13.09.22 Calderwood PCM Agenda
In person: Arena at Calderwood Primary
Online:
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Xcite October Holiday Clubs
P2 and P3 Clans Interdisciplinary Learning: Calderwood Careers
We are so excited to launch the P2 and P3 interdisciplinary learning context called Calderwood Careers. In this context, we will be learning about the world of work and the different jobs in our society. We will be exploring 3 different types of jobs:
- Calderwood Constructors: builders and architects
- Calderwood Cooks: chefs and bakers
- Calderwood Consultants: doctors, nurses, pharmacy and other health care professions.
- We are looking for some support and help with our learning from our Calderwood community. We are hoping to build our play areas across our clans to reflect these different jobs, and therefore if anyone has any toys, dressing up, equipment or learning materials can you please drop these in to our school office. We would really appreciate it!
- We are also looking for any volunteers who specialise in the jobs above to come in to our school and speak about your job role. Please fill out the form if you can help us!
We have asked all pupils in the P2 and P3 clans to bring in a 500ml plastic bottle for Monday 12th September to use in their Calderwood Consultants theme.
Thank you for supporting our school again!
The P2 and P3 clans!
Parking
Dear parent/ carers,
Unfortunately this email is about parking at Calderwood Primary & Nursery.
You will know that our routines sway is shared in every Calderwood Chronicle, was in our welcome letter to families and is shared in our blog: https://sway.office.com/sTz83AiyltZ0fQmG
The guidance around parking at Calderwood Primary & Nursery is:
- We encourage families to walk from school or park and walk.
- The carpark at the school is for staff and visitors only. If parents need to use this space in an emergency to drop off or pick up their children, they should use the first two lanes of spaces on the left as you drive into the carpark and walk their child over to the gate/ door (the row of spaces opposite the nursery is not for parent/ carer parking).
- Children should not cross the car park on their own.
- Please do not walk across the flowerbeds.
- A one way system is operated in this area.
- Please do not use the road alongside the school as this can be busy with construction traffic.
- The bay opposite the school entrance is for deliveries
Last week, on two occasions I was later arriving to school, in the middle of drop off time in the morning and what I witnessed was:
- parking in spaces that we wish to reserve for staff to make it easier for them to access the school. Including on two occasions a car reversing out and nearly hitting another car.
- pulling into spaces without indicating and/ or taking up several spaces.
- parking in the disabled spaces or across several spaces, without a permit.
- parking along Nethershiel Road, and along down to the farm. Blocking the road/ traffic.
- Also, as Primary 4-5 leave through the side door a lot of families are parking in the non parking zone along Nethershiel Road and waiting on their children here – this is not a parking or drop off area
At Calderwood Primary & Nursery, we have the luxury of a large carpark. As our school is not yet at full capacity, we are lucky enough to be able extend the use of the carpark to families for emergency drop off and pick ups – you will be aware that this is not the case in other Primary schools. It is the responsibility of all our community; families, champions, and visitors, to ensure the surrounding area of our school grounds is safe for all our users and most of all our children. I would urge you and/ or whoever drops off/ picks up your child to follow the routines above to ensure our carpark is a safe area.
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
Term 1 Learning Letters
We are so excited for the learning journey all pupils will be embarking on during Term 1 at Calderwood Primary School. Our whole school theme for our interdisciplinary learning this term is on the concept Maths. You will see that our champions and pupils have planned creative and innovative Maths learning contexts. Please find the learning overview for each stage for this term below:
Halloween Costume Swap Shop
Calderwood Communicates: Calderwood Can Profiling Drop In
08/09/22 @ 6pm
Calderwood Communicates: Profiling: Virtual Drop In
Join us to find out more about:
- How we share progress with families
- Seesaw, Teams and Blogging
- Jotters as a learning story
- Champion Conversations
Click here to join the meeting Meeting ID: 331 175 673 465
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You can find our profiling strategy here: Calderwood Can_Profiling_2022_23
Dress Down Day – 09/09/22
Languagenut
We would like to say a massive thank you to our Parent Council at Calderwood Primary School for providing the funding to have the programme Languagenut in our school. This learning and teaching resource was at the heart of our 1+2 modern languages curriculum last year, and we are so excited for this to continue for the next 3 years. Thank you very much to everyone in the Parent Council for making this happen. Calderwood does languages! Please find further information about Languagenut below:
What is Languagenut?
Languagenut is a learning and teaching resource used in Calderwood for delivering our 1+2 modern languages curriculum. This is a digital resource that pupils can access at school and at home with their own username and password. Calderwood trialled this resource last year and found many benefits to our pupils learning, for example:
- It allows pupils to practise the 4 main skills needed for learning a modern language: listening, talking, reading and writing.
- It gives access to 6 different languages; French is available for our whole school and Spanish can be accessed for our 2nd language for P5-P7 clans.
- There are a variety of fun and interactive games that the pupils can select from.
- It allows the pupils to decide what they need to work on, for example: sentence building, grammar, vocabulary, phonics and verbs.
- Champions can set assignments, review pupils’ work, provide feedback and monitor pupils’ completion of tasks.
- Languagenut provides an opportunity for whole school and council competitions where pupils can receive certificates and prizes.
- Champions can use this to create their own learning activities for the pupils in their clan.
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Pupils can earn points for their achievements and can monitor their learning.
How will this be taken forward in our school?
- All pupils will get a login card with their username and password. They will have a card to keep at home which will be issued after the September break.
- We will host our first Calderwood School Competition to show our learning in French in Term 1.
- We will get involved in West Lothian Council Languagenut competitions.
Calderwood Can Certificates
Our first certificates of Chapter 2 of Calderwood were presented at our Calderwood Connects today! We are so proud of all learners who received a certificate. Well done for showing kindness, effort and perseverance!
