{"id":997,"date":"2021-12-13T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/?p=997"},"modified":"2021-12-13T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T14:12:12","slug":"newsletter-w-c-13-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/2021\/12\/13\/newsletter-w-c-13-12-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter w\/c 13.12.2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Families and Friends of Crossmichael and Gelston Primary Schools,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Covid-19 Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The First Minister made an announcement on 10<sup>th<\/sup> December regarding the new Omicron variant of Covid.\u00a0 The briefing can be read in full here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/coronavirus-covid-19-update-first-ministers-speech-10-december-2021\/\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/coronavirus-covid-19-update-first-ministers-speech-10-december-2021\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The key message is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you or a member of your household is symptomatic then ALL members of the household should isolate\u00a0and book PCR tests.\u00a0If one member of your household has a positive PCR result then ALL members need to isolate for\u00a010 days\u00a0regardless of whether they are already double vaccinated\u00a0or not.\u00a0<\/strong><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>December Diary Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Month of December<\/strong> &#8211; Pupils may come to school wearing school uniform or Christmas jumpers \/ Christmas tops\/ Christmas dresses as they wish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 17th December &#8211; <\/strong>P1-3 Christmas Party.\u00a0 Pupils may come to school dressed in party clothes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 20th December &#8211; <\/strong>P4-7 Christmas Party.\u00a0 Pupils may come to school dressed in party clothes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 15th December &#8211; <\/strong>School Christmas Dinner Day.\u00a0 Pupils may come to school dressed in a Christmas jumper, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 23rd December &#8211; Thursday 6th<\/strong> <strong>January<\/strong> &#8211; School Holidays for pupils.\u00a0 Staff return on Wednesday 5th January and pupils return on Friday 7th January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Crossmichael Primary School Parent Council Facebook Page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our Parent Council now has its own Facebook page!\u00a0 This is a closed group so that privacy can be maintained. The office bearers of the Parent Council will be invited as administrators of the group.<\/p>\n<p>If a parent wishes to join the group then they should request to befriend &#8216;Headteacher Crossmichael- Gelston&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have a Parent Council page on the school website and we update the minutes of meetings on the associated blog.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to our school website page:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/crossmichael-parent-council\/?fbclid=IwAR3tXKTy-JyQg41NycNc1eMJ2wKBaO5jcczTCtOVdpwknucGK8R50y5MmH4\">https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/crossmichael-parent-council\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We hope that you find this page useful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Mary Cruickshanks<\/p>\n<p>Headteacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dear Families and Friends of Crossmichael and Gelston Primary Schools, &nbsp; Covid-19 Updates The First Minister made an announcement on 10th December regarding the new Omicron variant of Covid.\u00a0 The briefing can be read in full here: \u00a0 https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/coronavirus-covid-19-update-first-ministers-speech-10-december-2021\/ \u00a0 The key message is: If you or a member of your household is symptomatic [&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-997","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\/997","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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/crossmichael\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}