Category Archives: Parental Engagement

Parental Engagement, Parental involvement, Whole school

Parent Focus Group – Attendance

November 28, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

As part of our continued School Improvement, we are focusing on school attendance – the benefits of good attendance for our learners, the barriers they may face and how we can work together to support our families and improve this.

In order to do this, we are seeking the involvement of our parents/carers. If you would be keen to be part of this Focus Group to explore, improve and promote this area of school improvement, please complete the Form below and Mrs McNulty will be in touch with you soon to arrange a meeting.

Parental Engagement, Whole school

After School Clubs

October 2, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

To help us provide After School Clubs which our children and families would enjoy the most, please complete this questionnaire to share your views.

Parental Engagement, Whole school

School App Calendar

September 29, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parents/carers,

We have been working hard to continue to improve our communications. Our Safer Schools Scotland App is our main means of communication about important information, such as events. In order to ensure our families have information about school events at their fingertips, we have generated a school online calendar which can be accessed through the Calendar page within the app. Follow the instructions below to access the calendar.

Open the Safer Schools Scotland App. You must ensure you have entered the school PIN code to be able to access NCPS notifications. Please contact the school office if you require this PIN.

Swipe across the homepage tiles until you find the Calendar tile.

You will now be able to click to view which events are being held throughout the school each day.

We will continue to update this throughout the session as events arise. We aim to give our families as much notice as possible.

We hope you find this feature useful. If you have any questions or queries about it, please ring the main office or contact Mrs McNulty via email. (danielle.mcnulty@eastayrshire.org.uk)

Clean Green Schools, Parental Engagement, Whole school

Road Safety Surveys

June 19, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

A huge thank you to all of you who completed our Parent Council Road Safety surveys.

Your views and comments are extremely important and will be collated to support us as we move forward in addressing the road safety concerns around our school.

Our Clean Green Transport Team gathered all the completed forms and input them to a random generator to select the winner of the £30 Aldi voucher. And the winner is…

Iniya P (P3/4)

A huge thank you to Ian McMeekin for spearheading this campaign.

The Parent Council and Clean Green Transport Team will be taking their concerns and views of our parent body to a Community Council meeting next week. Stay tuned on our progress with this.

Health and Wellbeing, Parental Engagement, Whole school

RSHP – Parent/Carer Questionnaire 2024

June 10, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Please complete to give Mrs McNulty some insight into our Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood development this session.

Please complete by Wednesday 12th June (It should take no longer than 5 mins to complete)

Parent Council, Parental Engagement, Whole school

Parent Council Road Safety Survey

May 24, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

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Our Clean Green ‘Transport’ Team are working together with our Parent Council to gather the views of our families about local road safety concerns.

Your child will come home with the survey in their school bag today. We would be very grateful if you could complete and return this. All completed surveys returned by Wednesday 5th June will be put into a draw to win a £30 Scotmid voucher.

Your participation will play a vital role in our effort to make our local community safer for everyone.

Health and Wellbeing, Parental Engagement, Whole school

RSHP Parent Workshop 22/4/24

April 19, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parents/carers,

Prior to the holiday, we shared with you via the app and school blog that in Term 4, we will be delivering Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenting (RSHP), as part of our Health and Wellbeing curriculum, across all stages of the school.

In line with East Ayrshire guidance, we contacted you to inform you of this.

The programme of study is generated in accordance with National guidelines. The contents of which, form a key element of personal, social and health education in our school and is an important part of children’s preparations for adult life.

Parental guidance letters can be found on the original post or within the Curriculum – Health and Wellbeing – RSHP tab on our school blog.

I write to invite you attend a Parent Workshop session where we can discuss the content of this curricular area at each stage and share with you the resources our staff will be using to support its delivery.

This will be held on Monday 22nd April 4-5pm.

I hope you can make it. Should you be unable to attend and would like to meet to discuss at another point, please contact me via email to let me know. danielle.mcnulty@eastayrshire.org.uk

Kind regards,

Mrs McNulty

Parental Engagement, Respect Me, Whole school

New Cumnock Primary School’s Anti-Bullying ‘respectme’ Scottish Government Initiative

March 27, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

If you remember, we posted a parental questionnaire at the beginning of our ‘respectme’ journey last year, and now we are asking for this to be done again as we need to measure impact and change based on responses across the whole school community. The questionnaires are not lengthy and shouldn’t take long to complete – so PLEASE could you spare five minutes for this, as we need this data to apply for the ‘respectme’ school award. We really appreciate your help and support.

We will have a stand/workshop at Parent’s afternoon/evening that will be supervised by our parent group members and prefects. They will be there to share the good work that has been going on in school to promote this initiative and to answer any questions you may have. They will have fliers for the website and media channels, which contain a wealth of excellent resources. As well as this, there will be iPads available should you wish to complete the questionnaire after familiarising yourselves with what we’ve been working on as a whole school community.

As well as the questionnaire, we have posted below, our ‘respectme’ policy statement for New Cumnock Primary School. This will be available to all staff, children, parents/carers and visitors to the school.

We appreciate your time and support – many thanks,

Miss McQueen

Mrs Armour

PARENTAL/CARER Questionnaire:

Health and Wellbeing, Parental Engagement, Whole school

RSHP Parent/Carer Information

March 27, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parents/carers,

In Term 4, we will be delivering Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenting, as part of our Health and Wellbeing curriculum, across all stages of the school.

In line with East Ayrshire guidance, we are contacting you to inform you of this.

The age and stage of our young people is taken into account in the delivery of RSHP. The content and vocabulary of which is outlined in the parents letters attached below.

Primary 1:

Early Level Parental letter updated April 2021

Primary 2-4:

First Level Parental letter updated April 2021

Primary 5-7:

Second Level Parental letter updated April 2021

You, as parent/carer, are your child’s first and most important teacher. With your child at school there is the opportunity for parents/carers and schools to work together to help your child to learn. In the links below, there are examples of how you might support their learning. There are also some ideas from parents who have been asked about what they do to support their child’s learning. Click on the links below to find out more.

Learning-at-Home-Second-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers (rshp.scot)

RSHP-Learning-at-Home-First-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers (1)

Learning at Home (Early Level information for parents and carers) (rshp.scot)

We are keen to seek your views on the delivery of this curricular area. Please click on the link below to complete our Form questionnaire, this should take no longer than 5 mins.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKYWquo1CyFFPrpYz8wk8wYNUQlZMSE8zRjM4UEk0SVFKQ1FUSTNQUUZSUC4u

Clean Green Schools, Parental Engagement, Whole school

Earth Hour 2024

March 22, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Today, our Accreditation Rich Tasks groups participated in Windy’s Earth Hour by getting outside and enjoying lots of screen free fun together!

We felt it was important that everyone got involved, in order to spread the Earth Hour message, not just our Clean Green Team. It was great to see so many children having fun outside with not a piece of technology to be found!

(Apart from Mrs McNulty’s phone making an appearance to capture the proof! Ha!)

The official Earth Hour is tomorrow, Saturday 23rd March at 8.30pm.

We ask that for 1 hour tomorrow evening, our families take time to switch off and dedicate an hour to help bring our world back to life. You can do this in any way you like, by spending 60 minutes doing something positive for our planet. Need inspiration? Click on the link below to view some ideas.

Give an Hour for Earth | Earth Hour

If you choose to take part, please evidence what you choose to do and upload it as a Parental Contribution to your child’s Learning Journal. We will showcase these entries at Monday’s Get Together and award house points to all our participants.

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