{"id":1017,"date":"2022-03-21T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2022-03-21T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:07:34","slug":"newsletter-w-c-21-03-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/2022\/03\/21\/newsletter-w-c-21-03-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; w\/c 21.03.2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families and Friends of Crossmichael and Gelston Primary Schools,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is so lovely to see signs of Spring and to feel the sunshine at last!\u00a0 In the last few weeks of term we are preparing for our Easter assembly and looking forward to the better weather.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1018\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/crossmichael\/uploads\/sites\/7652\/2022\/03\/21102812\/IMG_20220313_132620-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1019\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/crossmichael\/uploads\/sites\/7652\/2022\/03\/21102815\/IMG_20220312_171725-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Covid-19 Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase in Covid-19 cases across our schools with Gelston being significantly impacted this week.\u00a0 \u00a0If your child is feeling well enough to work from home then remember that some work will be available on closed class Facebook pages.<\/p>\n<p>Pupils\u00a0 can access their SumDog accounts to practise maths and numeracy.\u00a0 There are many useful materials on websites such as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topmarks.co.uk\/\"> Topmarks<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\"> BBC,\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/MrTsPhonics\/videos\">Phonics<\/a>,\u00a0 etc.<\/p>\n<p>We also have access to Numeracy Launch Pads.\u00a0 Here is an example of a home learning grid for Early level (P1):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1020 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/crossmichael\/uploads\/sites\/7652\/2022\/03\/21115620\/NLP-1-e1647863873923-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on the QR code and it will take you and your child to an interactive lesson.\u00a0 We have these for all stages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates for your Diary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 30th March &#8211; Cross Country Festival for P5-7 pupils<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 31st March &#8211; Crossmichael Easter Assembly for pupils<\/p>\n<p>Friday 1st April &#8211; Gelston Easter Assembly for pupils<\/p>\n<p>Monday 4th April &#8211; Monday 18th April &#8211; Spring Holiday.\u00a0 (Pupils and staff return on Tuesday 19th April.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Mary Cruickshanks<\/p>\n<p>Headteacher<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Families and Friends of Crossmichael and Gelston Primary Schools, &nbsp; It is so lovely to see signs of Spring and to feel the sunshine at last!\u00a0 In the last few weeks of term we are preparing for our Easter assembly and looking forward to the better weather. &nbsp; Covid-19 Updates There has been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}