Ben Lomond Fundraiser – 30th September

Message from Ben Lomond

As part of our context for learning Ben Lomond Clan have planned and organised a fundraiser for 30th September to raise funds for Primary 7, this includes:

  • Purchasing Leavers Hoodies
  • P7 celebration events; such as a meal out to celebrate the end of Primary
  • All things Primary 7

So far we have been very lucky that local businesses, including Linwater Caravan Park, Stirling Developments and Taylor Wimpey have also contributed to the Primary 7 fundraising.

On the day, the clans can take part in timetabled events which you can see in the poster below.

The suggested donations for some of the activities are:

  • Soak the P7’s: £1 per throw
  • Brick a Brack and home baking: 5p-£1 donation

If you would like to contribute, please remember to give your child some change on Friday 30th September – 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 20p, 50p,£1 (unfortunately no change can be given). Alternatively, you can make donations through iPay impact by clicking on funds and selecting P7 Fundraiser, this account will open on 22nd – 30th September.

 

On this day children can also dress down, (please remember no football tops or crop tops).

 

All children will have the opportunity to take part in the event, the suggestion of a donation is not compulsory. 

 

Also, on the day we are offering a champion car wash. We would appreciate it, if you could follow any cones and signs placed in the playground on 30th September.

 

There is still the opportunity to donate any brik a brack until 26th September.

Thank you for your support.
Yours sincerely,
Tyler (and the rest of Ben Lomond)

 

Home Learning Choice Boards

Please find below a copy of the home learning choice boards for Term 1. Our approach to home learning is flexible to ensure we met the needs of our families and children’s extra curricular activities, therefore the amount of tasks you complete are up to you as a family. The tasks are a mixture of online and discussion/ paper tasks. If children choose to share any of their home learning with their clan they can do this via their champion.

 

The tasks are also uploaded to Seesaw/ Teams. Children will bring home their log in cards this week, please ensure you keep these in a safe place.

 

You can find further information here:

Our Parent Council are currently setting up a working group to consult on our approaches to home learning to ensure we meet the needs of our families.

P1 Home Learning Choice Board T1

P2 Home Learning Board- Term 1

Primary 3 Home Learning Board– Term 1

P4 Home Learning Choice Board_Term 1

P5 Home Learning Choice Board_Term 1

P6 Home Learning Choice Board_Term 1

P7 Home Learning Choice Board_Term 1

Pokemon and Football Cards

We would appreciate if children could leave Pokemon or football cards at home. There have been some incidents where children have lost them, have swapped cards (and then realised they didn’t want to swap them), etc. leading to them becoming upset. Thanks for your help in advance.

Remembering Queen Elizabeth II

Today, across our clans we took some time to reflect on this moment in history and celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth. Some clans made pictures of her, discussed what she did for the United Kingdom and beyond, wrote poems and reflected on her achievements.

Some of the older clans also watched a Newsround clip.

Lunch Time Supervisors

We have vacancies for lunch time supervisors to help indoors and outdoors at lunch times, these roles are vital to ensure we can keep all areas of our playground open for children to play in. The hours are 12:15-1:15pm, Monday to Thursday.

 

If you are interested in these posts, please contact the school office on 01506 280060 or wlcalderwood-ps@westlothian.org.uk

Parent Council Agenda – 13/09/22

13.09.22 Calderwood PCM Agenda

 

In person: Arena at Calderwood Primary

Online: 

Join Parent Council Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/4321333221?pwd=dnZHM25QdkpjNzhVYTZsV0xONGtLdz09

Meeting ID: 432 133 3221Passcode: 202205

 

Find out more about the parent council by clicking here. 

Parking

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
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