Winter Arrangements for Safe Routes to School/ Nursery

In the event of heavy snow the FMA (janitorial staff) will clear / salt one initial footpath, as below, to allow staff and pupils access to the school safely. The other footpaths will be worked on by the FMA teams as soon as possible, during the daylight hours following completion of the existing essential duties.

The school carpark is under the responsibility of roads, therefore we can not guarantee that the carpark will be gritted before the start of the school day. Priority will be given to access roads then staff car parks/bus bays/turning areas (if applicable), this does not include playground areas.

As we use our playground to access the building, we have purchased some salt boxes for these areas and have asked our Parent Council for support from parents/ carers in the morning to help us grit the playground and the path between Glencoe Gate (bike shed) and the nursery door, if you can support with this please let us know.

The path highlighted below is the one that will be gritted on icy mornings. If there are changes to how we enter school in the morning due to extreme weather, champions will be be around to advise of the changes.

House and Vice Captain Election 2022

This morning we had another moment in history for Calderwood Primary as we had our first ever house election!

We gathered together in our houses and listed to the Primary 7 children who wanted to be our house and vice captains.

The manifestos from each of the children where fantastic! They had to prepare a 3-5minute speech which included including the following information:

  • Some information about yourself and your interests inside and outside of school
  • 3 values which are important to you and why
  • 2 things you want to improve while you are house captain – why do you want to change them and how will you do this
  • What you see the role of house captains being at Calderwood
  • Why you feel Calderwood Primary is unique.

Roe House 

Fallow House

Red House

Sika House

Our champs had the very important job of carefully counting all the votes!

The children were very excited to phone home to share their news with their families!

 

Roe House 

Fallow House

Red House

Sika House

 

Our Primary 7 Leadership Team

 

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 03/11/22

Calderwood Commitments (Actions):

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

 

Capturing Calderwood (Twitter snapshot):
  • Calderwood Can Achievements
  • Creepy Calderwood
Calderwood Compliments: 
  • Thank you to everyone who has signed up to be a parent helper, you can still apply by clicking here.
  • Thank you to our Parent Council for organising a Halloween fundraiser, and to everyone who donated. They managed to raise £481.50.
  • Our recent dress down day in September fundraiser, along with a £500 donation from the Parent Council has enabled us to renew our Sumdog subscription for Primary 2-7.
  • Congratulationsto Mrs Castillon who graduated from West Lothian College at the weekend, we are very proud of her.

Kind regards,

Miss Burton
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Ben Lawers: Calderwood Connects

Dear parent/ carer, 
You are invited along to the Ben Lawers Clan, Calderwood Connects at 9:30am on Friday 11th November. Each child can invite two family members, and it will be held in our Arena. It will last approximately 20 minutes with an opportunity for refreshments with other families from Ben Lawers after.
Ben Lawers Clan will share their recent learning about services within our local community. 
 
They will have full dress rehearsal on Tuesday 8th, children should bring any costumes in their bag to change into on this day. (They have made up a list of their own costumes and what they need to bring, please let us know if you need any help with this).
Also, the clan are looking for any boxes/tins and bags that were going to be recycled, to act as props on set.
We look forward to seeing you there. 
Kind regards, 

Miss Burton & Ben Lawers 

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