Calderwood Chronicle: 08/12/22

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Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 08/12/22

Chronicle and Calendar are also attached to this email. 

Calderwood Commitments (Actions):

  • P1 Nativity tickets donations open on iPay
  • Milk for term 3 is currently open on iPay to order, until 20th December.
  • A gentle reminder that all children should have outdoor footwear left in school so they can play on the grass/ outdoors in all weathers. We also recommend that children bring a change of socks and bottoms to keep in school in case they get wet playing outdoors. Please let us know id you need any support with this.
  • We continue to request that all families order their lunch on iPay, prior to the start of the school day. Children in the morning take part in a range of Stag Start activities to help them settle into the school day, stopping to ask them to order their lunch interrupts their learning time.
  • In this calendar you will find a list of all events until the end of term please ensure you read so you and your child can be prepared: Christmas Countdown Calendar

Calderwood Calendar: 

Capturing Calderwood (Twitter):

  • Christmas at Calderwood

Calderwood Communication (for information)

  • We have a range of uniform available at our front foyer for free or for a donation, please have a look.
  • If anyone has pots, pans, tyres, wooden spoons and metal spoons that they could donate to the school to please let us know, as we are trying to develop our outdoor areas.
  • Calderwood Choir at the Christmas lights switch on: Have a look at their video here.

Calderwood Compliments: 

  • Bramble Clan Connects: A huge well done to the children and champions in Bramble Clan, for their assembly last week and to the clans this week. It taught us all so many new facts about the brain and we loved their creative, confident, knowledgeable and inspiring performance!
  • Congratulations to our Book Week Scotland: Be an Author Winners!
  • Congratulations to our Nativity scenery winners!
  • Last week we had our first ever Christmas Fayre, organised by our Parent Council. That you so much to everyone who worked behind the scenes and on the day. Thanks to everyone who attended, to support our school.
  • From our Parent Council about the Christmas Fayre: The P7s were amazing, thanks to them and the staff helpers for staying late to help. They were amazing and we couldn’t have done it without them.

P2/3 Clans Virtual Museums

Hello Primary 2 and 3 clans! Here are the virtual museum links for researching your clan’s country this afternoon.

These links are for us in class.

Rannoch

Museum of Spain

Leven

The Museum of Scotland [Recovered]

Linlithgow

canada

Tay

Australia Virtual Museum

Tummel

The democratic republic of congo museum

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Nativity Competition Winners

Our clans took part in a Nativity competition hosted by our Primary 1 clans. Well done to both pupils whose designs have been picked to be the background to the Nativity set. We can’t wait to see your artwork in the performance. We know our Primary 1 clans will love it!

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Be an Author Competition

As part of our Book Week Scotland Celebrations, Calderwood took part in a ‘Be an Author Competition.’ This involved all pupils writing a narrative story about a quest or adventure. Each clan nominated a winner for their clan that would go through the final. All entries for the final were judged by an author called Linda Erskine. Well done to all of our clan finalists!

 

 

A massive congratulations to our P1-3 winner, P4-5 winner and P6-7 winner. All pupils have received a voucher to spend at Waterstones. Enjoy your celebrations! We are all so proud of your achievement!

 

Calderwood Primary Presents Christmas Around the World

Primary 2-7 children invite one family member along to the performance below in our Arena.  We look forward to seeing you.

If you are attending both performances you can wait in the Arena between times.

(Children should wear Christmas jumper/ accessorise on top and uniform on bottoms).

Flexible Learning Spaces – Ben Lawers

 

Ben Lawers have been using the space in the clan room, in the discovery den and in the break out space in a way which they find effective and comfortable. The Ben Lawers clan have access to a variety of spaces to learn and have been getting cosy while working independently and collaboratively. Pupils have access to design and shape the room to meet their needs and help them to do their best work. In these environments, we can see pupils are engaged in their learning and trying their best. At home, the Ben’s can discuss their favourite hideouts to work and explain why they love it so much!

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Rich Thinking in Ben Lomond

In Ben Lomond, we have been taking part in ‘rich thinking tasks’.

Researched & developed by Peter Liljedahl, in his book ‘Building Thinking Classrooms, ‘Rich Tasks’ are what help us develop thinking, focus, collaboration and problem solving skills.

We have been asking our own questions and working together to answer them. Click on our working Mural to see what we have been investigating: https://app.mural.co/t/p5674878/m/p5674878/1668019801710/a4710e942591b6376ed5ad757ed9507c33a79ff9?sender=u02dad2b8e3b96ab9b15d6187

We have been exploring measure, shape, perimeter and area to answer questions about our own school and playground. We self-direct ourselves by choosing which part of the task to work on, whilst communicating our finding with the rest of the class and contributing to the overall research.

We’re also enjoying using vertical wall spaces for workings!

 

 

Cosy Corner Club – Upper Challenge 1

A group of our upper school pupils were tasked with a challenge to fully research what activities are available for kids in Livingston. They had to work in a small group to find total costs, bus times and costs before voting on the best place to go. They invited Miss Burton to listen to their ideas and pitched their proposition. All of the children were able to convince Miss Burton that a visit to our local cinema via local transport and to visit Hot Flame was the best option. The pupils created their own itinerary using the information they had gathered, were involved in the risk assessment and one of our pupils was responsible for booking of the trip by phone.

This group are now our ‘Upper Skills’ ambassadors and some are looking forward to leading the next challenge… Ready, Steady, Cook 👨‍🍳

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