Cost of Living Crisis

Energy Prices skyrocketing!

Food and petrol prices rising!

Taxes and wages stagnating!

Rent prices are on the rise!

Heating or eating?

Nobody should have to make that a choice!

If you are experiencing financial difficulties due to the ‘Cost of Living Crisis’, please know that at Calderwood Primary School, we are here to help signpost you to the services available.

West Lothian Council’s Anti-Poverty service has devised some resources to support families online, if you need to make use of the school WIFI or devices to do so, get in touch and arrangements will be made to support this.

Community Food Outlets: www.westlothian.gov.uk/access-to-food

Advice Shop Services: www.westlothian.gov.uk/adviceshop

Practical Help:  www.westlothian.gov.uk/costofliving

Practical help and support through the development of self-help booklets, which will be held in a central location to allow support to be accessed easily and quickly, a dedicated information hub has been created to hold all cost of living support information.

Welcome Warm Places: www.westlothian.gov.uk/warm-welcome

Welcoming warm places across West Lothian which can provide a warm space for people to rest in addition to acting as a hub where they can access advice and support in relation to the cost of living (also includes information about community food providers).

Please contact us if you are worried about anything, we understand that Christmas can be a particularly difficult time for families. If you are worried or have any questions about how the school can help, call in at the office and ask to speak to someone from the Equity Team and we will get back in touch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parent Council Agenda: 15th Nov

Topic: Parent Council Meeting
Time: Nov 15, 2022 at 6pm
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4321333221?pwd=SGZyVE1RdURKYkl5dXZ1Sjc5TjNvQT09
or in the school Arena
Meeting ID: 432 133 3221
Passcode: 202211
1. Welcome – Register and apologies
2. Previous meeting minutes
3. School and nursery updates (may be submitted as written updates)
4. Recent PC activity updates
5. PC vote: Should the Parent Council pursue registration as a charity?
6. PC Purchasing and Requests Process
7. PC “sub-committee” structure
8. Responses to other matters raised (see below, may be covered in school update?)
9. AOB and date of next meeting

World Book Day – Quick & Easy Dress Up Ideas

The best costumes don’t have to cost a fortune! Look for inspiration in dress up boxes or get creative with some bits n bobs from around the house. There are lots of characters from stories that are everyday children in normal clothes. Add a simple prop and that would be enough to suggest who they have decided to dress up as. Why not try to create the book or add a few cut out, painted shapes to an old t shirt.

 

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Calderwood Primary ​Chronicle: 10/11/22 ​

Calderwood Commitments (Actions):
Calderwood Communication (For information):
  • A gentle reminder that following West Lothian Policy, no dogs are permitted in the playground. Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to set up individual arrangements for families with dogs who require their children to be brought to the gate.
  • We understand that life is busy for everyone and occasionally items for school can be forgotten or daily routines change last minute. Currently, we are experiencing a large number of forgotten items (lunch boxes, break time snack, clothing) dropped off in the morning or last minute messages needing passed on to children about pick up time, this results in other office tasks not being able to be actioned. If children do occasionally forget their break time snack time, we do have fruit that they can take, so please don’t worry about having to make another trip to drop off a snack.
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Calderwood Calendar: 
Capturing Calderwood (Twitter snapshot):
  • House Elections
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Calderwood Compliments: 
  • A huge congratulations to our new House and Vice Captains, and to our champs and families for supporting them through this process. we are very proud of them.
  • Congratulations to Jude in Ben Lomond who came first place in the West Lothian Active Schools P7 Cross Country event.

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Kind regards,

Miss Burton

Winter Arrangements for Safe Routes to School/ Nursery

In the event of heavy snow the FMA (janitorial staff) will clear / salt one initial footpath, as below, to allow staff and pupils access to the school safely. The other footpaths will be worked on by the FMA teams as soon as possible, during the daylight hours following completion of the existing essential duties.

The school carpark is under the responsibility of roads, therefore we can not guarantee that the carpark will be gritted before the start of the school day. Priority will be given to access roads then staff car parks/bus bays/turning areas (if applicable), this does not include playground areas.

As we use our playground to access the building, we have purchased some salt boxes for these areas and have asked our Parent Council for support from parents/ carers in the morning to help us grit the playground and the path between Glencoe Gate (bike shed) and the nursery door, if you can support with this please let us know.

The path highlighted below is the one that will be gritted on icy mornings. If there are changes to how we enter school in the morning due to extreme weather, champions will be be around to advise of the changes.

Common Cold Study -Elvis Kids

Recently, it was published evidence that nasal irrigation with salt water helped reduce the cold in adults. We have also shown the mechanism for how salt water helps with the common cold when applied on the nasal epithelium. Our research showed that cells use the chloride from the salt water to fight viral infections.  Hence, we are now testing if salt water nose drops helps children fight the cold.

If you have a child under 7 years of age, you may be able to join the fight.

The Children’s Hospital in Edinburgh are doing a study of salt water nose drops to see if it helps get rid of the cold faster.

Your child does not need to have a cold right now to take part!

You can join right now by calling/texting 07973657457 for an appointment to sign up and to be taught what to do the next time your child has a cold.

Your child does not need to attend.

Families completing the study will receive travel expenses and a £30 voucher to compensate for any inconvenience.

Further information is in the attached flyer or at www.elviskids.co.uk ; Twitter: @elviskids; Facebook: Elvis Kids.

Book Donation

Book Week Scotland – Book Donation

Are you having a clear out of old books or do you have any books you have read and would like to pass on to others to enjoy?  If so, then as part of Book Week Scotland, we would like you to donate any books that you no longer need or use to our school libraries for the pupils to enjoy reading.

Book week Scotland takes place from Monday 14th November until Friday 18th November.  Throughout that week, pupils can bring in any books they would like to donate to our school.  They will receive a sticker to write their name on and place inside the book.

“The more that you read, the more things you will know.  The more that you learn, the more places you will go.  Dr Seuss

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