You will be aware that there has been an increase in the amount of Covid-19 cases reported in our local area.\u00a0 Please continue to complete regular lateral flow tests and if you or a member of your household becomes symptomatic then stay at home and book a PCR test.\u00a0 (Your child may attend school if their PCR test is negative even if another member of your household receives a positive test.)<\/p>\n
If you or your child experiences any of the following three symptoms then stay at home, book a PCR test and wait for a negative result before returning to school.<\/p>\n
Symptom 1 –\u00a0 a new or continuous cough<\/p>\n
Symptom 2 –\u00a0 a fever\/ high temperature<\/p>\n
Symptom 3 –\u00a0 a loss of sense of taste or smell<\/p>\n
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Staffing Across Our Partnership Schools<\/strong><\/p>\n Congratulations to Mrs Marscheider who is our new Acting Principal Teacher (Mon-Thurs) at Gelston Primary School.\u00a0 Letters have been sent home to explain arrangements in more detail.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Remembrance\u00a0 Day – 11th November 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n Pupils at both schools will be marking Remembrance Day by observing a two minute silence and learning about the significance of the day.<\/p>\n At Crossmichael, Mrs Henry will attend to play the Last Post.<\/p>\n Mr Cooper from Gelston Community Council has provided Gelston pupils with a wreath to lay on the war memorial in Gelston village.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Active Schools Input at Gelston Primary<\/strong><\/p>\n At Gelston,\u00a0 Active Schools are providing a block of Gymnastics lessons with P1-3 each Friday.\u00a0 They are also running a lunch club for all ages to participate in.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Limitless Kids Club<\/strong><\/p>\n A free after school club for P5-7 pupils is being held each Wednesday from 4-5pm at the Hub Youth Centre, Blackpark Road, Castle Douglas.\u00a0 Here is a copy of the flier:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n School Photographs – Tempest Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n At Gelston, pupils had their photographs taken last week.\u00a0 We hope you were pleased with them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At Crossmichael, our Parent Council requested that we have school photographs taken which is now possible as we can have volunteers in school.\u00a0 Therefore, we have booked Tempest Photography to take individual and family photographs on Tuesday 7th December.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dates for <\/strong>Your Diary\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n We are currently setting dates for school Christmas dinner and Christmas parties.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Christmas Holidays begin on Thursday 23rd December.\u00a0 Staff return on Wednesday 5th January and pupils return on Friday 7th January.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Best wishes,<\/p>\n Mary Cruickshanks<\/p>\n Headteacher<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Families and Friends of Crossmichael and Gelston Primary Schools, Covid-19 Update You will be aware that there has been an increase in the amount of Covid-19 cases reported in our local area.\u00a0 Please continue to complete regular lateral flow tests and if you or a member of your household becomes symptomatic then stay […]<\/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-984","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\/984","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=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/public\/crossmichael\/uploads\/sites\/7652\/2021\/11\/09113613\/1-150x150.jpg\")
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