Clan News – Page 41 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Tay clan have been making Christmas baubles for our Christmas craft fundraiser. We got to decide on the creation we wanted to make and what treats we wanted to put inside. Some of our clan have created baubles for their pets. To advertise our Christmas baubles we have created sways. Please take a look at our Sways below.

You can purchase them on Friday 17th December at a price of £2.50 each.

Learning in the Nursery

At Calderwood Nursery our children have say in what and how we learn – based on their interests.

Find out what the nursery have chosen as their focus for learning and our learning journey through our Planning Floorbook Sway. You will see examples of our discussions, observations, plans and outcomes achieved!

Learning in Mull, Shetland & Orkney

Tay Clan’s Gymnastics Show

To showcase our learning in PE, Tay Clan performed a gymnastics show. The pupils worked in groups to create and perform their own gymnastics routine. They had to make sure their routine included jumps, balances and rolls. Miss Redmond was very impressed to see tricky movements being used such as a pike jump, a teddy bear roll and an arabesque balance. Each group selected their own song for their performance and joined a series of movements together. The pupils shared their routines with the rest of Tay Clan and we gave peer feedback using yellow for yes and green for growth.

There was lots of creativity and confidence being demonstrated by Tay! Miss Redmond was proud to see all the learners trying new things and persevering when movements were challenging! Well done!

Tay Clan should share their routines with family and friends at home. I would love to see you performing these different movements in safe and new places!

Climate Change

Rannoch clan have brought their learning about climate change to a close this week. After learning about deforestation through our reading of The Lorax by Dr Seuss, some of us transformed ourselves into the Lorax to ‘speak for the trees’. We used our new-found skills in persuasive writing to write a persuasive piece on what we could do as a community to look after the trees. Fantastic pieces of writing were produced using a clear structure, sensing verbs and persuasive language.

Some pupils have been learning about waste with Miss Redmond and they went for a walk around Calderwood to look at what bins were available for waste and recycling. Tjhey made a persuasive poster to persuade others to think more carefully about the waste we produce and how we dispose of it.

Some pupils learnt about transport and how this can affect our environment, with Miss Reid. They completed a traffic survey of Calderwood and created air quality sensors for round the school.

Our final task was to use art to persuade the Calderwood community to look after our planet. We discussed colour in art and thought about how we might use this in a picture showing our world in all its beauty and showing the world if we do not take action. I am sure you will agree that everyone produced very powerful pictures, showing great persuasive techniques through art.

All in all, we have had a very interesting and informative look at climate change and have many ideas on what we can do to support our planet moving forward.

Well done to all in Rannoch clan.

Launch of Calderwood Careers

This week children in P4-6 were given the opportunity to apply for a Calderwood Career at lunch time, to develop their creativity and leadership skills.

On Friday the children were very excited to receive some training and find out more about their role.

We are all set for our new playground routines on Monday.

Calderwood Can Certificates – 03/12/21

This week we launched our Calderwood Can Certificates, for those children who have went above and beyond or for achievements in learning.

Congratulations everyone!

West Lothian Running Week Champions

Calderwood joined many schools across West Lothian to take part in West Lothian Running week as organised by Active Schools.

The children used apps and measuring tools to measure out the distance for their clan:

P1 Pupils – 100m

P2 Pupils – 200m

P3 Pupils – 400m

P4 Pupils – 600m

P5 Pupils – 800m

P6 Pupils – 900m

P7 Pupils – 1km

Our Ben Clans advertised the event.

Calderwood are taking part in WL Running Week – we’re up for the challenge! @ActiveS_Wcald @ActiveWL #CalderwoodCares #CalderwoodCommunity pic.twitter.com/mNdUQBsAnS

— Calderwood_Primary (@Calderwood_Pri) October 25, 2021

Ben Lawers & Lomond have been creating posters to offer advice for our cluster running competition. @ActiveWL @ActiveS_Wcald #CreativeCalderwood pic.twitter.com/BzfR9xukiq

— Calderwood_Primary (@Calderwood_Pri) October 28, 2021