Safer Internet Day 2024

To celebrate Safer Internet Day, Ben Lawers took part in an investigation into Fake News. We looked at how to spot Fake News and which sources of information a reliable. We also had a go at creating our own Fake News stories, to see if we could fool our classmates.

Big Walk and Wheel: 11-22nd March

 

Calderwood has signed up for SUSTRANS big walk and wheel, which begins on Monday 11th March and runs until Friday 22nd March. We will be tracking how our children are getting to school – whether they walk/bike/scoot etc.

 

Previously we have won this competition and it would be great to win again!

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 08/03/24

Calderwood Chronicle 08_03_24

 

Calderwood Commitments:

  • 08/03/24 – 19/03/24: Champion Conservations Open Online to book Letter issued with instructions about how to book an appointment with your child’s champion.
  • 11/03/24- 27/03/24: Milk order open on iPay for Term 4 – milk will not be available to order after this date.
  • Parents Portal: We would encourage all families to sign up to Parents Portal as you can now complete your EE2 forms for excursions online. You can find more information here.
  • Promoting cultural and diversity in Calderwood: Please take some to complete this

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

 

Calderwood Communication:

 

Calderwood Construction:

  • You can find extension plans and drone footage here.
  • Works look ahead:
    • External facing brick install.
    • Internal partitions, second side sheeting.
    • M&E 1st fix ongoing.
    • Scaffold is now complete for the brickie.

Calderwood Compliments:

  • On 4th March we marked the 2nd anniversary of our official opening by burying a timescale in our new playground. In the capsule are our memories of our first year of Calderwood and why Calderwood is unique. That you to our Pupil Council and Jo from our Parent Council for supporting the event. The news article will be on West Lothian media pages and the local press.

Building Resilience in Bluebell

This term in Bluebell, we have been looking at how we can build our resilience through purposeful play and discussions about “bounce-backability”. This week we tested our resilience by trying to lift a plastic cup without touching it.

We had to lift a cup by only using string and an elastic band without touching the cup. To be successful, everyone had to work together and try different strategies until we found one that worked. It was very tricky but when we worked together we managed to do it.

  • Firstly we had to cut a piece of string for everyone in the group.
  • Secondly we put the pieces of string through the elastic band. We then pulled the string to stretch the band over the cup.

It was such a fun activity to do together.

 

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Bluebell’s Fairtrade Learning

This week we have been learning about Fairtrade and cocoa farmers for our explanation writing. We learned about a group of farmers called the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative, which consists of approximately 65,000 farmers.

We learned what Fairtrade is and how it works. Fairtrade gives different farmers (for example banana, coffee and cocoa farmers) a fair price for their products. We made lots of notes about the different stages of cocoa bean farming and worked in pairs or independently to make a colourful and informative leaflet. We also used our genre targets to make sure that our writing followed the correct structure, used complex connectives amongst other things to make our writing as informative as possible. We also got to taste some Fairtrade chocolate and bananas to compare them to non-Fairtrade products.

All in all, it was very fun and interesting to learn about this topic.

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 01/03/24

Calderwood Commitments:

  • 29/02/24 – 06/03/24: Tickets for Aladdin available to the whole school on iPay. First come, first served. You can find out more here.
  • 01/03/24 – 19/03/24: Champion Conservations Open Online to book Letter issued with instructions about how to book an appointment with your child’s champion.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

  • Term 3 Family Calendar
  • 01/03/24: Letter issued about Champion Conversations sign up information.
  • 04/03/24: Time Capsule event for Pupil Council and chiefs: Pupil Council to wear full school uniform for a photo opportunity and not P.E kit please.
  • 07/03/24: Tempest: Clan Photos: Primary 1 clans, Primary 7 clans: School uniform and no PE Kit please. Basketball Team – Team Basketball Strip. We have put a request out to our PVG group for helpers to support with the photo process, we would be grateful if anyone could support with this.
  • 07/03/24: Schiehallion and Thistle Excursion: Please see separate letter.
  • 08/03/24: Aladdin Dress Rehearsal for clans
  • 15/03/23: 11:15am: Clan Calderwood Connects: Glasgow Clan Two family members can attend.

 

Calderwood Communication:

  • We are continuing to place an emphasis on behaviours in the playground and have seen a reduction in incidents this week. Our playground is a no hands on play area, this includes excessive hugging by putting your hands around children’s necks and games where you ‘barge’ or nudge each other. We continue to appreciate your support by also having this conversation with your child at home. Children who choose not to follow our ready, respectful and safe playground charter may have a consequence which could include; restorative conversation, time out, letter or phone call home You can find out more information about our lunch time routines here.
  • Breakfast Club: Starting from Monday the entrance to Breakfast Club will be the side door and not the main door.
  • Parents Portal: We would encourage all families to sign up to Parents Portal as you can now complete your EE2 forms for excursions online. You can find more information here.
  • Access to water: Since August we have used approx. 3000 cups due to children forgetting their water bottle. Can you please ensure your child comes to school with a water bottle. If a child does require a water bottle we can organise this through the office.
  • Absences: Can you please ensure you are reporting your child’s absence to the office via a phone message or email. Unfortunately on a Friday, a large number of absences are not being reported to the office team, meaning that a significant amount of time on a Friday can be spent contacting parents.
  • Bullying workshop: This week Primary 4-7 had a visit from a theatre company to explore themes associated with bullying. Primary 4 and 6 had a follow up workshops. As this is area within our school improvement plan, the clans will continue to explore these themes within their health and wellbeing learning.
  • Promoting cultural and diversity in Calderwood: Please take some to complete this

 

Calderwood Construction:

  • You can find extension plans and drone footage here.

Two Week Look Ahead

  • External facing brick install.
  • Continue internal Partitions on 1st floor and GF.
  • Start M&E 1st fix.

 

Calderwood Compliments:

  • Well done and thank you to our community litter pickers!
  • Well done to Perth Clan for their fantastic Connects about Scotland. We loved hearing all about your learning in a fun and creative way! Thanks to everyone who could join us.
  • Congratulations to Edinburgh Clan for their Connects today. It was great to hear all your learning about your own clan – Edinburgh! Thanks to everyone who could join us.
  • Today our Ben Clans had a special visit from Mrs McGarvey and baby Everly. It was lovely to see the both!

 

 

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