Category: Clan News

Christmas Card Fundraiser

Dear Parents/Carers,

This week your children will have ownership in designing their own Christmas Cards as part of a School Fundraiser called ‘Cauliflower Cards’.  This has been organised by the Parent Council.

Your child will bring their design home with an order form on Monday 30TH of September 2024.  If you would like to order any copies of your child’s design please return the form to school by Thursday 3rd of October 2024.

We appreciate your continued support and look forward to seeing the children’s designs!

Many Thanks

MacKintosh and Muir – P7 Fun-Day

On Friday 6th September our Primary Seven Clans; Muir and MacKintosh ran a Fun-Day Fundraiser for the whole school. It was a fantastic experience for our Primary Seven children to organise and orchestrate a whole-school event – during which our Primary Sevens showed our school values of Caring, Resilience, Integrity and also supported our younger children to feel a sense of Belonging with such efficacy!

We diligently calculated the total after having sorted all the change into respective coins and having counted each type of coin into money bags. We were so lucky to have raised £820.19 in cash and an additional £670.00 in online payments. Making a total of £1490.19 in funds to help reduce the Cost of the School Day for our phenomenal Primary Seven families by funding those Primary Seven Hoodies!

Thank you to all families and children who took part in the day and made donations to our fundraiser. Huge thank you also goes to Skylight Events for making a donation from their business to support our fundraiser.

Here are some great snaps from the day:

Here are some quotes from our amazing Primary Seven role models:

My time at the P7 fundraiser was great! I started off doing face glitter and then got to do soak the P7’s – I got seven buckets chucked over me and it was so fun! After I got dry, I did hair extensions. My experience of the Primary Seven fundraiser was great. – Annabelle

“I loved getting soaked to the core by my Primary Five friend and doing Tattoos for my friends and other people in school!” – Ananya

“I loved helping younger children make bracelets and getting soaked by the P5s who were ruthless. I also enjoyed looking at everyone else’s stations.”- Maddy

“We spent weeks getting ready for our Fun day, getting soaked was really fun and I helped to tidy up after so I was late to go home but so were some other people so it was really fun!”- Isabella

“I was setting my station up with my group and got donation box for the extra money for the fundraiser (which helped a lot) and the preparation was fun but tiring and it was fun!” – Finley

“My time at the P7 fundraiser was fantastic. Most of my time I was helping with the glitter tattoos, and it was fun helping all the kids doing their tattoos. For the last 20 minutes lots of P5 got buckets and started throwing them at me – during Soak the P7s. I got very soaked.” – Millie

“First, I set up the glitter tattoos and I did both my buddies’ glitter tattoos. I advertised my glitter tattoo section and after this I helped the football station quite a lot in the arena. After P3 it was P4 and I was in goals for bibs, and we won 4-2 After break it was p5 and it was funny because the p5 was punting the ball around and it hit me. P6 came on and it was p7 vs p6 and we won 7-1 against them and then we tidied up the arena.” –  Dheeran

“On the day of the p7 fundraiser we got our stuff ready my group were in the arena for the football tournament it was fun to watch the p1’s play football, I got a glitter tattoo then I went outside to see people getting soaked at soak the p7’s I threw a few sponges at the other p7’s when I came back it was the p5’s playing we then played the p6’s we won 7-1 we were happy then it was home time so we cleared are stuff it was a really tiring but a really fun day.” – Poorvaj

“I had a massive crowd waiting patiently for their origami this was the fun part because I was able have fun conversations with them, I was also able to help many p2s who needed my help. For me it was the best time I had in a long time.” – Sartaj

“I liked interacting with people and got to play football as I love to play football.” – Mason B

“I loved getting soaked and doing my neighbour’s face glitter.” – Lacey

“I LOVED the P7 Funday because my brother poured 7 WHOLE BUCKETS on my HEAD in soak the P7s. I got to do my P1 buddies face glitter and made him really happy.” – Farah

“My highlights were: Getting soaked by the P3. After getting soaked we all started chucking buckets and sponges at each other. Doing my Buddy’s face glitter.” – Summer

“My favourite part of the fundraiser was when my sister got to soak me in soak the P7s. After I got dried, I set up my stand (make your own coasters) and surprisingly we got 50 pounds!” – Jessica

“I had an amazing time during the P7 Funday! I did face glitter first which was amazing because seeing kids smile because of you is so sweet! Then I went to soak the P7s and got very wet, but it was very funny!” – Eila

