Calderwood Cares – Page 7 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Leg it to Lapland Challenge

Calderwood Primary School took part in the Sustrans Christmas Challenge, ‘Leg it to Lapland’. This challenge encouraged all pupils to take their journeys to and from school by foot, scooter or bicycle. The charity launched this challenge to help reduce traffic congestion and air pollution around the school. Each day pupils travelled to school during the challenge week they earned ‘one virtual mile’ towards Lapland. Completing 30 mins of other exercise i.e. dancing, scoring goals at football practice or learning some new moves at Taekwondo practice also earned them a virtual mile! Completing other active journeys e.g. walking to football practice also earned them a virtual mile! The school who get the highest number of average miles per pupil will be the winner!

We were very lucky to have Santa and his elves deliver a special prize to a pupil in each clan who had gone over and above during the Leg it to Lapland Challenge week! Well done to all of our pupils!

Cosy Corner Club – Upper Challenge 1

A group of our upper school pupils were tasked with a challenge to fully research what activities are available for kids in Livingston. They had to work in a small group to find total costs, bus times and costs before voting on the best place to go. They invited Miss Burton to listen to their ideas and pitched their proposition. All of the children were able to convince Miss Burton that a visit to our local cinema via local transport and to visit Hot Flame was the best option. The pupils created their own itinerary using the information they had gathered, were involved in the risk assessment and one of our pupils was responsible for booking of the trip by phone.

This group are now our ‘Upper Skills’ ambassadors and some are looking forward to leading the next challenge… Ready, Steady, Cook 👨‍🍳

Kindness Advent Calendar

You can use or create your own kindness advent Calendar to celebrate the lead up to Christmas.

Sustrans IBike Project

This year, your child’s school will be participating in Sustrans’ I Bike project. Your child’s school might have also participated during the previous academic year.

I Bike delivers a variety of activities and events. These include led walks and rides, Dr Bike, Bikeability, Active Travel Breakfast and bike maintenance.

This Parent and Carer survey is collecting data for the purpose of evaluating and monitoring the I Bike project. We are interested to see the impact it has had on you and your child and your thoughts on what could make active travel easier for your child.

Active travel is when a journey is made by being physically active, such as walking, wheeling, cycling and scooting/skating.

The results may be used to influence and support further local and national funding bids and help define the health value of physical activity and active travel. It will help to understand and continue to improve the project. Specific comments on local infrastructure will be noted but is beyond the scope of I Bike.

Please complete the short survey – it should take about 4 minutes. I Bike Parent and Carer Survey (2022/23): https://sustrans.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/i-bike-parent-and-carer-survey-2022

If you want to find out more, you can contact us at IBikeMonitoring@sustrans.org.uk

Calderwood Cares – Our draft approaches

We are currently developing our approaches to health and wellbeing. We would like our families to give some feedback so we can improve and implement on these approaches at Calderwood.

Positive Relationships Toolkit

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Clan Connects: Ben Lawers

Ben Lawers hosted our first Calderwood Connects for families on Friday. They had been learning about the West Lothian Food Bank as part of their Calder Communities Context. The children created a drama centring around everyone needs help at some point in their life, sharing different times when families might use a food back.

We also welcome representatives from West Lothian Foodbank along to watch.

A huge well done to Ben Lawers Clan, we are super proud of your performance, and the creative way you shared this important message.

Mini Champ Opportunities

Our Health and Wellbeing Hub – Name Reveal!!

Over the past few months our Equity Champions have been working hard to design and create a health and wellbeing hub (a space which all pupils would have access to at times during their time at Calderwood).

Our Mini HWB Champs launched a whole school competition to create a name for this space.

We had lots of great suggestions of names! However, our mini champs decided on one they felt captured Calderwood most…. in true Calderwood style with all C’s!

At Calderwood Connects our Mini HWB Champs announced the winning name.