Category: Information for Parents/ Carers

Calderwood Chronicle 05_12_25

Every fortnight we will issue our chronicle to families via email and our blog.

All other information about Calderwood is on our blog and on Twitter we highlight our achievements.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

• Calderwood Christmas Countdown Calendar

08/12/25 2-3pm	Ben Lawers, Ben Lomond and Schiehallion Sharing the Learning	Visit your child’s clan to see their learning. Please enter through the font doors from 1:55pm.
09/12/25	Doors Open 9am, 9:15am – 10am Skye & Shetland Christmas Show Doors Open 1:45pm, 2-2:45pm Mull & Orkney Christmas Show	Ticketed Event – Please remember your tickets. Choir, Chiefs, House and Vice Captains to please wear school uniform and not P.E kit.
10/12/25	Christmas Lunch & Christmas Jumper Day	Children can wear their Christmas jumpers to school and uniform on bottom. Orders to be pre ordered on iPay by 28th November. Unfortunately no orders will be taken by the kitchen over this date.     Social Story
11/12/25	Doors Open 9am, 9:15am – 10am Mull & Orkney Christmas Show Doors Open 1:45pm, 2-2:45pm Skye & Shetland Christmas Show	Ticketed Event – Please remember your tickets. Choir, Chiefs, House and Vice Captains to please wear school uniform and not P.E kit.
15/12/24	Baird Christmas Party AM Burns  Christmas Party AM Muir Christmas Party AM Ness & Linlithgow Christmas Party AM	Children can come to school wearing their clothes for their party. Social Story
16/12/24	Rannoch Christmas Party AM Leven Christmas Party AM Tummel Christmas Party AM Ben Lawers, Ben Lomond & Shiehallion Christmas Party PM	Children can come to school wearing their clothes for the party. Social Story
17/12/24	Bluebell & Bramble Christmas Party AM Thistle & Balmoral  Christmas Party AM Blair & Doune Christmas Party PM Drummond & Glamis Christmas Party PM	Children come to school wearing their clothes for their party. Social Story
18/12/25	Mull and Orkney and Christmas Party AM Shetland and Skye Christmas Party PM	Children come to school wearing their clothes for their party. Social Story
19/12/25	Christmas Jumper Day Christmas Connects	Dress Down Day with a festive theme Connects in the Arena with a theme of Christmas led by the local Church. If you would prefer your child not to attend this event, please contact the school and alternative arrangements can be made.

 

Calderwood Communication:

• Parking: With the change in weather, we have seen an increased number of cars using the carpark and area around the school. We would request if you are choosing to use the car park, please use it safely and be mindful of the no parkingareas which are there to help ensure that all of our children are safe when crossing the road. The cones along Nethershiel Road are to note a no parking area.

Routine reminders: With Calderwood being a large school the reminders below are to help ensure our office can run efficiently and effectively:

• Pupil absence: A reminder to families that it is their responsibility to please ensure they contact the school office by email (preferably) or phone by 9am to make us aware of their child’s absence. Failure to report an absence may result in an escalation to the safe arrivals team or a house visit.
• Lateness: This week approximately 10% of our children have been coming in late through the front door meaning they are missing the start of their school day. Please ensure your children are in the playground for the gates closing so they can enter the school with their clan champion.
• iPay: All pupil lunches should be recorded at home by the parent/carer including a packed lunch from home. Otherwise children are using their learning time in the morning to order lunches. If you are ordering a packed lunch for a Friday, this should be done by Thursday lunchtime to give the kitchen staff sufficient time to order the sandwiches.
• Appointments: Families should contact the office via email (preferably) or phone, in advance of appointments so they can organise with the clan teacher for the child to be at the office on time.

 

Calderwood Compliments:

• Calderwood Ski Team: You can find an update from our Ski Team here.
• Christmas Fayre: Thank you to Glee, Choir, Doune Clan and Mr Kasa for performing at our Christmas Fayre. Also to our Primary 7 helpers.
• Choir: Our choir had a fantastic time at the St. Mary’s Church Christmas Choir Festival. You can see their photos here.

 

Christmas Fayre Update from Parent Council:

The Parent Council would like to thank everyone who came along to the Calderwood Christmas Fayre on Friday 28 November.

 

It was lovely to see so many families and friendly faces and we hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did!

 

A huge thank you to our amazing volunteers who helped in the run up and on the day – we couldn’t have done it without you.

 

We also wanted to say thank you to everyone who took part in this year’s Calderwood Christmas Prize Draw and helped us smash our target of £3500!

 

Emails are being sent out to winners so please keep an eye out (and also check your Junk mail!).

 

With lots going on with post-fayre and prize draw admin plus the high school catchment consultation, we’re not in a position to share final fundraising totals yet but we can confirm that together we’ve raised a significant amount of money for the school and nursery again this year!

 

Thank you to everyone who has contributed – whether that’s through your time, donations or support. We are very grateful.

 

We hope all Calderwood families have a lovely time over the festive break and we will provide updates on fundraising totals as soon as we can.

 

 

 

Calderwood Chronicle 21_11_25

Every fortnight we will issue our chronicle to families via email and our blog.

All other information about Calderwood is on our blog and on Twitter we highlight our achievements.

 

Calderwood Commitments: 

• Christmas Lunch: Please ensure you have ordered your child’s Christmas Lunch on iPay by 28^th November (this is a change in date from the kitchen) unfortunately no orders can be taken by the kitchen after this date.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

• Calderwood Christmas Countdown Calendar
• 28th November: Parent Council Christmas Fayre
• 28^th November: 12pm: Christmas lunch orders close
• 2^nd December: 4:30-5:00pm: Liaise with Leadership. Join the leadership team on Teams for any general questions you have about Calderwood Primary.

Microsoft Teams Need help? Join the meeting now  Meeting ID: 355 294 334 488 78 Passcode: Fi2sZ2Tw

• 4^th December: 2pm – 3pm: ASN (Additional Support Needs) Parent/ Carer Group with Miss Connor: Enter via the main doors.
• 4^th December: Skye & Shetland Christmas Show Dress Rehearsal for Clans
• 5^th December: Mull & Orkney Christmas Show Dress Rehearsal for Clans

 

Calderwood Communication:

• A warm welcome to Ms Spence-Ishaq who has joined our Pupil Support Worker team this week.
• Please find some of our learning for Anti bullying week in our Sway.
• Parent Council: Christmas Fayre

 

Calderwood Compliments:

• A huge well done to Bramble Clan for their Connects today on Road Safety, this was an important message for us at Calderwood, helping us to be safe in our community.
• Calderwood Ski Team: A huge congratulations to Aaron, Ruairidh and Niamh who travelled to Sunderland to compete in the NSSA school race and placed third in the mixed teams category. It was extremely competitive, so we are super proud of them all especially as this is only their second school race.
• Congratulations to the children who won the Taylor Wimpey Road Safety competition. The winning designs will be made into a banner for the school. You can see the winning designs here.
• I have really enjoyed my first full week back at Calderwood, thank you to everyone for making me feel so welcome. Miss Burton