Dear Nursery Parent/Carers,
Please find our handbook with all information required for your child starting Calderwood Nursery. If you have any further questions our staff members will be happy to answer them.
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Active School and Community Sports Clubs
Livingston School and Community Sports
Please click the link above to find out more about after school community sport clubs available for your children.
Orkney Clan’s Numeracy
Wow! I can’t believe that’s us five weeks in already and it was our last day at East Calder Primary School today. We have such an exciting few weeks coming up as we will be settling into our new school building and classroom. For this blog Orkney would love to share our learning in numeracy with you.
We have been practising our number recognition, number formation and counting skills. The children have enjoyed learning outdoors, playing smartboard games and engaging with various number activities. We went outdoors and used chalk to make games of hopscotch. Orkney Clan had so much fun practising their number formations and hopping! I was very impressed. We have also been practising subitizing by looking at dot patterns. This is where the children try to identify the number of dots in a set by quickly looking at them. They are very good at being able to discuss the different ways that they noticed the dots too. If you want to practise at home, dominoes are brilliant for this.
Orkney Clan are going to continue to develop these skills in numeracy because it will help them with their understanding of number. They have been very engaged and I am so proud of what they have managed to achieve so far.
I hope you all enjoy your well-deserved September break.
Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Cunningham
What have Bramble Clan Been Up To This Week?
We’ve had lots of fun in our Clan this week including playing hopscotch in the sun.
In numeracy, we explained to each other what odd and even numbers were. We then recapped on counting up in 2s, we did it together, silently whispering our odd numbers and then shouting out our even numbers. We did really well and some of us even attempted to count up in 11s!
In literacy, as part of our ‘Invisible Strings’ topic, we wrote letters to people we love, we then shared these with our class. We remembered to use capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Mrs Findlay was so proud of us for sounding out tricky words.
In health and wellbeing, we listened to a story called ‘Bounce Back’ which was about resilience. We learned that even if we can’t do something at the moment, if we keep trying we will eventually be able to do it. We completed sheets with 3 things we ‘can’ do already and 1 thing we ‘can’t’ do YET. Mrs Findlay is a bit concerned as lots of us want to learn to drive so she explained that we will need to wait until we are older but in the meantime, we can practise riding our bikes and scooters. We decided not to use the word ‘can’t’ in our Clan and instead use the phrase ‘I will try’.
We are looking forward to our last day based in Mid Calder Primary and can’t wait until we move into Calderwood on Wednesday. Only 5 more sleeps to go! Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Ness Clan’s Digital Rainforest
Learning Intention: I can create a poster using digital media.
This week in Ness Clan, we have been sharing our knowledge of rainforest animals and exploring our digital literacy skills. In pairs, we chose our favourite rainforest animal to create a flashy poster about! We brainstormed interesting titles for our work. After that, we used Microsoft Word to experiment with different fonts, colours and sizes to make our posters stand out and look beautiful! We also recapped our internet browsing skills from last week by searching for images of our chosen animal and transferring them onto our posters. We saved our work on the laptops and hope to have a finished product soon!
Pupils engaged really well with the task, showing enthusiasm and creativity in their learning of new digital skills.
This Week in Bramble Clan
It has been a wonderful week in Bramble Clan and it has been lovely finally meeting the children in person.
Our focus this week has been settling into our new environment and learning about the daily routines and expectations of Calderwood Primary School.
We have also spent time getting to know each other and the children have enjoyed sharing their thoughts and feelings. The children have been learning that we are all different from each other and this is what makes us unique. It has been great to see the children forming new friendships and showing respect towards each other.
Have you all have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to seeing you all next week.
Building our Classrooms
Another example of how we use digital technology to help us. Here the team at Calderwood Primary School are using AR in real-time to see how the spaces they are working on will come together to form the classrooms of the finished school. @LoveWestLothian @HubSouthEast pic.twitter.com/ZV4JI5YPRH
— Morrison Construction (@morrisonbuilds) April 22, 2021
Welcome to Calderwood Primary & Nursery
We look forward to sharing our journey with you as we establish the new Calderwood Primary in August 2021 and the new Calderwood Nursery in October 2021. Our building will open in October 2021.
