Well done to our pupils who received their Calderwood Can certificates!
They enjoyed a Cuppa with Miss Stark and Miss Connor.
Category: Calderwood
Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 10/01/2025
A very Happy New Year to all of our families and we hope that you had a restful break. It is lovely to see all of our learners back in school and ready for the term ahead.
Calderwood Commitments:
- Leven and Rannoch Clan Connects and Sharing the Learning: 9:15-10:15am on 17th Doors Open 9:05am.
Calderwood Calendar:
- Updated: 2024-25 Calendar
Calderwood Communication:
- If your child requires medication, please ensure this is handed into the office and the correct forms are completed. Children should not carry medication in their school bag.
- In snow or icy conditions access to the school will be through the front door, we will alert parents/ carers/children to this. During these times there will be no supervisors in the playground. You can find our safe route here.
- PE Days for Term 3 are here.
- Home Learning: Poems will be for the Calderwood Scottish Poetry Competition issued on Seesaw and Teams on 13/01/25. Home Learning grids will be issued on 20/01/25.
Road Safety:
- As you will be aware, the roads and traffic around our school can be busy, particularly at key points of the school and ELC day. We encourage families to walk to and from school, where possible. Where driving to school is unavoidable, please be mindful of other road users and pedestrians when moving through our community, and when stopping to drop children off at school. Every child’s safety is of paramount importance and is essential that we continue to work together to ensure all of our children arrive at and leave safely from school
- In school, we are launching a road safety focus beginning on 20th January 2025, as well as beginning to work on our Park Smart campaign. Throughout our initial launch week, your child will engage in a range of experiences to support their road safety awareness. We will also have an opportunity for every child to contribute an image to be included in our Park Smart banners which will be produced later this term.
Calderwood Compliments:
- Thank you so much to the Calderwood Community Services team, who put salt down in the playground earlier in the week.
Rannoch – Christmas Party
Rannoch Clan had a fabulous time at their Christmas party this week. The children danced and sang along to their favourite Christmas songs and played some different festive games. We played Christmas corners, pass the parcel and even had a best dancer competition! It was a lovely, fun afternoon to celebrate the festive season as a clan.
Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 13/12/24
Calderwood Commitments:
- Milk: Orders close on iPay on 18th. Orders will not be taken after this date.
Calderwood Calendar:
- Updated: 2024-25 Calendar
- You can find details of all up and coming events in Christmas Countdown Calendar
- School will close for the Christmas holidays on Friday 20th December at 11.55am for P1, P2 and P3/2 and 12.00noon for P3 to P7 clans
Calderwood Communication:
- Please find links to Christmas Social Stories: Christmas Party
- Please find a link to our Christmas Holidays Social Story here.
- If your child requires medication, please ensure this is handed in to the office and the correct forms are completed. Forms can be obtained from the school office. Children should not carry medication in their school bag.
- The whole school enjoyed a visit from Hopscotch Theatre last week, and seeing their version of Pinocchio.
- Champions: We are delighted to inform you that Miss McGuire is expecting a baby in April. It is Miss McGuire’s hope that she will continue to work until the Easter holidays, but we will keep Tummel Clan Families updated. I am sure you will join us in wishing Miss McGuire and her partner all the very best.
- In snow or icy conditions access to the school will be through the front door, we will alert parents/carers/children to this. During these times there will be no supervisors in the playground. You can find our safe route here.
- Please complete our Young STEM Leader questionnaire here to share views on our upcoming podcast
Calderwood Compliments:
- Thank you to our Parent Council for organising an extremely successful Christmas Fayre at the end of November. Thank you to our families and champions who helped out on the day. Thank you to our choir and Glee Club for performing. Thank you to everyone who supported the event to make it such a huge success.
- Another thank you to our Parent Council for donating a number of brand new Usborne books to the school.
- Thank you to Elizabeth Pennykid from Kirknewton and East Calder Parish Church who joined us at Connects last Friday to share the Advent Story.
