We would appreciate if children could leave Pokemon or football cards at home. There have been some incidents where children have lost them, have swapped cards (and then realised they didn’t want to swap them), etc. leading to them becoming upset. Thanks for your help in advance.
Category: Information for Parents/ Carers
Remembering Queen Elizabeth II
Today, across our clans we took some time to reflect on this moment in history and celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth. Some clans made pictures of her, discussed what she did for the United Kingdom and beyond, wrote poems and reflected on her achievements.
Some of the older clans also watched a Newsround clip.
Lunch Time Supervisors
We have vacancies for lunch time supervisors to help indoors and outdoors at lunch times, these roles are vital to ensure we can keep all areas of our playground open for children to play in. The hours are 12:15-1:15pm, Monday to Thursday.
If you are interested in these posts, please contact the school office on 01506 280060 or wlcalderwood-ps@westlothian.org.uk
Ordering Lunch for a Child with Allergies in School
Communicating your child’s allergy:
- If your child has an allergy you should communicate this through email to the school office.
- Appropriate forms will then be provided to the parent e.g. medication form, individual healthcare plan and flowchart
- If required, a ‘free from’ menu / individual menu will be provided to the parent
- Individual children’s allergies are then shared on a poster with their photo, name and allergens with the child’s champion and in the kitchen
- Any medication and flow charts are stored in the child’s classroom/first aid room (if appropriate)
Ordering lunch for your child:
- On iPay, you should then click ‘special diet’
- This information is shared with the kitchen who prepare the appropriate meal (from their menu if appropriate) for your child and their meal will be labelled with their name
- Your child’s champion will give your child a purple band indicating they have a special diet (purple bands on order)
- At lunchtime your child will give the kitchen champions a purple band and use the allergy poster to provide your child with their meal
Xcite October Holiday Clubs
Term 1 Learning Letters
We are so excited for the learning journey all pupils will be embarking on during Term 1 at Calderwood Primary School. Our whole school theme for our interdisciplinary learning this term is on the concept Maths. You will see that our champions and pupils have planned creative and innovative Maths learning contexts. Please find the learning overview for each stage for this term below:
Halloween Costume Swap Shop
Calderwood Communicates: Calderwood Can Profiling Drop In
08/09/22 @ 6pm
Calderwood Communicates: Profiling: Virtual Drop In
Join us to find out more about:
- How we share progress with families
- Seesaw, Teams and Blogging
- Jotters as a learning story
- Champion Conversations
Click here to join the meeting Meeting ID: 331 175 673 465
Passcode: yeNjtZ Download Teams | Join on the web
You can find our profiling strategy here: Calderwood Can_Profiling_2022_23
Dress Down Day – 09/09/22
Languagenut
We would like to say a massive thank you to our Parent Council at Calderwood Primary School for providing the funding to have the programme Languagenut in our school. This learning and teaching resource was at the heart of our 1+2 modern languages curriculum last year, and we are so excited for this to continue for the next 3 years. Thank you very much to everyone in the Parent Council for making this happen. Calderwood does languages! Please find further information about Languagenut below:
What is Languagenut?
Languagenut is a learning and teaching resource used in Calderwood for delivering our 1+2 modern languages curriculum. This is a digital resource that pupils can access at school and at home with their own username and password. Calderwood trialled this resource last year and found many benefits to our pupils learning, for example:
- It allows pupils to practise the 4 main skills needed for learning a modern language: listening, talking, reading and writing.
- It gives access to 6 different languages; French is available for our whole school and Spanish can be accessed for our 2nd language for P5-P7 clans.
- There are a variety of fun and interactive games that the pupils can select from.
- It allows the pupils to decide what they need to work on, for example: sentence building, grammar, vocabulary, phonics and verbs.
- Champions can set assignments, review pupils’ work, provide feedback and monitor pupils’ completion of tasks.
- Languagenut provides an opportunity for whole school and council competitions where pupils can receive certificates and prizes.
- Champions can use this to create their own learning activities for the pupils in their clan.
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Pupils can earn points for their achievements and can monitor their learning.
How will this be taken forward in our school?
- All pupils will get a login card with their username and password. They will have a card to keep at home which will be issued after the September break.
- We will host our first Calderwood School Competition to show our learning in French in Term 1.
- We will get involved in West Lothian Council Languagenut competitions.
