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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
If you would be interested in volunteering specifically to deliver sporting activity within your young person’s school please fill in the survey attached to this link; https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ZUYGYC/
The number of childminders in East Ayrshire has declined and East Ayrshire Council are holding free preregistration training for anyone interested in a career in childminding starting at the end of August.
The Council is reducing the cost of a school meal for P6 and P7 pupils, who pay for their school meal, to £1.08. This special deal will run from August 2023 to June 2024. The same menu options will be available and our school meals will be freshly prepared each day, using quality ingredients from local suppliers.
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