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In Ben Lawers we have had a wonderful time doing lots of activities around Halloween. We created Halloween poems in writing in the form of riddles and had a lot of fun guessing each others. In numeracy we have been solving and making our own Halloween code breakers, solving problems and matching the answers to... Continue reading Halloween in Ben Lawers

We have had a great start back from the October break in Burn's clan. We have been developing our public speaking skills, as we get ready for our clan assembly. We have also started a new topic in math's, we have been exploring different strategies to help us develop our addition and subtraction. We have... Continue reading Burn's

This week, Rannoch clan had the opportunity to share their learning about descriptive writing. At our Share the Learning event, we invited parents and carers along to demonstrate our hard work and show them all the learning which has went in to making our description writing so amazing! We demonstrated the text map we had... Continue reading Share the Learning - Rannoch

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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Calderwood Chronicle 11_10_24 Every fortnight we will issue our chronicle to families via email and our blog. All other information about Calderwood is on our blog and on Twitter we highlight our achievements. Calderwood Calendar: Updated: 2024-25 Calendar 14/10/24-21/10/24: School closed: October Break (Nursery open) 22/10/24 - 24/10/24: West Lothian Food Bank Collection: Click... Continue reading Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 11/10/24

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!

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.