“I really enjoyed the P7 because I was in the origami group.” – Mason L

“I was in the arena football tournament I was the one sorting people’s teams and seeing all the young people playing football. I went in goals when p2 where play it was 4-2 bibs and I was in beat the goals. I helped with the guess the number of sweets in the jar and I helped with the hair extensions.” – Rayan

‘‘I loved helping with different stations such as making origami and helping people make coasters, however my favourite part had to be getting drenched in soak the P7s.’’ – Elliot

Leven: Description Writing

In Leven clan, we began our learning about description texts by creating our own sea creatures using line, shape and colour. We then wrote a description explaining our creature to our peers. We tried to use interesting adjectives in order to bring our sea characters to life and make the description exciting for the reader.

This week, we have continued to develop our descriptive writing skills by using the ‘describing bubble’. We used the well known character of Mr Tickle as our stimulus and used as many adjectives and descriptive phrases as we could to describe him.

We then learned about the purpose and structure of a description text, developing our understanding further of each section.

Finally, we wrote our own description text about Mr Tickle, using the skills and knowledge that we have developed.

 

 

Descriptive Writing in Ben Lomond

Ben Lomond Clan have been delving into the art of descriptive writing. We began this journey by writing about our namesake munro. This was a cold piece of work to see what we remembered from last year.

We focused on using adjectives to describe Ben Lomond. The ‘describing bubble’ resource helped us to think about the colour, texture, size and shapes we could see in photographs. We also looked closely at our writing targets, placing emphasis on the importance of punctuation and ensuring that capital letters and full stops are used correctly.

To support our writing, we used oil pastels to create beautiful images of Ben Lomond. This hands-on activity helped us to explore colour and texture while giving us a visual reference for our writing.

Schiehallion – Descriptive Writing

Over the last couple of weeks in Schiehallion we have been looking at descriptive writing. To begin with, we wrote a ‘cold piece’ to see what we managed to remember from last year. We wrote about Schiehallion, as we wanted to explore our namesake munro.

 

After we had written our cold pieces, we started to learn about how we should structure our descriptive writing. Alongside this, we worked on the type of language that you would find in this style of writing – focusing on nouns and adjectives.

 

We learned about different types of nouns – common, proper and collective – and then we identified these in a piece of writing about the Louvre Museum in Paris.

 

Our next step is to plan and write about our local area. Keep your eyes peeled for descriptive pieces about Calderwood estate coming your way.

Tummel: Description Writing

In Tummel Clan, we have been learning how to write a quality description. From our prior learning, we were able to discuss elements of the describing bubble which is used as a prompt to help us add interesting detail to our writing.

As Calderwood Clan Explorers investigating the meaning behind our clan name, we are beginning to learn about Loch Tummel. We listened to the story of “Gloomy the Misty Loch Monster”, making sure to listen to all of the words so that we could draw a detailed picture of Gloomy from the description. We decided we wanted to imagine our own sea creatures which we did, then described them to our partner to see how accurate their drawing would be!

Afterwards, we described our sea creature as a cold piece writing assessment. We were then able to reflect on what went well and think about what personal targets we could set to make our writing even better next time.

Rannoch Clan – Description Writing

In Rannoch this week we have started to look at descriptive writing. We began by writing our cold piece on a sea creature that we had designed and created in our art lesson. We made sure to add lots of detail so we had lots of parts to describe!

Since then, we have explored description writing further and started to look at the tools which will help us with writing. Rannoch enjoyed reading the Mr Men book about Mr Tickle and used this as our next descriptive writing piece. Firstly, we used the describing bubble to create a plan for our writing which helped us come up with some great adjectives to describe Mr Tickle. Then we looked at the correct structure of a descriptive piece.

Rannoch clan created some wonderful descriptions of Mr Tickle this week!

Burns clan – Descriptive Writing

In Burns clan we identified what we already know about descriptive writing, as we completed our cold assessment. A cold assessment means we had no help from our champion and everything we wrote about was based on all our amazing and creative knowledge from previous learning. Our topic was ‘all about me’ and we used a variety of adverbs, nouns and adjectives to create fantastic pieces of writing.

On Thursday we created a descriptive piece of art work to match our writing, we included lots of interesting and unique descriptive things about ourselves.

Later in the week, we explored what adjectives, adverbs and nouns are as we identified them in a text using highlighters, we also created beautiful posters for our wall to remind us of their definitions.

 

           

 

 

 

 

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