Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 26/05/23

Clan Changeover Transition Programme 2023 Calderwood Chronicle_26_05_23

Calderwood Commitments (Actions):

Calderwood Calendar: 

  • Term 4 Calendar link Updated – updates in yellow
  • East Calder Gala Events
  • 26/05/23 – 09/06/23: C in the Park tickets on sale in iPay. £3 per adult/ child.
  • 29/05/23: Miss Stark, Depute Head Teacher starts
  • 02/06/23: 11:15am: Orkney Clan Calderwood Connects – 2 family members welcome
  • 02/06/23: 12:15pm-12:45pm: Extra Rookie Rock Star Tickets on Sale: Click here for info
  • 06/06/23: 6pm: Parent Council Meeting
  • 07 & 08/06/23: 6:30pm: Rookie Rockstars Concert: Pre Purchased Tickets required
  • 09/06/23: East Calder Gala Day Crowning Ceremony: Glee and Choir to meet at 5:50pm at East Calder Park https://forms.office.com/e/XzzQzZ1cVi
  • 10/06/23: 12:45pm: Grand Gala Parade -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.

Calderwood Communication: 

  • Free School Meals and Clothing Grant Information: Although all children in Primary 1-5 received free school meals, it is important that those families who are entitled to the free school meals grant apply, as this can get free school milk for your child and access to other support, in and out of school The clothing grant application also helps you to receive funding to purchase uniform supplies for your child. The link has more information and our equity champs are more than happy to support you with filling out the forms.
  • Calderwood Chatter in our Cosy Corner 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.
  • Clan Changeover 2023: Transition Information
  • C in the Park information 
  • This week we had our annual clan championships, you will begin to see photos appearing in this Sway. Thank you to those families who could join us and to the champions who organised this experience.

Calderwood Compliments:

  • This week we celebrated the contribution Miss Miller has made to Calderwood through a special connects, where each clan shared their memories of her, songs and memory cards. There is definitely something special about starting a school & nursery together and I would personally like to thank Miss Miller for all her help and support on our Calderwood journey, it’s been quite the experience together! Especially her leadership of our nursery and Primary 1, creativity within our curriculum and focus on Health & Wellbeing. I would like to wish Miss Miller lots of luck in her new adventure! Her caring, nurturing personality and friendship will be greatly missed at Calderwood.  Miss Burton

 

  • A message from Miss Miller: What an emotional farewell this week. I have loved celebrating with our wonderful children, champions and families. I would like to thank everyone for their kind words, gifts and support. I am proud to have been part of the Calderwood journey, starting the school from the ground up has been an amazing experience. Building special relationships with children, families and champions has been my favourite part. Your children are a credit to you all, I am privileged to have worked with every one of them. I will treasure the memories and miss everyone dearly. I wish everyone at Calderwood the best for the future as you continue to grow and develop!

Message from Miss Miller

What an emotional farewell this week. I have loved celebrating with our wonderful children, champions and families. I would like to thank everyone for their kind words, gifts and support. I am proud to have been part of the Calderwood journey, starting the school from the ground up has been an amazing experience. Building special relationships with children, families and champions has been my favourite part. Your children are a credit to you all, I am privileged to have worked with every one of them. I will treasure the memories and miss everyone dearly. I wish everyone at Calderwood the best for the future as you continue to grow and develop!

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Categorized as Events

Rookie Rockstars- Additional Tickets

The countdown is on for our Rookie Rockstars Concert which will take place on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th June at 6:30pm in our school arena. Tickets were recently on sale between 2nd-10th May where one adult ticket could be purchased. We communicated that if there were any additional tickets available these would be released prior to the event.

Following the first round of sales, additional tickets are now available. One additional adult ticket per child/children can be purchased. This ticket can give access to seated or standing in the arena/café. The additional adult ticket can be purchased on Friday 2nd June from 12:15pm-12:45pm in our school arena. Please enter through the school office during this time. This will be on a first come first serve basis. All payments are to be made on Ipay on the day. No further tickets can be purchased after this date. 

 

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Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 19.05.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 19.05.23

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

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):

Reporting an absence on School Holiday

Please report any absences to the nursery directly on Monday 22nd May on 01506 280070.

Calderwood Growth

Last week we had a Parent Council Meeting about the plans for growth and for August 2023 for Calderwood Primary, you can find the minutes here. In August we will grow to 22 clans, and at the minute we are working on a clan structure with West Lothian Council. Initially we know that we will have 5 Primary 1 clans and a P2/1 clan. We will update families about the plan for August, as more information becomes available.

Nursery-P1 transition

This week we had information sessions for our August 2023, Primary 1 families. You can find the information we shared here. Other information about transition into Primary 1 23/24 can be found here.

Stay and Play Sport Week

We look forward to welcoming you along to our Stay and Play Sport Week next week. 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.

Sun cream

Thank you to everyone for providing your child with sun cream, this means they can enjoy the outdoors in warmer weather. We appreciate all who have taken the time to apply this to your child on arrival, this speeds up the process of them getting outside.

Free School Meal and Clothing Grant

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/05/18/free-school-meals-clothing-grant/

Calderwood Community Cupboard

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/05/18/calderwood-community-cupboard/

East Calder Gala day Events

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/05/17/east-calder-gala-events/

 

Calderwood Compliments

Last week our children, clans and champions in the school and nursery were part of a West Lothian Council Validated Self Evaluation It was a positive experience for us, and validated our progress and next steps. A huge thank you to our champions for all the effort they put into this experience, we will share the report with you once we receive it. Thank you to our parents/ carers who took part in the discussion groups.

 

HOME LINKS:

Building independence: Try getting your child to apply their own sun cream at home.

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

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