Category: Calderwood Chronicle

 Calderwood Chronicle 13_03_26

 

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

All other information about Calderwood is on our blog and website.

 

Calderwood Commitments:

• 09/03/26-25/03/26: Milk is open for term 4 on iPay. Please remember to order as payments can not be taken after the closing date.
• Groupcall: We have had a few parents whose email have been dropped in Groupcall.  The Dropped status means Groupcall have added your email address to their blocklist, because your email provider has indicated that either the address is incorrect or Groupcall has been marked as spam. To avoid this happening again in the future, please add Groupcall’s sender address (29EC488@groupcallalert.com) to your safe senders list and address book to avoid it happening again in future.
• Parent portal: We are currently auditing the medical conditions and allergies our children have, please ensure this information is accurate on Parent Portal, to ensure our records are up to date.
• Positive Relationship Policy: Please take time to complete this survey on bullying.
• Parent/ Carer Ethos Survey: Please take time to complete this survey to help us gather information about our school and the next steps.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

• Family Calendar Link
• 17/03/26: 6:00pm-8:00pm: Parent Council Meeting: In the Arena or on Zoom.
• 20/03/26: 9.00- 10.00am: Clan Connects: Schiehallion: Doors Open 9:00am, starts at 9:10am. An opportunity for your child to share their learning on stage and for you to look at their jotters.
• 25/03 & 26/03/26: Champion Conversations: Please see separate letter.
• 26/03/26: Primary 7 Fundraiser and Dress Down Day: (Please no football tops or crop tops): More information here.

 

Calderwood Communication:

• Parent Council Sponsor Spectacular: Find out more here.
• Parking: 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.
• Change of clothes: A reminder that in younger clans, you may wish to send your child in with a change of clothes for accidents.
• School excursions: We are looking for families and community friends to join our PVG list to support on school excursions, this process is currently free. If you or if you know of anyone who can support please email the school office for a form. We would greatly appreciate your support.
• West Calder High School Transition: You can find the P7 to S1 plan here and more information on the online curriculum sessions here.

 

Calderwood Community:

• Excite Outdoors Easter Progamme
• Digital Technology to Support Dyslexia
• Free Girls Easter Rugby Camp
• West Lothian Women’s Health and Wellbeing Event
• Messy Church: The Easter Story

 

Calderwood Compliments:

• Thank you to all the volunteers who helped to make our recent excursions possible.
• It was lovely to see so many Primary 1 families join us for the Bookbug Bag event this week.

Calderwood Chronicle 27_02_26

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

All other information about Calderwood is on our blog and website.

 

Calderwood Commitments:

• 09/03/26-25/03/26: Milk is open for term 4 on iPay. Please remember to order as payments can not be taken after the closing date.

Calderwood Calendar: 

• Family Calendar Link
• 04/03/26: Sharing the Learning: Bluebell/ Bramble/ Thistle/ Balmoral: 2:00-3:00pm: Pop into your child’s clan to take part in a learning experience and view their jotters. Please arrive through the office doors at 1:55pm. We would appreciate it that it is one adult per child to ensure enough space in the clan room.
• 05/03/26: Primary 1 Clans, Primary 7 Clans and group photos by Tempest. No PE uniform please. Groups photos will be Primary 7 leadership roles, Glee and the Basketball team. Primary 7 clans will hopefully have their hoodies by them if we could please get a photo of them in their hoodies and ‘more formal’ uniform – they can borrow a P7 tie from the office if they require one.
• 06/03/26: World Book Day: Dress up as your favourite book character.
• 10/03/26: Sharing the Learning: S K Y E / S H E T L A N D / O R K N E Y / M U L L: 2:00-3:00pm: Pop into your child’s clan to take part in a learning experience and view their jotters. Please arrive through the office doors at 1:55pm. We would appreciate it that it is one adult per child to ensure enough space in the clan room.
• 12/03/26: Liaise with Leadership: Positive Relationship Policy Refresh: Teams Link: Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/37283871917325?p=34lwfniSjoBObqTYt3

Meeting ID: 372 838 719 173 25 Passcode: pg7sD2Fc

• 13/03/26: 9.00- 10.00am: Clan Connects: Glamis: Doors Open 9:00am, starts at 9:10am. An opportunity for your child to share their learning on stage and for you to look at their jotters.

