Rannoch – Page 4 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Calderwood Clan Championships

Rannoch Clan – Multiplication and Division

Rannoch clan have been learning about the different strategies we can use when multiplying and dividing such as making arrays, repeated addition/subtraction, skip counting and making equal groups.

This week, we explored the relationship between multiplication and division. We created arrays, using different items, to show multiplication calculations and learnt that if we swap the numbers round, we get the same answer. We explored even further and found that we could use the same array to find division facts. This led us to exploring fact families. We built arrays and found all the multiplication and division facts related to them and put these into our fact family houses.

We realised that a fact family is made up of 3 numbers and that we can solve division calculations if we know the related multiplication facts. This might help us to solve division calculations more quickly.

Bring Your Own Device- P4s Tay and Rannoch

At Calderwood, digital technologies is at the heart of our curriculum as we believe it is a fundamental tool for supporting learning and providing pupils with the skills for life, learning and work. Therefore, we would like to offer the Primary 4s from Tay and Rannoch the opportunity to participate in ‘Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)’, where the pupils are permitted to bring their own personal device in to school to support their learning in the classroom.

The P4s from Tay and Rannoch have been discussing BYOD at school by exploring the risks and benefits for their learning. The pupils and champions have collectively created a BYOD charter that highlights the rules and expectations of using your own device. The pupils have also created a video to further explain what BYOD is and to demonstrate the rules that must be followed. Please take some time to read the charter and video we have created with your child. The video can be accessed through this link:

If you would like your child to participate in the BYOD programme, please fill out the form below by Wednesday 18th May 2022. Please get in touch if you have any questions regarding the BYOD programme.

Term 4 Learning Letters

Mull Orkney Shetland Learning Letter – Term 4

Bluebell Learning Letter Term 4

Bramble Learning Letter Term 4

Ness Learning Letter Term 4

Rannoch Learning Letter Term 4

Tay Learning Letter Term 4

Ben Lawers and Ben Lomond Learning Letter – Term 4

Rannoch Clan Term 4 learning journey

Please click on the link below to look at Rannoch clan’s term 4 learning. This will continue to be updated.

Rannoch Clan Writing

Writing – The Naughty Troll

Rannoch clan were shocked this week to find that one of their learning spaces was extremely messy and Mrs Scobie showed them a picture of the school playground with lots of litter lying around in it. Mrs Scobie suggested that it might have been a cheeky troll that was up to mischief and caused the mess. We decided that we needed to catch the troll so that this didn’t happen again. In groups, we used different materials to create troll traps. Once we made our trolls traps we decided to use this for the subject of our shared story writing. Our whole clan worked together to plan and write a story about ‘The Naughty Troll’. We made sure that we followed the correct structure of a story which we had learnt about earlier in the week. We also edited our story as we went along, changing words to make our story more interesting. We wrote a fantastic story together. We have shared it here to let you enjoy it too.

Term 3 PE in Tay and Rannoch

Term 3 – PE in Tay and Rannoch This term in Tay/Rannoch, we have been developing our skills in Handball. Go to this Sway

Autism Awareness in P3 and P4

L.I. I am learning about autism and that we all have differences and similarities.

Ness, Rannoch and Tay clans have been finding out all about autism for World Autism Acceptance Week. We shared our prior knowledge about autism and then read some stories to find out more. We recognised that autism is one of many things that make someone unique and we celebrated this by making venn diagrams to show our similarities and differences. Some of the pupils were keen to share their knowledge with others so we made a video showing our understanding and ideas about autism and why awareness is important.

Watch our video here: