Category: Calderwood
Ben Lawers – Food Bank Collection
On Friday 21st of October 2022, as part of their Calder Community project, the Ben Lawers clan are doing a food bank collection. They have organised different stages and clans to bring in different food and drink so there is a good variety of items being brought in.
P1 clans – tinned foods (tomatoes, vegetables, fruits etc.)
P2, 3 and 2/3 clans – dry foods (pasta, rice, cereals etc.)
P4, 5 and 4/5 clans – Fruit Juice and UHT milk
P6 clan – Biscuits
P7 clan – Tea and Coffee.
If you are able to, please bring some of these items in on the 21st of October. The Ben Lawers clan will come around the classes to collect the items and donate them to the food bank.
Thank you,
Ben Lawers.
Calderwood Can Certificates
A massive well done to our learners on their achievements this week! We are so proud of your dedication and hard work! We also celebrated the achievements of three of our pupils who presented sphero robots at the Scottish Learning Festival.
Calderwood Routines: Break and Lunch
Break Time
We have made some changes to our break times at Calderwood. This change will take place from Wednesday 21st September. Please see the following changes below:
P1-P3 will have break together from 10:30am-10:45am.
P4-P7 will have a break together from 10:45am-11:00am.
Lunch Time
Our Calderwood Careers has launched! All of the pupils have had a fantastic first week in their new job. They have nurtured, encouraged and created a happy and safe environment in our playground. They are in the process of creating a timetable for their different areas of the playground- this is a chance for them to lead learning and activities. They will be sharing their careers at our Calderwood Connects on Friday!
SUMDOG – Calderwood Counts
Maths Week Scotland is just around the corner which means – Sumdog Competition time!
The contest will begin at 8 am on Friday 23rd September and end on Thursday 29th September. Your child can access the competition by clicking here or logging in via the following link and using their unique username, password, and 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. Your child has received a card which includes their unique username and password to keep safe at home. If you have any issues with accessing Sumdog or using the details on the card please do get in touch with the school office as we’d be more than happy to assist.
Your child may be set some questions which they whizz through at the start. Completing these will support them to answer appropriate questions during the Competition so please do hang in there and complete them!
P2 and P3 Clans Interdisciplinary Learning: Calderwood Careers
We are so excited to launch the P2 and P3 interdisciplinary learning context called Calderwood Careers. In this context, we will be learning about the world of work and the different jobs in our society. We will be exploring 3 different types of jobs:
- Calderwood Constructors: builders and architects
- Calderwood Cooks: chefs and bakers
- Calderwood Consultants: doctors, nurses, pharmacy and other health care professions.
- We are looking for some support and help with our learning from our Calderwood community. We are hoping to build our play areas across our clans to reflect these different jobs, and therefore if anyone has any toys, dressing up, equipment or learning materials can you please drop these in to our school office. We would really appreciate it!
- We are also looking for any volunteers who specialise in the jobs above to come in to our school and speak about your job role. Please fill out the form if you can help us!
We have asked all pupils in the P2 and P3 clans to bring in a 500ml plastic bottle for Monday 12th September to use in their Calderwood Consultants theme.
Thank you for supporting our school again!
The P2 and P3 clans!
Parking
Dear parent/ carers,
Unfortunately this email is about parking at Calderwood Primary & Nursery.
You will know that our routines sway is shared in every Calderwood Chronicle, was in our welcome letter to families and is shared in our blog: https://sway.office.com/sTz83AiyltZ0fQmG
The guidance around parking at Calderwood Primary & Nursery is:
- We encourage families to walk from school or park and walk.
- The carpark at the school is for staff and visitors only. If parents need to use this space in an emergency to drop off or pick up their children, they should use the first two lanes of spaces on the left as you drive into the carpark and walk their child over to the gate/ door (the row of spaces opposite the nursery is not for parent/ carer parking).
- Children should not cross the car park on their own.
- Please do not walk across the flowerbeds.
- A one way system is operated in this area.
- Please do not use the road alongside the school as this can be busy with construction traffic.
- The bay opposite the school entrance is for deliveries
Last week, on two occasions I was later arriving to school, in the middle of drop off time in the morning and what I witnessed was:
- parking in spaces that we wish to reserve for staff to make it easier for them to access the school. Including on two occasions a car reversing out and nearly hitting another car.
- pulling into spaces without indicating and/ or taking up several spaces.
- parking in the disabled spaces or across several spaces, without a permit.
- parking along Nethershiel Road, and along down to the farm. Blocking the road/ traffic.
- Also, as Primary 4-5 leave through the side door a lot of families are parking in the non parking zone along Nethershiel Road and waiting on their children here – this is not a parking or drop off area
At Calderwood Primary & Nursery, we have the luxury of a large carpark. As our school is not yet at full capacity, we are lucky enough to be able extend the use of the carpark to families for emergency drop off and pick ups – you will be aware that this is not the case in other Primary schools. It is the responsibility of all our community; families, champions, and visitors, to ensure the surrounding area of our school grounds is safe for all our users and most of all our children. I would urge you and/ or whoever drops off/ picks up your child to follow the routines above to ensure our carpark is a safe area.
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
Collectively Calderwood
We are looking for some items to make our current classroom ‘Schiehallion’ feel more homely as an extension to our Hawthorn Hut.
We are trying to be as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible so thought we would reach out to our community first and see what we can gather.
Items that we are looking for should be of a good quality and games or puzzles must contain all pieces.
If you have any of the furniture or larger items that we are looking for, please contact the office on wlcalderwood-ps@westlothian.org.uk or 01506 280060 and we will arrange collection.
Thank you 😊
Rugs different shapes and sizes, textures
Cushions/beanbags/oversized soft toys
Bookcase/shelves
Large Kallax (ikea) style unit or box shelve storage unit
Storage boxes
Side table lamps
Throws/blankets
Fitness trampoline, stretch yoga bands, muscle rollers, yoga mats
Blender for making soup/smoothies
Egg chairs with canopy (ikea)
Baby dolls and accessories
Role play – house stuff (kitchen + accessories), dress up material (not costumes), sturdy full length mirror/handheld mirrors, beads, bangles, hats, scarves
Old games consol & games (Minecraft, Sims etc)
Scooters – scuttle bugs/ balance bikes/ swingball (indoor)
Old working toys
Train/ cars trucks and tracks
Figures, Barbie’s, LOL dolls, action figures, dinosaurs, animals farm/zoo,
Table top games
Construction sets – Lego, duplo, k’nex, magnet, marbles
Puzzle/coloring books
Play dough sets/tools
Jigsaw puzzles
Gardening equipment
Composite Clans
In June, we invited all families to join us for a meeting about composite clans, you will see the information shared at this meeting below.
You can also find here information on how we organise our clans across Calderwood: Calderwood Clans Formation 22_23
Thistle – Back to school
We are BACK!!
We have spent the last few week settling back in to our new clan with our new champions and clan members. To start off we had the task of designing our own learning space. We wanted a quiet space and lots of flexible seating, an art area, a construction area and space to go and work outwith the clan. We have enjoyed reconnecting with each other during our ‘stag start’ in the morning, playing games, being creative and building with lego. Some of us even experimented with robotics and creating circuits with some engineering sets.
We reflected on last years learning and discussed what we’d like to learn over the course of the year. One of the things we all decided that we wanted to carry over was our ‘Recognition Board’. We voted that it should have a dinosaur theme. Everyone created their own dinosaur themed character for our wall display and we have been using it this week. Lots of people were recognised for ‘listening respectfully to each other and waiting our turn to speak’.
We are looking forward to our year in Thistle and have lots of exciting opportunities coming our way.
