Category: Information for Parents/ Carers

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 19.05.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 19.05.23

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

22/05/23 School Closed. Nursery Open.
22/05/23-26/05/23 Nursery Sports Week – Stay and Sport Family Event
22-06/23-26/05/23 Dress Down Week: Dress down and please donate an item. More information to come. No football top or crop tops please.

 

UPCOMING DATES

You can find upcoming dates here

Calderwood Commitments Actions:

Calderwood Communication (For information):

Reporting an absence on School Holiday

Please report any absences to the nursery directly on Monday 22nd May on 01506 280070.

Calderwood Growth

Last week we had a Parent Council Meeting about the plans for growth and for August 2023 for Calderwood Primary, you can find the minutes here. In August we will grow to 22 clans, and at the minute we are working on a clan structure with West Lothian Council. Initially we know that we will have 5 Primary 1 clans and a P2/1 clan. We will update families about the plan for August, as more information becomes available.

Nursery-P1 transition

This week we had information sessions for our August 2023, Primary 1 families. You can find the information we shared here. Other information about transition into Primary 1 23/24 can be found here.

Stay and Play Sport Week

We look forward to welcoming you along to our Stay and Play Sport Week next week. We will have sport activities set up in the garden that you can participate in with your child.

Each child will get a wellbeing indicator sticker for being active and how they demonstrated this over the week.

Sun cream

Thank you to everyone for providing your child with sun cream, this means they can enjoy the outdoors in warmer weather. We appreciate all who have taken the time to apply this to your child on arrival, this speeds up the process of them getting outside.

Free School Meal and Clothing Grant

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/05/18/free-school-meals-clothing-grant/

Calderwood Community Cupboard

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/05/18/calderwood-community-cupboard/

East Calder Gala day Events

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/05/17/east-calder-gala-events/

 

Calderwood Compliments

Last week our children, clans and champions in the school and nursery were part of a West Lothian Council Validated Self Evaluation It was a positive experience for us, and validated our progress and next steps. A huge thank you to our champions for all the effort they put into this experience, we will share the report with you once we receive it. Thank you to our parents/ carers who took part in the discussion groups.

 

HOME LINKS:

Building independence: Try getting your child to apply their own sun cream at home.

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

Nursery Chronicle 05.05.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 05.05.23

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

01/05/23 School closed & Nursery closed
02/05/23 School closed & Nursery open
03/05/23 School Children resume
08/05/23 School & Nursery closed

 

UPCOMING DATES

You can find upcoming dates here

Calderwood Commitments Actions:

Calderwood Communication (For information):

Curriculum Rationale

Thank you to our children, parents/carers and champions who have had a key role in deciding our values and developing our Curriculum Rationale. Please see below our Curriculum Rationale, we would like your feedback on this.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/04/27/calderwood-nursery-curriculum-rationale/

Holiday Monday

A gentle reminder Monday is a holiday for both Nursery and School.

HOME LINKS:

This week we have been learning about being safe in our community.

Safety Walk
Walk around the house/community and count how many unsafe items (open cupboard doors where someone could bump their heads, toys on the floor where they could trip etc.). Discuss ways to keep safe at home and in the community e.g. looking both ways before crossing the road.

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 Curriculum Rationale

Thank you to our children, parents/carers and champions who have had a key role in deciding our values and developing our Curriculum Rationale. Please see below our Curriculum Rationale, we would like your feedback on this.

 

Curriculum Framework Calderwood Nursery

 

Nursery Chronicle 31.03.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 31.03.23

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

3rd– 17th April School Closed – Nursery Open

7th and 10th April Nursery Closed – Easter Holiday

14th April – Champion Conversations (specific clans)

 

UPCOMING DATES

You can find upcoming dates here

 

Calderwood Communication (For information):

Reporting an Absence During the School Holidays

The school Easter holidays run from Monday 3rd October- Monday 17th October and return on Tuesday 18th October. Our Calderwood nursery will remain open. To report an absence/share any information please remember to call the nursery phone on 01506 280070 as the school office will be closed. 

Nursery Lunches 

Over the school holidays packed lunches will be provided. You can order your child a sandwich option when you register your child on arrival to nursery.

Easter Celebrations

Next week the children will take part in an Easter egg hunt in the garden, Easter baking activities, and making Easter cards to celebrate the countdown to Easter.

 

HOME LINKS:

As the lighter evenings and sunnier days have arrived, the children have enjoyed working on our outdoor spaces this week by supporting to keep our garden tidy. They have been picking up litter, weeding and planting.

At home this week you could go on a litter pick around Calderwood Community or Country park or you could do some planting or weeding of your own!

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

Nursery Chronicle 24.03.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 24.03.23

Calderwood Commitments Actions:

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

31st March – Champion Conversations

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

3rd– 17th April School Closed – Nursery Open

14th 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

Nursery Chronicle 17.03.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 17.03.23

Calderwood Commitments Actions:

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

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

24th, 31st March – Champion Conversations

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

27th March – Parent Garden Project

14th 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 20th – 31st 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?)

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

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