Mrs Warden

Parenting Smart Course

Place2Be, our in-school mental health support service, has a variety of free resources to help you support your child’s wellbeing and help them deal with childhood challenges.
Their Parenting Smart website offers free practical advice on a range of topics including friendship issues, the transition to secondary/high school, anger outbursts, and anxiety. Visit parentingsmart.org.uk to read more.
Place2Be’s Parenting Smart – Online Course is a free, 4-week online course offering extra parenting tools that are proven to help children manage their emotions better, follow routines and improve relationships with friends and family.
Visit place2be.org.uk/family to learn more about these free resources from Place2Be

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You can also access information via this link:

https://www.place2be.org.uk/our-services/parents-and-carers/support-for-families-in-place2be-schools/parenting-smart-online-course/

Starting Primary 1 – Transition Social Story

Starting Primary 1 Social Story

Routines 2025-2026

Nursery Lost Property

We continue to hold a number of lost property items within our nursery entrance. Mrs Lyon has created a Sway to help return items to their owner. Our Sway will be updated regularly. If items are not claimed within 2 months, we may recycle, reuse or rehome.

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Social Story – adverse weather

Please find a social story that you can use with your nursery child to support them with the nursery closure tomorrow and the adverse weather conditions.

17.1.25 Nursery Chronicle

2025_01_17_Calderwood Chronicle Nursery updated

House Meetings

On Friday morning, all pupils across the school came together in their House groups for our first House Meeting of 2025!

Following on from our Connects on values, the pupils looked at each value and discussed what they might look like, sound like and feel like.

It was great to hear pupil voice and see our values of Caring, Integrity, Resilience and Belonging in action.

Christmas in Calderwood ELC

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Calderwood Nursery.

Our Gingerbread house.

A cosy corner for a story.

Our Writing area has examples of text

and a Postbox for all of our letters!

We have tree decorating and an Elf Wrapping Station too!

Our outdoor Winter Wonderland is in progress but it’s starting to take shape!

November Bookbug Programme

Bookbug is a great way to discover the benefits of sharing stories, songs and rhymes with babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers and for meeting other people. Have a look at what Bookbug sessions are available in West Lothian throughout November.

World Nursery Rhyme Week 2024

Calderwood Nursery had lots of different activities this week to celebrate World Nursery Rhyme Week. Nursery rhymes play an important role in early childhood development and education.

Nursery rhymes and children’s songs boost vocabulary and language development.