House System Overview

All children who attend Crawforddyke Primary are assigned to a School House. Our House names are Angus, Cameron, Caldwell and Ramage. Each House has been named after gallant soldiers from Carluke.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

House Captains

Each year House Captains are appointed from the Primary Seven children. Their role is to:

• Lead their house and be positive role models for our school

• Encourage House members to work for House points

• Lead House events to raise money for school funds and charity

• Hold regular discussions with school management about ideas to enhance school life

• Keep the local press informed of the school’s news and achievements

At the end of each year, the House with the most points is presented with the House Cup to mark their achievements.

 

ANGUS HOUSE

Named After: Lance Corporal William Angus

This Celtic player and pit worker volunteered to fight with the Highland Light Infantry at the outbreak of World War 1. He was wounded an incredible 40 times and lost one eye while saving the life of an army officer in Givenchy, France, in 1915. He received a hero’s welcome on his return home.

Honours: Victoria Cross (the country’s highest military honour). He was the first Scottish Territorial to win the Victoria Cross.

 

 

CAMERON HOUSE

Named After: Lieutenant Donald Cameron

This naval officer destroyed Hitler’s much feared battleship Tirpitz in a one-man midget submarine raid on the Trondheim Fjord in northern Norway in September 1943. Lieutenant Cameron carried out the attack after travelling 1,000 miles from a secret base. He was captured during the raid and sent to a Prisoner of War camp.

Honours: He learned that he had been awarded the Victoria Cross, the country’s highest military honour, while still in the camp.

 

 

CALDWELL HOUSE

Named After: Sergeant Thomas Caldwell

He won a Victoria Cross in 1918 while in command of a Lewis gun section of the 12th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, in Audenarde, Belgium. His section came under heavy fire trying to take a farmhouse full of German soldiers. Sergeant Caldwell single-handedly rushed the building, taking 18 prisoners. His bravery helped clear a way for the line of advance and led to the capture of a further 70 prisoners.

Honours: Victoria Cross (the country’s highest military honour).

 

 

RAMAGE HOUSE

Named After: Sergeant Arthur Ramage

He served in the local Territorials before the First World War, and in June 1915 he embarked for France. In September of the same year during a heavy enemy attack on his Machine-Gun Section he showed outstanding bravery by bringing several severely wounded comrades to safety from no-man’s land. For this he was awarded the Military Medal.

The following year he rescued his officer under a hail of enemy fire and received a bar to his Military Medal. That year he was also awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for outstanding gallantry and devotion to duty in the reconnaissance of a farm held by the enemy. The French government presented him with the award of the Croix de Guerre.

Final Service: This brave man was killed by a sniper’s bullet at the 3rd battle of Ypres on 1st August 1917 when he was just 26 years old.

 

 

 

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All four men have had streets named after them in the Crawforddyke area of the town and are recognised as local heroes.

Memorial to Lanarkshire Victoria Cross Recipients

In Hamilton town square there is a memorial to honour the 14 Lanarkshire men who have been awarded the Victoria Cross. The granite arch was unveiled on Friday 19th April 2002 by Dr John Reid.

This memorial includes the soldiers whose names are commemorated in Crawforddyke Primary School’s four houses: Lance Corporal William Angus (Angus House), Lieutenant Donald Cameron (Cameron House), Sergeant Thomas Caldwell (Caldwell House), and Sergeant Arthur Ramage (Ramage House).