Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 01/12/23

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Calderwood Commitments:

  • Panto Payment: Please ensure you have paid £2 on iPay by 7/12/23. If you require support with the payment please let us know.

Calderwood Calendar: 

  • You will find December events dates here: Term 2 Family Calendar Link
  • 01/12/23: P1 Show Tickets issued.
  • 01/12/23: Parent Council: Christmas Fayre Information
  • 06/12/23: Christmas Lunch: Pre orders only, orders are no closed. Children can wear a Christmas jumper/ accessory, uniform on bottom.
  • 07/12/23: Cinderella Panto in the Arena: Children can wear a Christmas jumper/ accessory, uniform on bottom. Please pay £2 on iPay.
  • 08/12/23: Calderwood Connects: Advent theme from the outreach team from Kirknewton and East Calder Parish Church. This will involve a story about advent and some songs. Please email the office to let us know if this is something you would prefer your child not to attend. For clans only.

Calderwood Communication: 

Child’s full name:

Clan:

Reasons for absence/ appointment/ lateness

These emails will get an auto response from the office and do will not require a reply.

  • Question/ concern

Child’s full name:

Clan:

Comments:

These emails will be replied to within 48 hours. We always try to get back to families as soon as possible. A gentle reminder, during the school day teachers are teaching and the leadership team are out and about around the school, taking groups, meetings, etc and may not always be able to immediately respond to phone calls/ emails/ drops ins.

Calderwood Construction:

Works Completed in the Week

  • Steel erection
  • Drainage connections
  • Under slab drainage
  • Decking first floor

Two Week Look Ahead

  • Roof install to commence – crane onsite 29/11/23
  • Trim trail work ongoing
  • Blockwork underbuild to continue
  • Pitch fencing to start ASAP, material delivery WC 27/11/23
  • Upper first floor slab prep and pour- Pour date tbc looking like 05/12/23, however will depend on weather.

Calderwood Compliments:

  • Thank you to everyone who could join us for Calderwood Chats this week. A big thanks to our P6 and P7 clans for running the event for us.
  • The children have enjoyed playing with the new construction toys in the playground this week. Thank you to the Parent Council for fundraising for these.
  • Thank you to the helpers who made our P3 excursions possible this week, we appreciate your support.
  • Morrisons Construction joined us for our Connects last week to tell us about building site safety.
  • Thank you to Stirling Developments for donating our Christmas Tree.

Become a Disney play leader

Dear Parents/Carers
If you have ever considered undertaking any training to get more children active please see details below of the Disney Playmakers course. It’s an SFA course designed to engage young girls with physical activity through storytelling and football – all linked to Disney movies. No prior football knowledge is needed!

Dates for the Play Leader training (note that all 3 dates need to be attended):

Session 1: Wednesday 29th November 6-9pm (online)

Session 2: Sunday 3rd December 6-9pm (online)

Session 3:  Wednesday 13th December 6-9pm (online)

No prior knowledge of football is required and the purpose of the programme is to build fundamental movement skills, to teach life skills and value and to develop football basics – all through storytelling!

Attendees will gain the SFA Early Touches qualification as part of the training.

If anyone from your school would like to attend the training, they can register by sending David Baird the following details, their:

  • Name
  • Email
  • SFA Live ID Number (if they have one)

David.Baird@scottishfa.co.uk

UEFA Playmakers is a school-based session. Once trained to deliver the programme we will allocate Play Leaders to schools in their local community to deliver the programme for girls aged 5-8.

More information here: Superhero Support Pack

Parent Council: ✨ CHRISTMAS PRIZE DRAW 2023 ✨

✨ CHRISTMAS PRIZE DRAW 2023 ✨
Entries are now open for this year’s Christmas prize draw: https://crowdfunder.co.uk/p/calderwood-christmas-prize-draw-2023
We have an amazing range of prizes up for grabs, all kindly donated by some amazing local businesses 🤩
It’s £2 per online entry and you can enter as many times as you like!
For further information and to buy a ticket please visit the link above!
Entries close at 8pm on Friday 8th of December.
All money raised will go towards providing digital resources and technology for Calderwood primary and nursery.
Thank you so much to all of the local businesses for donating a prize. We’ll be sharing more information about the prizes and businesses over the next couple of weeks ☺️
If any other businesses would like to donate a prize, please email calderwoodpspc@gmail.com
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