APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR NEXT SESSION 2023/2024 FREE SCHOOL MEALS & CLOTHING GRANT.
If you are entitled, completing this application will provide your child with lunch every day, school milk and access to support services, clothing grant & extra support if required in school.
Calderwood Chatter is open from 11-12pm every FRIDAY for a cuppa and a friendly chat if you need any advice, support or just a listening ear.
www.westlothian.gov.uk/mealsandclothing
Art Competition – 2023 Theme- Disney
Our school clans will be taking part in this competition.
Sporting Events/Fancy Dress – Sun 4-Sat 10 June
Various events take place in the park, off Main Street, during Gala Week and start around 6.30pm.
(All details are in the Gala Programme, which will be delivered to every house in East Calder & District.)
P7/S1 It’s a Knock Out- Wed 7 June, East Calder Park, approx..7.30pm
Ben Lomond Clan are invited to come along and participate in some fun “It’s a Knock Out” style team
games. Please wear your leavers hoodie.
Gala Queen Crowning Ceremony – Friday 9 June, East Calder Park (Next to the Health Centre,
Main Street), 6.00pm (please note new venue.)
Our choir and Glee Group will be performing. Please complete the form if your child who is in the choir and/ or Glee Group can attend.
https://forms.office.com/e/XzzQzZ1cVi
Grand Gala Parade – Sat 10 June,12.45pm – Almondell Cemetery Car Park
School and nursery children will walk together, behind our school banner and dress up as a
Disney character, we will also have banners available. Children should be accompanied by an adult.
P7 Leavers – Grand Gala Parade – Sat 10 June,12.45pm,Almondell Cemetery Car Park
We would like to encourage our Ben Lomond Clan to walk behind an “East & District P7 Leavers”
banner wearing their leavers hoodies.
Gala Day P7 Inter-Schools Relay – Sat 10 June,approx.2.00pm, East Calder Park
More information to come
DRESS DOWN DAY FOR A DONATION OF DIGNITY PRODUCTS 
WHEN: Friday 26th May
Dignity Boxes’ founder, Isabel Dosser, qualified as a registered nurse in 1976 and worked in various hospital departments before moving into palliative care in 1996 and then nursing education in 2004. Isabel had a growing concern about the impact of poverty in health and well being and in 2018 she established Dignity Boxes to provide free toiletries to those in need, an initiative that was based around the principle of preserving and promoting the dignity of all individuals.
Since becoming a registered charity in December 2018, Dignity Boxes established many connections with recipients and donors of dignity boxes across West Lothian and the City of Edinburgh. Our network continues to grow and our dedication to promoting Dignity of all through the provision of free toiletries remains at the heart of everything we do.
Our school ‘Mini Equity Champs’ and ‘Social Group’ have been involved in developing links with local charities and businesses and have decided to support our own ‘Community Cupboard’ and hold a donation drive for dignity boxes.
DRESS DOWN DAY – Bring any toiletries item on Friday 26th May to support both our Calderwood community and the registered charity Dignity Boxes.
Please only give if you can and only ONE PER FAMILY.
Thank you!
Our Ben Lawers Clan did us very proud at our most recent cross country event at West Calder High School, where we had four of the girls place within the top seven and three of our boys finishing withing the top five. We were up against other schools from our cluster and our girls winning, secured Calderwood Primary School girls team to represent West Lothian in the next cross country event. Huge congratulations to everyone that participated and did themselves proud.
Well done Calderwood, next stop, the stars!!!
Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 12.05.23
Calderwood Calendar
KEY DATES
| 19/05/23-26/05/23 | C in the Park tickets on sale on iPay |
| 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):
Stay and Play Sport Week
A signup sheet will be put up in the cloakroom next week for you to sign up to a Stay and Play Sports Week session. 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.
HOME LINKS:
The children have been interested in learning about sharing items into groups and sharing out items, counting in 2s and counting in 5s.
Practise this skill at home using everyday items.
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
We have a brilliant start to Term 4 and have had lots of opportunities to carry out experiments within our ‘Captivating Calderwood’ topic.
Water Cycle Experiment
We carried out a water cycle experiment where we drew the process on Polly bags, added water and placed onto our windows to see what happens to the water. We also made predictions and have been observing the experiment. We discovered that the evaporated water vapor usually goes into the atmosphere, but in our bag, it has nowhere to go, so it ends up sticking to the sides of the bag, turning back into a liquid as condensation.
Planting
We have planted our very own sunflowers and placed them onto the windowsill. We are watering them everyday and observing their growth by recording this onto a line graph. We have observed some plants have grown much faster than others and have discussed why that might be the case. We think some pupils have placed the seeds deeper than others and that may be a factor. We have discussed the life cycle of a sunflower and made posters to show this visually. In addition to this, we have recently dissected flowers and carried out research the purposes of each part. We were so interested in the different purposes of each part. This then led onto discussions on ‘pollination’ and why this is a vital process within the food chain.
Literacy
We have linked our topic with our reading and writing. Last week, we made notes on sunflowers based on where they are located, what they look like and how they behave. We are now working on creating an information report on sunflowers. We have discussed our writing targets in detail and pupils have loved the link between their topic and literacy!
Have a look on the following sway to see how much fun we have had on our ‘Cultivating Calderwood’ journey so far!
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Calderwood has a commitment for improvement! We are continually evolving and ensuring we are getting even better.
Below you can see the journey of our Improvement Priority Groups this year.
This year, through the participatory budget, our children chose to buy items to design their own nurturing space within their clan. This is a safe space that would be accessible to all pupils when they need it. Some clans chose to create a sensory space, others chose to make a comfortable seating area. All nurturing spaces are used to support children to self-regulate, they chose items which were calming including lights, comfortable cushions, tents, and activities such as sensory/fidget toys or books.
