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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

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.

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

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

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

As part of our health and wellbeing focus we have explore a number of different topics: mental health and wellbeing anti-bullying and what is bullying positive body image how to develop and support positive relationships what to do and where to go if uncomfortable feelings get too much to cope with We have responded to... Continue reading Schiehallion and Thistle - Health and Wellbeing Focus