Nursery Chronicle 31.03.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 31.03.23

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

3rd– 17th April School Closed – Nursery Open

7th and 10th April Nursery Closed – Easter Holiday

14th April – Champion Conversations (specific clans)

 

UPCOMING DATES

You can find upcoming dates here

 

Calderwood Communication (For information):

Reporting an Absence During the School Holidays

The school Easter holidays run from Monday 3rd October- Monday 17th October and return on Tuesday 18th October. Our Calderwood nursery will remain open. To report an absence/share any information please remember to call the nursery phone on 01506 280070 as the school office will be closed. 

Nursery Lunches 

Over the school holidays packed lunches will be provided. You can order your child a sandwich option when you register your child on arrival to nursery.

Easter Celebrations

Next week the children will take part in an Easter egg hunt in the garden, Easter baking activities, and making Easter cards to celebrate the countdown to Easter.

 

HOME LINKS:

As the lighter evenings and sunnier days have arrived, the children have enjoyed working on our outdoor spaces this week by supporting to keep our garden tidy. They have been picking up litter, weeding and planting.

At home this week you could go on a litter pick around Calderwood Community or Country park or you could do some planting or weeding of your own!

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

Friday 31st March 2023- End of Term 3 with Bluebell

Engineering Project

This term we have had lots of fun exploring our Engineering Project. We looked into what some useful and useless inventions in history were which led to further discussion and research into the progression of electrical inventions. We worked together to create a timeline of these electronic inventions and were shocked at how quickly digital technology became so popular within our society! We then participated in creating our own engineering projects where we displayed and developed our problem solving, creativity, innovation, planning, designing and communication skills. This was linked to the sustainability goals where we looked at how the most successfully innovations are those that are less selfless and are designed to help others and the environment around us. We based this thinking at the forefront of our projects. We had a lovely visit from students at Edinburgh University who introduced the Clan to Microbits and how it can be used for coding and programming. We then had a fantastic opportunity to visit Glasgow Science Centre and had the most amazing time with our Clans and Champions.

Please see the sway below for photographs:

https://sway.office.com/FJ8aPvgG9itdhoOa?ref=Link

Food Technology

We have been busy chefs this term baking shortbread, pizza, flapjacks and hamantashs. We have developed many skills such as team working, turn taking, communication, following instructions and safe food handling. We have practised kneading, rolling, chopping, spreading and folding to make our recipes. We were so impressed by our baking and got so many compliments from our family and champions for baking some delicious recipes.

Please see the sway below for photographs:

https://sway.office.com/uOstmrbysk3Q73Hh?ref=Link&loc=mysways

Feel free to share any other treats you make at home with us on your online jotters!

 

Have a lovely Easter Break and we cannot wait to see what fun we get up to in Term 4!

-Miss Ali and Mrs Robertson

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 31/03/23

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Calderwood Commitments (Actions):

  • If you, a family member or a Calderwood resident can support us with Developing the Young Workforce, please complete this form.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

  • Term 4 Calendar link
  • 17/04/23: School reopens and children return
  • 18/04/23: Spring Scavenger Hunt: House Competition: Optional – Children can wear their house colours on top and uniform on bottom. Fallow Sika Red Roe
  • 19/04/23: Ben Lawers & Ben Lomond excursion: National Robotarium at Heriot-Watt University: Please ensure all EE2s are returned, unfortunately failure to return the form means children will be unable to attend. If you require a school packed lunch it should be ordered by 17th Children should please wear school uniform
  • 21/04/23: Glee Contest: See separate letter

Calderwood Communication: 

  • This week we welcomed Mrs Mallaney to our pupil support worker champion team. She will be supporting the Primary 5 clans.

 

Calderwood Compliments:

  • This week our clans recognised Autism Awareness Week, by wearing their favourite colour to show how we are all unique. Ben Lomond, led the clans in a takeover day, leading each clan in a creative workshop about autism.
  • A huge thank you to our Parent Council for organising our Magic Miles fundraiser! Everyone should have a sponsor sheet, you can also collect these from the school office.
  • Ben Lawers had a fantastic trip to the Sky Studios and Get Gooey, they really enjoyed both parts of their excursion, putting their learning in STEM into a real life context.
  • A huge thank you to everyone who purchase a book at our recent Champion Conversations, this has helped us to raise £661.39 to purchase books for our clans.

We can’t quite believe the end of term 3 at Calderwood has arrived! As always, it has been a busy term for us with so many achievements! Thank you all, for your continued support to myself and the champions.

Have a lovely Easter break.

Miss Burton

Careers Talks – Parent/ Carer Support

We are looking for volunteers to come in and speak to primary 3 to 7.  The week we are looking to do this is 15th to the 18th May 2023. It will also be within school hours 8:45 until 15:15. We would be looking for a small talk about your job and what it entails. It would be only one presentation and we would look to match you with a clan who have been learning about a similar subject to your occupation. Feel free to bring in any resources, videos or props to help. It would be to speak to individual clans.

