Our leadership group have been recapping the various signs that are useful to learn. We have created a short video to share these with you again and refresh your memory. We hope you can use them and support with communication with others.

We are delighted, at New Cumnock Primary School, to be officially presented with our Communication Friendly Schools status.

Hayley from the Speech and Language Team came to our school Get Together to present our plaque to members of our Communication Friendly Schools Pupil Leadership Team.

Jorja and Paige were delighted to accept it on behalf of the school. We have worked hard as a school over the past 2 years to achieve this status and we are so proud.

We are participating in ‘No Pens Day’ on Wednesday 29th November to raise awareness of the importance of communication skills in our school.

This national day is set to help improve children and young people’s communication skills through a day of talking and listening activities – starting with the biggest ever show and tell!

Why is your child’s school taking part in No Pens Day 2023: Show and tell?
• Teachers estimate that, in the UK today, 1.9 million children struggle with talking and understanding words. Without the right support, they face huge hurdles in learning, making friends and staying in good mental health.
• It’s a chance for your child to improve their speech, language and communication skills through a day of talking and listening activities – starting with the biggest ever show and tell!

Show and tell focus – MY HOBBY – please encourage your child to bring an object to help them share about their hobby with the class.  This could be – a pair of dancing shoes, a karate belt, a colouring book, a reading book…. please do not send anything of extreme value and no need for lots of items – only 1 item to help them share their hobby with their friends.

We will also be encouraging British Sign Language practise throughout the day too as a way of communicating.

We are not asking for money directly but if any parent would like to support this charity, all money raised will go to Speech and Language UK – a charity that supports children who struggle with talking and understanding words.

Follow the following link or scan the QR code to access the site if you wish to donate.

https://donate.speechandlanguage.org.uk/NPD23/~my-donation 

Thank

Any questions, don’t hesitate to ask, Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Johnstone

Communication Friendly Schools Champion.

As we start our new session 2023-2024 we will be continuing with reporting to parents using the Learning Journals approach.

we want to ensure all parents have access as this will update you weekly as to learning taking place in class.

Already signed up

If you have already signed up to Learning Journals but are unable to remember your password, please complete the form below and in a few days you will receive an email with password reset instructions.

Not already signed up / adding more people to view pupil profiles

If you haven’t signed up please complete the form below and in a few days you will receive an email with instructions to set up a profile.

More than one person can be linked to children’s profiles (grandparents etc…)  and if you wish this, please complete this form too with their email address and this will be set up too.

Thank You.

We would appreciate parents/carers of Primary 1 and Primary 1/2 would complete the following questionnaire to help us with your views on the Play Approaches used in the classroom.

Thank you, your support is valued.

Here are some top tips and activities to support with the development of Speech and Language that have been shared by the SLT towards the end of March and throughout the Easter break.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) team if you have any concerns, queries or issues with regards your child’s speech and language.

So far, we have shared the following signs with you – see previous posts:

• thank you
• sorry
• well done
• help you
• help me
• numbers 0-10
• 5 vowels

The new signs for this week are the alphabet finger spelling signs – this is a fundamental sign in BSL and if you know the finger spelling then you can communicate at a simple level with a deaf person through spelling out the words.

also we have added a video to share the days of the week signs too.

We have a very close link with the Speech and Language Therapy (SLT)service here at the School and they share top tips on their social media platforms.  I will highlight these as a when appropriate.

If you have ANY concerns regarding your child’s speech and language, please do not hesitate to contact the team – see contact details below: –

Please see below the top tips recently shared by the SLT recently – please make use of these if appropriate for your child.

Our sign of the fortnight is the sign for the 5 vowels. See the video demonstration for this.