Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 22/03/24

Calderwood Chronicle 22_03_24

 

Calderwood Commitments:

  • 11/03/24- 27/03/24: Milk order open on iPay for Term 4 – milk will not be available to order after this date.
  • Parents Portal: We would encourage all families to sign up to Parents Portal as you can now complete your EE2 forms for excursions online. You can find more information here.

 

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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.

 

 Calderwood Compliments:

Champion Conversations

A big thank you to our pupils who helped out at our recent Champion Conversations.  They did a great job of directing parents to the correct clan room.  They were polite, helpful and welcoming throughout the whole night.  Well done everyone.  

Caring Cafe Citizen Certificate

This week we launched our new lunchtime initiative – Caring Café Citizen Certificate.  We are looking for pupils to go above and beyond during lunchtime and respect our Café environment. Pupils who demonstrate being helpful and caring are then invited to sit at the High Chair area on a Thursday with a friend, they get a certificate home, 10 house points and are added to our Caring Café Collage.  Well done to our first winners.

Almond Valley Trip

Tummel, Tay, Rannoch, Leven and the P2s from Linlithgow had the best day at Almond Valley this week.  We learned all about shale and the mining that used to happen in West Lothian.  We saw lots of animals and learned about their habitat and what they eat.  We also had lots of fun in the park.  Thank you to all the adults who helped us on our trip.

British Science Week in Bramble Clan

This week in Bramble Clan all of our learning was themed around British Science Week. This included science spelling words, research and writing about ‘How Volcanoes Erupt’.

Whilst rehearsing for our show, Aladdin we had discussions about lighting and microphones and the science behind this.

Our main focus this week was preparing for the upcoming ‘Dragon’s Den’ competition. We considered current problems and issues in the world such as excess rubbish, deforestation and climate change. After researching these topics, we worked in groups to invent a solution. Stay tuned for pictures and videos our amazing ideas!

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Dundee Clan – Engineering

As a clan we have continued to look at the Victorian era as this has really interested us.  After looking at jobs children did in those days, we began to explore inventions.  We found out that the Victorian era was a time of change and different things were invented to make life easier.  From this we explored the different inventions around the industrial revolution and the invention of toys.

We explored a timeline of toy inventions and had a go at creating our own Victorian spinning top with very little materials.  We came to realise that toys were very different to those we have now.

This led us on to our engineering project.  We looked at the job of an engineer and objects around us that may have been engineered.  From this we began to think about a toy we would like to create and began to come up with ideas and plan our inventions.

Finally, we made a final labelled drawing of our design along with a persuasive letter persuading an engineer to make our toy.  Over the next couple of weeks we will work on presenting our designs to our clan and one will be chosen to represent our clan at the whole school Dragons Den competition.

We have also been enjoying our new class novel – Rivet Boy, which is based in the past when the forth rail was being engineered.  We are really enjoying this story.

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