Champion Conversations Event
In Calderwood: Transition Arrangements
One Trusted Champion
One Trusted Champion
At Calderwood Health and Wellbeing is at the heart of our school. We strive to build positive relationships and create a nurturing environment for all pupils to have the best opportunities to learn.
As part of our transition Into Calderwood, over the next two weeks we will be introducing our Trusted Champion Approach.
A Trusted Champion is an adult at school chosen by your child. Someone your child feels they can talk to about anything, supports them, listens to them and has their best interests at heart.
Your child will have the opportunity to book an appointment with their Trusted Champion whenever they need it.
The Wellbeing Indicators
Every child or young person should feel safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included.
These eight indicators help make sure everyone – children, parents, and the people who work with them have a common understanding of wellbeing.
The eight wellbeing indicators connect and overlap. When considered together the different elements of wellbeing give the whole picture of a child’s or young person’s life at a particular point in time.
A child’s or young person’s wellbeing is influenced by everything around them. It is up to all of us as parents, teachers and other agencies to work together to promote, support and safeguard the wellbeing of all of our children and young people. Children and young people have different experiences and needs at different times in their lives. Understanding how this affects their wellbeing, and providing the right support when they need it, helps them grow and develop and reach their full potential.
Our children will therefore use these indicators at school to self-report on how their wellbeing throughout the year through our ‘Wellbeing Check In’s’. Follow up Trusted Champion Conversations and support will be offered for those who need it.
Because #CalderwoodCares !
Orkney Clan Phonics
Orkney Clan have had a fantastic and busy few weeks. It is clear that the children’s confidence has grown hugely with following the day to day routines. They especially enjoy our morning check-in where they find their name and then place it in a pot which best describes how they are feeling. Orkney Clan also love learning new things! An aspect of our learning that we would like to share with you is our learning in phonics.
This week has been very exciting because we have been introduced to some of our initial sounds. The children are learning two new sounds a day as part of a fast track introduction. This will ensure they have some understanding of all the sounds before we look at each sound in more detail after the September break. So far we have learned a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i and j. We have learned a character, sound and action for each of these letters. For example, the character for ‘a’ is Annie Apple and she makes an ‘a’ sound. The action is pretending to eat an apple while saying ‘a’. Maybe you could ask your child to tell you about the letters and the sound they make? Can your child spot any objects around the house that begin with any of these sounds?
One of the children’s favourite learning activities has been colouring in the letters and their characters. They have great discussions about the characters and what they might like. For example, someone asked if Clever Cat likes to eat carrots. It is fantastic to see some of the children choosing to practise writing letters for themselves too. Over the next few weeks we are going to have a look at the rest of our initial sounds. We are so excited to meet everyone else in Letterland.
Orkney Clan had an amazing dress down day today! I hope you have a great weekend and I am looking forward to seeing everyone again on Monday.
Miss Cunningham
Invisible Strings at Calderwood Primary
Musings from Mull 3/9/21
It has been another busy few weeks in Mull Clan. We have gotten to grips with our day to day routines and have demonstrated a confident attitude within our school environment.
Our big focus this week was an introduction to our initial sounds through the Letterland characters. Pupils have a fast track introduction to all the letters characters, their sounds and actions before we look at each sound in more detail after the September break. Have you heard of Harry Hat Man or Annie Apple yet? Ask your children to tell you all about them and the sound that they make.
We have also been continuing to practice our number recognition and counting skills. We have used smartboard games, playdoh and monster numbers to help us with a multi-sensory learning. We are going to be building on our subitizing skills with using dot patterns for quick identification of a number of items in a set. A set of dominoes are great for this if you want to practise at home.
We continued to engage with our whole school project of ‘Invisible Strings.’ All pupils made a special gift for an important person they have an invisible string connection to, we hope you liked them. We have also been summarising some of our favourite parts of the book; making connections to our own interests and experiences. We also looked at some of the interesting vocabulary with the text and discussed this in more detail.
Mull Clan have also started to explore Rights Respecting School and the UNCRC whilst building our class charter. Our class charter will be our agreed class rules. Our pupils came up with some really thoughtful suggestions for how they would like our classroom to: feel like, sound like and look like. We will continue to reflect on and review our class charter once we move to our new home at Calderwood.
Please keep on checking your individual Seesaw accounts for day to day learning.
Mrs Robertson
Welcome to Calderwood Nursery
We have emailed the following letter to those children who have been allocated a place at Calderwood Nursery, who are 3 years old on 18th October. If your child turns 3 after the 18th October we will be in touch with you via separate communication.
