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Category: Calderwood Communication
Calderwood Chiefs
Please congratulate our new Calderwood Chief’s for 2023-24!
Supervisor Posts
We have vacancies for supervisors to help indoors and outdoors, these roles are vital to ensure we can keep all areas of our playground open for children to play in. The hours are:
Monday – Friday 10:30-11:00am
Monday – Friday 7:55-8:45am
Monday – Thursday, 12:00-1:15pm.
If you are interested in these posts, please contact the school office on 01506 280060 or wlcalderwood-ps@westlothian.org.uk
First Day of Primary 1: Tuesday 15th August 2023
C In The Park Final Total
Rights Respecting School Award: Calderwood Achieve Bronze!
This year as part of our school improvement plan we have been working towards the Rights Respecting School Award. Before the Easter Holidays we achieved our Bronze Award!
What is a Rights Respecting School?
The Rights Respecting School promotes the UN convention on the rights of the child. This is an integral part of Calderwood’s ethos and vision statement. RRS supports children in becoming global citizens and supports our belief that children achieve most when they feel included and valued.
We want children at Calderwood to learn about their rights and feel empowered about their education. We recognise that rights and responsibilities are equally balanced and encourage our children to take responsibility for their actions in order to develop an awareness of how they might affect the rights of others. The aim is to help children achieve their potential and become responsible citizens.
What are the key principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?
The UN convention consists of 54 articles in total, with each article referring to a right. UNICEF uses the UNCRC as a framework for its work for all the world’s children and has developed the Rights Respecting School Award (RRSA).
At Calderwood the children are learning many of the rights through their involvement with UNICEF and a Rights Respecting ethos, throughout the whole school.
The main rights they are learning are:
The right to an education;
The right to a home;
The right to know their rights;
The right to play;
The right to nutritious food;
The right to clean water;
What can parents and carers do to help their children?
Talk to your children about what rights they have.
Show your children how they can promote these rights at home.
Remind your children about the differences between wants and needs.
Allow your children to take on small responsibilities at home.
Watch the news with your children and talk about issues they may have seen or heard where the rights of others may have been violated.
Use the language of rights and responsibilities and discuss how you can promote these values at home.
Request for PVG for Calderwood Primary & Nursery
Pupil Leadership Opportunities at Calderwood
Excursions & Residentials
Saving Seesaw Profiles
Thank you for your patience as we navigate the world of Seesaw!
New logs in will go home with Primary 1-4 at the end of this week. They expire after a year, so that is why your current one isn’t working.
Primary 4 will no longer to use Seesaw but will move to Teams, it will take them a few weeks of training on how to use Teams before they start to use it as a journal.
For families who where at Calderwood Primary in 2021-22 we will archive those clans. This means you have 30 days to download their journal from their previous clan. You need access to a netbook, laptop or computer to do this and can do this as explained below:
- Tap profile in top left
- Account settings
- Scroll down to the bottom and click download archived journal
Or:
- You should be able to highlight all the files
- Right clicking and choosing print then choosing Print to PDF from the dialogue box
You can also find these instructions here:
