pupils in home learning engineering tasks. Alana’s research topic is ‘The perception of engineering in children and parents from ethnic minority backgrounds‘ and the online forms are around this topic. We would be hugely grateful if as many Bens’ Parents and Guardians could explore the online forms and home learning.
There are two forms to fill out:
Watch this space to see some of the activities and thinking from the Bens displayed shortly!
Well done to our learners who received a Calderwood Can Certificate this week! We are so proud of you all!
At Calderwood, our pupils get autonomy over what they want to learn. We try to ensure we listen and follow along with what they find interesting.
Through This Mural (click to see what we said at our last pupil planning meeting)
We decided we would learn about Oceans. Through our planning meeting, we looked at different sub-topics and thought about what we already knew and what we wanted to find out more about:
This week, we looked at where the worlds ocean were and used Google Earth to locate, name and label different Ocean Areas and seas. Mural allows us to work collaboratively on the same document. We used technology, map skills and research skills to complete our geography challenge.
We also found out that the river closest to Calderwood is the River Almond and it runs into the North Atlantic Ocean.
We think we did a great job at our first attempt – what do you think? Spot any mistakes?
We are looking forward to exploring more about ore world’s ocean as we move forward through the term.
Well done to all learners who received a Calderwood Can Certificate this week!
We have been really enjoying learning all about Scottish words and phrases. We have been creating some very special poems to share with our families at Calderwood Caledonia evening. We investigated the clans associated with our surnames and re-created their tartans.
We have been investigating famous scots and have focused as a whole clan on Mary, Queen of Scots. We have been learning about bias, exploring how people lived in the 1500’s and designing our own crests and shields. We are very excited for all our visitors to see our timeline we have created.
We have been exploring Scottish words and translating them into standard English, we loved hearing stories such as Clan MacWee and Mr Men come to Scotland.
Using Scottish maps we have explored co-ordinates and plotted cities, mountains, rivers and landmarks.
In PE, we have been learning skills such as rhythm, timing and the polka in Scottish Country Dancing. We have also been developing our understanding of tolerance and respect when dancing with new partners.
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