St Joseph's Academy – East Ayrshire

Dear Parents/Carers,

The sync with Show My Homework (SMHW) is now up to date and aligned to our new timetable. Around half of our families (approx 300) have never signed up to use SMHW. SMHW provides a means by which you can monitor work issued by teachers.

You can download the SMHW app from the app store on your phone (it may appear as ‘Satchel: One’ if you search for Show My Homework). We are in the process of collating all details for those not yet signed up, and will make contact. In the interim, we can email details as requested. Please download the SMHW app and submit a request for your details using this form. We will then send over the code you need to access SMHW.

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Dear Pupils and Parents/Carers,

ShowMyHomework is third party software procured by the school. It is not part of Glow. As such, it will take a few days for SMHW Continue Reading →

Please see the undernoted message from Barcaly LifeSkills team. We continue to enjoy a fruitful partnership with Barclays and encourage pupils and parents/carers to look at the resources available.

With education institutions closed across the UK, we wanted to let you know that LifeSkills created with Barclays aims to help all people in the UK. In terms of support for young people, we have developed dedicated support hubs for educators, parents and young people.

The support hubs include a variety of content that can continue to develop your students’ core transferable skills, topics range from wellbeing, budgeting skills, understanding the different types of common fraud and more. Continue Reading →

Dear Pupils and Parents/Carers,

Our directory of classes for online learning is now live and reflects the new timetable which starts on Monday. Please note:

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Dear Pupils and Parents/Carers,

Almost all pupils should now have their timetable, and any not yet in receipt of their timetable should receive it tomorrow via email on Glow.

We have shared further guidance with pupils in relation to accessing Google Classrooms and Teams on their mobile devices, which we strongly recommend, as notifications can then be picked up on phones when work is issued.

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Dear Parent/Carer,

Almost all timetables have been issued. We still continue to receive a number of emails about access to Google Classrooms and Teams on mobiles and tablets. Both are working for all pupils, but the sign in process for Google Classrooms requires use of a different email ending (suffix/domain) to that which pupils would normally use for glow. We have sent all pupils instructions again this evening.

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Dear Pupils and Parents/Carers,

Further to the information shared at our Parent Council meeting last Monday, I can now confirm that we will change timetable on Monday 18th May. Individual timetables will be issued to pupils, and they will be sent information on how to access new Teams/Groups/Classrooms next week.

Kind Regards

Mr Kane

To our young people,

We really hope you enjoy this.

Take care and keep safe.

With love from your school family.

Dear S6,

Firstly, I am sorry I missed you during your final week in school. For personal reasons, I was not able to be in school at that time. I have since had a chance to see the video of your guard of honour and I am glad that we were able to mark your farewell in some way. I think that you have started a tradition likely to stay with us in years to come. Now that things are settling slightly in terms of online learning, I wish to send you a message here to express my thanks for all you have done for our school community. I know that you will have lots of questions about the prom, yearbook, exams and what you should or should not be doing in terms of online learning. Here is a brief overview.

Prom

As you will understand, all proms were cancelled across Scotland, including our own.  The practicalities of organising another prom are likely to be fairly complex, but if there is a will amongst your cohort we will find a way. Whenever schools re-open, we will make contact with you to determine viability or otherwise. Given that by that time, many of you will likely be at University, College or in employment, we cannot be certain that it will happen but we will take our lead from you in terms of your willingness or otherwise to have a formal prom.

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