Tay Clan – Drama and Advent

Tay clan have been enjoying drama lessons based around story telling.  This week, we had a go at hot-seating.  In hot-seating, we pretend that we are a character and answer questions, from others, as if we were in that particular character’s shoes.  We listened to the end of a story, as we have been working on endings to our own stories in writing, and then our group members asked us questions based on the story we had heard.  We all had a turn and loved pretending to be someone else.  It really got our imaginations switched on!

We have also been learning about advent this week: what it is and how it is celebrated.  Through this learning, we decided to create our own clan advent calendar and base it around the value of kindness. We came up with a kindness challenge for each day of Advent and created our very own kindness calendar.  We are very excited to start using this next week.  We have also made our very own, unique, Tay clan Christmas wreath to hang in our clan room.

 

From Bear Island to the Stage: Tummel Clan’s Adventures in Storytelling and Performance

This week, Tummel clan finished reading The Last Bear by Hannah Gold. The Last Bear follows 11-year-old April Wood on a journey to Bear Island, where she discovers a stranded polar bear affected by climate change. Despite being told no bears remain, April befriends and helps him, embarking on a courageous mission to return him home. The story taught us the importance of protecting our planet, showing kindness, and remembering that young people can make a difference!

As we approached the novel’s conclusion, we planned and performed a short drama to depict April and Bear’s final journey to Svalbard. Our performance focused on key narrative elements—orientation, complication, and resolution—which later guided us in writing our own narrative scripts based on the drama.

Our Tummel Primary 5s had an amazing time at the pantomime watching Cinderella! The excitement reached new heights when one of our lucky clan mates was invited on stage with the mischievous Fairy May. After weeks of hard work crafting our own narrative scripts, it was truly inspiring to experience a live performance. We all agreed—it was a fantastic show!

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 29/11/24

Calderwood Chronicle 29_11_24

 

Calderwood Commitments: 

  • Christmas Lunch: Orders are now closed for Christmas lunch. If you did not order a lunch for your child, they will be required to bring a packed lunch from home.
  • Panto: Cost £1.50 per child: iPay open 20th November-3rd December.  Please let us know if you require support with this.
  • Primary 1 Christmas Show: iPay is open for Primary 1 families for donations towards the Primary 1 Christmas Show. Donations support the purchasing of costumes and tea, coffee, mince pies at the shows.

Calderwood Calendar: 

 

Calderwood Communication:

  • Book Week Scotland at Calderwood: We had a very successful Book Week Scotland with all clans having a focus on a literacy context for learning. You can find out more about your child’s learning on our blog, Twitter and Seesaw.
  • Please find links to Christmas Social Stories: Christmas Party, Christmas Lunch and
  • If your child requires medication, please ensure this is handed into the office and the correct forms are completed. Children should not carry medication in their school bag.
  • Champions: Miss Brown, our non contact teacher who was covering Mrs McGarvey’s maternity leave will be leaving us at the Christmas holidays. A huge thank you to Miss Brown for all she has contributed to Calderwood. Mrs McGarvey will return at the end of February and will teach non contact time.
  • In snow or icy conditions access to the school will be through the front door, we will alert parents/ careers/ children to this. During these times there will be no supervisors in the playground. You can find our safe route here.
  • Parent Council Christmas Prize Draw

Calderwood Compliments:

  • Burns Clan presented their ideas for how to use our participatory budget to Miss Burton & Miss Stark at the Dragons’ Den. They demonstrated so many creative ideas, based on research and how to make Calderwood more equitable.
  • Thank you to our Literacy Champions for organising our Book Week Scotland events.
  • This week our Primary 5 clans were very excited to go to Edinburgh to watch the Panto, this will support them to put on their own show in the new year. Thank you to everyone who made this trip a success.
  • Linlithgow had a fantastic Connects, sharing their learning about Book Week Scotland.
  • This week Blair, Bramble, Thistle and Muir shared their learning with their literacy learning with their families.

 

Burn’s Clan

We have had a busy week in Burns clan!

At the start of the week we started our new math’s concept, adding decimals. We used Aldi brochures and created a roast dinner before adding up the total cost.

Later in the week we were exploring film making as part of our new IDL topic. We had so much fun creating scripts for our mini movies. We also met our movie star Ted the bear.

