Category: 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:
- PM session children only – Order your child’s lunches
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
Xcite Easter Holiday Programme
Nursery Chronicle 17.03.23
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
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?)
- 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
Nursery Chronicle 10/03/23
Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 10.03.23
Calderwood Commitments Actions:
- PM session children only – Order your child’s lunches
- Final chance! Vote for our values by voting here.
Calderwood Calendar
KEY DATES
15th March – Champion booking system closes
20th – 25th March – Magic Miles Parent Council Launce – Walk or Wheel to Nursery during this week
24th, 31st March – Champion Conversations
14th April – Champion Conversations (specific clans)
UPCOMING DATES
You can find upcoming dates here
Calderwood Communication (For information):
Choosing our Values
Your final chance! Next week we will choose our values.
Through consultation with our champions, children and parents we have narrowed down the choice of values to 7. We would like to choose 3 values which represent Calderwood. Please have your say by voting here.
BookBug and FirePit Sessions
Thank you to all who attended our sessions this week. We loved sharing these with our families. We hope you had as much fun as the champions and children.
Champion Conversations
You will have received a letter and link to Parent Booking System to book an appointment with your child’s champion this week. Please ensure you book a slot as soon as possible.
HOME LINKS:
This week there has been a focus on Money throughout the nursery. The children are learning to recognise different forms of transaction and use money. Show your child applying this skill to real life! Can your child recognise different coins, bank cards and money? Can your child use different forms of payment to support paying for things at the shop?
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 03/03/23
Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 03.03.23
Calderwood Commitments Actions:
- PM session children only – Order your child’s lunches
- Give us feedback for the Stay and Play sessions
- Vote for our values
Calderwood Calendar
KEY DATES
| 06/03/23 and 08/03/23 | Fire pit sessions
Session 1 10:30am-11:15am Session 2 11:30am-12:15pm Session 3 1:30pm-14:15pm
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| 07/03/23 and 09/03/23
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Book Bug
10:30-11:00am 2:30-3:30pm |
UPCOMING DATES
You can find upcoming dates here
Calderwood Communication (For information):
Choosing our Values
Through consultation with our champions, children and parents we have narrowed down the choice of values to 7. We would like to choose 3 values which represent Calderwood. Please have your say by voting here.
BookBug and FirePit Sessions
Next week we look forward to welcoming you along to our BookBug and FirePit sessions. Please ensure you sign up for a slot in the nursery cloakroom.
HOME LINKS:
The children have been learning about their rights. They have learned that rights are promised that help them to be happy, healthy and safe.
To support you in talking to your child about their rights. Choose one of the rights to explore at home and capture a photo of your child exploring this e.g. you have the right to play, capture a photo of your child playing. You can find the rights on our blog by clicking here.
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
Children’s Rights
24.02.23 Nursery Chronicle
Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 24.2.23
Calderwood Commitments Actions:
- PM session children only – Order your child’s lunches
Calderwood Calendar
KEY DATES
| 06/03/23 and 08/03/23 | Fire pit sessions
Session 1 10:30am-11:15am Session 2 11:30am-12:15pm Session 3 12:30pm-13:15pm
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| 07/03/23,
09/03/23 & 10/03.23 |
Book Bug – times to be confirmed |
UPCOMING DATES
You can find upcoming dates here
Calderwood Communication (For information):
Engineering Project
As part of our learning we will be exploring different jobs, particularly in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). If you would like to come into the nursery to speak to the children about your job, or would like to share a video for us. Please let the nursery know.
Resources at home
A gentle request that if your child has accidently brought a toy or resource home from nursery could you please return this to nursery.
Stay and Play
A huge thank you to everyone who attended our Stay and Play sessions this week. We hope you enjoyed it as much as the champions and children did.
HOME LINKS:
The children have been interested in exploring pancakes this week due to it being pancake day on Tuesday.
Can you bake/make something at home – make sure to measure and weigh the correct ingredients. Can you create your own recipe or you might want to use some of these https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/kids-baking-recipes
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 20.1.23
Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 20.1.22
Calderwood Commitments Actions:
- Due to an error, ‘child’s name’ was missed from the form. Therefore, if your child does not attend nursery on a Monday and you did not share your child’s name, please sign up for a slot for nursery photo day on 23rd January by clicking here.
- Order your child’s lunches for next week by clicking here
Calderwood Calendar
UPCOMING DATES
23rd January – Photo Day
Calderwood Communication (For information):
Photo Day
Tempest Photography will visit the nursery on Monday 23rd January to take individual and sibling photos of the children. You will receive and email with information regarding ordering after photo day. If your child does not attend nursery on a Monday, please choose a slot by clicking here.
Mealtimes at Calderwood Nursery
Rationale
‘Meal times should be viewed as learning opportunities where we take time to support and encourage children to learn the necessary skills for life.’
Scottish Government, 2020, p. 57
The Scottish Government recognises that ELC experiences provide children with an opportunity to establish healthy eating habits in their early years. West Lothian Council will provide children with healthy, nutritionally balanced meals and snacks to support children to develop good eating habits and positive attitudes to food from a young age. You can find more information here:
http://www.healthscotland.com/uploads/documents/30341-Setting%20the%20Table.pdf
https://hub.careinspectorate.com/media/3241/food-matters-nurturing-happy-healthy-children.pdf
https://education.gov.scot/media/3bjpr3wa/realisingtheambition.pdf
All children in nursery are entitled to a hot meal and we would encourage children to try this hot meal. If for any reason your child wouldn’t like a hot meal there is a sandwich option or they can bring a packed lunch, please just let us know.
Instead of ordering your child’s lunch on the register we are going to trial ordering using a form each week which will be shared in the chronicle email each week. Order by clicking here.
Application for Primary 1
A gentle reminder that application for Primary 1 2023/24 should have been completed by 31st December. If you have not completed the forms for your child, you can find more information as below. We would encourage you to apply for a place as soon as possible.
Primary 1: https://westlothian.gov.uk/apply-for-a-primary-school-place
HOME LINKS:
This week we have been interested in learning about Chinese and Lunar new year.
You might want to try making some recipes at home. You can find some here: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/chinese-new-year-recipes
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
