Category: Calderwood Community

Ratho Football Club Looking for Players

Ratho United is a community football club for boys and girls aged between 5 and 11. We were established in 2020, with a clear vision :

  • To promote and develop health and fitness in children
  • To promote sportsmanship, fair play, respect, and self-discipline
  • To promote community spirit and the development of friendships within Ratho and the surrounding areas

We have over 120 children and 14 SFA approved coaches taking part in football across multiple leagues in Edinburgh.

We are currently recruiting for our 2012 age group. Training takes place on a Wednesday 7pm -8pm at Currie High School, our home matches are played at The Oriam Sports Centre on a Sunday Morning. As well as training and matches, for £20 per month your child will also receive a training kit and match kit.

If your child is interested in joining, please register here

Kind regards

Ratho United Youth Football Club

Xcite Easter Activity Programme

As well as relaunching outdoor activities for schools Xcite are now able to offer opportunities to the wider communities of West Lothian starting off with our Easter Activity Programme.  There are opportunities for 8yrs – 12yrs olds to try one of the following activities:-

  • Canoeing
  • Mountain Biking, or
  • Archery

These are offered over a mixture of full and half day sessions and will all be delivered from Xcite Linlithgow.  All sessions are led by qualified instructors and all equipment required will be provided.

You can find more information here: Xcite Outdoors – Easter Programme (003)

Scottish Poetry Calderwood Competition

As part of our Scottish focus for learning and Burns Day on 25th January the children are participating in a Poetry Recital Competition and have taken home a range of Scottish Poems. The children should choose one poem to learn. The children should learn the poem by heart and use the following success criteria. All children should learn their poem however this is no expectation that they need to recite it in front of the clan if they feel uncomfortable. They also have the option to film their recital, do it to the teacher privately, or as a group. As you will see below, some clans have the same option of poem – this is as these classes are working within the same Curriculum for Excellence level and allows for differentiation. In clan qualifying recitals will take place on Friday 21st January and finals will take place on Friday 28th January (these will be filmed for your viewing).

First Level Success Criteria:

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Second Level Success Criteria:

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The choice of poems your child can choose from can be found below:

 

Mull

Wee Willie Winkie

Orkney

Roguey Poguey

Shetland

The Wee Rid Motor

Bluebell

Twa Leggit Mice

Bramble

Coulter’s Candy

Ness

Nessie

The Crocodile

Twa Leggit Mice

Rannoch

P3

The Gowk

The Snawman

P4

Street-Talk

The Sair Finger-Walter Wingate

Tay

Street-Talk

The Sair Finger-Walter Wingate

Ben Lawers

Graffiti

A Dug, A Dug

Street Talk

Ben Lomond 

A_Red_Red_Rose

The Selkirk Grace

The Banks of Nith

(By Robert Burns)

Free bus travel for young people in Scotland

Update

Primary

  • The Parents Portal can be used to apply for a card for primary children between the ages of 5 and 10 inclusive  –  This is the easiest and quickest way to apply.
  • Cards can also be applied for online at https://getyournec.scot/nec/.
  • Just like the current process, application forms for Young Scot cards with travel can be made through the school.  The new application form is attached.

Young Person’s Free Bus Travel Scheme – Customer Service Toolkit – Jan2022

New Young Scot school form 2021

From 31st January, all children and young people aged between 5 and 21 years will be eligible for free bus travel within Scotland.

Children and young people will be able to access free bus travel on registered bus services across Scotland including a very limited number of local cross-border services from the south of Scotland into northern England.

How will young people obtain free bus travel?

Children and young people aged between 5 and 21 years old will need to apply for a National Entitlement Card (Young Scot Card).  Their existing card will not work, they will need to apply for a new one.

The card has an electronic chip inside it. When entering a bus, the driver will ask them to tap the card against a card reader. The card reader will tell the bus driver if the child has free bus travel enabled on their card.

Children under 16 years old will need their parent/carer to apply on their behalf and provide approval for free bus travel to be enabled on their child’s card.

Young people aged 16 years and over will be able to apply for free bus travel themselves.

Children under 5 years old can already travel on buses for free. They will not need a to apply for a card.

When can parents/carers or young people apply for free bus travel?

Applications will open on 10 January 2022.

All children and young people between the age of 5 to 15 will be required to get parental or carers consent to have free bus travel added to their card.  Please note this is not school transport. The free bus travel is for the public bus network only.

Young people 16 years or older can apply for a new Young Scot card themselves.

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