Mental Health Awareness Week takes place this year from 9th – 15th May. The theme for 2022 is loneliness, its effect on our mental health and how we can play a part in reducing loneliness in our community.

Children will be taking part in a variety of activities over the week to explore this theme and learning will be shared via Twitter.

Please see attachment below for more information and support.

Loneliness Guide for Parents and Caregivers

Please find below information for Parent/Carers and children about The Exchange service within East Ayrshire.

The Exchange Primary information for parents & carers

The Exchange Primary information for children

Is your child a keen skier? Would they like to take part in the Ayrshire Schools Snowboard Championship?

Values Logo Competition

The Pupil Council have been busy organising a whole school values logo competition. We had lots of entries and they were all super, so choosing 4 winners was a difficult task. We are delighted to share that that the following pupil designs were chosen and will now be logos for each of our four values.

Teamwork – Eilidh Ward (P4)

Responsibility – Grayson McRoberts (P4)

Respect – Freya Collins (P6)

Determination – Boyd McRoberts (P7)

Their wonderful designs have been made into digital images and we are delighted with the results.

We would like to pilot a new Parent Meeting Booking System. This would make organising Parents’ Evenings faster and easier, enabling you to select a specific slot. This would be done through the ConnectUs Parent Meeting Service. We already use ConnectUs as they provide us with our School App.

To help us move forward with piloting this service, we require your permission for your personal data to be shared with ConnectUs. This will include your name and email address only.

We feel that this service will provide the school and our parents with a simplistic and easy to use service which will make the booking of parents’ evening appointment more effective. It will also help us on our journey in becoming a paperless school.

If you would like more information about ConnectUs and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please click on the link below.

www.connectustech.com/connectus-and-gdpr/

Please complete the Form below to give permission for ConnectUs to hold your personal data which includes your name and email address. Please note that if you have more than one child at our school, you only need to complete the Form once.

Please click here to complete the Form

Lost Property – please get in touch if this jacket belongs to your child.  Thank you.

Please find below the Parent Council Minutes for the AGM and the meeting dated 09.11.21. You will also find these in the Parent Council menu of our Blog.

AGM Minutes 2021

PC Minutes 09.11.21

Our next Parent Council meeting is on 1 February 2022 at 7.30pm. This will be an on-line meeting via Teams.

The following information has been received from our National Parent Forum representative.

Please follow the link below if you would like to join this free event.

Another thank you!  We raised the sum of £121.27 for this very worthy cause.  Your continued support is again much appreciated.

New National Entitlement Card – Parents Communication

This will be available from Wednesdsay 12 January 2022. Please click on the above heading to open up the letter on how to register for this.

Thank you.

We are delighted to let you know that we raised the sum of £408 at the Virtual MacMillan Coffee Morning!  Thank you everyone.

We have been asked to pass the following information from Stewarton Academy on to you.

Dear Parent/Carer

As you will know, your child is due to transfer from primary to secondary education at the beginning of the new school session (August 2022).

Please complete the online P7 transfer application at http://eastayrshi.re/p7transfer no later than Wednesday 26 January 2022.

Your secondary school will already be in communication with your child via primary school to provide information and hand books are available at: www.eac.eu/secondaryschoolhandbooks.

We very much hope that visits and events may be possible later in the year to allow you and your child to visit their new school.

Many thanks.

We are super excited to share our Nativity with you.

Please find below the link. We kindly ask that you do not share this. The Nativity will be available to watch until the week after Christmas and then it will be deleted from YouTube. It is a private link so only people with the link will be able to access it.

We hope you enjoy it!

https://youtu.be/G8NfgTnt52Q

We are delighted to share that we have made a donation of £1000 to Cash for Kids.  This money was raised by you during our Cash for Kids School Challenge.  This will help make a difference to young people’s lives this Christmas. A big thank you to everyone!

As part of our Rights Respecting Schools work, every class has worked together to create a Class Charter. Each Charter shares the agreement made on shared values and relationships for a Rights Respecting classroom which is based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

The Class Charters are very creative and we are delighted to share a video of them below.

What better way to celebrate the countdown to Christmas than giving back to the local community! 

Nether Robertland will be running a Reverse Advent Calendar between 1st December – 17th December. The Rights Respecting Schools’ group came up with a general theme for each week and suggested items that can be donated each day as shown in the calendar. All donations will be given to East Ayrshire Foodbank. If you can donate anything, please send these in with your child to be collected in class. Please do not donate any perishable items. Thank you for all your support. 

Thank you very much to everyone who completed the Inclusive Practice Questionnaire. Your views are welcomed and valued.

Here is some of the data gathered along with the following:

• What is working well
• What things could be improved?

What is working well

• Almost all of you felt your child enjoys being at school and is well supported
• Staff are approachable and friendly
• Most parents/carers know who to contact if they have concerns
• All parents/carers agree that bullying is not an issue at our school

How things could be improved?

Communication

• P1 and P2 classes have their own Blog and this will be used to communicate class news and homework
• All pupils in P3 to P7 use Teams and this will be used to communicate class news and homework
• We are introducing a new whole school Blog which will include a range of whole school information
• Within the Blog, there will be a page with photos of our staff team
• Twitter is used regularly to share successes and class learning
• You can make contact with the school at any point by calling the main office or emailing the school mailbox on: eanetherrobertland.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk
• We have evaluated the use of the app and made adaptations
  • Dates section updated regularly
  • News section linked to Twitter and will now include our new Blog
  • Information section decluttered – Only contains vital information needed and this includes a link to the school email

Inclusive Practice

• There will be an Inclusive Practice page on the Blog which will contain information about what Inclusive Practice is, what it looks like and how we are promoting this in our school

Concerns

• Mrs Lindsay is our Additional Support Needs (ASN) Coordinator. If your child has an ASN or if you have concerns regarding your child’s learning, please do not hesitate to contact her. You can call in to the school or you can email her on: debbie.lindsay@eastayrshire.org.uk

Thank you for your continued support

Jackie Shaw

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