This week we launched our Calderwood Can Certificates, for those children who have went above and beyond or for achievements in learning.
Congratulations everyone!
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
The children below placed in the top 15, across all schools, for their age. A huge congratulations to them all!
Today a member of our Ben Lomond Clan had the special privilege of announcing the start of the Sumdog Maths Competition to all our Clans during our Calderwood Connects.
This Competition is open to all primary aged children in West Lothian Council. It began today (26.11.21) and will run until Thursday 2nd December. All members of our Calderwood Community can access Sumdog by clicking here and using their unique username and password. Our School Code is calderwood2.
Within minutes of the competition opening we had a member of our Ben Lawers Clan on the leader board! We very much hope this was the start of a very exciting trend for our Calderwood Community – good luck and happy competing.
Leader board so far …
Mull, Shetland & Orkney
1 – Dylan S
2 – Max
3 – Leah
Bluebell & Bramble
1 – Rachel
2 – Euan
3 – Poppy S
3- Amel
Ness, Rannoch, Tay
1 – Cameron Fe
2 – Max
3 – Ananya
Bens
1 – Belle
2 – Mateo
3 – Jaxon
Ness, Rannoch and Tay clan have been learning about COP26 together, finding out what it stands for, what it is, why it is happening, and what it means for us and have been learning about climate change with Miss Christie in our STEM lessons. Through our learning, we wanted to explore climate change even further.
Today, Ness, Rannoch and Tay clan were visited by Miss Connor, our RAISE Primary Science Development Officer in West Lothian, who gave us an introduction to the science behind climate change.
We discussed what the words climate and climate change meant and why climate change is happening. We then looked more deeply into greenhouse gases that are released into the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide, learning about the links between CO2 and climate change.
Following this discussion, we all carried out an experiment to see if we ‘could see CO2’.   After making predictions of what we might see happening in the experiment, we added sugar to a test tube of warm water and mixed it till the sugar had dissolved. We then added some yeast to the mixture before, finally, placing a balloon over the top of the test tube. We waited for approximately 10 minutes to see what might happen. We found that the balloon inflated, showing that a gas had been created. This helped us to understand how carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere and trapped, causing the planet to become warmer.   We really enjoyed carrying out the experiment and checking our predictions.
After completing the experiment, we discussed why climate change matters to us and what we can do to help. We look forward to looking deeper into this in the coming weeks. Thank you so much to Miss Connor for allowing us to learn and think more about climate change.
#WL_STEM
As part of our Communication @ Calderwood strategy, please find below a learning letter for your child’s clan. This will give you an overview of some of the learning taking place in and across clans from now until the Christmas holidays.
Term 2 Learning Letter Mull Orkney Shetland
Term 2 Learning Letter Bluebell Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Bramble Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Ness Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Rannoch Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Tay Clan
Term 2 Learning Letter Ben Lawers_Lomond
Today all the Clans had the opportunity to get outdoors, braving the rain, and plant bulbs. We were really excited to spend time with different Clans – Ben Lawers and Ben Lomond should be so proud of the support they gave to younger children in our community.
We did this to play our part in the nationwide Edina Bulb Project – you can find out a little more about this by clicking here. We were really excited to explore our learning about the needs of a plant even further and cannot wait to see these bulbs begin to sprout in spring!
