Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 24/01/2025

Calderwood Chronicle 24_01_25

 

Calderwood Commitments: 

• Dress Down Day: Friday 31^st Please refrain from sending children in football tops or crop tops.  All donations collected through iPay will go to Kirknewton and East Calder Community Listening Project.

Calderwood Calendar: 

• Updated: 2024-25 Calendar
• Calderwood Scottish Poetry Recital: Clan Winners: Friday 31^st Time TBC. Clan Winners will recite their poems to a panel.  Parents/Carers of winners will receive an invite to this event.
• Baird, Burns and Mackintosh Sharing the Learning: Thursday 6^th January 2:00-3:00pm. Please enter via the Glencoe (car park) gate from 1:55pm.  If you are running late, please enter via the office.
• Ness Clan Connects and Sharing the Learning: 9:15-10:15am on 7^th Doors Open 9:05am.
• February Break Begins: 7^th November 12:00noon. (Learners return Tuesday 18^th February).

Calderwood Communication:

• A reminder that in Miss Burton’s absence, you can continue to contact Miss Stark, Miss Connor or Mrs Warden via the school office.
• If your child requires medication, please ensure this is handed into the office and the correct forms are completed. Children should not carry medication in their school bag.
• In snow or icy conditions access to the school will be through the front door, we will alert parents/ carers/children to this. During these times there will be no supervisors in the playground. You can find our safe route here.
• If your child is going to be absent from school, it is vital that you inform the school office at your earliest convenience. This can be via phone call or email (wlcalderwood-ps@westlothian.org.uk).
• PE Days for Term 3 are here.
• Term 3 Learning letters are here.
• Term 3 Home Learning Choice Boards are here.
• At this time of year, children can be inside all day with the cold and wet weather and are therefore in close proximity of each other for longer periods of time. This is just a gentle reminder to check your child for head lice periodically.

Road Safety:

• As you will know, all clans are focusing on Road Safety this week and next week. We unfortunately continue to receive concerns about use of the car park and roads around the school.  We have parents, carers and staff in school who genuinely require to use the disabled bays – please do not use these as drop off bays or park there without a blue badge.  If you choose to continue using the car park for drop off and pick off, please do so safely and with consideration and respect of others.
• We have contacted Police Scotland about the ongoing Road Safety around the school. They came out on the 22^nd January at pick up time to look at the situation and to speak to people who were parked inappropriately.  We will continue to link in with Police Scotland to try to tackle these ongoing concerns.  To reiterate – the safety of our children is of paramount importance and we must continue to work together to ensure that our children arrive at and leave safely from school.  We would encourage you to “park and stride” – park a few streets away and walk the remainder of the way to school, discussing road safety with your child/children in the process.

Calderwood Compliments:

• Our House Meetings this term focused on our School Values. Learners worked collaboratively across their houses to think about each of our values – Caring, Resilience, Integrity, Belonging.
• Leven and Rannoch clans put on a brilliant Connects about Resilience and Growth Mindset. Well done to these clans and thank you to our teaching champs for making this possible.
• Our Primary 6 Learners have been busy spending our Participatory Budget. They have chosen to set up “Take What You Need” tubs, which will be situated throughout the school.  More information will follow in due course.