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Ben Lomond Clan have been delving into the art of descriptive writing. We began this journey by writing about our namesake munro. This was a cold piece of work to see what we remembered from last year. We focused on using adjectives to describe Ben Lomond. The 'describing bubble' resource helped us to think about... Continue reading Descriptive Writing in Ben Lomond

In Rannoch this week we have started to look at descriptive writing. We began by writing our cold piece on a sea creature that we had designed and created in our art lesson. We made sure to add lots of detail so we had lots of parts to describe! Since then, we have explored description... Continue reading Rannoch Clan - Description Writing

In Burns clan we identified what we already know about descriptive writing, as we completed our cold assessment. A cold assessment means we had no help from our champion and everything we wrote about was based on all our amazing and creative knowledge from previous learning. Our topic was 'all about me' and we used... Continue reading Burns clan - Descriptive Writing

This week, Baird clan have began to learn about descriptive writing. We started by creating self portraits that included visuals of our hobbies and interests. In reading, we used the game "Guess Who" to focus on using adjectives to describe others as well as ourselves. Towards the end of the week, we completed our cold... Continue reading Descriptive Writing in Baird

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Fundraising & Dress Down Friday In the past, our Primary 7 classes have held a fundraising event to raise funds towards their leavers hoodies. Our Muir & MacKintosh clans are hosting a fun day for the whole school on Friday 6th September. This event will take place during school hours and all children will be... Continue reading Fun day at Calderwood - Friday 6th September

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Burns Clan have had lots of fun learning new things about their clan mates and new champion. We have discussed our goals and ambitions for the year ahead and what we and our champion can do to support us in achieving these. We created a time capsule to record these and will open it up... Continue reading Burns Clan

Burns Clan have had lots of fun learning new things about their clan mates and new champion. We have discussed our goals and ambitions for the year ahead and what we and our champion can do to support us in achieving these. We created a time capsule to record these and will open it up... Continue reading Welcome Back Burns Clan!

Over the last two weeks, Baird Clan have been using the book "Our Clan is a Family" as a context for our learning. We have discussed how the idea of our Clan being a family relates to our school value of belonging, and how we can demonstrate this around the school. While making our clan... Continue reading Baird Clan are a Family