Please find below information received today from the Robert Burns Academy staff:

P7 Contact Information for The Robert Burns Academy

 By now you will hopefully have received a letter from The Robert Burns Academy with details of your child’s class, Depute Head and Guidance Teacher.

 We are aware of a small admin error with the contact details provided on this letter. If you have any enquires please use our new email address which is Robert.BurnsAcad@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

 The Cumnock Academy and Auchinleck Academy email inboxes are still being monitored over the summer for anyone who has already made contact this way.

 Our new school blog is now live and has been updated with videos for our new S1 from each department. It can be found at:

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

 We would encourage you to monitor our school blog for any further updates including transport arrangements. Our S1s will all be joining us at Cumnock Academy on Wednesday 12^th August, we will direct them to their allocated classrooms as they arrive at school and there will be plenty of staff on hand to assist with this. On their first day we will have a special programme of lessons prepared to answer any question they have about the arrangements in the school.

 

We are all using IT much more than before and it is essential that we stay safe online.

Below is a list of links that may be of use:

UK Safer Internet Centre

https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/advice-centre/young-people/resources-3-11s

Internet Matters Guides for parents

Internet-Matters-Guide-Online-safety-for-parents-of-children-0-5-years-old

Internet-Matters-Guide-Online-safety-for-parents-of-children-6-10-years-old

Internet-Matters-Guide-Online-safety-for-parents-of-children-11-13-years-old

CBeebies

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/grownups/article-internet-use-and-safety

NSPCC

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/talking-child-online-safety/

 

Following the recent events surrounding the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement, we thought it would be beneficial for the children to recap on some of the learning we covered at assemblies during Black History month in January. We covered topics during the whole month and recapped on topics that we had previously covered over the year that linked. At the bottom of the post is our usual ‘Family Discussion’ article.

Rosa Parks:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkj382/articles/zkhknrd

Martin Luther King

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Barack Obama

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Other resources:

Picture News Special Resource – Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter 2020 Resource – June 2020

Family Discussion:

Protests

 

 

All P7s will be receiving transition information directly from the Robert Burns Academy. They have been hard at work making transition videos and have posted them on their brand new blog site. Letters should be arriving from the academy with specific instructions about houses etc for the new session.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/therobertburnsacademy/2020/06/16/hello-world/

Please also follow their Twitter feed for all the latest information:

@EACBaronyCampus

All P7 parents should have received the letter below regarding transition for August:

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Previous transition letter:

P7-Transition-Letter

P7 would love it if you could all join them for a viewing of their Virtual Leaver’s Assembly. This will take place on Monday 22nd June at 10am. Further details will follow later on this week!

 

We would love to see photographs of the children with their certificates. Once they arrive through the post, please send us a photograph of yourself with your well-earned award.

 

Well done Sophie!

 

A very proud Brodie!

Well done Paighton!

Great job Madison!

A very proud Jamie with his certificate!

Well done Riley!

Well done Danny!

Well done Amelia!

Congratulations Logan!

Congratulations Harris!

Great effort, Mollie. Well done!

Well done Darcie!

Well done Sophie!

Well done John!

Well done Callan!

Well done Hunter! (first photo)

Well done John! (second photo)

Our Active Schools Co-ordinator is Barry Holmes. For more information on Barry & how to contact him, see his profile below!

Barry & his colleagues have some ideas for you to help you stay active during lockdown.

Click on the link below for some excellent activities.

Stay Active at Home – Sport, PA & Mindfulness

Please find below a letter regarding the Primary 7/S1 Transition to Robert Burns Academy.

A virtual transition is taking place on TEAMS tomorrow for all of our current Primary 7 pupils. The children will login to the P7/S1 transition TEAM (they are already members) and the secondary teachers from the Robert Burns Academy will join them and talk them through all of the really important parts of transition.

This is a really exciting time for Primary 7s but it can also be an anxious one too. We hope that this will allow the children to be better prepared and perhaps a bit more relaxed about moving on after the summer holidays.

P7 Transition Letter

 

 

Welcome to Move Up Week!

This week is virtual move up week for our new Primary 1s – Primary 7s.

New pages have been made on the blog to allow your child’s/children’s new teacher to introduce themselves and post some fun ‘getting-to-know-you’ activities. The pages all begin with 20.21.

Mrs McKinlay and Miss Morrison have kindly stepped in to help out with the P3/4 class (probationer to be allocated) and the P6 class (vacancy to be filled).

Primary 7 children have been contacted and will be receiving their own transition to secondary.