 

Calderwood Communication:

• Parking: 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.
• Change of clothes: A reminder that in younger clans, you may wish to send your child in with a change of clothes for accidents.
• Playground: The property team have been looking at solutions to the muddy areas in the playground over the February Break. In the meantime, I would recommend children keeping outdoor shoes in their cloakroom space and if your child does enjoy playing in these areas, to send them in with a change of clothes. On the days when we have wet weather we do encourage children not to play in the mud, and we would appreciate your support with this please.
• Impactful Parents West Lothian: Find out more information here.
• School excursions: We are looking for families and community friends to join our PVG list to support on school excursions, this process is currently free. If you or if you know of anyone who can support please email the school office for a form. We would greatly appreciate your support.
• Primary 7 Fundraiser: More information to come here.
• Living RFC Easter Rugby Camp: More Information here
• WOW Badge Design Winners: Find out more about our competition here.

 

Calderwood Compliments:

• A huge thank you to our Parent Council fundraising which has recently purchased us: Outdoor P.E equipment, supplemented the cost of Sumdog for P1-7, topped up our clan cosy corners resources and new playground toys (which we are in the process of organising).
• Calderwood Ski Team: Glencoe Event
• Thank you to all the volunteers who helped to make our Primary 2 clans, excursion possible this week.

 

 

Nursery Chronicle 20_02_26

Calderwood Chronicle 06_02_26

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

All other information about Calderwood is on our blog and website.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

• Family Calendar Link
• 09/02/26-16/02/26: School closed for February Holiday, reopens 17/02/26
• 27/02/26: Clan Connects: Drummond Clan: Doors Open 9:00am, starts at 9:10am. An opportunity for your child to share their learning on stage and for you to look at their jotters.
• 04/03/26: Sharing the Learning: 2:00-3:00pm: Pop into your child’s clan to take part in a learning experience and view their jotters. Please arrive through the office doors at 1:55pm. We would appreciate it that it is one adult per child to ensure enough space in the clan room.
• 05/03/26: Primary 1 Clans, Primary 7 Clans and group photos by Tempest. No PE uniform please. Groups photos will be Choir, Glee and the Basketball team.
• 06/03/26: World Book Day: Dress up as your favourite book character.

Calderwood Communication:

• Parking: 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.
• Communication: A reminder to parents/ carers that if they have an issue or concern to please raise this directly with the school so that it can be addressed and resolved.
• Connects: This week we held daily bitesize online Connects reminding each other how to be ready, responsible and safe as we move around the school, playground and café. We would appreciate it if you could also have these conversations with your child at home, which includes:
  • Putting their litter in the bin
  • Respecting and caring for school resources and spaces
  • Positively communicating with others; please, thank you, good morning, etc
  • Walking calmly indoors/ lining up calmly at the end of break and lunch times
• Change of clothes: A reminder that in younger clans, you may wish to send your child in with a change of clothes for accidents.
• Playground: Following our Parent Council meeting I have asked West Lothian Council for support and advice around our playground concerns and will update families when we have further information. In the meantime, I would recommend children keeping outdoor shoes in their cloakroom space and if your child does enjoy playing in these areas, to send them in with a change of clothes. On the days when we have wet weather we do encourage children not to play in the mud, and we would appreciate your support with this please.
• Positive Relationships Policy: You can find our Positive Relationships Policy Here and Anti Bullying Policy Our Parent Council and leadership had been working together to make more parent and child friendly version of these documents, including a flow chart of processes. In line with Scottish Government Advice, we will be issuing our updated policies towards the end of this term.
• Defibrillator: We have been kindly gifted a defibrillator from St. John’s Scotland, I will update you about location and installation once we have more information from Property Services.
• Travel Plan: Thank you to our Parent Council members who have put in a huge amount of work in supporting Calderwood to draw up our Travel Plan, you can find it here.
• Twitter: Following updated advice from West Lothian Council, we will currently no be using Twitter as a communication method.

