Category: Information for Parents/ Carers

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 24.03.23

Calderwood Commitments Actions:

• PM session children only – Order your child’s lunches

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

31^st March – Champion Conversations

27^th– 31^st – World Autism Acceptance Week – dress in your favourite colour

3^rd– 17^th April School Closed – Nursery Open

14^th April – Champion Conversations (specific clans)

 

UPCOMING DATES

You can find upcoming dates here

 

Calderwood Communication (For information):

Champion Conversations

Please arrive just before your appointment. There will be a small waiting area in which you can look through the floor book. Your child’s champion will meet you at the waiting space and bring you to their allocated space on the nursery floor. You will have a 10-minute slot to discuss your child’s progress. We look forward to seeing you all then.

Parents Garden Project

On the 27th March, throughout the day, we are welcoming 1 member of a child’s family to visit our nursery garden to support with planting, weeding, tidying and developing this space. If you will attend with your child please just let us know on the door at the sign up sheet.

Leaf Award

Our children have begun visiting the forest to learn all about respecting the forest as part of our Leaf Award. All children will have the chance to visit the forest over the next few weeks.

Autism Acceptance Week

Across this week children can wear their favourite colour to nursery on any day. This is to showcase the spectrum of colour and celebrate all children’s uniqueness. Find out more: https://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/raise-money/world-autism-acceptance-week-2023

Careers

If anyone would like to come into nursery to share with the children their job. Please let us know. The children have been enjoying these sessions. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered so far.

 

HOME LINKS:

The children have been interested and learning all about the roles and responsibility of people in different jobs.

This week at home ask your child to explore people at home’s jobs. What skills does that person need? What do they do every day?

You can also use this website to explore some engineer profiles – https://www.letsdoengineering.com/engineer-profiles

As always, please share any experiences with us on Online Learning Journals.

As ever, thank you for your continued support. If you would like to leave us any feedback, please click here.

Kindest Regards,

The Nursery Champions

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 17.03.23

Calderwood Commitments Actions:

• PM session children only – Order your child’s lunches
• Give us feedback on the fire pit sessions – click here

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

20^th – 25^th March – Magic Miles Parent Council Launch – Walk or Wheel to Nursery during this week

24^th, 31^st March – Champion Conversations

27^th– 31^st – World Autism Awareness Week – dress in your favourite colour

27th March – Parent Garden Project

14^th April – Champion Conversations (specific clans)

 

UPCOMING DATES

You can find upcoming dates here

 

Calderwood Communication (For information):

 Choosing our Values

Thank you to everyone who voted for our values. The votes have been counted across our families, children and champions. Our values are:

Creativity – noun – the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.

Caring – adjective – displaying kindness and concern for others.

Connectedness – noun – a feeling of belonging to or having affinity with a particular person or group.

I’m sure you will agree these encompass all we are aiming to achieve at Calderwood Nursery.

FirePit Sessions

Thank you to all who attended our sessions our firepit session. We loved sharing these with our families. We hope you had as much fun as the champions and children. Please give us feedback so we can continue to improve our sessions by clicking here.

Champion Conversations

Please arrive just before your appointment. There will be a small waiting area in which you can look through the floor book. Your child’s champion will meet you at the waiting space and bring you to their allocated space on the nursery floor. You will have a 10-minute slot to discuss your child’s progress. We look forward to seeing you all then.

Children’s Rights

Please use the Sway to see our learning journey all about embedded children’s rights at Calderwood Nursery. https://sway.office.com/GLwZolJJ4JcxO8UQ?ref=Link

Big Walk and Wheel

Calderwood Primary School are taking part in the Big Walk & Wheel event from 20^th – 31^st March. Last year, the pupils’ amazing efforts won our school a bike stunt show. We can’t wait to get involved again! Please see more information about the event here: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/03/16/big-walk-wheel-event-20th-31st-march/

Parents Garden Project

On the 27th March, throughout the day, we are welcoming 1 member of a child’s family to visit our nursery garden to support with planting, weeding, tidying and developing this space. If you will attend with your child please just let us know on the door.

 

HOME LINKS:

The children have been learning about predication (what happens next?)

• Read a story with your child and ask them to predict what happens next
• Conduct an experiment with your child, before the results ask them what they think will happen next. Here are some ideas for you to use https://www.firstdiscoverers.co.uk/early-years-science-activities-eyfs/

As always, please share any experiences with us on Online Learning Journals.

As ever, thank you for your continued support. If you would like to leave us any feedback, please click here.

Kindest Regards,

The Nursery Champions