Following the Deputy First Minister’s announcement in Parliament this afternoon, East Renfrewshire Council have issued the following statement:

We welcome the Scottish Government’s announcement to aim for all pupils to return to school after the summer break.  We look forward to welcoming back all children and young people on 12 August and will now to prepare and plan for this. Of course, we will inform parents if there are any further changes.

All the work carried out to prepare for blended learning and social distancing will be valuable as contingency plans if we are required to move to this model at a later date.

In my earlier update, I referred to our plans to issue the recovery timetables to all pupils this week. These will now be put on hold at this point,  and they will remain part of our contingency plans, and can be issued at a later date if required.

Mr Sinclair