{"id":1293,"date":"2018-05-24T14:48:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2018-05-24T18:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:03:22","slug":"1293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/2018\/05\/24\/1293\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter for Parents and Carers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1294\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/2018\/05\/24\/1293\/school-badge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/onthankpsmain2018\/uploads\/sites\/6995\/2018\/05\/School-Badge.png\" data-orig-size=\"72,88\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"School Badge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/onthankpsmain2018\/uploads\/sites\/6995\/2018\/05\/School-Badge.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/onthankpsmain2018\/uploads\/sites\/6995\/2018\/05\/School-Badge.png\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1294 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/onthankpsmain2018\/uploads\/sites\/6995\/2018\/05\/School-Badge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"88\" \/><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Dear Parent\/ Carer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The Parent Council and school would like to write a joint letter to you about the incident reported in the Kilmarnock Standard this week which happened in April\u00a0last term.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Parent Council<\/span><\/h4>\n<h6><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The Parent Council has reviewed the incident with EAC and agree with the conclusions that the school acted promptly to locate and retrieve the children concerned. We know and are concerned that this can happen <\/span>in any <span style=\"color: #000000\">school.\u00a0 However, we are confident that we will all learn from this unfortunate incident to ensure that we limit the possibility of a re occurrence happening again.<\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">School<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">As a school we have worked with both families to reassure them of how seriously we viewed the matter and feel it is important to protect the anonymity of the children.\u00a0 As the incident has been reported in the press it is important that you know the relevant information has been given to parents concerned.\u00a0 At our last Parent Council meeting we reported this Health and Safety incident occurring during a lunchtime and described the actions that have been taken by the local authority and school working together.\u00a0 We have consulted with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Health and Safety team. Already there have been improvements to gates and a new gate has been purchased.\u00a0\u00a0 As you are probably aware staff have been monitoring the gates until the new one is fitted.\u00a0 As a school we have ensured our pupil Health and Safety team have been working with adults and the steps they have introduced include safety circles and safety lines.\u00a0 Staff speak to the children regularly about the importance of staying within the school grounds for their own safety and about road safety near to the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Parent Council and the wider school community for their support and for the work you all do at home to reinforce this important message.\u00a0 The school and Parent Council continue to work in partnership and have a meeting planned for next week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">If you have any concerns we can discuss them at our weekly Wednesday morning drop in.\u00a0 I would also like to invite all of our parents and carers to attend a safety talk at the school on Wednesday 30<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> May.\u00a0 We had already scheduled an Online Safety Workshop from 3.15pm to 4.15pm and I can answer any questions you may have about security within the school and our playgrounds at this event.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Scott Thomson (Chair of Parent Council)<\/p>\n<p>Alison Wright (Head teacher)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Dear Parent\/ Carer, The Parent Council and school would like to write a joint letter to you about the incident reported in the Kilmarnock Standard this week which happened in April\u00a0last term.\u00a0 Parent Council The Parent Council has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/2018\/05\/24\/1293\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/onthankpsmain2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}