Dear Families,

We hope you have all had a wonderful October break and are looking forward to warm welcomes tomorrow!

East Ayrshire is currently embarking on a pilot project to help address bullying among children and young people. By working with ‘respectme’, Scotland’s anti-bullying service, the aim of the project is to provide a range of supports to parents, carers, staff and young people to improve their knowledge and confidence in promoting respectful relationships and address bullying behaviour and its impact.

Onthank Primary are working in collaboration with ‘respectme’, seeing staff and members of the Parent Council attending training and forming our Respectful Relationships Team. Over the course of this academic year we will be creating anti-bullying parent workshops, working directly with a pupil focus group to create pupil workshops and sharing the ethos of ‘respectme’ with our school community.

If you would like to be involved in any aspect of our ‘respectme’ journey please speak with Mr Swan by Friday 25th October.

We invite you to complete the project pre-questionnaire which will support the initial stages of our journey. Thank you.

Our school community will be updated throughout the year as the project develops. #respectme #ouronthank