Calderwood PS is celebrating Book Week Scotland on Monday 13th- Friday 17th November. We are running a book drop initiative. Please find more information below:
Santa Sleigh Event
Dear parents and carers,
“Sleigh bells ring, Are you listening?…”
We are delighted to tell you that the East Calder Scout Group are running the Santa Sleigh event again this year!
Santa’s sleigh is raring to go and will be visiting believers, young and old spreading festive cheer and lots of chocolate!
He will visit Calderwood on Saturday 2nd December and East Calder on Sunday 3rd December, starting from 4pm both days.
We will be making plenty of noise so you will likely hear us coming!
We will also have ‘🎅🏽Santa Stop Here🎅🏽’ signs going up around your community in the coming weeks.
The routes we are taking, with the link to track Santa can be found here: https://www.eastcalderscouts.uk/home/santa
If you’re able to support this event, here is the link to our Just Giving page if you wanted to donate to the East Calder Scouts so we can continue to run these different events for our community. Thank you!
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/EastCalderScoutsSantaSleighEvent2023?utm_term=WqJG8pX3q
We look forward to seeing you all then!
Signed, Santas little helpers (scout division 😁)
Calderwood Christmas Fayre – 1st December
Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 10.11.23
Halloween 2023
A huge thank you to the Parent Council for their support in organising Calderwood Primary’s Halloween events. Primary 5-7 had a fantastic disco, complete with a DJ. Primary 1-4 enjoyed party games and dancing the next day. The decorations, treats and support was greatly appreciated.
Calderwood Careers 2023/24 Terms 2 & 3
We are so excited to launch this years Calderwood Careers! This is an opportunity for P4 -P7 to apply for a lunch time job around our school. If you would like to apply for a position, please complete the application form by Monday 13th November. This can be completed at home or school. Remember to be confident and share all the amazing skills you have!
East Calder Winter Fun Day: Sunday 26th November
Aberdeen: Term 2 Learning
Aberdeen Clan have had a very busy start to Term 2!
As Calderwood Rainforest Rangers, we have enjoyed starting to learn more about rainforests and the different species of plants and animals that live in this unique habitat. We were amazed to learn that rainforests are home to more than half of the world’s species of plants and animals – despite only covering around 6% of the Earth’s surface! We read “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry which encouraged a lot of discussion around the importance of protecting our environment. We also created our own flappy fact files to share our knowledge of the different layers in the rainforest.
In Maths, we created right angle eaters and went on an angle hunt in the classroom. Our hungry eaters discovered lots of 90 degree angles and we found that we were even able to create right angle shapes with our bodies!
Our narrative focus for writing has allowed us to begin to explore different types of figurative language which can be included in our writing to make it more entertaining. We had a lot of fun discussing ideas for our own Haunted House stories and we look forward to writing more stories set in the rainforest.
Mrs De Leun from the National Youth Choir of Scotland has continued her visits to help us learn about rhythm, pitch and music notation. We have loved having the opportunity to sing in class and get involved in the fun games which have helped to support our learning.
Last week, we had so much fun celebrating Halloween! We dressed up for our party where we were able to dance and play games with our friends from Dundee and Stirling – we all agreed it was spooktacular!
Nursery Calderwood Chronicle
Dundee Clan – Term 2 learning
Dundee Clan have got off to a great start in term 2. We began our learning about the rainforest through reading the book ‘The Great Kapock Tree’ by Lynne Cherry. We loved listening to this and had so many questions and wonders that we want to explore further. So far, we have learnt about the 7 continents in the world, where rainforests are in the world, why they are so warm and wet and what animals live there through exploring habitats. We were surprised to learn that there is more than one rainforest in the world and that people live in the rainforest! We look forward to learning more.
We have really enjoyed our visits from Mrs De Luen from NYCOS – The National Youth Choir of Scotland. We have learnt about keeping the beat in music, rhythm in music using notation and words to support us, and the pitch in music identifying high and low sounds as well as being introduced to notation. We played lots of games to support our learning and particularly loved having the parachute out.
We are learning about a new genre of writing – narrative writing (story writing). We are confident with the purpose, structure and language features of this genre and have had a go at creating a scary story – The Haunted House, together as a clan. We loved learning about onomatopoeia words and how these types of words can add excitement and interest to our story writing. We are looking forward to creating narrative texts based in the rainforest.