If you are one of the amazing members of our community who have already signed up last year using our careers form then we don’t need you to fill this in again.

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Calderwood Commitments (Actions):

  • 20/03-28/03/23 – Milk for term 4 open to order on iPay Impact.

Calderwood Calendar: 

  • 20/03-28/03/23 – Milk for term 4 open to order on iPay Impact.
  • 20th– 31st March Calderwood Primary School are taking part in the Big Walk & Wheel event from. Last year, the pupils’ amazing efforts won our school a bike stunt show. We can’t wait to get involved again! Please see more information about the event here.
  • 27th March: P1-5 and P7: World Autism Acceptance/ Awareness. Dress down in your favourite colour – no donation required. Please no football colours or crop tops.
  • 27th March: Ben Lawers Excursion to Sky Studios and get Gooey: Please ensure you have returned your EE2 form, failure to return your child’s EE2 will result in them not being able to attend the excursion. Please sure the trip is paid on iPay and you have ordered a school packed lunch if required. Children should wear their school uniform.
  • 28th March: Ben Lawers: World Autism Acceptance/ Awareness. Dress down in your favourite colour– no donation required. Please no football colours or crop tops.
  • 28th March: Depute Head Teacher Short Leet Interviews
  • 31st March: Last Day of Term 3 for school children

Calderwood Communication: 

Email title: School or Nursery Absence

Child’s first and surname:

Length of absence (if known):

Reason for absence:

If you are unable to email, you are still able to phone the school office. If your child continues to be absent for longer than one day and you haven’t initially reported this, please report this absence daily. If your child is going to be absent, it is your responsibility to contact the office before 9am to report the absence. Failure to report an absence will start the implementation of the West Lothian Safe Arrival policy, which may result in social work or police being contacted.

 

Calderwood Compliments:

  • Leven Clan shared an exciting drama about their journey to Loch Ness, our clans and their families at Calderwood Connects. What a fun, engaging, creative performance, we loved your singing and dancing!
  • Congratulations to all our children who represented their clan by presenting their pitches at our Dragon’s Den – Be an Engineer Competition on Monday. Mrs Grieve, Mr Valentine (Numeracy Pedagogy Officer) and Nicola Connor (STEM Development Officer) really enjoyed being Dragons and found it very difficult to judge! Congratulations to our early, first and second level champions. Thank you to Miss Christie for organising this event.
  • There was a buzz around the school this week, as we welcomed our families and children to speak to their champions about their progress in learning. Thank you to our children in Primary 5-7 clans, who helped to support us.
  • Some of our children in Ben Lawers, took part in the West Lothian Euro Quiz this week! A huge well done to our three teams, and also to our parents who visited the clan to support them with their preparation.
  • This week we welcomed Miss Swift and baby Jack, and Mrs Love and baby Emma to Calderwood. Our clans loved their visit.
  • Last week Bluebell, Bramble and Thistle, visited Glasgow Science Centre, to put their STEM learning into context. Thank you to all the champions involved in planning this exciting experience for our children.

You can find some photos of the above events on Twitter @Calderwood_Pri

 

Nursery Chronicle 24.03.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 24.03.23

Calderwood Commitments Actions:

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

31st March – Champion Conversations

27th– 31st – World Autism Acceptance Week – dress in your favourite colour

3rd– 17th April School Closed – Nursery Open

14th April – Champion Conversations (specific clans)

 

UPCOMING DATES

You can find upcoming dates here

 

Calderwood Communication (For information):

Champion Conversations

Please arrive just before your appointment. There will be a small waiting area in which you can look through the floor book. Your child’s champion will meet you at the waiting space and bring you to their allocated space on the nursery floor. You will have a 10-minute slot to discuss your child’s progress. We look forward to seeing you all then.

Parents Garden Project

On the 27th March, throughout the day, we are welcoming 1 member of a child’s family to visit our nursery garden to support with planting, weeding, tidying and developing this space. If you will attend with your child please just let us know on the door at the sign up sheet.

Leaf Award

Our children have begun visiting the forest to learn all about respecting the forest as part of our Leaf Award. All children will have the chance to visit the forest over the next few weeks.

Autism Acceptance Week

Across this week children can wear their favourite colour to nursery on any day. This is to showcase the spectrum of colour and celebrate all children’s uniqueness. Find out more: https://www.autism.org.uk/get-involved/raise-money/world-autism-acceptance-week-2023

Careers

If anyone would like to come into nursery to share with the children their job. Please let us know. The children have been enjoying these sessions. Thank you to everyone who has volunteered so far.

 

HOME LINKS:

The children have been interested and learning all about the roles and responsibility of people in different jobs.

This week at home ask your child to explore people at home’s jobs. What skills does that person need? What do they do every day?

You can also use this website to explore some engineer profiles – https://www.letsdoengineering.com/engineer-profiles

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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