Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Thistle at Christmas!

We have had such an exciting time at the end of Term 2. We had our final rounders competition against the children of Bramble where we use all our skills and teamwork that we have been developing to secure a victory.

We had also decided we wanted to raise some money for those more vulnerable at this time of year. In small teams we chose a charity that was important to us, researched a recipe and worked to a budget. We then came together in the STEM studio to make our bakes, created adverts through our persuasive writing and sold them to primary 4 and 5 children. We were delighted by our success and raised a joint total of £74.06 for Sick Kids, Cancer Research UK and Children in Need.

Finally, we had a tremendous time on Tuesday at our Christmas party with dancing, games, prizes, snacks! Merry Christmas everyone!!

Christmas in Bluebell

Christmas Crafts

We have had such a busy week in Calderwood! Bluebell Clan have been engaging in lots of fun Christmas craft activities, creating little handmade gifts for their loved ones. We won’t give away what they made just yet and will leave this as a little surprise for Christmas day. However, have a look at how Bluebell Clan have been extremely busy elves!

We then wrapped our Christmas presents and watched tutorials on how to make a bow. This supports our fine motor skills development as we were using small muscles in our hand, wrist and fingers to wrap the presents and tie the ribbon. We helped each other along the way demonstrating great team work and collaboration.

Christmas Party Fun

We had an amazing time at our Christmas Party. We played games such as musical bumps, Christmas corners and pass the parcel. We then enjoyed some party food before having a dance off! Well done to the pupils that won the dancing competition, it was such a difficult decision as everyone danced so well!

Have a look at how much fun we all had!

A Little Message from Miss Ali and Mrs Robertson:

Wishing you all a lovely Christmas, filled with lots of laughter and cheer and all the best for the New Year. Enjoy the break. We cannot wait to hear all about your holiday fun!

Love Miss Ali and Mrs Robertson x

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 22.12.22

Calderwood Nursery Chronicle 22_12_22

Calderwood Commitments (Actions):

A gentle reminder that all lost property should be collected by 23^rd

Calderwood Calendar

9th January: Nursery Opens
10^th January: Potential School Strike Day: Nursery open as normal, school office closed, absences should be reported through the nursery

Calderwood Communication (For information):

Parent Council Christmas Fundraisers: The Parent Council are still calculating the amount raised from the Fayre, raffle and Christmas Cards. The estimated amount is £4,250. This is an amazing amount raised, thank you to everyone who helped to organise these fundraisers. These funds will be used to buy iPads for our clans.
Child Flu Drop In Clinic
A gentle reminder of our nursery times:
- The nursery opens in the morning at 7:47am for AM places and 8:00am for full day places, on a Friday 8am for all. We would request that all children try to arrive by 9am so that they can be registered correctly, can order their lunch before the cut off time and have the opportunity to take part in any clan learning experiences.
- The nursery opens in the afternoon at 12:30pm for M places and 12:45pm for short places. We would request that all children try to arrive by 1pm so that they can be registered correctly, can order their lunch before the cut off time and have the opportunity to take part in any clan learning experiences.

Calderwood Compliments:

On behalf of all the champions at Calderwood, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for all your support, as we started Calderwood Chapter Two, we are looking forward to what 2023 brings!

Miss Burton

Child Flu Drop In

Calderwood Chronicle 22/12/22

Calderwood Chronicle_22_12_22

Term 3 Family Calendar

Leg it to Lapland Challenge

Calderwood Primary School took part in the Sustrans Christmas Challenge, ‘Leg it to Lapland’. This challenge encouraged all pupils to take their journeys to and from school by foot, scooter or bicycle. The charity launched this challenge to help reduce traffic congestion and air pollution around the school. Each day pupils travelled to school during the challenge week they earned ‘one virtual mile’ towards Lapland. Completing 30 mins of other exercise i.e. dancing, scoring goals at football practice or learning some new moves at Taekwondo practice also earned them a virtual mile! Completing other active journeys e.g. walking to football practice also earned them a virtual mile! The school who get the highest number of average miles per pupil will be the winner!

We were very lucky to have Santa and his elves deliver a special prize to a pupil in each clan who had gone over and above during the Leg it to Lapland Challenge week! Well done to all of our pupils!