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Parent information – Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood (RSHP) Resource

RHSP – A national teaching and learning resource for Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education

This resource was developed by a partnership of Local Authorities and Health Boards, with advice from Education Scotland and Scottish Government.

Inline with current guidance, our anti-bullying policy, Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC), United Nations Constitution for the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and the Curriculum for Excellence (CFE), Calderwood will be using use the national resource to support the deliver of Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood education.

Our champions will teaching this resource this term with their clans. All of our champions have had training to teach the resource.

You can see the full resource at https://rshp.scot/

Content

All content is age and stage appropriate for learners 3-18 years, organised by Curriculum for Excellence Levels, from Early Level through to Senior Phase.
Content is up-to-date and engaging and meets the needs of learners with additional support needs, including mild to moderate learning disabilities.
The resource is made up of a series of Activity Plans that describe how a teacher can approach an aspect of RSHP education.
The Activity Plans are supported by PowerPoints or other resources the lesson might need.
There is information for parents and carers, ideas about communicating between school and home, reading lists for school libraries and reading at home.

Why has the resource been developed?

There is a need to improve the quality, relevance, consistency and coverage of RSHP education.
We need to deliver RSHP education that helps protect children and young people from harm and supports them to understand that friendships and personal relationships should be healthy, happy and safe.
The resource helps teachers to source material that is age and stage appropriate, so that they can focus on building relationships with learners.
We need our RSHP education to reflect a modern and inclusive Scotland where we value and respect the human rights of everyone.

Information for Parents/Carers at each Stage

Early Level (Nursery/P1)

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Learning-at-Home-Early-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers

Resources can be found here: https://rshp.scot/early-level/

First Level (P2-P4)

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RSHP-Learning-at-School-First-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers-1

Resources can be found here: https://rshp.scot/first-level/

Second Level (P5-P7)

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Learning-at-Home-Second-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers

Resources can be found here: https://rshp.scot/second-level/

Frequently asked Questions

https://rshp.scot/faq/

RHSP Resource Films

A series of short films made are all available here: https://vimeo.com/showcase/6310425

Which explore:

Why does RSHP matter?
Who should receive RSHP?
What does RSHP equip children and young people to deal with?
What is my responsibility and what support is available in local areas?
How do we acknowledge an respond to concerns about RSHP?
Is the new teaching resource age and stage appropriate?
What is the role of parents and carers within RSHP?
What do children and young people want from their RSHP?
What practical learning do children and young people receive from RSHP education

Updated PE Dates Term 4

Please see below updated PE days for Term 4 (we are currently in Term 4).

Changes are highlighted for Orkney and Shetland Clan.

The Bike Month Challenge

Please see below a poster outlining a Sustrans Bike Month Challenge

LTR West Lothian BM A4 4

Rannoch Clan Writing

Writing – The Naughty Troll

Rannoch clan were shocked this week to find that one of their learning spaces was extremely messy and Mrs Scobie showed them a picture of the school playground with lots of litter lying around in it. Mrs Scobie suggested that it might have been a cheeky troll that was up to mischief and caused the mess. We decided that we needed to catch the troll so that this didn’t happen again. In groups, we used different materials to create troll traps. Once we made our trolls traps we decided to use this for the subject of our shared story writing. Our whole clan worked together to plan and write a story about ‘The Naughty Troll’. We made sure that we followed the correct structure of a story which we had learnt about earlier in the week. We also edited our story as we went along, changing words to make our story more interesting. We wrote a fantastic story together. We have shared it here to let you enjoy it too.

Term 4 in the Bens

Last term, to begin our celebration of British Science Week 2022, the Ben Clans created a STEM takeover for each Clan in our school! The groups created a variety of lessons to deliver to the younger clans. Tay Clan learned about the skeleton, Rannoch Clan learned all about space and our solar system, Ness created scrap robots and used a sphero to move the robot, Bluebell Clan looked at the layers of the Earth and Bramble focussed on food chains in our oceans. Mull, Shetland and Orkney developed an understanding of space, star constellations and the universe.

The experience generated a lot of discussion around earth, space and the universe, informing the direction of learning for this term.

Our cross curricular topic this term is science based and will be looking at the origins of life and the habitability of earth and other planets. We began this week by watching a short clip narrated by David Attenborough about the tree of life and then researched the evolution of a penguin, inputting our research onto Padlet. Please click here to see our research.

Alongside this, we will also began understanding the different viewpoints offered in the creation stories from different world religions. We started this week with the Christian creation story and began to understand that there are similarities with that and the creation story in Judaism. We created our own versions of the Judeo-Christian creation story using powerpoint, imovies including greenscreen and SWAY.

Literacy

We are beginning to learn about the features and structure of narrative writing. We have been exploring our reading books to develop our understanding of the orientation, complication and resolution found within this genre of text. This week, we had a go at writing a narrative based around a theme of racing. We looked at a good example and deconstructed it so we could understand how to write one ourselves. One of the Bens wrote a story called ‘The Horse Race’. It is a good example as it has a clear orientation stating who, when and where; the complication is clear and includes direct speech and accurate punctuation and the resolution explains what happens and solves the problem, bringing the story to a conclusion.

We are excited about the term ahead and look forward to sharing with you soon. Watch this space!!

The Bens 🙂

Ness Clan’s Bird Boxes

Ness Clan have been honing their design skills and learning all about the birds around Calderwood in Taylor Wimpey’s bird box competition. Find out more about what we have been up to in our fabulous SWAY here:

Sumdog Competition – Calderwood Counts!

Good luck to all our amazing Calderwood Primary School Children, they have now been entered into the West Lothian Sumdog Maths Contest!

The contest will begin at 8 am on Friday 13th and end on Thursday 19th May. Your child can access the competition by clicking here or logging in via the following link and using their unique username and password along with the school code Calderwood2:

https://www.sumdog.com/user/sign_in

This competition is a fantastic way to compete against lots of other Primary students, have fun and develop numeracy/maths skills at the very same time. If your child has forgotten their details, please do get in touch with the school office as we’d be more than happy to assist.

We have a winner!

We are extremely proud to announce that an invention created by a child from Ness Clan won the East of Scotland for their age category. Their invention, The Automatic Pencil, will be displayed at the University of Edinburgh Exhibition on 18th May and they will also recieve their certificate and trophy at an Award Ceremony later that day.

We had a huge number of entries of an extremely high standard so all children involved in the If you were an engineer what would you do? competition should be extremely proud of themselves. A special thanks also goes to Mr Clarke (Calderwood Parent) for giving the children in Ness, Rannoch and Tay Clans inspiration to begin inventing through presenting to the clans on the topic of his STEM career.

If you would like to find out more about this award please click here.