Road Safety week 15-19th November

Next week the school will be taking part in Road Safety week, our JRSO officers have been busy organising different activities for the whole school to take part in.

Throughout the week P1a and P1b will be learning all about road safety through the programme Kerbcraft. The JRSO officers will be involved in this, helping the trained staff to deliver the learning.

Every class will be involved in activities such as

• Design Road Safety Heroes for the JRSO noticeboard
• Design a New Cumnock Road Safety Mascot. The JRSO officers decided to make this a homework task to get parents/careers involved. We are looking forward to all the super Mascot ideas you have!!
• JRSO officers will be presenting a PowerPoint to each class

Photographs celebrating the week will be posted here the following week.

Vibrant Communities Family Literacy team would like to invite parents and children from P1 to 3 to attend a fun family literacy workshop which is taking place online on Wednesday 24th November 6:30pm till 7:30pm through the VSCENE App. If you would like to take part in our fun family learning session then please sign up through our smart survey by Monday 22^nd November 2021. We will then contact you with a code to access the VSCENE session. Bring along a deck of playing cards(if you have one), pencil and paper and most importantly a parent must be in attendance.

Register through:

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/FamilyLiteracyTasters/

Please click the link below for the latest edition of the New Cumnock News.  We are delighted to see that we have been given a double page spread.  Thak you New Cumnock Development Trust!

New Cumnock News – Issue 10 – Autumn Winter Special (calameo.com)

Next Friday, 19th November, we are asking our children and staff to  come to school wearing a touch of sparkle/glitz.   In return we are asking you to make a small donation to the Children in Need charity.  Information to follow regarding payment.  No money should be brought into school.  Thank you for your ongoing support.

Next week, each class will be participating in Anti-Bullying Week.  Each day, every child will write on a post it note, an act of kidness that they have carried out or someone has carried out towards them and add it to their class bucket.  On Friday Mrs McMurdo will visit each class to celebrate this positive behaviour.  Each class will also be tuning in to watch a theatre performance with the theme of bullying.

In New Cumnock Primary School we are very aware that many of our children achieve outside of school through a range of clubs they attend or hobbies that they participate in.  We want to know about these experiences so we can celebrate these achievements with them.  Please send any photographs or information regarding personal achievement to eanewcumnock.ps@eastayrshire.org.uk   

This evidence will then be added to your child’s Wider Achievement Folio.

As from next week you will be able to see what Wider Achievement activities your child is completing in school by accessing the Wider Achievement tab on your child’s class blog.

Information and Opt out Options

Dear Parent / Carer:

This is a letter to tell you about a national online Health and Wellbeing (HWB) census involving primary 5 (P5) to secondary 6 (S6) pupils’ throughout Scotland. The Census will be carried out in school time and wants to hear from all pupils to help drive continuing improvements in educational outcomes for children.

This information will be shared with the Scottish Government (SG) to assist them in planning and implementing national policies and to target resources better. East Ayrshire Council will gather, process and analyse the HWB Census data for statistical and research purposes only.

 What does the Census ask?                                                

 The Census questionnaires are designed to be stage appropriate, and will ask pupils about a range of topics, such as:-

• School – how you feel and how you are treated by people
• How active you are and when you go to bed
• Eating and Drinking
• Electronic devices and the internet
• Your friends
• Bullying
• People you live with and your family
• Smoking, drinking and drugs (S2 – S6 only)
• Your life, your experiences and how you feel about things
• Sexual health (S4 – S6 only)
• Where you live and your life at school

At the beginning and end of the questionnaire pupils will be informed that if any of the Census questions have made them think of any problems then they should speak to their parents / carers / teacher / support worker.

Although individual pupils complete the Census, the questions in the Census are not validated for individual diagnosis, reports or the assessment of children / young people.

How will the information be kept confidential?

Pupil responses to the Census questions will remain confidential to protect all pupils, and access to any child identifiers would be severely restricted to those on a strict need to know basis. Any additional information that would directly identify a pupil, such as the pupil’s name and address, are kept separate from the data generated by the responses given in the Census. Schools will be provided with school, authority and national level results based on grouping together pupil responses.

The individual pupil data which will be shared with the SG, for statistical and research purposes only, will include a child identifier (but not a child’s name or address).

 Is the Census compulsory?

 The Census is not compulsory. The opt-out options are outlined below:-

1. Parent / Carer (of children up to the age of 16) – If you do not want your child to complete the census contact the school office by MONDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2021.
2. Pupils – Pupils will be asked if they would like to take part. Even if pupils begin the Census, they do not have to finish it if they wish to stop at any time. They are then able to request (if desired) that their answers up to that point are not included in the final dataset.

To access additional information about the Census and to view the Privacy Statement please visit the link below:-

https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/pupilcensuses

It was lovely to have a visit from Mrs Bell from The Robert Burns Academy today!  She visited P5, P6 and P7 giving the children an introduction to woodwind instruments as well as a solo performance.  From the 12th November she hopes to begin tuition in school.

Should your child be interested in starting lessons please complete the link below:

https://eastayrshi.re/MusicTuitionEOI

Make sure you click the “proceed” button to be taken to the website.

Parents will then need to ‘sign in’ to/create an East Ayrshire account to fill the form in and make sure “woodwind” is selected as the instrument  of choice.  Anyone who doesn’t get an offer of an instrument straight away will be placed on a waiting list until another instrument/space becomes available.