Category: Calderwood Community

Scottish Poetry Calderwood Competition

As part of our Scottish focus for learning and Burns Day on 25th January the children are participating in a Poetry Recital Competition and have taken home a range of Scottish Poems. The children should choose one poem to learn. The children should learn the poem by heart and use the following success criteria. All children should learn their poem however this is no expectation that they need to recite it in front of the clan if they feel uncomfortable. They also have the option to film their recital, do it to the teacher privately, or as a group. As you will see below, some clans have the same option of poem – this is as these classes are working within the same Curriculum for Excellence level and allows for differentiation. In clan qualifying recitals will take place on Friday 21st January and finals will take place on Friday 28th January (these will be filmed for your viewing).

First Level Success Criteria:

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Second Level Success Criteria:

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The choice of poems your child can choose from can be found below:

 

Mull

Wee Willie Winkie

Orkney

Roguey Poguey

Shetland

The Wee Rid Motor

Bluebell

Twa Leggit Mice

Bramble

Coulter’s Candy

Ness

Nessie

The Crocodile

Twa Leggit Mice

Rannoch

P3

The Gowk

The Snawman

P4

Street-Talk

The Sair Finger-Walter Wingate

Tay

Street-Talk

The Sair Finger-Walter Wingate

Ben Lawers

Graffiti

A Dug, A Dug

Street Talk

Ben Lomond 

A_Red_Red_Rose

The Selkirk Grace

The Banks of Nith

(By Robert Burns)

Free bus travel for young people in Scotland

Update

Primary

  • The Parents Portal can be used to apply for a card for primary children between the ages of 5 and 10 inclusive  –  This is the easiest and quickest way to apply.
  • Cards can also be applied for online at https://getyournec.scot/nec/.
  • Just like the current process, application forms for Young Scot cards with travel can be made through the school.  The new application form is attached.

Young Person’s Free Bus Travel Scheme – Customer Service Toolkit – Jan2022

New Young Scot school form 2021

From 31st January, all children and young people aged between 5 and 21 years will be eligible for free bus travel within Scotland.

Children and young people will be able to access free bus travel on registered bus services across Scotland including a very limited number of local cross-border services from the south of Scotland into northern England.

How will young people obtain free bus travel?

Children and young people aged between 5 and 21 years old will need to apply for a National Entitlement Card (Young Scot Card).  Their existing card will not work, they will need to apply for a new one.

The card has an electronic chip inside it. When entering a bus, the driver will ask them to tap the card against a card reader. The card reader will tell the bus driver if the child has free bus travel enabled on their card.

Children under 16 years old will need their parent/carer to apply on their behalf and provide approval for free bus travel to be enabled on their child’s card.

Young people aged 16 years and over will be able to apply for free bus travel themselves.

Children under 5 years old can already travel on buses for free. They will not need a to apply for a card.

When can parents/carers or young people apply for free bus travel?

Applications will open on 10 January 2022.

All children and young people between the age of 5 to 15 will be required to get parental or carers consent to have free bus travel added to their card.  Please note this is not school transport. The free bus travel is for the public bus network only.

Young people 16 years or older can apply for a new Young Scot card themselves.

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.

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