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November Newsletter

Please find attached a copy of our Newsletter for November.  This newsletter includes all our school dates up until the end of this term.  A copy of this is also on our school app, our website and has been sent home via groupcall email.  If you haven’t received an email update please contact the school office to update your email address.

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ECPS November 2019 Newsletter

Improving Gender Balance and Equalities with Education Scotland @ECPS

In term 4 last session, our Primary 7 and Primary 7/6 pupils were lucky to work with Fiona Shaw from Education Scotland – Fiona’s role is to work with schools to ensure everyone has equality of opportunity, particularly with careers and subject choice. Pupils engaged with a variety of tasks which raised awareness of stereotypes . There was a lot of thought provoking conversations which really made them all consider unconscious bias.  Our staff are excited to welcome Fiona Shaw back to East Calder, along with the staff from Kirknewton Primary, for more work on improving the gender balance and stereotypes in our October In Service day.

New School at Calderwood – Consultation

West Lothian Council Education Services
Proposal to Establish a new Non-Denominational Primary School at Calderwood, East Calder and Associated Proposals

West Lothian Council’s Education Executive at its meeting on 23 April 2019 authorised West Lothian Council’s Education Services to commence statutory consultation on the proposals to:

 Establish a new non-denominational primary school at Calderwood, East Calder;
 Establish a catchment area for the new school;
 Review the non-denominational primary school catchment area at East Calder Primary School; and
 Review transfer arrangements from Primary to Secondary School.
The consultation document outlining the proposal is available online from 26 September 2019 on the following webpage:

www.westlothian.gov.uk/Calderwood-Primary-School-Consultation

Hard copies of the consultation document are also available for uplift from the Civic Centre, Howden South Road, Livingston, EH54 6FF or can be requested in writing from:
Melanie Laurie, Project Officer, West Lothian Council Education Services, Civic Centre,
Howden South Road, Livingston, EH54 6FF.

The consultation period is from Thursday 26 September 2019 until Friday 15 November 2019.

A public meeting to discuss the consultation document will be held at:
 East Calder Primary School, Thursday 24 October 2019. 6.30-8.00pm.

School App!!

The countdown is on.  Our school app is now available for download and will be formally launched in a matter of days 🙂  More information will be available tomorrow at our open afternoon but in case you are as excited as we are – you can download the app for both android and ios now (paid for by our parent council, thank you!)

Open Afternoon

As mentioned in our monthly newsletter, we will be opening our doors tomorrow afternoon for you to join your child’s class.  This is an opportunity for your to see your child, their friends and their teacher during a school day and get a feeling of what school is like.  You may enter through the main school doors, or P1-P4 may enter through the P2 door and P5-P7 may enter through the P5-7 door.  We know that not everyone can manage along to school – no matter when we plan it – but hope to see many of you, or someone from the extended family.  Doors will be open from 2 – 3pm.

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