Calderwood Primary and Nursery

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

Tinsel Nativity Trailers

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 15^th 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

West Lothian Warm Hubs

The details of the current warm welcome locations can be found on the attached link to the council’s website:

https://www.westlothian.gov.uk/warm-welcome

Bramble Clan Connects: 02.12.22

On Friday 2nd December, Bramble Clan presented their own connects all about ‘The Bramble Brain Lab.’ The pupils created a fantastic performance sharing their knowledge of the different parts of the brain, what our brain helps our bodies do and how our brain can grow so we can learn new things. Bramble presented an incredible performance that took into account costumes, acting and music! Well done Bramble Clan!

Bluebell Clan Connects- 09.12.22

On Friday 9th December, Bluebell presented their own clan connects all about the narrative writing they had been learning about in their clan. Bluebell acted out the story of Cinderella and then shared how they took the plot of this story to recreate their own versions. The pupils shared the different writing techniques they had learned so they could create their own books. We were so impressed by their fantastic acting, singing and understanding of stories. The pupils finished their connects with an amazing song that inspired the audience that life really is your own story. Well done Bluebell Clan!

Calderwood Chronicle: 08/12/22

Please click here to download: Calderwood Chronice_08_12_22

Calderwood Primary Chronicle: 08/12/22

Chronicle and Calendar are also attached to this email.

Calderwood Commitments (Actions):

P1 Nativity tickets donations open on iPay
Milk for term 3 is currently open on iPay to order, until 20^th December.
A gentle reminder that all children should have outdoor footwear left in school so they can play on the grass/ outdoors in all weathers. We also recommend that children bring a change of socks and bottoms to keep in school in case they get wet playing outdoors. Please let us know id you need any support with this.
We continue to request that all families order their lunch on iPay, prior to the start of the school day. Children in the morning take part in a range of Stag Start activities to help them settle into the school day, stopping to ask them to order their lunch interrupts their learning time.
In this calendar you will find a list of all events until the end of term please ensure you read so you and your child can be prepared: Christmas Countdown Calendar

Calderwood Calendar:

In this calendar you will find a list of all events until the end of term: Christmas Countdown Calendar
9th December: 11:15am: Bluebell Calderwood Connects: Email invite has been sent out to families – 2 guests per child can attend.
11^th December: Community Christmas Service
13^th December: West Calder High School: Evening of Music
13^th/ 14^th December: P1 Nativity: Tinsel: See tickets for times
16^th December: Christmas jumper day, jumpers on top, uniform on bottoms
16^th December: P2-7 Calderwood Connects: Christmas Around the World: One family member invited

Capturing Calderwood (Twitter):

Christmas at Calderwood

Calderwood Communication (for information)

We have a range of uniform available at our front foyer for free or for a donation, please have a look.
If anyone has pots, pans, tyres, wooden spoons and metal spoons that they could donate to the school to please let us know, as we are trying to develop our outdoor areas.
Calderwood Choir at the Christmas lights switch on: Have a look at their video here.

Calderwood Compliments:

Bramble Clan Connects: A huge well done to the children and champions in Bramble Clan, for their assembly last week and to the clans this week. It taught us all so many new facts about the brain and we loved their creative, confident, knowledgeable and inspiring performance!
Congratulations to our Book Week Scotland: Be an Author Winners!
Congratulations to our Nativity scenery winners!
Last week we had our first ever Christmas Fayre, organised by our Parent Council. That you so much to everyone who worked behind the scenes and on the day. Thanks to everyone who attended, to support our school.
From our Parent Council about the Christmas Fayre: The P7s were amazing, thanks to them and the staff helpers for staying late to help. They were amazing and we couldn’t have done it without them.