Category: Calderwood Cares
Calderwood Basketball – First Tournament
Calderwood Basketball Teams Kick Off the Season!
On Friday, our Calderwood Primary basketball teams took part in their first tournament of the season at West Calder High School. Both squads showed fantastic teamwork, determination, and sportsmanship throughout the day.
- Calderwood Hornets (P6 Squad) are currently sitting 5th on the league table.
- Calderwood T-Wolves (P7 Squad) are holding 7th place after some exciting matches.
We are incredibly proud of all the players for their effort and enthusiasm. A big thank you to everyone who supported the teams and helped make the day a success!
📸 Check out the photos of both teams below!
Let’s keep cheering them on as the season continues, Go Calderwood!
Calderwood Ski Team – 1st December 2025
The Calderwood ski team performed exceptionally well yesterday at the Scottish School Snowsports Skier and Boarder Cross Race.
The course was particularly challenging—set over the Hillend freestyle section, with steep jumps and high-adrenaline twists and turns. We are incredibly proud of all the children who competed at such a high standard.
A special mention must go to Harper, who showed tremendous bravery in overcoming her fear of jumps to take home the gold medal.
For someone only six years old, Niamh was fearless and unstoppable. She is certainly one to watch—without doubt a future Calderwood star racer!
Ruairidh was his usual cool, calm and collected self, though even he struggled to contain his excitement when he learned he had taken 2nd place, grinning from ear to ear.
Results – P1–P4 Category:
🥇 HarperÂ
🥈 Niamh
🥈 RuairidhÂ
Charlie and Aaron also deserve special recognition. Their age category is incredibly competitive, yet they demonstrated outstanding sportsmanship, bravery and resilience, pushing themselves to compete at a very high level.
Road Safety Competition
A huge well done to our the winners of the Taylor Wimpey Road Safety Competition. The winning designs below will be made into a banner.
Anti Bullying Week Learning
Basketball Team Update
We are extremely proud of all our basketball players today. Everyone played great, and we can see an amazing improvement and using the skills they have learned in training.
Well done to our Primary 7 team who won 2 games and a draw, and to our P6 team who won 3 of their games.
Amazing effort today!
 Ms Morrison & Mrs Bryson
World Thinking Day
As part of World Thinking Day, pupils in P1-3 and P4-7 wore their rainbows, brownies, guides and scouts uniforms to school.
We celebrated them at Connects and share their photos below
Tay Clan -Christmas Party
Tay clan had a fantastic Christmas party on Monday morning.
To kick off our Christmas party, we put on our playlist of chosen songs, and had a wee boogie to get us warmed-up. After that, we had a fantastic game of Christmas Corners. We also had a best dancer competition. Dancing and taking part in the games made us thirsty and hungry so we took time out for a snack and juice, provided by our lovely helpers, which was served on our Christmas placemats we had designed ourselves. Finally, we took part in some fun dances – chu chu wa and the Macarena. We loved dancing to these! The time went by so fast and were sad to see it come to an end. We had a blast together.
We loved learning, practising and performing our song for the Christmas Celebrations – Count on Me at Christmas. We loved exploring the value of kindness and spreading kindness to others because…..kindness costs you nothing! We hope you all enjoyed it too.
We also had a fantastic Christmas lunch together too. Such fun and wholesome times to spend together as a clan.
Burns Clan Connects
On Friday morning, Burns Clan came together to share their learning with their families and the rest of the school community through their Clan Connects.
The children told us all about Equity at Calderwood and their important role in deciding how our Participatory Budget is spent. They did an amazing presentation and we are so proud of each and every one of our learners.
Burns Clan then spent some time with their adults, sharing more of their learning from the year so far.
Thank you to all parents and carers who were able to come along to support Burns Clan on Friday morning.
Astro Gymnastics Free Trial
Astro Gymnastics is a West Lothian accredited community sports club and a charity based in Livingston.
Do you know someone who would love to try gymnastics?(And just to remind you it’s not just for the kids!)
Is 2025 going to be THE year to learn something new?Could gymnastics be for you?Want to try it but just not sure?Astro Gymnastics is a local not for profit business with charity status (SC043346) and we’d like to offer a FREE TRIAL for those who want to test the water and try before you buy.
Use the code HOI360 to book a free trial class before 31 Dec ’24.
(Excludes camps, parties and private lessons)
