Calderwood – Page 2 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Tummel – Our Class is a Family

During the first few weeks of school, we created our Class Charter, inspired by the wonderful book Our Class is a Family by Shannon Olsen. The story encouraged us to think about what it means to belong, support one another, and work together as a team.

As a class, we explored the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and discussed the rights that are important to us at school. We learned that every child has the right to feel safe, respected, included, and listened to. Together, we identified the promises and responsibilities that will help us uphold and protect these rights each day.

To bring our charter to life, we decided to base our charter around a neighbourhood. Each pupil designed their own house (or Vue Cinema!) and this helps us to remember we are all part of a community that celebrates our own individuality, ensures every voice is valued, and we can be

stronger when we support one another.

Supporting This Year’s Child Flu Vaccination Programme

At Calderwood, we are keen to support this year’s Child Flu Vaccination Programme and help families access accurate, trusted information about the flu vaccine. Public Health Scotland has asked schools to help share information and resources with parents, carers and young people as preparations begin for this year’s vaccination programme.

The flu vaccine helps protect children and young people from flu and can also help reduce the spread of the virus within families and the wider community.

Resources Available for Families

Public Health Scotland has a range of free resources available to support parents, carers and young people, including:

Information leaflets for parents, carers and young people
Resources available in alternative formats and a range of languages
Guidance on completing consent forms
Information from NHS Inform about flu and vaccination
A video showing how the nasal spray vaccine is given to a child

These resources can be accessed through the Public Health Scotland website:

🔗 Public Health Scotland Flu Education Pack

Helping Children Feel Prepared

Public Health Scotland has created short video clips which can help children and young people understand what to expect on vaccination day. These resources can help reduce any worries and support positive conversations about vaccination at home.

What We Ask of Families

We would encourage parents and carers to:

Read the information provided about the flu vaccination programme
Return vaccination consent forms promptly when issued
Access trusted sources of information if they have questions about the vaccine
Make use of information available in alternative formats or languages if required

Find Out More

Information about the flu vaccine, including who is eligible, the benefits of vaccination and possible side effects, can be found on NHS Inform:

🔗 NHS Inform Child Flu Information

Thank you for your continued support in helping to protect the health and wellbeing of our children, families and wider community during the flu season.

Further information and downloadable resources are available from Public Health Scotland’s Child Flu Vaccination Programme materials.

Clan Charter – Perth Clan

In Perth Clan we reviewed the UNCRC and picked the 9 rights that we felt were most important to our school experience. We then ranked them in order of importance and used this to form our class charter.

We decided to use the minions as the theme for our class charter. We all designed our own minion and added it to our display. We created a list of promises for our class and teacher to follow this year and these set the expectations that our class charter was built on.

This year we will aim for the moon in Perth Clan.

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

Family Learning Calendar-Session 2026-2027 (Aug-Dec)

Reaching for the Stars in Aberdeen

In Aberdeen Clan, we have been talking about what makes our classroom a happy, safe and welcoming place where everyone feels that they belong.

We began our learning by exploring My Class Is a Family by Shannon Olsen. This helped us to think about our classroom as more than just a place where we learn — we are a team, we support one another, celebrate our differences and work together as a clan.

After lots of discussion and sharing our ideas, our clan decided that we wanted our Clan Charter to have an exciting alien and space theme! 👽🪐🚀

Tay Clan: Our Class is a Family

During the first few weeks of school, Tay Clan created our Class Charter, inspired by the wonderful book Our Class is a Family by Shannon Olsen. The story encouraged us to think about what it means to belong, support one another, and work together as a team.

As a class, we explored the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and discussed the rights that are important to us at school. We learned that every child has the right to feel safe, respected, included, and listened to. Together, we identified the promises and responsibilities that will help us uphold and protect these rights each day.

To bring our charter to life, we used our pupil voice and voted for a shoal of fish. Each pupil designed their own sea creature, and together they form a vibrant display that celebrates our individuality while showing that we all belong to one class family. The display reminds us that every person matters, every voice is valued, and we are stronger when we support one another.

We have also explored how we can fill our own and each others ‘buckets’ through the text, Have you Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud.

Our Class Charter will guide us throughout the year as we learn, grow, and create lasting memories together. We are proud of the caring, respectful, and inclusive classroom community we have built, and we look forward to bringing our charter to life every day.

In Tay, our class is a family! ❤️🏫

Beyond the Dream Certificates 21.8.26

A huge congratulations to the winners of our clan certificates this week!

Clan Charter – Ben Lawers

Last week, in Ben Lawers, we discussed our rights and worked together to choose four rights for our clan charter. We talked about how we can respect these rights as right holders, and how our teacher, Miss Robertson can respect our rights as the duty bearer.

As our clan charter has a Disney theme, we each drew our favourite Disney character as our way of signing the charter.

We wonder which characters you can spot?