In addition we explored St Andrew’s day, learning about the history and legacy of St Andrew. We also created some Scottish flags using different shades of blue to add tone and dimension.

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Ben Lawers Clan Blog: P5 Trip to Cinderella! 🎭

Last week, Primary 5 from Ben Lawers Clan had an amazing trip to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre to see the pantomime Cinderella! The bus ride was full of excitement, and the theatre’s grand stage took our breath away.

From Buttons’ hilarious jokes to the Ugly Stepsisters’ outrageous costumes, the show had us laughing, cheering, and shouting along with the classic “He’s behind you!” moments. The magical carriage and Cinderella’s transformation were unforgettable highlights!

The trip was not just fun but inspiring, teaching us about teamwork, kindness, and the magic of live theatre. Thank you to everyone who made this fantastic day possible—we’ll be talking about it for weeks!

 

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Book Week in Muir

For Book Week Scotland 2024, Muir Clan created some beautifully detailed alternative front covers for the novel we are reading in clan.

They were displayed in class and everyone had the opportunity to vote for three of their favourite designs.

1st Place                                        2nd Place                                     3rd Place

We also created fun fact files based on what we already knew and from these, quiz questions for other groups to answer. We focussed on creating fun and engaging questions like True/False, multiple choice and missing words.

We all enjoyed basing our learning around books and reading and our favourite part was being able to give our buddies their reading bags and reading with them in the arena.

 

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Book Week Scotland in Schiehallion

Schiehallion have had a really fun week doing lots of different activities linked to Book Week Scotland. We started the week by designing new covers for our favourite books. Some of the clan chose to create a new cover for our class novel ‘The Last Bear’ – while others chose their own books.

We also took part in a number of quizzes as well. The clan had a lovely time guessing the ‘Staff Shelfies’ where they played detective to try and work out which book shelf belonged to each member of staff. They also took part in a book quiz organised by Mrs Rodford from Primary 6.

The clan then had a surprise visit from Miss Melrose on Thursday, who came to do some reading with the clan while Mr Allan went down to read to Bluebell.

Schiehallion had a lovely week, and are looking forward to continuing our reading over the coming weeks.

Book Week in Rannoch Clan

To celebrate Book Week Scotland, Rannoch clan worked together to create their own front covers for our clan novel, ‘Land of Roar’. Everyone put so much effort into their designs and they turned out amazing. It was very hard for us to pick a winner!

We also completed a book quiz where we scored 7/10 which was a super effort. Some of us also swapped some books with each other and were very excited to have a new book to take and read at home. Some of us also donated some books to the school for other children to read.

Finally, on Friday some of us dressed up as our favourite book characters. The costumes were fantastic and I loved hearing all about your favourite books!

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Book Week in Tay Clan

Tay clan have had a great week celebrating Book Week Scotland!

We worked collaboratively to make a book cover of our clan novel – The Land of Roar.  Some clan members drew the cover of the book and the rest of the clan drew small pictures of characters or scenes from the book that we attached around the cover.  We were very proud of our teamwork.

We completed a book quiz and we think we got all the answers correct, Some of us swapped books with each other and were excited to have a new book to read at home and we enjoyed guessing the champions book shelf in the book ‘shelfie’ quiz.  We got Mrs Scobie, Miss Burton and Mrs Findlay’s book shelves straight away!

We enjoyed a visit from Mrs Findlay who read us the beginning of ‘Rivet Boy’ which we loved so much that we want to read more at another time.

Finally, we dressed up as our favourite book characters.  We had some characters from Harry Potter, Gangsta Granny and even some mythical creatures – I wonder if you can spot a very well-known green monster hiding in our pictures.

We have had a great week, enjoying lots of books and stories and these have helped us to gather new and interesting words that we can use when writing our own stories.

 

Booktastic Week in Burns Clan

This week in Burns clan we have lots of fun celebrating Scottish Book week. At the start of the week we made our way down to the P2 clans to read them a story. We also created our own book covers based on our favourite books and clan reading books. Later in the week we participated in a book quiz and scored 10/10! In addition, we had the opportunity to create our own quiz and Kahoots all about books to our peers. We have had so much fun celebrating Scottish book week and even found some new favourite books

 

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