Good morning

More teachers have been creating a Microsoft Team for their class.

We now have teams for the whole school:

P1 – Miss Mair, P1/2 – Mrs Kilday, P2 – Mrs Bryson, P3 – Mrs Norman, P3/4 Miss McGrane, P4 – Mrs Burt, P4/5 – Mrs Walkinshaw and Mrs Scarisbrick, P5 – Miss Morrison, P6 – Miss Black, P6/7 – Miss Kirkcaldy and P7 – Miss Millar.

To access Microsoft Teams:

• Download the Teams app on your phone/tablet/computer (the Teams logo is below)
• Login with your Glow account details – the username for Teams is your Glow login username + @glow.sch.uk                                              e.g.  Ian Brown’s username would be:  gw17brownian@glow.sch.uk
• The password is the same one that you use for logging into Glow
• Your teacher will have added you to the ‘Team’
• You can start chatting to the others in your class or access some learning (if your teacher has put some on)

Here is the link to the new blog for the ECC:

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/mauchlineecc/

It’s brand new so you will have to give us a few weeks to get it fully up and running!

Both the school and the ECC Twitter feeds are now linked to both blogs.

As you know everyday in Mauchline Primary and ECC we celebrate ‘Pupil of the day’ and ‘Staff Member’ of the day. This celebrates the special and unique qualities that we all have and the special role we all play within our school community by giving the ‘Pupil of the day’ and ‘Staff Member’ ​person compliments.

This week we would like to relaunch this with ‘Community Members’ of the week. Today we will be celebrating our NHS workers. If you have a special person you would like to give a compliment to, or would just like to give a general compliment to NHS staff please post a message here on the Blog (click on ‘Leave a Comment’) or on today’s Head Teacher’s twitter message.

We are very aware that some of our children with Autism – whether an official diagnosis has been given or not – may well be struggling with the lack of routine at this unusual time.

We will be putting on some support strategies and resources over the coming weeks to assist during this difficult time.

Please remember that all tasks/activities placed on the blog are voluntary and only for guidance. If they don’t suit your child, please don’t become stressed. Stop – and be lead by your child’s interests and needs.

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A lot of the older classes – P4 and upwards – have now created Microsoft Teams pages.

To access the class team, the children need to download the Teams APP onto their device/phone and login using their Glow account.

This secure platform allows children and their teacher to interact with each other.

This week’s discussion topic includes Boris Johnson’s time in hospital and how he has seen first-hand the hard work of the NHS.

One of the follow-up activities is to reflect on your own experiences in hospital and also to get writing a letter to the NHS.

Anything we can do to thank our NHS staff is time well spent.

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In partnership with our friends at Barnardo’s we thought we would provide some practical tips around mental, emotional and social wellbeing for parents to support children, it will be sent weekly. One of the first things we have done is to create a one page document on the first of the 5 competencies of social and emotional learning: self-awareness. Many children, and adults, will be struggling to process their feelings at the moment, this document provides a few tips about dealing with our feelings. It is attached to this email. Our feelings can also be overwhelming so we have attached some brainstem calmer activities from Beacon House too.

Lots of us want to understand why we feel the way we feel about this situation, Suzanne Zeedyk did a great webinar on this which is summarised on the connected baby twitter account (link below).

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 Self-awareness tips: see attached

Self Awareness Poster – Barnardo’s SEL

Brainstem calmer activities: see attached

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Rainbow breathing (great use for all those rainbows in windows): see attached

Helping children cope: https://weneedtotalkaboutchildrensmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/tips-to-share-with-children-to-help-them-cope-with-the-new-normal/

Helping teenagers cope: https://weneedtotalkaboutchildrensmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/2and-getting-through-lockdown-together-with-teenagers/

Below is a link to a leaflet found on the Scottish Government’s Parentzone website. It gives some ideas for younger children learning some maths skills at home:

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The link to the Parent Zone maths page is below:

https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/learning-at-home/supporting-numeracy/introduction-to-supporting-numeracy/

Monday 20th April

A very good morning to the pupils, parents and carers of Mauchline PS & ECC. We hope you have had a relaxing and safe Easter holiday.

The staff are all preparing some activities for everyone and will be posting in the class pages of the blog. Keep checking over the course of the day/week for updates..

If you are already using Microsoft Teams, your teacher will also be using this platform as a means of communication. Please also login to Office 365 to check if you have any tasks to complete.

We can do this together!!

CEOP site for online child protection

This site has resources for ages 4-7. Jessie and Friends and keeping your under 5s safe online are free as are many others on this fabulous website.

Internet matters is another excellent resource particularly for keeping parents and carers up to date with what sites are popular with children and young people and what they can do on these sites, again a free resource.