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Special visitor to Calderwood Lodge

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Pupils and staff at Calderwood Lodge were recently paid a visit by a very special person. As part of the transition to our new school, pupils will be given the chance throughout the year to visit the site and see how the building work is coming along. Ivor Goodsite attended an assembly to talk to pupils about staying safe on construction sites in preparation for some of these visits.

Joint Faith Schools’ Campus Turf Cutting Ceremony

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Mrs Carlton and two of our Primary 5 pupils met Mrs McBride, head teacher of St Cadoc’s Primary School along with two pupils from the school in a turf cutting ceremony at the site of the Joint Faith Schools Campus in Newton Mearns.  They were joined by the Leader of East Renfrewshire Council, Jim Fletcher, along with the authority’s education convener Elaine Green.

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Infant Forest School Schedule

Below you will find information for our forest school programme running within the nursery class and school.  Click on the images to increase the size of the text, or click here to download a PDF document of this information.  Please click here to view the schedule for Primary 1, 2 and 3.

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School Holidays and Early Closure

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Just a reminder to all parents and carers that Friday 15 April is the last day of school before our two week holiday.  The school will close at 2.30pm on this day instead of 3.30pm, and will re-open on Tuesday 3 May.  We hope everyone has a lovely break when it finally arrives.

P6 Bikeability Sessions

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In term 3 children in P6 will take part in Bikeability sessions. The Bikeability programme is designed to give young people the skills and confidence to cycle, especially on roads. The programme also aims to sustain participation in cycling activity in Scotland.

This year Bikeability will take place on the following dates. Please ensure your child has their bike in school for each session.

Date Session
Tuesday 3rd May 2016 Bike Check and Bikeability session 1
Tuesday 10th May 2016 Bikeability session 2
Tuesday 17th May 2016 Bikeability session 3
Tuesday 24th May 2016 Bikeability session 4
Wednesday 1st June 2016 Bikeability session 5
Tuesday 7th June 2016 Bikeability session 6
Tuesday 14th June 2016 Assessment Date

We are unable to store bikes in between sessions on the school premises. In previous years bikes have been stored in between sessions in our nursery hall, however this space is now a shared space used by Primary 1 and nursery children. Please speak to a member of office staff should you have any queries about this.

If any parent wishes to volunteer to support a Bikeability session please contact Miss Dunn.

Muddy Mile

A group of pupils, parents and staff participated in the Muddy Mile run on Sunday 20th March.  This event was inspired by our running club and Mr Neillie, the parent who runs this afterschool activity.  The Muddy Mile was great fun.  We had a few lost shoes in the mud pits but the sun was shining and everyone was smiling at the finish line.  We hope to make this an annual event, so we will send out more information early next year to allow more parents and pupils to join us.

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Messibat Siddur

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Primary 5 Swimming

Swimming4Primary 5 will begin their block of swimming on Thursday 21st January.  The children will be collected from the school at 9am and taken up to the swimming pool by bus.  Please ensure all pupils are in school for the start of the school day at 8.55am.  Children arriving after 9.00am will not be able to attend as the bus driver will not have time to wait for them.