{"id":11663,"date":"2023-11-01T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2023-11-01T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:29:45","slug":"school-closure-8th-november-letter-from-the-director-of-skills-education-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/2023\/11\/01\/school-closure-8th-november-letter-from-the-director-of-skills-education-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"School Closure 8th November: letter from the Director of Skills, Education and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please note that by now you should have received the following information directly from Dumfries and Galloway Council regarding school closure on Wednesday 8 November 2023. The teachers will advise as to home learning next week.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Parent\/Carer,<\/p>\n<p>Strike action is due to take place on Wednesday 8 November. The decision has been made to close all our schools and Early Learning Centre (ELC) settings on the strike day \u2013 Wednesday 8 November.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and carers whose children are entitled to free school meals via qualifying benefits will have a cash payment made to their bank accounts in due course.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate the inconvenience associated with this information, but please be assured that this information is coming to you as a parent\/carer in as timely a manner as is practically possible.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Gillian Brydson<br \/>\nDirector Skills, Education &amp; Learning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note that by now you should have received the following information directly from Dumfries and Galloway Council regarding school closure on Wednesday 8 November 2023. The teachers will advise as to home learning next week. Dear Parent\/Carer, Strike action &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/2023\/11\/01\/school-closure-8th-november-letter-from-the-director-of-skills-education-and-learning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11664,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11663\/revisions\/11664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/CalsideCourier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}