Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Burn’s Clan

We have had a busy week in Burns clan!

At the start of the week we started our new math’s concept, adding decimals. We used Aldi brochures and created a roast dinner before adding up the total cost.

Later in the week we were exploring film making as part of our new IDL topic. We had so much fun creating scripts for our mini movies. We also met our movie star Ted the bear.

In addition we explored St Andrew’s day, learning about the history and legacy of St Andrew. We also created some Scottish flags using different shades of blue to add tone and dimension.

Ben Lawers Clan Blog: P5 Trip to Cinderella! 🎭

Last week, Primary 5 from Ben Lawers Clan had an amazing trip to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre to see the pantomime Cinderella! The bus ride was full of excitement, and the theatre’s grand stage took our breath away.

From Buttons’ hilarious jokes to the Ugly Stepsisters’ outrageous costumes, the show had us laughing, cheering, and shouting along with the classic “He’s behind you!” moments. The magical carriage and Cinderella’s transformation were unforgettable highlights!

The trip was not just fun but inspiring, teaching us about teamwork, kindness, and the magic of live theatre. Thank you to everyone who made this fantastic day possible—we’ll be talking about it for weeks!

Book Week in Muir

For Book Week Scotland 2024, Muir Clan created some beautifully detailed alternative front covers for the novel we are reading in clan.

They were displayed in class and everyone had the opportunity to vote for three of their favourite designs.

1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place

We also created fun fact files based on what we already knew and from these, quiz questions for other groups to answer. We focussed on creating fun and engaging questions like True/False, multiple choice and missing words.

We all enjoyed basing our learning around books and reading and our favourite part was being able to give our buddies their reading bags and reading with them in the arena.

Book Week Scotland in Schiehallion

Schiehallion have had a really fun week doing lots of different activities linked to Book Week Scotland. We started the week by designing new covers for our favourite books. Some of the clan chose to create a new cover for our class novel ‘The Last Bear’ – while others chose their own books.

We also took part in a number of quizzes as well. The clan had a lovely time guessing the ‘Staff Shelfies’ where they played detective to try and work out which book shelf belonged to each member of staff. They also took part in a book quiz organised by Mrs Rodford from Primary 6.

The clan then had a surprise visit from Miss Melrose on Thursday, who came to do some reading with the clan while Mr Allan went down to read to Bluebell.

Schiehallion had a lovely week, and are looking forward to continuing our reading over the coming weeks.

Book Week in Rannoch Clan

To celebrate Book Week Scotland, Rannoch clan worked together to create their own front covers for our clan novel, ‘Land of Roar’. Everyone put so much effort into their designs and they turned out amazing. It was very hard for us to pick a winner!

We also completed a book quiz where we scored 7/10 which was a super effort. Some of us also swapped some books with each other and were very excited to have a new book to take and read at home. Some of us also donated some books to the school for other children to read.

Finally, on Friday some of us dressed up as our favourite book characters. The costumes were fantastic and I loved hearing all about your favourite books!

Book Week in Tay Clan

Tay clan have had a great week celebrating Book Week Scotland!

We worked collaboratively to make a book cover of our clan novel – The Land of Roar. Some clan members drew the cover of the book and the rest of the clan drew small pictures of characters or scenes from the book that we attached around the cover. We were very proud of our teamwork.

We completed a book quiz and we think we got all the answers correct, Some of us swapped books with each other and were excited to have a new book to read at home and we enjoyed guessing the champions book shelf in the book ‘shelfie’ quiz. We got Mrs Scobie, Miss Burton and Mrs Findlay’s book shelves straight away!

We enjoyed a visit from Mrs Findlay who read us the beginning of ‘Rivet Boy’ which we loved so much that we want to read more at another time.

Finally, we dressed up as our favourite book characters. We had some characters from Harry Potter, Gangsta Granny and even some mythical creatures – I wonder if you can spot a very well-known green monster hiding in our pictures.

We have had a great week, enjoying lots of books and stories and these have helped us to gather new and interesting words that we can use when writing our own stories.

Booktastic Week in Burns Clan

This week in Burns clan we have lots of fun celebrating Scottish Book week. At the start of the week we made our way down to the P2 clans to read them a story. We also created our own book covers based on our favourite books and clan reading books. Later in the week we participated in a book quiz and scored 10/10! In addition, we had the opportunity to create our own quiz and Kahoots all about books to our peers. We have had so much fun celebrating Scottish book week and even found some new favourite books

Book Week Scotland in Baird

This week, Baird have enjoyed a range of reading and writing activities to celebrate Book Week Scotland. We were given the opportunity to deliver the book bags to the Primary 3 clans and read their books together. Both Baird and P3 loved this experience! We have also created some new front covers for books we have been reading, completed a Book Week Quiz and created fact files for characters from our novels.

In writing, we have been focused on creating narrative texts. This week, we became authors as we looked at creating a sci-fi story. Before writing, we revised the different features of a narrative. We used a diamond 9 diagram to identify the importance of each feature from most important to least. We then reflected on our previous stories and chose a feature to focus on this week.

We began planning for our writing by creating our own planets to visit. We drew these in our jotter and labelled our planets with any key information we wanted to add. We then filled out our plans, wrote our stories and shared them with our peers, who then gave us some feedback before we edited and self assessed.

Book Week Scotland in Tummel Clan

Tummel Clan have had a wonderful time celebrating Book Week Scotland! We took part in a number of quizzes and competitions including guessing the Champion book “shelfie” and designing our very own book covers. We even got a chance to create fact files and quizzes about some of our favourite reads – check them out and have a go on the Calderwood Loves Reading Teams page!

Book Week in Ben Lomond

Some wonderful learning took place during Book Week Scotland in Ben Lomond Clan.

During our Stag Starts, we participated in a range of creative activities based on our favourite books and our clan novel, The Last Bear by Hannah Gold. We recreated book covers, constructed setting dioramas and developed character profiles.

During drama, we looked at various fairy tales and acted out the storyline from another character’s perspective.

As our current reading focus is questioning, we worked together to create a quiz centred around the stories explored throughout the week.

Our fun-filled week ended with a surprise visit from Miss Small who read to us during ‘milk and story’ time.