Baird Clan Connects

On Friday morning, Baird Clan came together to share their learning with their families and the rest of the school community through their Clan Connects.

The children told us all about the Cost of the School Day and their important role in deciding how our Participatory Budget is spent.  They did an amazing presentation and we are so proud of each and every one of our learners.

Baird Clan then spent some time with their adults, sharing more of their learning.

Thank you to all parents and carers who were able to come along to support Baird Clan on Friday morning.

 

Ben Lawers 27.10.24

Hi Folks,

We have been enjoying Maths Week Scotland in Ben Lawers clan. In number, pupils have been exploring multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.We have been exploring the decimal point and using 0 as a place holder.

In maths we have been measuring the weight of every day objects using scales with Mr Gannon.

As part of our Calderwood Clan Explorers focus we have been exploring temperatures on mountains. By using what we know about negative number we have been comparing temperatures from the top and bottom of mountains, discussing what effects these temperatures and how to find the average temperature.

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Rannoch Clan – Maths Week Scotland

As part of Maths Week Scotland, Rannoch clan have been using their measuring skills to conduct an experiment! Within our IDL topic called ‘Calderwood Clan Explorers’, Rannoch have been learning about Loch Rannoch, the water cycle and the big question ‘why does it rain so much in Scotland?’.

To answer this question, we decided to make our own rain gauges to measure the amount of rain that falls here in Calderwood. We constructed these using recycled plastic bottles and used our knowledge of measuring to create a scale on the side of the bottle in centimetres. We then placed our bottles somewhere safe in the playground where we can record, explore and analyse the data next week.

Tummel Clan’s Creative Calculations

This week, we learned about a famous artist called Wassily Kandinsky. We learned that he is well-known for creating abstract paintings using shapes, lines and colour. In Numeracy, we have been exploring place value, with pupils learning to build numbers to 1,000 and 10,000. Inspired by Kandinsky’s “Several Circles”, we created abstract art using size to represent our chosen number, broken into its individual place value parts.

We also had a lot of fun creating our own origami animal bookmarks to celebrate this year’s Maths Week theme, ‘Maths Tales’. Origami involves turning a flat piece of paper into a 3D object, requiring lots of spatial awareness! We also discussed the fractions involved as we folded the paper into halves and quarters. As we creased the paper, we realised how important the relationship between the lines and angles created are to the final design of the origami creation!

 

Tay Clan – Maths Week Scotland

Tay clan have been exploring the water cycle, climate change, habitats and food chains through the context of rivers (our Tay clan namesake).  This week we explored our key question ‘why does it rain so much in Scotland and where does it come from?’.  We also discussed ‘what is weather and how does it exist?’, looking at where it comes from, how it forms clouds and why and how we measure rainfall.

 

We learnt about meteorologists and why they measure rainfall and why this is necessary.  We decided to make our own rain gauges to measure the amount of rain that falls in our area.  We used our measuring skills, that we have been learning in maths lessons, to support us to complete this challenge.  We will explore how to collect, record and analyse our data in future lessons.

 

 

Leven Clan- Maths Week Scotland

This week as part of Maths Week Scotland, Leven Clan became Meteorologists!

Through our IDL topic – Calderwood Clan Explorers we have been learning about water, where it comes from and what creatures live in and around the water. The questions that everyone wanted to know was.. “Why does it rain so much at Calderwood?”.

In answer to this question we have explored the water cycle and why and how weather differs in different areas around the globe. We then used our knowledge of measurement to create a rain gauge from recycled plastic bottles.

Next week we will collect data from our rain gauges to measure how many centimetres of rain fall there has been.

Baird Clan – Maths Week Scotland

This week in our numeracy lessons, we have been focussing on making estimates. We have used our knowledge of rounding to help us to estimate the answers for different addition, subtraction and multiplication problems.

 

We also took on the challenge of esti-mysteries and used our maths knowledge and problem solving to answer the problems. We enjoyed these so much that we decided to create our own esti-mysteries. We used clues that tested our knowledge of number patterns, place value and fractions to create our problems. We are so excited to try out our esti-mysteries next week!

 

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Maths Madness in Burns

This Week in burns we have been exploring estimation. We began by exploring what estimation is, before testing our knowledge using Esti-mystery. Esti – mystery shows an image and clues and you have to estimate what the number is using the clues given. We loved Esti- mystery and had so much fun doing them, we decided to create our own. Once they were complete, we set our peers the challenge of working them out.

In addition to Esti- mystery we estimated the distance of things in our clan. We estimated how many jumps it would take us to get along the corridor before checking how accurate our estimation was.

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