Category: Information for Parents/ Carers

Calderwood Chronicle 16_08_24

 

Welcome back to Calderwood Chapter 4!

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

• Please ensure you have registered your child on parent portal and that your details are up to date. West Lothian Council are now using this system for our annual data checks and EE2 forms for excursions. You can find advice here.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

• 2024-25 Calendar
• 21/08/2024: 4:30-5:00pm – P7 Parent Camp Talk on Teams: Find out more about your child’s trip to Dalguise. Presentation will be available on the blog after. Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 328 204 185 38    Passcode: uzS4GB
• 02/09/25: Term 1 Learning Letters posted on the blog.

 

Calderwood Communication:

• Thank you for ensuring your child is wearing school uniform, it is important to us that all our children feel they are part of our Calderwood family. Please ensure all items of clothing including jackets and lunch boxes have your child’s name on them, as we already have a number of lost property items with no names. A reminder that black sweatshirts are not part of our uniform. We would also recommend that your child brings a jacket every day, as some children have been caught out with no jacket this week in the rain. We suggest that children keep a pair of old shoes in school to change into if they want to play on the grass when the grass is damp/ wet.
• You will find the E Days for this term here, and a note of the PE uniform they can wear to school on those days.
• Calderwood Primary has now grown to 24 clans and 555 pupils, with this in mind we would request that you try to ensure that your child comes to school prepared, including bring a snack, their packed lunch if required, water bottle and knowing how they are getting home each day. We understand emergencies and last minute changes can happen, however on a daily basis there are a large number of forgotten lunch boxes, water bottles and snacks dropped off at the office. We can cannot guarantee that these items will reach the child on time.
• Bring your own Device 2024/25: Primary 6 -7 sign up form.
• Thank you for supporting your child with our new routines for this session, you can find a copy of them here.

 

Calderwood Compliments:

• We have really enjoyed welcoming back all our children and clans this week, especially our 100 new Primary 1s! It has been an exciting start to Chapter 4 with our new extension opening and having a huge outdoor area to play in.
• At Calderwood it our tradition to share a first day photo of your child. Over the next week our champions will add the photos to this blog post.

 

Calderwood Calendar: 

• 2024/25 Calendar link
• 28/06/24: Last day of term
• 09/08/24: 9:15am: Clans in the extension, can pop in and visit their new clan space with the leadership team. One adult per family and no younger siblings please if possible (to ensure we can fit everyone in). Please meet in the playground at 9:05am.
• 13/08/24: First day of term

 

Calderwood Communication:

• Medication: Please find information about our end of term pick up and start of term drop off.
• Routines for 2024/25: Please find information in this sway.
• Bring your own Device 2024/25: Primary 6 -7 sign up form.
• Calderwood Couture: A reminder of our school uniform is here. PE Days will start on week beginning 19^th Aug, the days will be shared in the new term. You can also find our uniform items in local supermarkets – more information is here.
• School improvement plan 2024/25

 

Calderwood Construction:

• It’s ready! Next week our extension will be handed over from Morrisons to West Lothian Council. Thank you so much to Morrisons who have helped us to feel a part of the journey. Yesterday, some of our Pupil Council reps were excited to be the first children to walk through the magic doors into our extension today! They also got to meet some important visitors, we are looking forward to sharing the photos soon.

 

 

Calderwood Compliments:

 

• Even the rain didn’t stop our traditional end of term Calderwood Conga!
• This term’s winning house was Roe House Pupils voted for a Pyjama Party with lots of games and treats. A great time was had by all.
• Calderwood Clan Championships: Well done to all our pupils who won races at our recent sporting event! You can see their pictures here. Thank you to the parent council for purchasing the medals and stickers.
• This week we have celebrated our Ben Lawers and Ben Lomond Clans of 2024! They performed a fun and emotional connects for their families and marked leaving Calderwood by having a clan meal at Nandos. We wish them lots of luck on the next part of their adventure at West Calder High School.

 

• And just like that we have reached the end of Chapter 3, and what an adventure it has been! Chapter 3 saw the biggest growth to date at Calderwood with new clans, children, families and champions. We have had so many achievements this session and have made a lot of progress with our improvement journey, a huge thank you to our champion team for making this possible! Thank you also to you for all your support over the year. Happy holidays everyone, we will see you all in Chapter 4!