- On 3rd December we had our Christmas Lunch, which was a lovely experience for all of our learners. Thank you so much to our dedicated kitchen team. Thank you to our Office and PSW champions who helped to organise the event and to Muir and Mackintosh clans for serving up the lunch.
- Thank you to our choir, who have sung at all of our P1 Nativities this week.
- We have had very positive Christmas Party experiences with lots of our clans so far. These will continue next week. Thank you to our Parent Council for providing the food and snacks for these events.
- A huge congratulations and well done to our Primary 1 clans for their fantastic nativity performances. There is a lot of talent amongst our children! We particularly loved how the children all performed with a smile on their faces. A big thanks goes to our champions for making this opportunity possible.
- A massive well done to all our P2-7 clans who performed amazingly at our Calderwood Christmas event today. A huge thank you to our champions for making this happen.
As the term draws to a close, I would like to wish all of our Calderwood families a restful break. We look forward to seeing everyone return on 6th January.
Christmas Countdown
Jingle Bell Blast at Burns Clan
Christmas Party
This week Burns had lots of fun at their Christmas party on Wednesday. We played lots of fun games such as musical chairs and musical statues. We also got a yummy festive snack at our party too! This gave us lots of energy for all the dancing we did!
Pinocchio Pantomime
On Wednesday afternoon we had a pantomime which was a twist on the story of Pinocchio. We demonstrated being a fantastic quality audience as we sat sensibly throughout the show and engaged. We had so much fun at the pantomime and loved helping Pinocchio out. After the pantomime we reflected on the main takeaway from the story – the importance of believing in yourself. We explored the impact that determination and believing in yourself has on your wellbeing and achievements.
Primary 1 Show Tickets
We are delighted that our Primary 1 show “Ready, Steady, Elf!” performances will take place on:
Tuesday 10th December
9.15am Mull and Orkney
2pm Shetland and Skye
Wednesday 11th December
9.15am Bluebell and Bramble (P1s only)
2pm Mull and Orkney
Thursday 12th December
9.15am Shetland and Skye
2pm Bluebell and Bramble (P1s only)
Tickets will be in your child’s bag today sent home by their champion. Each child has 3 tickets per show for you to attend. Tickets will be collected at the main door when you arrive.
iPay will be open for any donation’s families would like to make towards the P1 Christmas shows. The money raised will be used for the costumes used in the performance and refreshments at the shows.
Tay Clan – Drama and Advent
Tay clan have been enjoying drama lessons based around story telling. This week, we had a go at hot-seating. In hot-seating, we pretend that we are a character and answer questions, from others, as if we were in that particular character’s shoes. We listened to the end of a story, as we have been working on endings to our own stories in writing, and then our group members asked us questions based on the story we had heard. We all had a turn and loved pretending to be someone else. It really got our imaginations switched on!
We have also been learning about advent this week: what it is and how it is celebrated. Through this learning, we decided to create our own clan advent calendar and base it around the value of kindness. We came up with a kindness challenge for each day of Advent and created our very own kindness calendar. We are very excited to start using this next week. We have also made our very own, unique, Tay clan Christmas wreath to hang in our clan room.
Burn’s Clan
We have had a busy week in Burns clan!
At the start of the week we started our new math’s concept, adding decimals. We used Aldi brochures and created a roast dinner before adding up the total cost.
Later in the week we were exploring film making as part of our new IDL topic. We had so much fun creating scripts for our mini movies. We also met our movie star Ted the bear.
In addition we explored St Andrew’s day, learning about the history and legacy of St Andrew. We also created some Scottish flags using different shades of blue to add tone and dimension.
Book Week in Muir
For Book Week Scotland 2024, Muir Clan created some beautifully detailed alternative front covers for the novel we are reading in clan.
They were displayed in class and everyone had the opportunity to vote for three of their favourite designs.
1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place
We also created fun fact files based on what we already knew and from these, quiz questions for other groups to answer. We focussed on creating fun and engaging questions like True/False, multiple choice and missing words.
We all enjoyed basing our learning around books and reading and our favourite part was being able to give our buddies their reading bags and reading with them in the arena.
