St Joseph's Academy – East Ayrshire

Dear Parent/Carer,

Please click on the image shown below to access information on our re-opening plan.

Dear Parents/ Carers and Pupils

As we progress further in our school renewal discussions, we are keen to seek the views of our parents, carers and pupils to help guide our next steps and indeed to review experience during lockdown. The results of this survey will also be fed back to your own schools individually to aid further discussion as we move forward, and will also be collated at council level.  We would very much appreciate your time in completing this survey. If, as a parent or carer, your children attend more than one school, please feel free to answer for each school.  Links as noted below:-

Parental survey:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKWcF6bVSsANAmvUItgCuaeBUNUdNM0REQUdSNEVGODVXSk40NFpWWlhFMy4u

Pupil survey:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKWcF6bVSsANAmvUItgCuaeBUQk05ODNWUDFQV1E2VUpEUUNEWkNCMko4RS4u

Dear Parents/Carers and Young People,

Following a meeting today with the professional associations at council level, we are now in a position to advise of the return dates for all schools in EAC. Teachers will return on Tuesday 11th August for an in-service day and pupils will return on Wednesday 12th August. Clearly, not all pupils will return physically to school on that day and we will advise you as soon as possible around physical attendance patterns for our young people. We hope that you will find this information helpful at this time, and we will issue further information about remaining term dates for 20/21 in due course.

East Ayrshire Council

Dear Parent/Carer,

This form should be completed by all families with siblings attending our school next session. We appreciate that some families already replied to the form used to track siblings attending primary schools. However, we need you to complete this form too as the two returns are being used for different purposes.

Thank you for your patience as we navigate the very challenging landscape of gradual re-opening as of August.

Dear Parents/Carers and Pupils,

Please access letters issued today by Linda McAulay-Griffiths by clicking on the images shown below. School level updates will follow, but likely not before the last week of term given the volume of planning involved and the need to wait on decisions taken locally and nationally.

Kind Regards

Mr Kane

Letter to Parents/Carers

Letter to Pupils

Dear Parent/Carer,

Please complete this form if you will have children attending both our school and one of our associated primary schools in August. We cannot guarantee attendance at both schools on the same day but we can try to plan for maximising attendance at both schools on the same day where possible and if known to us ASAP.

Kind Regards

Mr Kane

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Dear Parents/Carers and Pupils,

Please note that social distancing will be in place at each location.

Please find details of Monday’s jotter collection/S6 iPad drop off below. If you have yet to fill in the original form, you should use St. Joseph’s Academy, St. Joseph’s Church, Mount Carmel Church, Darvel, Galston, St. John’s Church or Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Patrick’s Church at the given times. Anyone changing location at this stage should also use one of the above locations. In some cases, there are health reasons that necessitate delivery and/or numbers are so low that delivery to doors is more practical in some areas. This is not an invitation to request delivery. We will not deliver unless there are reasons why your original return does not stand, and those reasons must be related to health or transport problems.

Apologies if the above seems blunt, but I must protect staff and your families as much as possible from direct contact and door to door delivery.  Where staff are delivering to doors, they will place the jotters outside doors, knock the door and leave. If no one is home, jotters will be left outside for your collection upon arrival home.  If you are returning an iPad and staff are collecting from your home, please leave the iPad and charger on the doorstep for collection. Continue Reading →

Dear incoming S1,

Please see a welcome message from Mr Boyle (DHT S1), and our Principal Teachers of Pastoral Care – Mrs Burnett, Mrs Marshall and Miss Cathie. More to follow in the next few weeks.

Dear Parents/Carers and Pupils,

As you know, we intend to create pickup/drop off points across East Ayrshire to allow us to distribute jotters and to collect iPads from outgoing S6 pupils.  To assist with planning, please select one preferred location using this form. Please note, where we have no response at a location we will not be able to set up a collection/drop off point. Kind Regards, Mr Kane