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.

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 24/03/23

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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

Nursery Chronicle 17.03.23

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 17.03.23

Calderwood Commitments Actions:

Calderwood Calendar

KEY DATES

20th – 25th March – Magic Miles Parent Council Launch – Walk or Wheel to Nursery during this week

24th, 31st March – Champion Conversations

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

27th March – Parent Garden Project

14th April – Champion Conversations (specific clans)

 

UPCOMING DATES

You can find upcoming dates here

 

Calderwood Communication (For information):

 Choosing our Values

Thank you to everyone who voted for our values. The votes have been counted across our families, children and champions. Our values are:

Creativity – noun – the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.

Caring – adjective – displaying kindness and concern for others.

Connectedness – noun – a feeling of belonging to or having affinity with a particular person or group.

I’m sure you will agree these encompass all we are aiming to achieve at Calderwood Nursery.

FirePit Sessions

Thank you to all who attended our sessions our firepit session. We loved sharing these with our families. We hope you had as much fun as the champions and children. Please give us feedback so we can continue to improve our sessions by clicking here.

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.

Children’s Rights

Please use the Sway to see our learning journey all about embedded children’s rights at Calderwood Nursery. https://sway.office.com/GLwZolJJ4JcxO8UQ?ref=Link

Big Walk and Wheel

Calderwood Primary School are taking part in the Big Walk & Wheel event from 20th – 31st March. 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: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2023/03/16/big-walk-wheel-event-20th-31st-march/

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.

 

HOME LINKS:

The children have been learning about predication (what happens next?)

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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