Calderwood – Page 24 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Be an Author Competition

As part of our Book Week Scotland Celebrations, Calderwood took part in a ‘Be an Author Competition.’ This involved all pupils writing a narrative story about a quest or adventure. Each clan nominated a winner for their clan that would go through the final. All entries for the final were judged by an author called Linda Erskine. Well done to all of our clan finalists!

A massive congratulations to our P1-3 winner, P4-5 winner and P6-7 winner. All pupils have received a voucher to spend at Waterstones. Enjoy your celebrations! We are all so proud of your achievement!

Calderwood Can Certificates

We are so proud of last week’s Calderwood Can learners! Well done for showing resilience, hard work and nurture!

Thistle 2.12.22

This week in Thistle we have been working on using Teams to keep track of our learning throughout the week. We have been learning new skills when using a keyboard and using the Teams app. We are happy to share these assignments at home so parents can see and leave feedback too.

We have been enjoying PE outdoors and have been developing bat and ball skills as well as team work and team tactics when playing field games. We have been gaining confidence when following the rules of a game and taking time to reflect on how to manage our emotions when the game does not go the way we wanted.

In health we are focused on building up our self-esteem. We have been discussing together how negative words and environments can cause our self esteem to spiral downwards. We have been practising talking about the good things in our day and how to find the positives in any situation. We have also been working out how to turn a situation round and discovering that, with the right tools, no situation is too big.

We are very excited about Christmas and have began to learn about Christmas traditions all around the world. We are very excited to learn from other clans and find out what traditions that they have discovered!

Capturing Calderwood: Calderwood Counts

Calderwood Can 25/11/22

Calderwood Connects- 25.11. 22

25.11.22- Calderwood Connects

Calderwood Can Chats (Sharing our Learning Profile) Family Event

Nursery Improvement Journey 2022/2023

2022_23_Calderwood Nursery_SIP_ACTION PLAN

Cost of Living Crisis

Energy Prices skyrocketing!

Food and petrol prices rising!

Taxes and wages stagnating!

Rent prices are on the rise!

Heating or eating?

Nobody should have to make that a choice!

If you are experiencing financial difficulties due to the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’, please know that at Calderwood Primary School, we are here to help signpost you to the services available.

West Lothian Council’s Anti-Poverty service has devised some resources to support families online, if you need to make use of the school WIFI or devices to do so, get in touch and arrangements will be made to support this.

Community Food Outlets: www.westlothian.gov.uk/access-to-food

Advice Shop Services: www.westlothian.gov.uk/adviceshop

Practical Help: www.westlothian.gov.uk/costofliving

Practical help and support through the development of self-help booklets, which will be held in a central location to allow support to be accessed easily and quickly, a dedicated information hub has been created to hold all cost of living support information.

Welcome Warm Places: www.westlothian.gov.uk/warm-welcome

Welcoming warm places across West Lothian which can provide a warm space for people to rest in addition to acting as a hub where they can access advice and support in relation to the cost of living (also includes information about community food providers).

Please contact us if you are worried about anything, we understand that Christmas can be a particularly difficult time for families. If you are worried or have any questions about how the school can help, call in at the office and ask to speak to someone from the Equity Team and we will get back in touch.