Category Archives: Parental Engagement
New Cumnock Strong Connections – Family Group
Parent’s Group Cooking Session 31/5/23
Next week, our Parent’s Group are going to be cooking using a recipe from the The Clean Green Eco Cook Book.
This book has been developed by the Clean Green East Ayrshire team and is full of affordable, cleaner, greener recipes for cooks of all abilities. We have included a digital copy below if you wish to have a look for yourself!
Our Clean Green Team are keen to promote the use of this cookbook to our families. If you would like hard copy of this book, please email Mrs McNulty at danielle.mcnulty@eastayrshire.org.uk and she will arrange one to be sent home to you.
If you would like to join us in a cooking session on Wednesday 31st May 9.15am, please complete the contact form below to register.
Parent feedback on our Communication
It is important to us that our parents/carers have opportunities to be kept informed about their child’s progress and learning.
We are aware that you want more regular communication regarding school life and events, opportunities to learn together and advice to support their child’s learning.
Please complete the contact form below to share your thoughts on this.
Parent/carers, we need your feedback!
Please click on the link below and complete the short Form which will support us in planning further school improvement.
Kind regards,
Mrs McNulty
Parent Council AGM 18/5/23
We would like to welcome the wider parent body to our Parent Council AGM which wil be held in the school this Thursday 18th May 6-7pm. If you know of any ECC parents who will have children starting in Primary 1 next year, please let them know about this.
We hope you are able to join us and help us to work together to benefit the lives and learning of our young people!
Breakfast Club – Pupil Questionnaire
We are extremely grateful to the New Cumnock Development Trust for their funding to enable us to provide our Breakfast Club free of charge to our families.
We want to know how its supporting our children and any changes they may wish to see.
If your child attends Breakfast Club, please encourage them to complete this short questionnaire. Their views are extremely important to us.
Photographic Consent
Please complete the attached form for photographic consent during this session.
As we are keen to progress with the use of Learning Journals and the school Glow Blog to report to parents/carers, it would be greatly appreciated if this could be completed ASAP.
Many thanks.
‘New Cumnock PS’-EAC Photographic Consent for Children and Young People 2022/2023 (office.com)
Free pre-registration training for childminders
Best Start Grant
The deadline for families to apply for the Best Start Grant School Age Payment is 28 February 2023.
This one-off £267.65 payment is currently open to eligible families with a child born between 1 March 2017 and 28 February 2018. It can be used for anything from a warm coat to books and toys.
Parents and carers who have deferred their child’s entry to school from August 2022 to August 2023, or those home educating, must still apply before the closing date or they will miss their opportunity to access the School Age Payment.
The payment is part of the Best Start Grant, which offers financial support to families who receive certain benefits and tax credits at three key transition points in a child’s early years. Parents and carers who are under 18 do not need to receive any other benefits to be eligible. This is also true for those who are 18 or 19 and dependent on someone else, e.g. someone receives child benefit for them.
Social Security Scotland recognises that applying for benefits can be difficult. To make things easier, they can now automatically make School Age Payments to families who get Scottish Child Payment when their child is the right age.
There are some people who don’t qualify for Scottish Child Payment that could be eligible for the School Age Payment, including those who get housing benefit.
There may be others who choose not to apply for Scottish Child Payment who can still apply for School Age Payment. Some parents and carers have opted out of automatic payments. All of these people are being urged to check if they are eligible for School Age Payment and to apply if they are.
For more information and to apply go to www.mygov.scot/beststart or call Social Security Scotland on their Freephone number 0800 182 2222.
