Preparing snack
Childsmile Taking care of our teeth
Snow fun
The fruit and veg in our polytunnel are doing well
Meet our new team in the kitchen
Free period products
Free Period Products for Argyll and Bute pupils: ensuring no-one goes without
Argyll and Bute Education Services are committed to ensuring that none of our pupils have to go without access to free period products during the Covid-19 crisis when the usual availability in schools is restricted and when it is more difficult, and indeed expensive, to get products from shops.
Many schools distributed period products from their stocks to pupils before they closed. However, as the current Covid-19 Government restrictions continue, we want to ensure that our pupils’ wellbeing needs continue to be met.
For this reason we have made an arrangement with Hey Girls, one of Scotland’s main providers of period products, that enables you to order from a range of products using a survey monkey link that simply requests your chosen package, school and your delivery name and address.
To order your products please click here: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ZDQC8JT. You can then click the packs you need (and it’s ok to order more than one type), enter your details and click ‘done’ at the bottom of the page. Hey Girls will then process your order and post it to the address that you have given. The link will be refreshed at regular intervals to ensure that you can make repeat orders.
As this system is just getting started and given the current delay in some postal service deliveries, please allow up to two weeks for your delivery to me made, although Hey Girls would hope to reduce this in time.
This Hey Girls order form link will also be sent out to parents and carers via text and email. To avoid multiple orders at the same time from the same family, and to ensure that you get what you need , we would be grateful if children and parents/carers could consult with each other before ordering.
Please note that these products are free and are available to children and young people in Argyll and Bute schools from P6 to S6. While the closure of schools continues, you can place an order whenever you need it.
We will continue to monitor the success of this system and will review it when restrictions are lifted and when the crisis is over.
If you need any more information on this system or wish to make any comments please contact Cathy Cameron at catherine.cameron2@argyll-bute.gov.uk.
Road Safety
This week P5/4 managed their weekly road safety walk, between showers! The leaders Emma and Grace completed a risk assessment and led the class around the village, safely crossing the main road. Leadership skills, life skills, responsibility and personal safety. A wee blast of fresh air and exercise too.
I am safe
This week the children in the ELC are learning how to keep themselves safe.
They have made little stick puppets to take home so that they can explore different ways of staying safe together.
SHANARRI Superheroes
8 children from across the school spent the day working with Mr Elkerton to bring their SHANARRI superheroes to life.
The children from the ELC are going to get to know the superheroes after the holidays when they investigate lots of different ways to keep themselves safe and well. Stay tuned for updates as they happen.
Snow fun for P1
Primary 1/2 had great fun out in the snow, making snowmen, throwing snowballs and sliding down the hill. When they came back in they wrote all about the fun things they did.
