Monthly Archives: August 2023
Child Flu Vaccine
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| Child Flu Vaccine | ||||||
| Flu can be serious. Even healthy children can become seriously ill with flu. That’s why the flu vaccine is offered to all preschool children aged 2 years or over and all primary and secondary school children in Scotland. | ||||||
| Getting your child vaccinated is the most effective way to reduce the risk of them getting flu and having to take time off nursery or school or spreading it to friends and family who are at greater risk this winter.
To help raise awareness of the child flu vaccine, Public Health Scotland has developed a social media toolkit with approved assets and captions for nurseries, primary and secondary schools, Health Boards and other stakeholders to share on your social media channels.
We hope you can share these assets on your social media channels and use the hashtag #ChildFluScot. There is also a range of resources on the Public Health Scotland website including:
Please don’t forward this email on to parents or carers. For more information visit www.nhsinform.scot/childflu Your support is much appreciated. |
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Contact Information
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Contact For further information please contact Public Health Scotland’s Communications Team on 0131 275 6105 or email phs.comms@phs.scot |
Community Classes
Community Classes start next week!
Everyone needs to sign-up through the links below 👇🏻
MONDAYS – 5-6pm
2018s
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/11BQFP/
Girls Football
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/QMWZTP/
P4-P7 Fun Football
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CM6JEQ/
TUESDAY-
Netball – P4-P7 – 6-7pm
https://forms.office.com/r/JQ2LZRjREV
WEDNESDAY – 6-7pm
Basketball – P4-P7
https://forms.office.com/r/Mg1A3nz5AS
FRIDAYS – 4:30-5:15/30
U5s Mini-kicker
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ZUWBZ7/
P1-P3 Mini-kickers
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/V6LHSK/
We are excited to welcoming everyone back!
Thanks,
Courtney Cartner
Active Schools Coordinator
Vibrant Communities
Young People Sport and Diversion Team
Safer Communities: Housing & Communities
Active Schools – Parent/carer volunteers needed!
Parents and carers we need you!
If you would be interested in volunteering specifically to deliver sporting activity within your young person’s school please fill in the survey attached to this link; https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ZUYGYC/
Childminding in East Ayrshire
The number of childminders in East Ayrshire has declined and East Ayrshire Council are holding free preregistration training for anyone interested in a career in childminding starting at the end of August.
School Meal Crunch Deal – beating the crunch with a school lunch
The Council is reducing the cost of a school meal for P6 and P7 pupils, who pay for their school meal, to £1.08. This special deal will run from August 2023 to June 2024. The same menu options will be available and our school meals will be freshly prepared each day, using quality ingredients from local suppliers.
Safer Schools Scotland App Workshop 28/8/23
We will be hosting a parent/carer information session to support our families with the use of our Safer School Scotland App.
A wee reminder to please join us on Monday 28th August from 3-4pm in the school gym hall. Entry will be via the Community Entrance.
Please bring your device with you and Mrs McNulty will be at hand to help you with how to navigate the new app and share it features.
Lost Property
We have now reached the end of our first week back at school and it has been wonderful to see so many children settled and happy to be back! A special shout out goes to our new P1s and new children who have started with us at the beginning of the session, they have been making such wonderful progress already, keep up the great work!
This week, however, we have accumulated a huge amount of lost property already, ranging from jackets and jumper to hoodies and packed lunches. Whilst our best efforts are made to try and get these back to their rightful owners, not all items we are finding have a name on them so we are gathering a huge amount of unidentifiable and unclaimed items.
We can’t stress enough about the importance of putting your child’s name on all items as it certainly helps us when items are left behind in classrooms, the dinner hall or the playground. We also ask that parents/carers are vigilant when checking the items their children return home with, and if they do not belong to your child, that you return these to school at the next given opportunity.
Fancy labels are not required, a simple name noted in pen on the label will do just grand!
Thank you for your support with this matter.
Breakfast Club 2023/24
We are absolutely delighted to inform our families that our Breakfast Club will be starting again from Monday 28th August!
Children are invited along to school to not only receive a nutritious breakfast, but they can socialise with their friends and take part in a range of activities before the start of the school day.
Breakfast Club will start at 8.15am and children are to enter via the door to the back of the gym hall (at the rear of the school car park). At 8.45am, children will be released into the school playground before coming into school with their classmates, all energised for the day ahead!
Places are limited so registration is necessary in order for your child to be added to the register. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. You will receive confirmation of your child’s place via phone call, so please ensure you provide us with a contact number. Please complete the contact form below to request a place for your child.
We are delighted to be able to offer this wonderful facility to our families free of charge, thanks to a Community Fund Grant awarded to us from the New Cumnock Development Trust. Thank you so much!
School Football Team
Gus Hart will start afterschool Football from Wednesday 6th September.
This will be held every Wednesday from 3-4pm in the school gym hall. Children will head straight down at the end of the day and can be collected from the door at the rear of the school park, at the end of the session. (Due to Gus’ work commitments, if training is cancelled, parents/carers will be notified via the school app.)
This is available to children from P5-7. The school football team will be made of children from P6 and P7, who will compete in games outside of school throughout the year.
If your child wishes to attend, please complete the contact form below.
