Physical Education – Page 2 – Calderwood Primary and Nursery

We are excited to hold our second annual sports day on Wednesday 24^th May (weather permitting). If the event needs to be cancelled, we will groupcall you on Wednesday morning to inform you.

9:30 – 10:45: Primary 1, 2 and 7 children
11:15-12:30: Primary 3, 4, 5 and 6 children

This event will have three parts:

Highland Games Competition: In house communities
Clan Races: There will be two races per clan and they will be opt in
Calderwood Chill Out: Arena – fruit and yoga

Families are invited along to the event, we would request that you limit guests to two adults per family. There will be an allocated area on the field and on the grass verge between the amphitheatre for spectators, please stay within these zones, there will be signage. Please use the Glencoe Gate to access the amphitheatre or accessibility access through the field. There will be no access to the toilets for spectators. As not all our children have photographic permission, we request that parents and carers do not take photos at this event, the champions will share photos.

On this date, children should wear their usual navy joggers/shorts, trainers and on top their house community colour:

Sika – blue
Red – red
Fallow – green
Roe – yellow

It would be fantastic if families could join in and wear their family house colour too!

Children should also remember their water bottle and wear suncream if the weather is sunny.

You can find a link to a social story here: Sports Day At Calderwood Social Story

On Friday 26^th we will present the race and house winners with their awards.

Fundraising from Calderwood Magical Miles have helped to buy sports equipment for Sports Day and the house shield and race medals.

Ben Lawers Cross Country Event

Our Ben Lawers Clan did us very proud at our most recent cross country event at West Calder High School, where we had four of the girls place within the top seven and three of our boys finishing withing the top five. We were up against other schools from our cluster and our girls winning, secured Calderwood Primary School girls team to represent West Lothian in the next cross country event. Huge congratulations to everyone that participated and did themselves proud.

Well done Calderwood, next stop, the stars!!!

Calderwood Basketball

What a year it has been for our very first Basketball Teams. We have been lucky enough to have not just ONE but TWO teams competing this year – KNICKS & LAKERS

Mrs Morrison and Mrs Robertson have been so proud of how every team member has developed throughout this past year. We have demonstrated fantastic teamwork and an abundance of core basketball skills. Through participating in our conferences at WCHS and Armadale Academy, we have also been able to demonstrate excellent sportsmanship, resilience and utter determination.

Our Knicks have one final conference to attend and will hopefully progress onto the silver playoff weeks – GO KNICKS!

Thank you to all parents who have come along to support us over these past few months!

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!