Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Thistle Clan 9.9.22

This week in Thistle we have enjoyed moving our bodies and practicing our skills in balance and stamina. We have been using a variety of equipment to help us with static and dynamic balance.

We have also been investigating whole number and have enjoyed using a variety of different materials and resources to help us with numeracy activities and challenges this week.

We also have been continuing to look at different addition strategies in our Number talks. We have been talking about partitioning, friendly numbers and using a number line.

In French this week we consolidated our vocabulary from last week around hair colour and moved on to looking at eye colour. Children took time to ask “Tu et comment?” (What are you like?”) and had a go at answering both verbally and written. We then took a class survey of eye colour using our key vocabulary.

In writing we have been focused on the key features of description genre. We started off by writing a piece without any input to see what we could remember from last year. We have then been exploring a passage called “The Moon” and investigating the key features and vocabulary of a descriptive piece. This week we wrote a model together of what a good description looks like called “The Sun.” We will now use this piece to support us next week as we begin to write independently about the brain – related to our focus of Calderwood Cranium Consultants.

Here is the document we use to support us and help us self and peer assess a descriptive piece of writing. 1st & 2nd Level Narrative_self_peer_assessment_placemat

Ordering Lunch for a Child with Allergies in School

Communicating your child’s allergy:

If your child has an allergy you should communicate this through email to the school office.
Appropriate forms will then be provided to the parent e.g. medication form, individual healthcare plan and flowchart
If required, a ‘free from’ menu / individual menu will be provided to the parent
Individual children’s allergies are then shared on a poster with their photo, name and allergens with the child’s champion and in the kitchen
Any medication and flow charts are stored in the child’s classroom/first aid room (if appropriate)

Ordering lunch for your child:

On iPay, you should then click ‘special diet’
This information is shared with the kitchen who prepare the appropriate meal (from their menu if appropriate) for your child and their meal will be labelled with their name
Your child’s champion will give your child a purple band indicating they have a special diet (purple bands on order)
At lunchtime your child will give the kitchen champions a purple band and use the allergy poster to provide your child with their meal

Parent Council Agenda – 13/09/22

13.09.22 Calderwood PCM Agenda

In person: Arena at Calderwood Primary

Online:

Join Parent Council Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/4321333221?pwd=dnZHM25QdkpjNzhVYTZsV0xONGtLdz09

Meeting ID: 432 133 3221Passcode: 202205

Find out more about the parent council by clicking here.

Xcite October Holiday Clubs

Xcite Outdoors – October Holiday Programme – Timetable – PDF for Schools – 2022

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:

Term 1 – P1 Learning Letter

Term 1- P2 Learning Letter

Term 1- P3 Learning Letter

Term 1-P4 Learning Letter

Term 1 – P5 Learning Letter

Term 1 – P6 Learning Letter

Term 1 – P7 Learning Letter