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Dear Parents - Please take 10 minutes to help West Calder HS improve by completing the survey on the link below.The results will be shared with all staff on Tuesday 7th May, and will inform our evaluation of this year and planning for next. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/993G6Q2
Thank you for your honesty and your time.
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World Education Games - Click here to check how our pupils got on in the World Education Games. Impressive stats - 12 classes, 343 pupils and 53,775 correct answers altogether. Emma Fairbairn (1AM1) was the highest scoring pupil.

Thanks for your participation in this, the pupils seemed to have enjoyed it and clearly, some of them have spent some time on this outside school!
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Exam Leave Dates - S4 - First day of leave is Monday 29 April (Exception made for Computer Studies pupils who will start their leave on Thursday 25 April),
S5 - First day is Wednesday 8 May.
S6 - First day is Friday 3 May although they will be in school for an hour that morning for their leaving ceremony.

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Senior Course Choice Booklet & Presentation - The Senior Course Choice Booklet and Presentation are now available on the website.  Click on the links in the Important Information section on the right hand side of this page

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School Meals Price Increase - Please note that school meal prices will increase to £1.80 (primary schools) and £1.90 (secondary schools) from Monday 15th April 2013.
Pupils with parents in receipt of Income Support, Income-based Jobseekers’ Allowance or Employment and Support Allowance – Income Related are entitled to a free mid-day meal. Information on how to apply for free school meals is available on page 28 and 29 of the School Prospectus. Follow this link, or phone the school on 01506 871510 or the council’s Student Benefit Officer on 01506 28195
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The National Parent Forum of Scotland Newsletter - The first E-News Update from The National Parent Forum of Scotland of 2013 has been published and is available for you to view. This can be accessed from the 'For Parents' menu of the website or simply by clicking here.

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FANTASTIC NEWS! - West Lothian Council has secured funding from the Government’s Scottish Futures Trust towards providing West Calder High School with additional PE facilities including a 4-court Games Hall, Dance Studio, Fitness Suite, and associated changing rooms, classrooms and staff base. Click here for for more information. Mrs Rowland is absolutely delighted, and would like to thank the Parent Council who collaborated with staff and pupils to campaign for an upgrade.
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Homework Club: S1 – S3. Thursdays 3.50 – 5.40pm. Room 8 - Homework club offers a supervised homework session with teachers and access to IT; followed by an Activities session of pupils’ choice. Permission slips have been given out to all S1-S3 pupils at Registration.

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Pay & Play - Every Tuesday 3.45-5PM. all S1-6 Welcome. Pay £1 and play any activity of your choice.

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Exam Transposrt Monday 20 May - One bus will collect pupils from East Calder at the normal morning pick up time and 1 bus will  pick up pupils from Addiewell, Breich and West Calder, again at the normal morning pick up time.  There will also be a  bus picking up pupils from Mid Calder at the normal pick up time.  At approximately 12.40pm the same buses will return to Mid Calder and East Calder, The bus for West Calder, Addiewell and Breich will leave school at approximately 2.30pm. There will only be one pick up from each area in the morning.  Pupils with later exams or who do not wish to use this service will have to make their own arrangements.

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Welcome to the website of West Calder High School.

 

Our successful school of approximately 970 pupils, serving the Calders areas in Livingston and Polbeth. At West Calder HS, we value our learning, our relationships and our positive attitudes, which I hope you will see coming through in the various pages of this website.

As well as securing consistently good exam results overall we have a large number of pupils who are successful in other ways too, including in a wide variety of sports and music and, for example, in demonstrating leadership and good citizenship around the school and the community.

We aim to ensure that all of our students leave not only with the best possible academic qualifications but also with the resilience and confidence required to be successful in further and higher education and in the world of work.

I hope you enjoy browsing the site. Please use the 'contact us' pages to get in touch with us if you would like to ask a question or suggest other items for inclusion.

Fiona H Rowland
Headteacher

West Calder High School Library

 Important Information


Uniform BBC School Report

enior Course Choice Booklet Exam Tips

enior Course Choice Booklet Senior Course Choice Booklet

Immersion Day Calendar Immersion Day Calendar

enior Course Choice Presentation Senior Course Choice Presentation

  WLC e-prospectus

S4 - S6 Prelim Timetable S3 Course Choice Booklet

S4 - S6 Prelim Timetable S3 Course Choice Presentation

Masterclass Information Masterclass Information

School Prospectus *NEW* School Prospectus

Rights Respecting School Rights Respecting School

Anti Bullying Policy Anti Bullying Booklet

Term Dates 2012/13 Term Dates 2012/13

Term Dates 2013/143 Term Dates 2013/14

Secondary Schools Sporting Calendar Secondary Schools Sporting Calendar

Glow WCHS Glow Pages

News News

Calendar Calendar 2012/13

Uniform School Circular
 

West Calder High School

Limefield
Polbeth
West Calder
EH55 8QN

Tel: 01506 871510
Fax: 01506 871345

Head Teacher: Fiona Rowland

School Day
8:40am - 3:45pm (Mon - Thur)
8:40am - 12:25pm (Fri)
Lunch: 1:15pm - 2:05pm