Category: Clan News

“Hope” Anti-Bullying Production

Calderwood Primary had a visit from “Take Away Theatre” last month, who performed “Hope”, an anti-bullying production, to our P4-7 clans.  P4 and P6 clans also participated in follow-up workshops.  The performance was delivered by professional actors and was thought-provoking and entertaining for the children.  The children were captivated throughout the performance.  The workshops for P4 and P6 clans provided the opportunity for the children to explore the issues raised in the performance in greater depth.  Through Health and Wellbeing lessons, children also completed activities in clan related to the performance.

Almond Valley Trip

Tummel, Tay, Rannoch, Leven and the P2s from Linlithgow had the best day at Almond Valley this week.  We learned all about shale and the mining that used to happen in West Lothian.  We saw lots of animals and learned about their habitat and what they eat.  We also had lots of fun in the park.  Thank you to all the adults who helped us on our trip.

Dundee Clan – Engineering

As a clan we have continued to look at the Victorian era as this has really interested us.  After looking at jobs children did in those days, we began to explore inventions.  We found out that the Victorian era was a time of change and different things were invented to make life easier.  From this we explored the different inventions around the industrial revolution and the invention of toys.

We explored a timeline of toy inventions and had a go at creating our own Victorian spinning top with very little materials.  We came to realise that toys were very different to those we have now.

This led us on to our engineering project.  We looked at the job of an engineer and objects around us that may have been engineered.  From this we began to think about a toy we would like to create and began to come up with ideas and plan our inventions.

Finally, we made a final labelled drawing of our design along with a persuasive letter persuading an engineer to make our toy.  Over the next couple of weeks we will work on presenting our designs to our clan and one will be chosen to represent our clan at the whole school Dragons Den competition.

We have also been enjoying our new class novel – Rivet Boy, which is based in the past when the forth rail was being engineered.  We are really enjoying this story.

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British Science Week: Aberdeen

Through our topic, Voracious Victorians, Aberdeen Clan have learned about the impact of the Industrial Revolution and the many advancements in engineering made during this time. We have been learning about what life was like for a young brigger working on the Forth Bridge during the Victorian era through our class novel, Rivet Boy by Barbara Henderson. We have also investigated and compared toys from the past to the toys which we play with today.

We decided to design our own brand new toy designs for the Engineering Leaders Award Competition. We had to consider which problem our design would solve, how it would work, what materials would be used, and what it would look like. We then had to explain our design and write persuasively to convince the judges!

 

Safer Internet Day 2024

To celebrate Safer Internet Day, Ben Lawers took part in an investigation into Fake News. We looked at how to spot Fake News and which sources of information a reliable. We also had a go at creating our own Fake News stories, to see if we could fool our classmates.

Building Resilience in Bluebell

This term in Bluebell, we have been looking at how we can build our resilience through purposeful play and discussions about “bounce-backability”. This week we tested our resilience by trying to lift a plastic cup without touching it.

We had to lift a cup by only using string and an elastic band without touching the cup. To be successful, everyone had to work together and try different strategies until we found one that worked. It was very tricky but when we worked together we managed to do it.

  • Firstly we had to cut a piece of string for everyone in the group.
  • Secondly we put the pieces of string through the elastic band. We then pulled the string to stretch the band over the cup.

It was such a fun activity to do together.

 

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Bluebell’s Fairtrade Learning

This week we have been learning about Fairtrade and cocoa farmers for our explanation writing. We learned about a group of farmers called the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative, which consists of approximately 65,000 farmers.

We learned what Fairtrade is and how it works. Fairtrade gives different farmers (for example banana, coffee and cocoa farmers) a fair price for their products. We made lots of notes about the different stages of cocoa bean farming and worked in pairs or independently to make a colourful and informative leaflet. We also used our genre targets to make sure that our writing followed the correct structure, used complex connectives amongst other things to make our writing as informative as possible. We also got to taste some Fairtrade chocolate and bananas to compare them to non-Fairtrade products.

All in all, it was very fun and interesting to learn about this topic.

Dundee Clan Learning

Dundee clan have immersed themselves in all things non-fiction.  We have been looking at non-fiction books and texts and exploring the features of these compared to fiction books.  We have begun learning about how to write an information report and explored examples of this type of text finding out about the purpose, the sections that make up an information text and what the purpose of these sections are. We will continue to explore this over the weeks ahead.  We have also started our new class novel ‘Rivet Boy’ which is based in the past, at the time of the construction of the Forth Rail bridge which links to our IDL learning about the Victorians and engineering.

We really enjoyed learning about jobs that children did in the Victorian times.  We learnt about the types of jobs they were expected to do for little money and with no safety laws.  We were very shocked at some of the information we learnt.  We had a go at putting ourselves in the children’s shoes by taking part in a ‘Hot-Seating’ Task.  This is where the children pretend that they are a child from the past and the rest of the group or clan ask questions about what life is like for them in the Victorian times and what it is like to work.  The children were very believable in their roles and got a real feel for what it must have been like for children in those times.

We have also really enjoyed learning our example information report text about ‘firefighters’.  We used visual pictures to support us learning the text and came up with some amazing actions to go with it and we all were able to say the text.  The whole clan loved learning this and are looking forward to learning more about this type of writing and having a go ourselves.

 

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Aberdeen Actors!

Aberdeen Clan are learning to compare our modern lives with the lives of children in the Victorian era. We learned that many children had to work to support their families during this time and we looked at the different jobs a Victorian child may have had to do. We then each had a chance to sit on the “hot seat” where we had to act as though we were a working child from the past and answer questions from our peers. We loved getting into character but we agreed that we would rather be in school!

 

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