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Last week, our P3-7 clans took part in Financial Education Sessions, kindly delivered by Money Advice Scotland. These sessions looked at Introduction to Money, Budgeting for Events, and Banking and Borrowing. The children thoroughly enjoyed these sessions and learning about such an important subject.

This week, we learned about a famous artist called Wassily Kandinsky. We learned that he is well-known for creating abstract paintings using shapes, lines and colour. In Numeracy, we have been exploring place value, with pupils learning to build numbers to 1,000 and 10,000. Inspired by Kandinsky's "Several Circles", we created abstract art using size... Continue reading Tummel Clan's Creative Calculations

Tay clan have been exploring the water cycle, climate change, habitats and food chains through the context of rivers (our Tay clan namesake). This week we explored our key question 'why does it rain so much in Scotland and where does it come from?'. We also discussed 'what is weather and how does it exist?',... Continue reading Tay Clan - Maths Week Scotland

This week as part of Maths Week Scotland, Leven Clan became Meteorologists! Through our IDL topic - Calderwood Clan Explorers we have been learning about water, where it comes from and what creatures live in and around the water. The questions that everyone wanted to know was.. "Why does it rain so much at Calderwood?".... Continue reading Leven Clan- Maths Week Scotland

In our learning over the last few weeks, Schiehallion have been investigating and learning about place value - making sure we understand the value of each digit within a number. Specifically this week, we have been looking at multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 and even 1000. We wanted to transfer this learning into... Continue reading Maths Week Scotland - Schiehallion

Schiehallion have had an excellent first 2 weeks settling back into Calderwood life after our summer holidays. We have been very welcoming to the new pupils and champions who are now in our clan. We have really enjoyed playing Getting to Know You games, as well beginning our PE lessons. We have also been learning... Continue reading Finding our way in Schiehallion

Calderwood Communicates & Counts - Our Improvement Journey 2023/24 Council Priority: Raising attainment for all, particularly in literacy and numeracy (universal). Go to this Sway