 

Calderwood Compliments:

• Ski Team Success
• A huge well done to Doune Clan for their fantastic Connects last Friday all about Robert Burns and Scotland. Our clans and your families really enjoyed your performance!
• Congratulations to all our children who represented their clan in Calderwood Poetry Competition today, they were all outstanding and the judges had a very difficult task to judge the competition, you can find out more here. Thank you to the judges for joining us, the choir and our Doune Clan dancers.

 

Have a lovely half term and we will see you all on Tuesday 17^th February!

Calderwood Chronicle 23_01_26

 

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 we highlight our achievements.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

• Family Calendar Link
• 30/01/26 – Doors Open 9am, start at 9:10am: Clan Connects: Doune: The clan will share their learning on stage in the Arena.
• 06/02/26 – Calderwood Scottish Poetry Competition: The families of clan winners will be invited, 4 invites per child.
• 09/02/26-16/02/26: School closed for February Holiday, reopens 17/02/26

 

Calderwood Communication:

• Calderwood Scottish Poetry Competition: You can find out more information here.
• Parking: 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. Unfortunately, we have concerns raised by residents close to the school that their driveways have been blocked by people parking there at pick up.
• Term 3 Home Learning Grids: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2026/01/23/term-3-2025-26-learning-grids/
• Term 3 Learning Letters: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/wl/calderwood/2026/01/23/term-3-2025-26-learning-letters/
• Parent Council: You can find our Chief’s Report here.
• WOW Travel Tracker: Find our more information here.
• Primary 6 Clans Active and Sustainable Travel: Find out more here.
• Lunch Time Supervisors: We are looking to recruit additional lunch time staff to help ensure we can open all our spaces at lunch times. If you know anyone who would be interested in this opportunity please share this advert with them.

Calderwood Compliments:

• Red House Party: Congratulations to Red House for winning the Term 1 and 2 House points, you can find out more about their celebration here.
• Thank you to Linlithgow and Ness Clans for sharing their learning with their families this week.
• A huge well done to all the children who took part in their Clan Scottish Poetry Competition!

 

 

Calderwood Chronicle 09_01_26

 

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 09/01/26

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: 

• Family Calendar Link
• Cancelled – 14/01/26 – Nibble and Natter Event
• Postponed – 16/01/26 – World Culture Day Postponed until the national celebration day on 21^st May
• New – 16/01/26 – Red House Celebration: Red House can wear their pyjamas to school, no blankets, etc please and we will provide snacks as part of the celebration.
• 20/01/26 – 2:00-3:00pm – Sharing the Learning Event: Linlithgow and Ness: Please arrive at the front office at 1:55pm. This is an opportunity to visit your child’s clan, engage in their learning and see their jotters.
• 20/01/26 – 6:00pm – Parent Council Meeting – in person or on Teams – Agenda to follow
• 30/01/26 – 9am: Clan Connects: Doune: The clan will share their learning on stage in the Arena.

 

Calderwood Communication:

• Calderwood Scottish Poetry Competition: You can find out more information here.
• Parking: 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. Unfortunately, we have concerns raised by residents close to the school that their driveways have been blocked by people parking there at pick up.
• Uniform: At Calderwood Primary we are very proud of our uniform, it also incorporates our value of belonging. You can find all the options for our uniform here and we also have a Sustainability Station in our foyer with lots of uniform options. A reminder that black hoodies, black leggings and branded sports tops are not part of our school uniform.
• Playground: If your children are choosing to play on the trim trail or field during in the playground you might want to provide them with outdoor footwear that can stay in their cloakroom.
• E. Days: You can find our PE Days for term 3 here and the uniform expectations on this days.

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.
• 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:

• Happy New Year everyone and welcome back to Calderwood Primary!
• Thank you to everyone who volunteered to support the running of our Christmas parties, we really appreciate your time!
• A huge thank you to our Parent Council fundraising, which has recently purchased us:
  • Outdoor toys and outdoor P.E storage and installation
  • 10 netbooks
  • Fruit for snack time, for children who have forgotten their snack
  • Reusable cups for the clans, for children who forgotten their water bottles

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