{"id":470,"date":"2020-03-16T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/?p=470"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T14:12:32","slug":"newsletter-monday-16th-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/2020\/03\/16\/newsletter-monday-16th-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter &#8211; Monday 16th March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Coronavirus (Covid 19) and School Measures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We all need to take precautions to protect ourselves against Coronavirus (Covid 19). \u00a0I have been trying to take a &#8216;common sense&#8217; approach and follow D&amp;G advice.\u00a0 Please can I remind you that if you or your children have a cough or fever then you should be taking NHS advice and self-isolating for seven days.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have decided to cancel all gatherings between now and Easter. The following gatherings have been cancelled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lockerbie Manor Information Evening (for current P5s and P6s) tonight<\/li>\n<li>Parents\u2019 Evening on Wednesday 18<sup>th<\/sup> March<\/li>\n<li>School Shows<\/li>\n<li>Easter Services<\/li>\n<li>School assemblies<\/li>\n<li>After school activities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are now limiting visitors in school and ask that all parents <em>do not enter the school building unless it is an emergency<\/em>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this includes our valuable parental helpers too.\u00a0 (We have removed the \u2018sign in\u2019 book and Clerical staff will sign essential visitors in to school instead.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other measures that we are taking include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We continue to remind everyone to wash hands thoroughly for 20 seconds when entering the building and before eating\/ drinking in addition to after using the toilet.<\/li>\n<li>Limiting the times that pupils gather together by having staggered lunches and no longer having weekly assemblies.<\/li>\n<li>After schools clubs are cancelled from today.<\/li>\n<li>I have contacted the Local Authority for clarification about the Galloway Activity Centre P6\/7 trip planned for 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><em><strong>All sporting events out with school including P4 swimming tomorrow are cancelled.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li>We are propping open internal doors (risk assessed against fire safety regulations) to minimise the amount of times people touch them.<\/li>\n<li>We will wipe down surfaces, computers and door handles with anti-bacterial wipes at regular intervals throughout the day.<\/li>\n<li>We will not be providing play dough, water play or sand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know that this is an uncertain time for us all but at the heart of all of this are our children.\u00a0 We need to keep them safe and reduce their worries.\u00a0 We will do whatever we can to support each other over the next few weeks.\u00a0 As always, please do not hesitate to get in touch if you wish to discuss anything further.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On an upbeat note\u2026 WE HAVE TONS OF TOILET ROLLS!!! If all else fails we could sell it and make a profit for the schools!\u00a0 \u00a0Our new Enterprise project?!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KEEP SMILING!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary\u00a0Lidstone-Scott<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Headteacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus (Covid 19) and School Measures We all need to take precautions to protect ourselves against Coronavirus (Covid 19). \u00a0I have been trying to take a &#8216;common sense&#8217; approach and follow D&amp;G advice.\u00a0 Please can I remind you that if you or your children have a cough or fever then you should be taking NHS [&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-470","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\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}