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Well done to all our Calderwood Can certificate winners this week! The Can certificates were given out for a range of achievements across Calderwood Counts, Communicates and Creativity linked to our school values. They all enjoyed their Cuppa with Mrs Warden and Miss Connor.

Well done to all our Calderwood Can certificate winners this week! The Can certificates were given out for a range of achievements across Calderwood Counts, Communicates and Creativity linked to our school values. They all enjoyed their Cuppa with Mrs Warden and Miss Connor.

Well done to everyone who presented at Dragon's Den with their inventions. The judges were Gayle Duffus, Education Director with the Wood Foundation and Dr. Sam Clark from Heriot Watt University. Our winners were celebrated at Connects on Friday and received their prizes!

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... Continue reading Tay Clan - Drama and Advent

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

Astro Gymnastics is a West Lothian accredited community sports club and a charity based in Livingston. Do you know someone who would love to try gymnastics? (And just to remind you it's not just for the kids!) Is 2025 going to be THE year to learn something new? Could gymnastics be for you? Want to... Continue reading Astro Gymnastics Free Trial

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