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Nursery News- 28/08/26
Please find our Nursery News attached below.
Calderwood Nursery News-28.08.26
Bookbug at Calderwood Nursery
We are delighted to host our first Bookbug session at Calderwood Nursery on Wednesday 30th September from 10:00-11:00am.
“Bookbug is Scotland’s universal early years book gifting programme which supports families to read, sing, and play with their little ones from birth to give them the best start in life.” Our sessions provide our families with the opportunity to explore the Bookbug initiative where our nursery staff will model how to use and engage with the learning resources to support your child stories, songs and rhyme.
To ensure our sessions are successful, they will hold a maximum of 8 parents/carers. We will operate a first come first serve basis for our Bookbug events and an invitation will be given to attend. We have numerous sessions across the year to ensure families have further opportunities to attend.
Please sign up to the event by clicking here: Bookbug Sign-Up
Stay and Play Sessions at Calderwood Nursery
We are delighted to share the term 1 and term 2 dates for our stay and play sessions at Calderwood Nursery. Our stay and play sessions provide you with the opportunity to attend our nursery setting to interact in play-based learning opportunities with your child. Our learning focus this term is numeracy and our stay and play sessions will allow you to participate in number and maths play contexts. We value the importance and vital role our families have in supporting the learning development of their child and this is demonstrated through our play and stay sessions.
The sessions will take place on the following dates and the following times:
21/09/26: 2:00pm-3:00pm
22/09/26: 10:30am-11:30am
23/09/26: 2:00pm-3:00pm
24/09/26: 10:30am-11:30am
Please sign up to one of the sessions by clicking here: Stay and Play Sessions
Calderwood Nursery- Term 1 and Term 2 Family Calendar
Dear Parents/Carer,
Please find the Term 1 and Term 2 Family Calendar for Calderwood Nursery attached. This calendar displays key nursery dates, family learning opportunities and engagement with the nursery for the dates August-December. Further information about registering and attending our Family Learning, Book Bug and Stay and Play sessions will be issued through email and in our fortnightly Nursery News. We apologise for our Nursery Christmas Parties being earlier than anticipated this session and we will look at a later date for the sessions moving forward. Our Term 3 and Term 4 calendar will be issued in Term 2 of this session.
Kind regards,
Miss Kelly Redmond
Acting Principal Teacher
Calderwood Nursery
Nursery Handbook and Staff Overview
Dear Parent/Carer,
A very warm welcome to Calderwood Nursery! Please find our handbook and staff overview for Session 2026-2027 attached. This will provide you with all the relevant information you should know for supporting your child at nursery. We have enjoyed getting to know your child over the past two weeks and look forward to supporting them to learn, grow and thrive!
Calderwood Nursery Handbook 2026 – 2027
Kind regards,
Miss Kelly Redmond (Acting Principal Teacher)
Triple P Parenting Programme
Triple P Parenting is being hosted at Calderwood Primary School in 2024. The sessions will run from Wednesday 24th January to Wednesday 20th March 2024. These will be a mixture of in-person and 1:1 telephone consultations. The in-person sessions will run from 9:30-11:30am at Calderwood PS. Please view the posters below to find out more information about the programme. If you are interested to be involved in the programme, please use the form below to sign up.
If you are unable to attend the programme in 2024, there are additional drop-in sessions being held across West Lothian in November 2023. Please find out more here: 2023 TP Drop-in Sessions
What is Triple P?
The three Ps in ‘Triple P’ stand for ‘Positive Parenting Programme’
Triple P helps parents:
· Raise happy, confident kids
· Manage misbehaviour so everyone in the family enjoys life more
· Set rules and routines that everyone respects and follows
· Encourage behaviour you like
· Take care of yourself as a parent
· Feel confident you’re doing the right thing
Find out more here!
Programme Leaflet: triple_p_leaflet
Calderwood Triple P Sessions: Triple P Poster for Schools 2023
Please register your interest here:
Book Week Scotland- Book Drop
Calderwood PS is celebrating Book Week Scotland on Monday 13th- Friday 17th November. We are running a book drop initiative. Please find more information below:
Sika House Party- Thursday 29th June
Sika House were the proud house winners of Term 4. Well done!
To celebrate Sika’s achievement, we will be having a summer festival party on Thursday at 11:00am in the playground. All pupils in Sika house can come to school wearing summer clothes and accessories on Thursday.
Rookie Rockstars Concert
The countdown is on for our Rookie Rockstars Concerts on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th July! This week, our pupils have enjoyed having Rookie Rockstars in school. They have learned songs, been involved in challenges and had a rock melody!
Please find important information about the concerts below:
- Pupils performing in the concert should arrive between 6:00-6:15pm through the school office. They will be directed to a clan as their backstage room.
- Doors for the audience will open at 6:00pm. Please enter through the office and show your ticket to the champion at the front door. The concert will take place in the school arena and will start at 6:30pm.
- Pupils have been encouraged to dress up as a rockstar for the evening!
- The Rookie Rockstars team will be selling raffle tickets which gives you the chance of winning an electric guitar. Tickets cost £1.00 and payments can be made by card.
- Rookie Rockstars merchandise will also be sold on the night. This will be sold at the amphitheatre as you exit from the concert. All pupils and adults should exit the playground from the Glencoe gate.
- No photos or videos should be taken of the performance.
Collecting your child at the end of the event
After the concert, pupils will go back to their backstage clan. All adults will be directed to the playground through the STEM door to collect their child. Pupils should be collected from the following areas:
- Pupils in Mull and Orkney will exit from their original playground door.
- Pupils in Shetland and Skye will come out of the P2/P3 playground door.
- Pupils in Leven and Linlithgow will be collected at the pergola.
- Pupils in Rannoch, Tay and Tummel to be collected at the green benches.
- Pupils in Bluebell, Bramble, Thistle, Ben Lomond and Ben Lawers will exit from the Ben Lomond/Ben Lawers playground door.
