Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 20/10/23

Calderwood Chronicle 20_10_23

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

Calderwood Communication: 

Calderwood Construction:

  • Earlier this week we issued communication on the enhanced measures we have put in place during the first two weeks of construction. Education Officers have also supported us with organising and implementing these arrangements.
  • West Lothian Council have instructed our contractor to install temporary fencing around the pitch and playing fields. This will restrict public access to the school grounds during construction. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances installation has been delayed but anticipated for week beginning Monday 23rd
  • The fencing in the immediate playground is hoping to be finished by the end of next week, meaning that in week beginning 30th October, we should return to some more ‘normality’ for our daily routines.
  • We are looking into the traffic congestion issues with the contractors in the surrounding areas of the school. A gentle reminder to families that there is no parking on the Nethershiel Road side of the school. Also, our staff finish their shifts at different times, we would ask if you are using the carpark that you park responsibly.

 

Calderwood Compliments:

  • A huge well done to Thistle Clan for starting our Clan Connects for the session, they shared their learning about inventors and inventions with the clans and their families. Thank you for everyone who came along to support them. You can see some photos on Twitter.
  • Thank you to our Parent Council for organising the Halloween Swap Shop today! What a fantastic way to support our children to get ready for the spooky season.
  • Well done to Roe House for winning the house points for Term 1, they received a PJ party this week to celebrate!
  • Thank you to our Parent Council for all their fundraising efforts, you can find out more about how we use their donations here.

Term 1 – Dundee Clan

Term 1

We have had an extremely busy and exciting term 1 in Dundee Clan.  Please click on the links to access all the sways which show our learning and hard-work for the term.  These can also be found in TEAMS in the relevant folders.

Calderwood Can Explorers: https://sway.office.com/FlL3Pa94r8njCymc?ref=Link

Calderwood Communicates: https://sway.office.com/ahKrI0qWNH2GW9SK?ref=Link

Calderwood Counts: https://sway.office.com/f6fvZSk9mDTIEmHF?ref=Link

Calderwood Cares: https://sway.office.com/06aSfHkt0KTYWg0w?ref=Link

 

 

Calderwood Clan Explorers – Dundee

Calderwood Clan Explorers

Throughout the first term we have been exploring our namesake clan ‘Dundee’.  We completed some research to find out where Dundee is located in Scotland and what important landmarks can be found there.  We explored the Tay Bridge, the RRS Discovery ship, the V & A museum and Broughty Castle.  We completed research through reading and researching online.  We presented our findings to the rest of our clan.

In Maths, we discussed the rules of 1-line of symmetry.  We practised this skill by using pictures of different landmarks from Dundee and drawing the other half of the picture to make sure it was symmetrical.  We loved this.  We realised a lot of buildings are symmetrical and discussed how this skill is used in architecture in the world of work.

We have been learning how to identify the location of a landmark on a map by using grid references.

Finally, we created a cityscape of Dundee.  We explored warm and cool colours, discussing how these make us feel and how they are seen in a sunset.  We created our sunset pictures using watercolours discussing how to blend the colours together.  We explored how much water is needed to get the colour just right.  After our pictures dried, we cut out our chosen Dundee landmark from black sugar paper to make our cityscape,  These are displayed in our cabin and look beautiful.

Please click on the link to look at our Calderwood Clan Explorer Sway.

 

Go to this Sway

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Description Writing

Dundee Clan began their writing journey by exploring description writing.

We completed our first piece of writing, describing our favourite animal.  We remembered to use the describing bubble to support us which reminds us to describe size, colour, texture, position, number, shape and what our animal does.

We explored the structure of description writing and learnt the names and purpose of the different sections in a description text.  We have come up with hand signals to represent each section which will help us remind us about the order in which to build our descriptive pieces of writing.

Finally, we explored the language features of a description text, looking closely at the nouns, adjectives and pronouns, recording them in a grid that we can refer to later when writing our own descriptions.

We will continue to explore this genre of writing further by writing description texts and exploring descriptive passages in our reading lessons.

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