PE Days Term 4 – 2023/24
Dundee Clan – Similarities and Differences
Dundee clan have been learning about what makes us all different and unique.
We began with creating our own unique fingerprint showing what makes us unique as a person. No two fingerprints were the same!
We explored our similarities and differences further by working with others in our clan to find out what we share with each other and what is different. We loved finding out more about each other – our families, religion, and languages spoken amongst many others.
We completed our learning with Autism Awareness Week, exploring autism to understand this further.
We created paper chain people, which we decided to link together and display in our clan, to celebrate our differences and how we are all unique.
Stirling 28.3.24
This week in Stirling we have been learning all about what makes us different and unique. As it is Austism Awareness and Acceptance week we have been learning about how to better understand autistic people. We have also been exploring what makes us all the same and what makes us different from one another.
Autism Acceptance Week: Aberdeen
In Aberdeen, we have been learning to respect each other’s differences. To celebrate Autism Acceptance Week, we discussed what autism is and shared our experiences. We understand that everyone is unique and we try our best to treat everyone with kindness. We created people paper chains and tried to include as many differences as we could. Our people paper chains will remain on our wall as a reminder to respect each other’s differences and treat people with kindness.
Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 28/03/24
Calderwood Calendar:
Calderwood Communication:
- Our vision and values: we have created this Sway to share with you the vision for Calderwood. We appreciate your views and opinions – Please take a few minutes to complete this survey.
- We have updated our approach to Calderwood Choices for term 4, you can find information about the process here.
Calderwood Construction:
- You can find extension plans and drone footage here.
- Works look ahead:
- External facing brick install continues
- Internal partitions, second side sheeting continues 1st floor
- M&E 1st fix ongoing 1st and ground floor
- Start soft landscaping in trim trail area.
- Break through into existing school works to complete during Easter break.
- New door will be locked and secured from Site side.
- Groundworks to commence.
Calderwood Compliments:
- We had our Dragons Den: Be an Engineer Competition this week. The children who represented their clan in the competition were fantastic and the judges had a very difficult task of picking a winner for each level. Thank you to our judges for supporting the event. A huge congratulations to our winners! You can find out more in this blog post.
- This week our Primary 6 clans had our second visit to Heriot-Watt University – we explored the University as a whole (including lecture theatres!), the National Robotarium and even spent time in the Oriam. You can find more about the visit here.
We can’t quite believe it is the end of another term. It has been a busy time for us with lots of achievements and improvement progress made. I hope all our children and families enjoy the Easter holidays, thank you for all you support this term!
Miss Burton
Calderwood Choices Refresh
Be an Engineer: Dragons Den
A huge well done to all the pupils who took part in our Dragon’s Den event today. Our overall winners are children from:
Early Level: Ness Clan
First Level: Leven Clan
Second Level: Ben Lawers
Our Dragons had a difficult decision for every level. They commented on the confident individuals who presented and pupils showed success in their learning.
Our Dragons were from Morrison construction, Education Scotland STEM team and Heriot Watt Engineering department. A big thank you to them for their time.
You can see some of the designs and ideas in these sways;
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Schiehallion and Thistle – Ocean Literacy Trip
On Tuesday 26th March 2024 Schiehallion and Thistle Clans had our second visit to Heriot-Watt University – we explored the University as a whole (including lecture theatres!), the National Robotarium and even spent time in the Oriam with an inflatable whale.
During the visit we learned all about Ocean Literacy and what happens when litter enters our waterways. We also had time with Whale experts and learned more about how robots can be used to film and interact with animals in their natural habitat.
Below are a number of pieces of learning inspired by our trip and photos of our trip:
P6 Euroquiz
Our amazing Schiehallion and Thistle Clans took part in the 2024 heats of Euroquiz alongside Primary Schools from across West Lothian on Thursday 21st March 2024. They were phenomenal ambassadors for the school and our top teams managed to achieve scores in the forties out of a total of 60 available points. Two teams came joint first place within our school with a gargantuan score of 43/60 respectively!
Many congratulations to St Joseph’s Primary School for scoring 55/60 and going forward to the Scottish Parliament for the next round. A huge thank you of course also goes to Zoe Gordon for facilitating and organising the Euroquiz and fuelling such an interesting, varied and expansive IDL topic at Calderwood Primary School.
