We look forward to sharing our journey with you as we establish the new Calderwood Primary in August 2021 and the new Calderwood Nursery in October 2021. Our building will open in October 2021.
House Captain Elections
Yesterday was an exciting day in school as we held our first House Meeting for our House Captain elections!
It was fantastic to see the children proudly wearing their house colours and getting involved in the election process. Our Primary 7 candidates did a brilliant job delivering their presentations, sharing their ideas and explaining why they would make great House Captains.
The children in each house then had the opportunity to cast their votes, and we were delighted to announce our successful House Captain candidates at Connects today. A huge well done to you all!
A special thank you also goes to our Primary 7 pupils and especially to our Calderwood Chiefs, who helped to support our younger pupils throughout the meetings and voting process. Your leadership and care for others were fantastic to see.
We are looking forward to seeing our new House and Vice Captains grow into their roles and make a positive contribution to our school community.
Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 28/08/26
Every fortnight we will issue our chronicle to families via email and our blog.
All other information about Calderwood is on our blog and website.
Calderwood Commitments:
- Please ensure you log onto Parent Portal to check/ update the information we hold about your child. If you have not registered with Parent Portal please collect a paper copy at the office.
- School Improvement Plan: We would appreciate your support with completing this quick survey to help us gather evidence.
- Books: If you have any good quality fiction or non fiction books that you no longer require, can you please hand them into our office, and we will use these in our libraries.
Calderwood Calendar:
- Family Calendar: Link is here.
- 03/09/26: Visit My Clan 4:30pm – 5:10pm or 5:20pm – 6:30pm: An informal drop in opportunity, for you to visit your child’s clan room (classroom) and meet their champion (teacher). You can find more information here.
- 04/09/26: Term 1 Learning Letters posted on the blog.
- 08/09/26: 6:00-8:00pm: Parent Council Meeting AGM: In Arena.
- 17/09/26: 2:00-3:00pm: Clan Connects: Aberdeen. An opportunity for your children to share on stage their learning in the Arena and then you can look at their jotters in the café. 2 adults per child. Please enter through the front doors at 2:00pm, starts at 2:10pm.
Calderwood Communication:
- Crossing Patrol Person: There will no crossing attendant 4-14th September, please ensure your child is aware of this.
- Uniform: We take great pride in our uniform as it helps us belong to our Calderwood family. A reminder, that black hoodies, black leggings and branded sports clothes are not part of our uniform. The various options are here.
- Clothing Grant and Free School Meals Information: Please click here for more information
- Mobile Phones and Smart Watches: Children who bring a phone to school, should switch off their phone before they enter the school playground and keep it off until they leave the playground. Each clan has a box where children can place their phone during the day. We would also request that children who have Smart watches, also place their watch into the box during school time.
- Lunches: Please ensure you have ordered your child’s lunch at home on iPay. This ensures you know what your child is eating and also means they are not using their learning time in the mornings to order a lunch. If your child is having a packed lunch from home, it is useful for our systems if you can also mark this on iPay.
- Toys from home: Please ensure your child is not bringing toys or squishes from home to school. These can be a distraction and cause issues if they are damaged or broken. Thank you for your support with this.
- School Improvement Plan: You can find our Family Friendly School Improvement Plan for Term 1 here. We would appreciate your support with completing this quick survey to help us gather evidence.
- Clan Charters: You can find our Primary 4-7 clan charters if you have a look on our blog.
- Primary 7 Dalguise Camp: You can find information and a kit list here.
- Sustainability Station: Thank you for all your donations, at this time, our stock is full and we don’t require any extra items at this time.
Calderwood Compliments:
- Calderwood Chiefs: A huge congratulations to our eight new Calderwood Chiefs! The interview panel had a very difficult task of choosing the new Chief group, as the interviews were of a very high standard this session. You can find out more here.
- Calderwood Can Certificates: A huge congratulations to our children who received certificates at Connects last Friday, there are some photos here.
- Community helpers: Thank you to the helpers who have come in this week to help organise the library in the Discovery Den, our Sustainability Station and our STEM Studio, we really appreciate your help.
Nursery News- 28/08/26
Please find our Nursery News attached below.
Calderwood Nursery News-28.08.26
Bookbug at Calderwood Nursery
We are delighted to host our first Bookbug session at Calderwood Nursery on Wednesday 30th September from 10:00-11:00am.
