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Calderwood Chronicle 22/12/22
Leg it to Lapland Challenge
Calderwood Primary School took part in the Sustrans Christmas Challenge, ‘Leg it to Lapland’. This challenge encouraged all pupils to take their journeys to and from school by foot, scooter or bicycle. The charity launched this challenge to help reduce traffic congestion and air pollution around the school. Each day pupils travelled to school during the challenge week they earned ‘one virtual mile’ towards Lapland. Completing 30 mins of other exercise i.e. dancing, scoring goals at football practice or learning some new moves at Taekwondo practice also earned them a virtual mile! Completing other active journeys e.g. walking to football practice also earned them a virtual mile! The school who get the highest number of average miles per pupil will be the winner!
We were very lucky to have Santa and his elves deliver a special prize to a pupil in each clan who had gone over and above during the Leg it to Lapland Challenge week! Well done to all of our pupils!
Calderwood Christmas Performances
Capturing Calderwood: Calderwood Christmas
Calderwood Chronicle: 16/12/22
Calderwood Christmas Performances
Dear parent/ carer,
We are very proud or our children and champions, and all they have achieved this week through our festive performances.
We would love some feedback for our children and champions on the opportunities you had this week, to view our Carols around the Campfire (Nursery), Nativity (P1) and Christmas around the World (P2-7) performances. Please take a minute to complete the form below.
https://forms.office.com/e/8DaBwNVJY1
Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Burton
Calderwood Christmas Choir
Lunch Ordering Reminders Via iPay
Dear parent/ carer,
I just wanted to make contact, with a reminder as to how you use iPay to order your child’s lunch.
All Primary 1-7 families should pre-order their child’s lunch, on a daily or weekly basis. The only exceptions to this, are those children who have just enrolled and don’t have their log in yet, or those families who don’t have access to the internet.
The options on iPay are:
- School dinners (these are free for all children in Primary 1-5, and those children who have specifically applied for free school meal entitlement:
– 2 hot meal choices– 2 sandwich choices– special diet – those children who have an intolerance/ allergy. The school should already be made aware of these children and a special diet set up.
- Packed lunch – when your child brings a lunch from home
- Eating at home – if your child is going home for lunch/ including a Friday
- Absence – Your child is off school that day
Families who want their child to have a sandwich packed lunch from the school kitchen on a Friday, should order this by 9:30am on a Thursday. This allows the kitchen to ensure they have enough ingredients to make the larger sandwich lunch order on a Friday. They will no longer be able to order this option in clan on a Friday morning.
The benefits of using iPay for us as a school are:
- It doesn’t impact on your child’s learning time in the morning.
- Less admin time for teaching champs, and more teaching time in the morning.
- If children are late for school or at an appointment, their lunches are still ordered on time.
- Better communication between home, to the office, to the kitchen.
- More reliable numbers for lunches, ensuring that each child gets what they want they want for their lunch
Any family having issues with accessing iPay should phone the office or book a slot to pop in, so the office champs can set you up.
Our hope is, that will be able to organise lunches by everyone pre ordering and no one having to order in clan in the morning (apart from the children who have started Calderwood on that day).
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
Parent Council Raffle – Last Call!
Hi all,
There’s only two days left to enter the Calderwood Christmas Prize Draw and put yourself in the running to win one of 34 fantastic prizes, all kindly donated by local businesses.
So far, we’ve raised nearly £2000 to support the school in buying equipment like tablets and netbooks, but every penny counts, so if you haven’t entered already or you would like to up your chances of a win and enter again, you’ll need to enter by midnight on Thursday 15th of December!
It costs £2 per entry, and you can enter online here.
Thanks again to everyone who has supported this fundraiser so far, as well the Christmas Fayre, we know it’s a challenging time of year for everyone and we’ve been blown away by your generosity!
Parent Council
