School Blog

This term, our clan has been transported back in time! Primary 5 have been delving into the days of the Scottish Wars of Independence, while Primary 4 have been uncovering the rich local history of our area with Miss Small and Mrs Scobie. As part of our exploration of the Scottish Wars of Independence, Primary... Continue reading Tummel's Journey Through History!

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... Continue reading From Bear Island to the Stage: Tummel Clan's Adventures in Storytelling and Performance

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... Continue reading Book Week Scotland in Schiehallion

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... Continue reading Book Week in Tay Clan

This week, Baird have enjoyed a range of reading and writing activities to celebrate Book Week Scotland. We were given the opportunity to deliver the book bags to the Primary 3 clans and read their books together. Both Baird and P3 loved this experience! We have also created some new front covers for books we... Continue reading Book Week Scotland in Baird

Book Week Scotland - see poster for details of what is happening this week. Book Week Scotland at Calderwood PS Book Week Scotland (18th -24th Nov) is a national celebration of books and reading. During this week pupils in P1-P3 will be gifted a 'Book Bag' in school. Gifting the bags during Book Week... Continue reading Book Week Scotland at Calderwood 2024

Book Week Scotland Costume Ideas

Tay clan were very proud to share their literacy learning with families this week. We were very excited to demonstrate what and how we have been learning in our writing lessons and the progress we have made in our writing. It was a lovely afternoon. Thank you to everyone who attended. We also enjoyed listening... Continue reading Tay Clan - Sharing the Learning

This week in Schiehallion we've been writing Halloween poems. Our aim was to write riddle poems using six clues to describe a Halloween object. The reader would then have to guess what they think the poem is about. We used our descriptive language skills that we developed last term to help write our clues. I... Continue reading Spooky Schiehallion

West Lothian Family Languages Event

In Leven clan, we began our learning about description texts by creating our own sea creatures using line, shape and colour. We then wrote a description explaining our creature to our peers. We tried to use interesting adjectives in order to bring our sea characters to life and make the description exciting for the reader.... Continue reading Leven: Description Wriring

Over the last couple of weeks in Schiehallion we have been looking at descriptive writing. To begin with, we wrote a 'cold piece' to see what we managed to remember from last year. We wrote about Schiehallion, as we wanted to explore our namesake munro. After we had written our cold pieces, we started... Continue reading Schiehallion - Descriptive Writing