All posts by Mrs McNulty

Community Partnership, Parental Engagement

Yipworld New Cumnock Family Group

September 11, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parents/carers, you are invited to attend a New Cumnock Family Group starting on Tuesday 19th September 2-4pm, ran by Yipworld.

The Family Group functions as 2 groups:

2-3pm, the group is for parents/carers to come along and engage with staff in informal chats which we will use to identify barriers and how we can support either in-house or with external resources (other agencies etc.)

3-4pm, parents/carers are encouraged to bring their kids along at the end of the school day. This is where the group turns to more family-based activities (or remains separate based on feedback from parents/carers who attend) and for games and activities.

We hope you can join us!

Whole school

IMPORTANT INFORMATION – Parking at school

September 11, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parking around our school has always been a huge issue for us. Being on a busy main road, we are often faced with parents/carers parking their cars on the pavements, creating a hazard for our children walking to and from school.

Yesterday morning, one of our pupils was injured by a car on his way to school. Therefore, we are forced to raise awareness of this dangerous issue again.

Parents/carers are not permitted to park in our school car park. Children walking to the playground via the front entrance should enter via the gates at the front of the school and walk round using the allocated pavements. At no point, should anyone be walking across the staff car park to enter or leave the school premises.

We ask for parents/carers to please use the various car park areas situated near our school such as, the local swimming pool or ground next to the Premier store and then walk your child to school using the pedestrian crossings. Under no circumstances should cars be mounted on pavements near the school. This is dangerous and obstructs the pavements for those children walking to and from school.

The health and safety of our children is of the upmost importance, therefore your support and cooperation with this very serious matter is greatly appreciated.

Parent Council, Parental Engagement, Whole school

Parent Council Meeting 12/9/23

September 6, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parent Council Meeting - Nov. 5 Agenda - Bedford Park Public School

Please join us for our Parent Council meeting on Tuesday 12th September at 6pm.

Enter via the main entrance.

All are welcome!

Whole school

We are a NUT FREE school!

September 6, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

People who suffer from nut allergies can develop a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction.

If someone has a nut allergy it is not just eating nuts that can cause a severe reaction, just being touched on the skin or smelling the breath of someone who has had nuts or a product containing nuts can trigger an allergic reaction which can cause breathing and swallowing difficulties.

Our school staff are trained to use Epi-pens (an injection of adrenalin) which are required immediately if this happens.

We cannot have nuts in school in any form, so please do not put any nut products in your child’s lunch box.

The following items must not be included in children’s packed lunches:

There are many other products that can present a risk, so please check the packaging of products closely.

We appreciate that this is an additional thing to check but we know that you recognise the importance of it.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to speak to a member of the Senior Leadership Team.

Community Partnership, Rights Respecting Schools, Whole school

RRS – Article 24 (Food Bank donations wanted)

September 5, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

This fortnight our Rights Respecting Article we are focusing on is ARTICLE 24- THE RIGHT TO CLEAN WATER, NUTRITIOUS FOOD AND GOOD HEALTH CARE. To support our learning about this article we are asking our families for donations for Ayrshire Food Bank. Please send donations in with your child before Friday 15th September, or drop donations into our front office.

Community Engagement, Whole school

We are a Trailblazing School!

September 4, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

The Trailblazers initiative developed by Ayrshire Roads Alliance has arrived in New Cumnock. Around the village you will see lampposts with signs that say 5 or 10. This indicates either a 5 or 10 minute walk to the school from that point.

We are encouraging anyone who doesn’t fully walk/ cycle or scoot to school (where possible) to park and stride from these points.

You can use a phone to scan the QR codes on these signs daily to answer road safety questions.

What’s the purpose? We want to encourage as many people to actively travel to school! This has lots benefits for health and well-being as well as for our planet.

Each day we will carry out a quick survey and record anyone who has actively travelled the whole way or from the designated points around the village. It would be very much appreciated if you can support this initiative as much as you possibly can!

Community Engagement, Community Partnership

Yipworld Youthie is back!

September 4, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Community Engagement, Community Partnership, Whole school

Fitfest New Cumnock

August 30, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parental Engagement, Whole school

Child Flu Vaccine

August 30, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

24 Aug 2023

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.

Click here to download the social media assets. You’ll be able to download these for Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, depending what social media platforms your school uses.
Click here to view the social media toolkit. You’ll see wording which can be posted alongside the asset on your chosen social media platform to announce when consent forms have been sent and encourage returns by your deadline.

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:

a briefing for teachers to support the delivery of the flu vaccine in your school and prepare pupils for it.
videos that can be shown to pupils before their vaccine (including our ‘it’s just a wee scoosh” video suitable for nursery and primary school aged children).
templates to emails and texts for you to use to communicate directly with parents/carers.

Please don’t forward this email on to parents or carers.

For more information visit www.nhsinform.scot/childflu

Your support is much appreciated.

Contact Information

PHS Vaccine comms

phs.vaccinecomms@phs.scot

Contact

For further information please contact Public Health Scotland’s Communications Team on 0131 275 6105 or email phs.comms@phs.scot

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Community Engagement, Community Partnership