“Bookbug is Scotland’s universal early years book gifting programme which supports families to read, sing, and play with their little ones from birth to give them the best start in life.” Our sessions provide our families with the opportunity to explore the Bookbug initiative where our nursery staff will model how to use and engage with the learning resources to support your child stories, songs and rhyme.
To ensure our sessions are successful, they will hold a maximum of 8 parents/carers. We will operate a first come first serve basis for our Bookbug events and an invitation will be given to attend. We have numerous sessions across the year to ensure families have further opportunities to attend.
Please sign up to the event by clicking here: Bookbug Sign-Up
Stay and Play Sessions at Calderwood Nursery
We are delighted to share the term 1 and term 2 dates for our stay and play sessions at Calderwood Nursery. Our stay and play sessions provide you with the opportunity to attend our nursery setting to interact in play-based learning opportunities with your child. Our learning focus this term is numeracy and our stay and play sessions will allow you to participate in number and maths play contexts. We value the importance and vital role our families have in supporting the learning development of their child and this is demonstrated through our play and stay sessions.
The sessions will take place on the following dates and the following times:
21/09/26: 2:00pm-3:00pm
22/09/26: 10:30am-11:30am
23/09/26: 2:00pm-3:00pm
24/09/26: 10:30am-11:30am
Please sign up to one of the sessions by clicking here: Stay and Play Sessions
Tummel – Our Class is a Family
During the first few weeks of school, we created our Class Charter, inspired by the wonderful book Our Class is a Family by Shannon Olsen. The story encouraged us to think about what it means to belong, support one another, and work together as a team.
As a class, we explored the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and discussed the rights that are important to us at school. We learned that every child has the right to feel safe, respected, included, and listened to. Together, we identified the promises and responsibilities that will help us uphold and protect these rights each day.
To bring our charter to life, we decided to base our charter around a neighbourhood. Each pupil designed their own house (or Vue Cinema!) and this helps us to remember we are all part of a community that celebrates our own individuality, ensures every voice is valued, and we can be
stronger when we support one another.
Supporting This Year’s Child Flu Vaccination Programme
At Calderwood, we are keen to support this year’s Child Flu Vaccination Programme and help families access accurate, trusted information about the flu vaccine. Public Health Scotland has asked schools to help share information and resources with parents, carers and young people as preparations begin for this year’s vaccination programme.
The flu vaccine helps protect children and young people from flu and can also help reduce the spread of the virus within families and the wider community.
Resources Available for Families
Public Health Scotland has a range of free resources available to support parents, carers and young people, including:
- Information leaflets for parents, carers and young people
- Resources available in alternative formats and a range of languages
- Guidance on completing consent forms
- Information from NHS Inform about flu and vaccination
- A video showing how the nasal spray vaccine is given to a child
These resources can be accessed through the Public Health Scotland website:
🔗 Public Health Scotland Flu Education Pack
Helping Children Feel Prepared
Public Health Scotland has created short video clips which can help children and young people understand what to expect on vaccination day. These resources can help reduce any worries and support positive conversations about vaccination at home.
What We Ask of Families
We would encourage parents and carers to:
- Read the information provided about the flu vaccination programme
- Return vaccination consent forms promptly when issued
- Access trusted sources of information if they have questions about the vaccine
- Make use of information available in alternative formats or languages if required
Find Out More
Information about the flu vaccine, including who is eligible, the benefits of vaccination and possible side effects, can be found on NHS Inform:
🔗 NHS Inform Child Flu Information
Thank you for your continued support in helping to protect the health and wellbeing of our children, families and wider community during the flu season.
Further information and downloadable resources are available from Public Health Scotland’s Child Flu Vaccination Programme materials.
School Improvement Plan – Term 1 Survey – August 2026
This questionaire will be issued to families at the start and end of Term 1, to measure our progress with our School Improvment Plan.
This form will close on 2nd September at 8pm.
Calderwood Primary: School Improvement Plan – Term 1 – Fill out form
Family Friendly School Improvement Plan 2026-2027
Clan Charter – Perth Clan
In Perth Clan we reviewed the UNCRC and picked the 9 rights that we felt were most important to our school experience. We then ranked them in order of importance and used this to form our class charter.
We decided to use the minions as the theme for our class charter. We all designed our own minion and added it to our display. We created a list of promises for our class and teacher to follow this year and these set the expectations that our class charter was built on.
This year we will aim for the moon in Perth Clan.
