We use our Learning Journals as a way of reporting to parents throughout the year and we are wanting to make sure that every parent has the opportunity to access these.

Through observing the parental data on Learning Journals we are aware that not all parents are accessing this wonderful resource and we want to help everyone to do so, in order to keep you up to date with your child’s learning.

We are holding a drop in Parent Workshop on THURSDAY 19th JANUARY at 3pm in the gym hall. Childcare will be provided to allow parents to attend the drop in. Once you have collected your child at home time, please come to the Community Entrance.

Bring your questions and queries. We would love to help you!

If you would like to come along, please fill in the following form to let us know how many people are coming.

The Speech and Language Therapy team share top tips to help get wee people talking. As there are shared, we will share these as they are posted. They are excellent tips to help with improving speech and language in children.

We had lots of fun learning  BSL for the “Sing a Rainbow” song.  We wanted to share our fantastic efforts with everyone.

Our BSL sign of the fortnight is

• help you
• help me
• numbers 0-10

we encourage everyone to learn these signs.

We are on our journey to becoming a “Communication Friendly School.” Mrs Johnstone is our Communication Champion and she has her leadership group working along side her to develop this in our school.  We have lots to do to achieve this and need to cover aspects in 5 areas to be successful.

One way we want to become a Communication Friendly School is by introducing the use of British Sign Language (BSL) and encouraging everyone to use is appropriately. We will share our SIGN OF THE FORTNIGHT video which will show you how to do the signs.

This fortnight, we are introducing – thank you, well done and sorry.

Please complete the following form if you have ANY issues with using Learning Journals and we will do our best to resolve the issue for you.

Mrs Johnstone

***All parents who have provided an email address to be linked to their child’s learning journal have now been emailed with a link to create a password and PIN number.***

If you have yet to provide an email that you wish to link your child’s Learning Journal to please complete the form below and this will be actioned ASAP.  

Also adding  more parents/carers/family members to be able to view your child’s profile is an option that is available. If you wish others in your family to have this access, please complete the form and this will be actioned ASAP

Once added to the system, Learning Journals will then send you the link to get logged in.

For further information, please visit the Learning Journals website by clicking the link below.

https://learningjournals.co.uk/resources/parent-guide/?fbclid=IwAR1d3w5VoqsESgbT8cP6NkgP0BBAjx3vmOpWTNr-d-ok7yFbYKbTJg1AtrE 

The P4-7 Learning Journals are very basic at the moment and once the children are in school and classes are up and running these will develop.  More information as to how we as a school intend using the journals will be shared and drop in sessions for trouble shooting and helping with issues will be in place.  

We are delighted to have been able to get back to some sort of normality this week and invite a small number of parents into the school to celebrate successes with our children.  Although it was only a small percentage of children who could be presented with an award, EVERY single pupil, in our school, shine in their own way and we are proud of every one of them.

Primary 1 – Primary 3 Prize Giving

Primary 4 – Primary 6 Prize Giving

Primary 7  will be showcased in due course – their special Prize Giving day is tomorrow!

To get the photo of your child at prize giving. Please email Mrs Johnstone at:

claire.johnstone@eastayrshire.org.uk

please state your child’s name on the email and the photo will be forwarded ASAP. Thanks.