Category: Clan News
Calderwood Can – 25/03/22
Calderwood Connects: Information
As our restrictions in school change, we will start to introduce in person assemblies with our children.
On Friday 25th March, we will have a trial so the children can get used to being together in the Arena with some clans.
On Friday 1st April, we will have our first Calderwood Connects all together in the Arena.
The social story below will help your child know what to expect during these sessions, the champions will go through this with them but you may wish to reinforce this at home.
Calderwood Connects Social Story
Unfortunately, at this time, we are still unable to invite parents and careers along, we will share on our blog what we have discussed with the children.
Calderwood Can: 11/03/22
Our Ben Lawers and Lomond Clans started British Science Week by organising and teaching a Science Friday Takeover with all our clans.
They nominated children from each clan for a certificate for their contribution and participation in the science tasks!
Congratulations everyone and thank you to our Ben Clans for organising such a successful event.
West Lothian Sumdog Competition Starts Today!
Huge good luck to all our amazing Calderwood Primary School Children, they have now been entered into the West Lothian Sumdog Maths Contest! The contest will run between Friday 11th March and Thursday 17th March. Your child can access the competition by logging in via the following link and using their unique username and password along with the school code Calderwood2:
https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in
This competition is a fantastic way to compete against lots of other Primary students, have fun and develop numeracy/maths skills at the very same time. If your child has forgotten their details, please do get in touch with the school office as we’d be more than happy to assist.
Rannoch Clan – Sway of learning
To all in Rannoch clan,
Please find attached a link to our clan sway, showing highlights of our learning in Rannoch clan from January until now. This will continue to be updated so please continue to check in from time to time.
World Book Day!
Today we had great fun in Calderwood Primary School celebrating World Book Day. To spread the love of reading even further your child will have a £1 book token which you can find out more about by clicking here.
To celebrate World Book Day, the Ben Clans were able to be reading buddies with Mull, Orkney and Shetland Clans. The younger children became authors this morning as they wrote all about space. This fun was shared by the older children too, they were given time to free-write and could share this with their buddies later in the day.
Mull Clan, Bens Lawers and Ben Lomond:
Orkney, Bens Lawers and Ben Lomond
Shetland, Bens Lawers and Ben Lomond
In Ness and Rannoch Clan the children have been learning about different setting in books. To celebrate World Book Day they searched the libraries to find books with different setting and then used new and exciting adjectives to describe the settings they found.
Thank you to The Grapes!
A huge thank you to The Grapes in East Calder, for purchasing these chef aprons for Primary 4, for their Le Clan Café event. These aprons will also be used in our STEM Studio for cookery experiences. Thank you!
Seesaw in Primary 1 – 3
A remember to our Primary 1-3 families, our champions are using Seesaw to profile your child’s learning journey, therefore you will be able to view more information about what your child is learning through the app.
We would encourage you to like to the post, so the champion can see you have read it and feel free to leave a comment.
The video below shares some advice on how you can use Seesaw at home.
Tay Clan’s Hot Report Writing
Over the last few weeks, Tay clan have been learning how to write an information report. This week we have been doing hot writing which is when we show everything that we have learned about reports. The context for our writing was castles. This is something we had learned about through STEM. We had to make sure we were using our writing toolkit by including: sub-headings, photographs with captions, evaluation, labelled diagrams, description paragraphs, title, general statement, topic words, adjectives, proper nouns, common nouns and verbs. We even tried to challenge ourselves by using a ‘did you know?’ fact.
In our reports, we described the different parts of a castle, what it was like to live in a castle, what a castle is, who lives in a castle and why, and what does a castle look like.
We can self-assess our writing using the writing toolkit. This will allow us to check that we have everything that we need to make a fantastic report. Miss Redmond will also mark our writing using the report writing targets and share this with us.
At home, we can share what a report is with our families. We are going to ask family members at home if they need to write a report for their job, school, university or college. We are going to show them how they can structure their report and what they could include. Here are some examples of the writing we have created below:
