Our first certificates of Chapter 2 of Calderwood were presented at our Calderwood Connects today! We are so proud of all learners who received a certificate. Well done for showing kindness, effort and perseverance!
This week in Thistle clan we have been exploring our skills in balance during PE. We have been making balancing activities more challenging and then timing ourselves using stopwatches to see how long we can do them for.
We have also been looking at the strategy of partitioning during our number talks. We have been using progressively bigger numbers and have been practicing applying our strategy.
Here are some examples of how we have been laying out our partitioning answers;
In French we have begun to investigate hair descriptions, we have been taking our time to listen and repeat the key phrase “J’ai les cheveux…” and then we have begun building our vocabulary to describe hair colour, length and texture.
Finally we would like to share our health and wellbeing focus of Friendship. This week we have explored how to make and keep friends. We have enjoyed discussing personal experiences and giving advice to others. We created a friendship soup and added the ingredients we think make up a perfect friendship;
We are looking for some items to make our current classroom ‘Schiehallion’ feel more homely as an extension to our Hawthorn Hut.
We are trying to be as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible so thought we would reach out to our community first and see what we can gather.
Items that we are looking for should be of a good quality and games or puzzles must contain all pieces.
If you have any of the furniture or larger items that we are looking for, please contact the office on wlcalderwood-ps@westlothian.org.uk or 01506 280060 and we will arrange collection.
Thank you 😊
Rugs different shapes and sizes, textures
Cushions/beanbags/oversized soft toys
Bookcase/shelves
Large Kallax (ikea) style unit or box shelve storage unit
Storage boxes
Side table lamps
Throws/blankets
Fitness trampoline, stretch yoga bands, muscle rollers, yoga mats
Blender for making soup/smoothies
Egg chairs with canopy (ikea)
Baby dolls and accessories
Role play – house stuff (kitchen + accessories), dress up material (not costumes), sturdy full length mirror/handheld mirrors, beads, bangles, hats, scarves
Old games consol & games (Minecraft, Sims etc)
Scooters – scuttle bugs/ balance bikes/ swingball (indoor)
Old working toys
Train/ cars trucks and tracks
Figures, Barbie’s, LOL dolls, action figures, dinosaurs, animals farm/zoo,
Table top games
Construction sets – Lego, duplo, k’nex, magnet, marbles
Puzzle/coloring books
Play dough sets/tools
Jigsaw puzzles
Gardening equipment
Primary session 1 – Social Media, Parental Controls, Modelling Good Behaviour, Screen Time vs Screen Use
Tuesday 11th October @ 7pm
Microsoft Teams meeting
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Meeting ID: 360 183 895 563Passcode: nLTnf4
Primary session 2 – Grooming, Online bullying, Online friendships
Monday 7th November @ 7pm
Microsoft Teams meeting
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Meeting ID: 358 089 273 611Passcode: FDU7tm
As part of Primary 1’s ‘Calderwood Creatures’ context for learning. They plan to make a Bug Hotel with the children. We are looking for donations of any resources from our lovely Calderwood community. If you can help please let us know!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
In June, we invited all families to join us for a meeting about composite clans, you will see the information shared at this meeting below.
You can also find here information on how we organise our clans across Calderwood: Calderwood Clans Formation 22_23
