School of Rock
27 May, 2022
Pupil discovers MASSIVE diamond at Calder House!
10 May, 2022
Why do we do the ESB exams? The answer is: because they are difficult.
Each exam consists of three elements: (1) reading a passage from a favourite book or story with expression while paying attention to punctuation; (2) giving a short talk on a subject of your choice then confidently fielding unscripted questions from the examiner and audience; and (3) reciting a poem or passage of verse aloud from memory without the text in front of you.
These exams are not easy. Almost allchildren would find them a difficult and daunting prospect. But for our pupils they are particularly tough. They test all of the things that the children of Calder House have found most challenging - reading, remembering, performing and thinking on your feet.
Our pupils' success in these exams is a wonderful measure of the distance they have travelled since joining us. Moreover the experience of success in these exams, helps restore our children's faith in their own abilities and recognise the progress they are making.
Every child in the school was entered for the exams. And every single child passed their exam with 39 children being awarded either a distinction or a merit plus - the two highest grades!
The examiner who visited Calder House even commented that some of the poems our pupils had chosen to learn by heart were more ambitious than those chosen by pupils she had recently examined at Secondary School!
We are really proud of every child's performance in these exams. Each result represents a personal triumph and reason to celebrate!
A man was walking along the beach one day. Ahead he noticed another, older man picking up a starfish that had become stranded on the sand and throwing it back into the sea.
“Why do you bother?” the man asked him. “The beach goes on for miles and countless starfish get stranded every day. You can’t really make a difference.”
The old man looked at the starfish in his hand and then he threw it to safety among the waves. “I can make a difference to this one,” he replied.
Countless children feel stranded at school – for some Calder House can make a real difference.
10 March, 2022
The South West Grid for Learning returns to Calder House... with a film crew!
24 June, 2021
Calder House pupil faces the chop… to help children being treated for cancer!
1 June, 2021
93% of pupils achieve the top two grades!
30 November, 2020
Rufus helps to raise over £250 for Guide Dogs for the Blind by cooking up a cake sale.
Calder House School, Thickwood Lane, Colerne, Wiltshire SN14 8BN
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