Dear parent/ carers,
Unfortunately this email is about parking at Calderwood Primary & Nursery.
You will know that our routines sway is shared in every Calderwood Chronicle, was in our welcome letter to families and is shared in our blog: https://sway.office.com/sTz83AiyltZ0fQmG
The guidance around parking at Calderwood Primary & Nursery is:
- We encourage families to walk from school or park and walk.
- The carpark at the school is for staff and visitors only. If parents need to use this space in an emergency to drop off or pick up their children, they should use the first two lanes of spaces on the left as you drive into the carpark and walk their child over to the gate/ door (the row of spaces opposite the nursery is not for parent/ carer parking).
- Children should not cross the car park on their own.
- Please do not walk across the flowerbeds.
- A one way system is operated in this area.
- Please do not use the road alongside the school as this can be busy with construction traffic.
- The bay opposite the school entrance is for deliveries
Last week, on two occasions I was later arriving to school, in the middle of drop off time in the morning and what I witnessed was:
- parking in spaces that we wish to reserve for staff to make it easier for them to access the school. Including on two occasions a car reversing out and nearly hitting another car.
- pulling into spaces without indicating and/ or taking up several spaces.
- parking in the disabled spaces or across several spaces, without a permit.
- parking along Nethershiel Road, and along down to the farm. Blocking the road/ traffic.
- Also, as Primary 4-5 leave through the side door a lot of families are parking in the non parking zone along Nethershiel Road and waiting on their children here – this is not a parking or drop off area
At Calderwood Primary & Nursery, we have the luxury of a large carpark. As our school is not yet at full capacity, we are lucky enough to be able extend the use of the carpark to families for emergency drop off and pick ups – you will be aware that this is not the case in other Primary schools. It is the responsibility of all our community; families, champions, and visitors, to ensure the surrounding area of our school grounds is safe for all our users and most of all our children. I would urge you and/ or whoever drops off/ picks up your child to follow the routines above to ensure our carpark is a safe area.
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
