Calderwood Primary and Nursery

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 10/01/2025

A very Happy New Year to all of our families and we hope that you had a restful break. It is lovely to see all of our learners back in school and ready for the term ahead.

Calderwood Commitments:

Leven and Rannoch Clan Connects and Sharing the Learning: 9:15-10:15am on 17^th Doors Open 9:05am.

Calderwood Calendar:

Updated: 2024-25 Calendar

Calderwood Communication:

If your child requires medication, please ensure this is handed into the office and the correct forms are completed. Children should not carry medication in their school bag.
In snow or icy conditions access to the school will be through the front door, we will alert parents/ carers/children to this. During these times there will be no supervisors in the playground. You can find our safe route here.
PE Days for Term 3 are here.
Home Learning: Poems will be for the Calderwood Scottish Poetry Competition issued on Seesaw and Teams on 13/01/25. Home Learning grids will be issued on 20/01/25.

Road Safety:

As you will be aware, the roads and traffic around our school can be busy, particularly at key points of the school and ELC day. We encourage families to walk to and from school, where possible. Where driving to school is unavoidable, please be mindful of other road users and pedestrians when moving through our community, and when stopping to drop children off at school. Every child’s safety is of paramount importance and is essential that we continue to work together to ensure all of our children arrive at and leave safely from school
In school, we are launching a road safety focus beginning on 20^th January 2025, as well as beginning to work on our Park Smart campaign. Throughout our initial launch week, your child will engage in a range of experiences to support their road safety awareness. We will also have an opportunity for every child to contribute an image to be included in our Park Smart banners which will be produced later this term.

Calderwood Compliments:

Thank you so much to the Calderwood Community Services team, who put salt down in the playground earlier in the week.

Rannoch Clan had a fabulous time at their Christmas party this week. The children danced and sang along to their favourite Christmas songs and played some different festive games. We played Christmas corners, pass the parcel and even had a best dancer competition! It was a lovely, fun afternoon to celebrate the festive season as a clan.

Tummel Christmas Party Fun

Tummel Clan has been brimming with festive cheer after some fantastic Christmas parties! Last week, our Primary 5s teamed up with Ben Lomond Clan for a joyful celebration, while our Primary 4s had a blast partying with Tay Clan. Both events were filled with excitement as everyone danced to lively festive tunes, with a special prize awarded to the best dancer. We shared delicious snacks and had so much fun playing games like Christmas corners together. It was a wonderful way to celebrate the season and create happy memories with friends!

Tay Clan -Christmas Party

Tay clan had a fantastic Christmas party on Monday morning.

To kick off our Christmas party, we put on our playlist of chosen songs, and had a wee boogie to get us warmed-up. After that, we had a fantastic game of Christmas Corners. We also had a best dancer competition. Dancing and taking part in the games made us thirsty and hungry so we took time out for a snack and juice, provided by our lovely helpers, which was served on our Christmas placemats we had designed ourselves. Finally, we took part in some fun dances – chu chu wa and the Macarena. We loved dancing to these! The time went by so fast and were sad to see it come to an end. We had a blast together.

We loved learning, practising and performing our song for the Christmas Celebrations – Count on Me at Christmas. We loved exploring the value of kindness and spreading kindness to others because…..kindness costs you nothing! We hope you all enjoyed it too.

We also had a fantastic Christmas lunch together too. Such fun and wholesome times to spend together as a clan.

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 13/12/24

Calderwood Chronicle 13_12_24

Calderwood Commitments:

Milk: Orders close on iPay on 18^th. Orders will not be taken after this date.

Calderwood Calendar:

Updated: 2024-25 Calendar
You can find details of all up and coming events in Christmas Countdown Calendar
School will close for the Christmas holidays on Friday 20^th December at 11.55am for P1, P2 and P3/2 and 12.00noon for P3 to P7 clans

Calderwood Communication:

Please find links to Christmas Social Stories: Christmas Party
Please find a link to our Christmas Holidays Social Story here.
If your child requires medication, please ensure this is handed in to the office and the correct forms are completed. Forms can be obtained from the school office. Children should not carry medication in their school bag.
The whole school enjoyed a visit from Hopscotch Theatre last week, and seeing their version of Pinocchio.
Champions: We are delighted to inform you that Miss McGuire is expecting a baby in April. It is Miss McGuire’s hope that she will continue to work until the Easter holidays, but we will keep Tummel Clan Families updated. I am sure you will join us in wishing Miss McGuire and her partner all the very best.
In snow or icy conditions access to the school will be through the front door, we will alert parents/carers/children to this. During these times there will be no supervisors in the playground. You can find our safe route here.
Please complete our Young STEM Leader questionnaire here to share views on our upcoming podcast

Calderwood Compliments:

Thank you to our Parent Council for organising an extremely successful Christmas Fayre at the end of November. Thank you to our families and champions who helped out on the day. Thank you to our choir and Glee Club for performing. Thank you to everyone who supported the event to make it such a huge success.
Another thank you to our Parent Council for donating a number of brand new Usborne books to the school.
Thank you to Elizabeth Pennykid from Kirknewton and East Calder Parish Church who joined us at Connects last Friday to share the Advent Story.
On 3^rd December we had our Christmas Lunch, which was a lovely experience for all of our learners. Thank you so much to our dedicated kitchen team. Thank you to our Office and PSW champions who helped to organise the event and to Muir and Mackintosh clans for serving up the lunch.
Thank you to our choir, who have sung at all of our P1 Nativities this week.
We have had very positive Christmas Party experiences with lots of our clans so far. These will continue next week. Thank you to our Parent Council for providing the food and snacks for these events.
A huge congratulations and well done to our Primary 1 clans for their fantastic nativity performances. There is a lot of talent amongst our children! We particularly loved how the children all performed with a smile on their faces. A big thanks goes to our champions for making this opportunity possible.
A massive well done to all our P2-7 clans who performed amazingly at our Calderwood Christmas event today. A huge thank you to our champions for making this happen.

As the term draws to a close, I would like to wish all of our Calderwood families a restful break. We look forward to seeing everyone return on 6^th January.

East Calder Scout Group Santa Sleigh Event

🔔🔔🔔 Dear parents and carers,

I know a lot of you have been asking and we are delighted to confirm that the East Calder Scout Group are bringing Santa on his sleigh (with a few new faces…) to East Calder! 🎅🏽

Santa and his little helpers will be spreading festive cheer and lots of chocolate around Calderwood & Wilkieston on Sunday 22nd December from 4pm onwards.

He will also be visiting East Calder on Friday 20th December from 4pm onwards.

We will be making plenty of noise so I’m sure you’ll hear us coming!

We will also have ‘🎅🏽Santa Stop Here🎅🏽’ signs going up around your community in the coming days.

The routes we are taking, with the link to track Santa on the night can be found here:

https://www.eastcalderscouts.uk/home/santa

If you’re able to support this event, here is the link to our SumUp page if you want to donate to the East Calder Scouts so we can continue to run these different events for our community. Thank you!

https://pay.sumup.com/b2c/Q7MYH8B0

We look forward to seeing you all then!

Signed, Santas little helpers (Scout division 😁)

Christmas Countdown

Christmas Countdown 2024

Baird Christmas Party

On Wednesday, Baird clan enjoyed their Christmas party with Burns, Muir and Mackintosh. We played lots of games, including musical chairs, and enjoyed a festive snack with friends. After our party fun, we created our own festive origami stars, which tested our fine motor skills and resilience. To end a fantastic day of fun, we then went to watch the pantomime in the hall. Baird clan are well and truly in the festive spirit now!