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Ben Lomond Clan have been having a blast in clan this week with some spooky Halloween-themed activities. We kicked things off by taking a look at Vincent Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' before adding our own Halloween twist to it. The children then crafted some amazing artwork inspired by this stunning piece, focusing on colour and... Continue reading Halloween in Ben Lomond Clan

Tummel Clan have been very busy exploring their namesake habitats, the Tummel River and Loch. To consolidate our learning, we upcycled materials to make a three-dimensional model of a scene called a diorama. We had to apply what we had learned about the habitat such as the climate, plants and animals. We also had to... Continue reading Tummel Dioramas

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This afternoon, we had our very first House Meetings in our four houses: Fallow, Red, Roe and Sika. Our Junior Leadership did a fantastic job introducing themselves properly to all of our houses and sharing more about themselves. The children then got the chance to speak to someone they didn't already know, or find out... Continue reading Our Very First House Meetings!

Hi Folks, We have been enjoying Maths Week Scotland in Ben Lawers clan. In number, pupils have been exploring multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.We have been exploring the decimal point and using 0 as a place holder. In maths we have been measuring the weight of every day objects using scales with... Continue reading Ben Lawers 27.10.24

As part of Maths Week Scotland, Rannoch clan have been using their measuring skills to conduct an experiment! Within our IDL topic called 'Calderwood Clan Explorers', Rannoch have been learning about Loch Rannoch, the water cycle and the big question 'why does it rain so much in Scotland?'. To answer this question, we decided to... Continue reading Rannoch Clan - Maths Week Scotland

This week in our numeracy lessons, we have been focussing on making estimates. We have used our knowledge of rounding to help us to estimate the answers for different addition, subtraction and multiplication problems. We also took on the challenge of esti-mysteries and used our maths knowledge and problem solving to answer the problems.... Continue reading Baird Clan - Maths Week Scotland

This Week in burns we have been exploring estimation. We began by exploring what estimation is, before testing our knowledge using Esti-mystery. Esti - mystery shows an image and clues and you have to estimate what the number is using the clues given. We loved Esti- mystery and had so much fun doing them, we... Continue reading Maths Madness in Burns

During Maths Week Scotland, Ben Lomond clan combined their knowledge of Scottish mountains with an understanding of negative numbers by examining the climate conditions at the summit of a mountain. This aimed to deepen their understanding of the mountain environment and highlight the real-world applications of negative numbers. We also connected our learning to our... Continue reading Maths Week Scotland: Ben Lomond Clan

PDF: Calderwood Chronicle 27_09_24 Calderwood Commitments 23/09/24 - 09/10/24: iPay open for Term 2 milk order: Milk orders will not be available after date. Parent Council Christmas Card Fundraiser: Your child will bring their design home with an order form on Monday 30THof September 2024. If you would like to order any copies of your... Continue reading Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 27/09/24

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