Ben Lomond Fundraiser – 30th September

Message from Ben Lomond

As part of our context for learning Ben Lomond Clan have planned and organised a fundraiser for 30th September to raise funds for Primary 7, this includes:

  • Purchasing Leavers Hoodies
  • P7 celebration events; such as a meal out to celebrate the end of Primary
  • All things Primary 7

So far we have been very lucky that local businesses, including Linwater Caravan Park, Stirling Developments and Taylor Wimpey have also contributed to the Primary 7 fundraising.

On the day, the clans can take part in timetabled events which you can see in the poster below.

The suggested donations for some of the activities are:

  • Soak the P7’s: £1 per throw
  • Brick a Brack and home baking: 5p-£1 donation

If you would like to contribute, please remember to give your child some change on Friday 30th September – 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p,£1 (unfortunately no change can be given). Alternatively, you can make donations through iPay impact by clicking on funds and selecting P7 Fundraiser, this account will open on 22nd – 30th September.

 

On this day children can also dress down, (please remember no football tops or crop tops).

 

All children will have the opportunity to take part in the event, the suggestion of a donation is not compulsory. 

 

Also, on the day we are offering a champion car wash. We would appreciate it, if you could follow any cones and signs placed in the playground on 30th September.

 

There is still the opportunity to donate any brik a brack until 26th September.

Thank you for your support.
Yours sincerely,
Tyler (and the rest of Ben Lomond)

 

Home Learning Choice Boards

Please find below a copy of the home learning choice boards for Term 1. Our approach to home learning is flexible to ensure we met the needs of our families and children’s extra curricular activities, therefore the amount of tasks you complete are up to you as a family. The tasks are a mixture of online and discussion/ paper tasks. If children choose to share any of their home learning with their clan they can do this via their champion.

 

The tasks are also uploaded to Seesaw/ Teams. Children will bring home their log in cards this week, please ensure you keep these in a safe place.

 

You can find further information here:

Our Parent Council are currently setting up a working group to consult on our approaches to home learning to ensure we meet the needs of our families.

P1 Home Learning Choice Board T1

P2 Home Learning Board- Term 1

Primary 3 Home Learning Board– Term 1

P4 Home Learning Choice Board_Term 1

P5 Home Learning Choice Board_Term 1

P6 Home Learning Choice Board_Term 1

P7 Home Learning Choice Board_Term 1

Calderwood Nursery – reporting an absence over September Weekend

Dear Parent/Carer,
Calderwood Primary will close for a holiday on Friday 16th September and remain closed on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th September.
Calderwood Nursery will be open on Friday 16th September and Tuesday 20th September, however will be closed on Monday 19th September to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth 2nd in line with West Lothian arrangements.

To report an absence/share any information On 16th and 20th of September please call the nursery phone on 01506 280070 as the school office will be closed.

Kind Regards

Term 1 Writing in Bluebell

Over this term, Bluebell will be developing their skills in descriptive writing. We have started to look at, discuss and apply the structures of description using our PM example texts. This will gradually build up into pupils creating their very own descriptive texts, applying their learning independently.

To support the development of our writing skills, pupils have and will continue to throughout the year, to work on the principles of VCOP.
V – quality vocabulary
C- Sentence connectors to construct more detailed sentences
O- Sentence openers
P – Punctuation

We became ‘Sentence Doctors’ to cure some sick sentences by applying VCOP. We were excited to share some of our cured sentences with Miss Burton. Pupils in Bluebell worked extremely hard to make considered choices for their vocabulary.

Pokemon and Football Cards

We would appreciate if children could leave Pokemon or football cards at home. There have been some incidents where children have lost them, have swapped cards (and then realised they didn’t want to swap them), etc. leading to them becoming upset. Thanks for your help in advance.

STEM in The Bens

STEM is a huge part of who we are at Calderwood.

Recently, the Bens have been exploring the area of chemistry and chemical reactions.

We started by giving the pupils the chance to experience first hand a basic chemical reaction – water, oil and an effervescent tablet! – They were given the instructions but no adult support to carry it out.

This encouraged independent and collaborative learning & problem solving skills.

 

Next, we watched and observed the magic that took place! The comments, questions and curiosity from them was fantastic.

-“why is mine fizzing so much?”

-“why does the oil sit on top of the water?”

-What makes it do that?”

 

With our curiosity activated, we learned all about the chemical reaction & creation of carbon dioxide.

 

The following week, we conducted a fair test and began to explore how scientists set up testing by ensuring variables & conditions were all the same, only making one change at a time.

 

Children worked amazingly together to investigate their own scientific enquiry questions such as:

 

“what happens to the amount of fizz if I change the amount of tablets?”

“what happens to the oil bubbles if I use milk instead of water?”- (warning, it smelled awful!)

“what happens to the amount of fizzing time if I use less water?”

 

Well done, Bens – it was fantastic to watch you experience the wonders of STEM on your own.

 

Remembering Queen Elizabeth II

Today, across our clans we took some time to reflect on this moment in history and celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth. Some clans made pictures of her, discussed what she did for the United Kingdom and beyond, wrote poems and reflected on her achievements.

Some of the older clans also watched a Newsround clip.

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