The Bens IDL Showcase

It was that time of the term again for P7!

When they came together to show off all the work and learning they have been doing during their IDL projects!

This term, we used Mural to collaborate and find out our areas of interest. We then tried to group them together to come up with an over arching topic. This term it was: Global Conflict.

See our work and planning here. 

We spent 6 weeks learning about the following sub-topics:

World Leaders

Global Politics and Governments

Human Rights

Wars Throughout History

How the Media talks about conflict

 

To Assess, we created a Rubric together, so we knew what we had to do to be successful:

 

Last Thursday, the big event happened and we invited Primary 4-6 clans to the Discovery Den to see what we had achieved. Here is some of our feedback:

“For each and everyone I really liked how much time you put into this and how much you knew and I can’t believe how much is happening in our lives and I can’t believe it is true. I can’t wait until the next showcase.” – Harlen
“It was amazingly awesome” – Rory
“I really liked the science parts that you put in and you knew so much and I can’t wait to ask my brother more at home!” – Amel 
“I loved the torture game, I tortured Yuvi!” – Lewis
“I really liked it because there was so many details – like Arabic. In the torture game I liked how there was pictures” – Sara
“I loved the food!” – Kira W
“I loved the food and how much effort you put into making it” – Poppy
“I loved the Kahoot because we bet Mrs McGarvey” – Beni 
“I loved the food and I liked the science experiment” – Rachel
“I loved the Kahoot!!!” – Yuvi
“I loved the wordsearch, it was easy” – Jed
“I loved how much effort you put in and the food. I loved that you had all the world leaders!” – James 
“I loved it all and the food was so tasty” – Anav

 

See for yourself just how fab it was!:

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 15/12/23

PDF: Calderwood Chronicle 15_12_23

 

Calderwood Commitments:

  • 11/12/23 – 19/12/23: iPay open for Term 3 milk order: Milk orders will not be available after date.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

  • You will find December events dates here: Term 2 Family Calendar Link
  • 18/12/23: Christmas Party: Dundee (am), Christmas Party: Aberdeen (am), Christmas Party: Stirling (pm). Please wear your party clothes to school.
  • 19/12/23: Christmas Party: Glasgow and Edinburgh (am), Christmas Party: Perth and Tummel (P3 children only) (am), Christmas Party: Tay, Tummel (P2 children only), Linlithgow (P2 children only) (pm). Please wear your party clothes to school.
  • 20/12/23: Christmas Party: Leven and Rannoch (am), Christmas Party: Ness and Linlithgow (P1 pupils only) (pm)
  • 21/12/23: Christmas Party: Mull and Orkney (am), Christmas Party: Shetland and Skye (pm)
  • 22/12/23: Christmas Jumper Day
  • 22/12/23: School closes at 12pm
  • 08/01/24: School reopens
  • Term 3 Family Calendar

 

Calderwood Communication: 

 

Calderwood Construction:

  • Works Completed in the Week:
    • Prep for GF slab
    • Poured 1st floor slab
  • Two Week Look Ahead
    • Continue roof install
    • Trim trail work ongoing
    • Pitch fencing, removal of existing fence 14/12/23, install of new to follow.
    • Started 1st floor SFS
    • Pour GF slab 13/12/23
    • Take muck offsite 18/12/23 – 19/12/23

 

Calderwood Compliments:

  • Primary 4 clans had an exciting excursion to Dynamic Earth this week, thank you to everyone who organised the trip and to our parent helpers for their support.
  • A huge congratulations and well done to our Primary 1 clans for their fantastic Ready, Steady, Elves Show. Their confidence, singing, dancing and acting was fantastic! We loved how they all performed with a smile on their faces. Thank you to our champions for making this happen!
  • Thank you to Darren and Elizabeth from Kirknewton and East Calder Parish Church, who joined us at Connects last week to share the Advent Story.
  • Thank you to our choir, who have sang at all our P1 Shows this week!
  • Thank you to the Parent Council for providing our Christmas Party food and snacks.

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 08/12/23

PDF link: Calderwood Chronicle 08_12_23

 

Calderwood Commitments:

  • 11/12/23 – 19/12/23: iPay open for Term 3 milk order: Milk orders will not be available after date.

Calderwood Calendar: 

  • You will find December events dates here: Term 2 Family Calendar Link
  • 08/12/23: Calderwood Connects: Advent theme from the outreach team from Kirknewton and East Calder Parish Church. This will involve a story about advent and some songs. Please email the office to let us know if this is something you would prefer your child not to attend. For clans only.
  • 11/12/23: Christmas Party: Ben Lawers and Ben Lomond (am). Wear your party clothes to school.
  • 11/12/23 – 19/12/23: iPay open for Term 3 milk order: Milk orders will not be available after date.
  • 12/12/23:
    • 15am: Skye and Shetland Nativity
    • 45am: Mull and Orkney Nativity
    • 00pm: Ness and Linlithgow (P1 pupils only) Nativity
    • Three tickets have been issued per child, per show. Please bring then along with you,
    • Chiefs, House, Vice Captains to wear P7 shirts and ties and Choir to wear school uniform and not P.E Kit please.
  • 13/12/23:
    • 15am: Mull and Orkney Nativity
    • 45am: Ness and Linlithgow (P1 pupils only) Nativity
    • 00pm: Skye and Shetland Nativity
    • Three tickets have been issued per child, per show. Please bring then along with you,
    • Chiefs, House, Vice Captains to wear P7 shirts and ties and Choir to wear school uniform and not P.E Kit please.
  • 13/12/23: Primary 4 Clans Excursion: Please ensure you have paid on iPay, returned the EE2 and ordered a pack lunch if required.
  • 14/12/23: Christmas Party: Bluebell and Bramble (am) Christmas Party: Thistle and Schiehallion (pm) Wear your party clothes to school.
  • 15/12/23: Calderwood Christmas Celebration Connects for Parents/ Carers
    • 9:15-10:00am: Primary 2-3
    • 10:15-11:00am: Primary 4-7
    • Two adults per family – no tickets required
    • Christmas Jumper/ accessory: (normal uniform on bottoms)
  • 18/12/23: Christmas Party: Dundee (am). Christmas Party: Aberdeen (am). Christmas Party: Stirling (pm). Wear your party clothes to school.

Calderwood Communication: 

Calderwood Construction:

  • Works Completed in the Week:
    • Metal deck and reinforcement for upper floor
    • Under slab drainage
    • Blockwork underbuilds to complete
    • Crane lift for roof works complete
  • Two Week Look Ahead
    • Roof install to Continuing
    • Trim trail work ongoing
    • Upper first floor slab prep and pour

Calderwood Compliments:

  • A huge thank you to our Parent Council for organising our fantastic Christmas Fayre last week. Thank you to our families and champions wo helped out on the day. Thank you to our choir and musicians, West Calder High School and Trav for performing. Thank you to everyone who supported the event!
  • Our Bens clans loved sharing their learning with the P4-6 clans. Their IDL showcase was all about Global Conflict with each group researching and presenting a different related topic. They received lots of positive feedback from our pupils.
  • Our Christmas Lunch was a huge success this week! Thank you to our Kitchen, Office and PSW champs to helped to organise the event and to our Ben Clans for serving up the lunch.
  • Our clans were very excited to watch our Primary 1 clans Christmas Show, dress rehearsals this week! Thank you for letting us have a sneak peek.
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