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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.

Please see the attached regarding a collection for West Lothian Foodbank. Thank you for your support. Foodbank Collection 2024

On Friday morning, Baird Clan came together to share their learning with their families and the rest of the school community through their Clan Connects. The children told us all about the Cost of the School Day and their important role in deciding how our Participatory Budget is spent. They did an amazing presentation and... Continue reading Baird Clan Connects

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, we learned about a famous artist called Wassily Kandinsky. We learned that he is well-known for creating abstract paintings using shapes, lines and colour. In Numeracy, we have been exploring place value, with pupils learning to build numbers to 1,000 and 10,000. Inspired by Kandinsky's "Several Circles", we created abstract art using size... Continue reading Tummel Clan's Creative Calculations

Tay clan have been exploring the water cycle, climate change, habitats and food chains through the context of rivers (our Tay clan namesake). This week we explored our key question 'why does it rain so much in Scotland and where does it come from?'. We also discussed 'what is weather and how does it exist?',... Continue reading Tay Clan - Maths Week Scotland

This week as part of Maths Week Scotland, Leven Clan became Meteorologists! Through our IDL topic - Calderwood Clan Explorers we have been learning about water, where it comes from and what creatures live in and around the water. The questions that everyone wanted to know was.. "Why does it rain so much at Calderwood?".... Continue reading Leven Clan- Maths Week Scotland