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. 

  • 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.

 

Explore Languagenut here!

This Week in Thistle!

This week in Thistle clan we have been exploring our skills in balance during PE. We have been making balancing activities more challenging and then timing ourselves using stopwatches to see how long we can do them for.

We have also been looking at the strategy of partitioning during our number talks. We have been using progressively bigger numbers and have been practicing applying our strategy.

Here are some examples of how we have been laying out our partitioning answers;

In French we have begun to investigate hair descriptions, we have been taking our time to listen and repeat the key phrase “J’ai les cheveux…” and then we have begun building our vocabulary to describe hair colour, length and texture.

Finally we would like to share our health and wellbeing focus of Friendship. This week we have explored how to make and keep friends. We have enjoyed discussing personal experiences and giving advice to others. We created a friendship soup and added the ingredients we think make up a perfect friendship;

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Calderwood Parent Council

Welcome to all parents and carers of children starting, and returning to, Calderwood Primary School and Nursery this year!
Here are some documents which give an introduction to the Parent Council –  our Constitution, our Code of Conduct and a simple view of how parents can engage with the Parent Council. The Chair’s Report from last year gives an idea of the activities of the PC.
For any parents and carers new to the school who would like to join the PC, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/5UBnqMdeNa7hVDBp8
If you have any questions or would like to find out more: calderwoodpspc@gmail.com
Tim Ozdemir
Chair, Calderwood Primary School Parent Council

Collectively Calderwood


We are looking for some items to make our current classroom ‘Schiehallion’ feel more homely as an extension to our Hawthorn Hut.

We are trying to be as environmentally friendly and sustainable as possible so thought we would reach out to our community first and see what we can gather.

Items that we are looking for should be of a good quality and  games or puzzles must contain all pieces.

If you have any of the furniture or larger items that we are looking for, please contact the office on wlcalderwood-ps@westlothian.org.uk or 01506 280060 and we will arrange collection.

Thank you 😊

 

Rugs different shapes and sizes, textures

Cushions/beanbags/oversized soft toys

Bookcase/shelves

Large Kallax (ikea) style unit or box shelve storage unit

Storage boxes

Side table lamps

Throws/blankets

Fitness trampoline, stretch yoga bands, muscle rollers, yoga mats

Blender for making soup/smoothies

Egg chairs with canopy (ikea)

Baby dolls and accessories

Role play – house stuff (kitchen + accessories), dress up material (not costumes), sturdy full length mirror/handheld mirrors, beads, bangles, hats, scarves

Old games consol & games (Minecraft, Sims etc)

Scooters – scuttle bugs/ balance bikes/ swingball (indoor)

Old working toys

Train/ cars trucks and tracks

Figures, Barbie’s, LOL dolls, action figures, dinosaurs, animals farm/zoo,

Table top games

Construction sets – Lego, duplo, k’nex, magnet, marbles

Puzzle/coloring books

Play dough sets/tools

Jigsaw puzzles

Gardening equipment

NSPCC Online Safety Workshops for P5-7 Families

Primary session 1 – Social Media, Parental Controls, Modelling Good Behaviour, Screen Time vs Screen Use

Tuesday 11th October @ 7pm

Microsoft Teams meeting

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Meeting ID: 360 183 895 563Passcode: nLTnf4

Primary session 2 – Grooming, Online bullying, Online friendships

Monday 7th November @ 7pm

Microsoft Teams meeting

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Meeting ID: 358 089 273 611Passcode: FDU7tm

Bug Hotel – We need your help!

As part of Primary 1’s ‘Calderwood Creatures’ context for learning. They plan to make a Bug Hotel with the children. We are looking for donations of any resources from our lovely Calderwood community. If you can help please let us know!

  • Bricks
  • Bamboo canes
  • Tiles
  • Stones/Pebbles
  • Bark
  • Plastic Bottles
  • Cardboard

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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