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Healthier Minds – Online Session 28th March

Educational Psychology Service will be facilitating a one-hour session for parents and carers of pupils in s4, 5, 6 who are completing National Qualifications this year. The aim of the session will be to normalise the experiences and emotions of young people, as they juggle the demands of exams and qualifications with the changes and disruption that they have experienced throughout the pandemic. There will also be an exploration of strategies to reduce anxiety levels, and a focus on how parents can best support their child throughout this time.

Parents and carers can register for the session at the following link by 21st March:    https://forms.office.com/r/ZJDm0fK5hJ. You can also submit questions which will be answered during a Q and A at the end of the session.

A  flyer providing all the relevant information is below and we will be tweeting about the event from our twitter account @EastRenEPS.

Online session flyer parents’ sessions exam 28.3.22 fin_

Parental Involvement and Engagement Census

East Renfrewshire Council and its educational establishments undertake regular periodic surveys of parents and carers.  Such surveys support school and local authority improvement planning and provide an opportunity for parents to share their thoughts on current and future involvement and engagement with schools.

Similar practice is undertaken by all local authorities in Scotland and educational establishments under their control.  In order to rationalise this approach to surveying parents/carers and in order to allow comparable consistent data to be collected nationally, which will assist in evaluating the impact of interventions and programmes and support future policy development, every parent/carer of a school pupil in Scotland is being invited to take part in the national Parental Involvement and Engagement Census.

Only one parent/carer per child will receive an email which will include a link to the survey and it is only necessary to complete the survey once per family, per school.  The survey should take no longer than ten minutes to complete. The survey will open on Monday 31st January and close on Monday 28th February 2022.

The data gathered will be used for statistical and research purposes and will provide East Renfrewshire Council and its schools with information to help:

  • plan, monitor and deliver better policies for the benefit of all,
  • identify and share best practice,
  • better understand some of the factors which influence parental involvement and engagement with our schools,
  • further enhance positive relationships with parents to secure positive outcomes for our children.

The information collected will also be securely shared with the Scottish Government to assist in evaluating the impact of national interventions and programmes and to support future policy development at a national level.

Further information on the collection and how the Education Department and Scottish Government will process the data collected is provided in the Council’s privacy statement and Scottish Government website:

https://eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/pie-census-privacy-notice

https://www.gov.scot/publications/parental-involvement-and-engagement-census/

Should you have any further questions, please contact the Education Department:

Education Department
Council Headquarters
Eastwood Park
Giffnock
East Renfrewshire
G46 6UG
0141 577 3229
customerservices@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Thank you for taking part in this survey collection.

Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 – Wed, 26th January at 7pm

East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire Councils will jointly host their Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony virtually this year on Wednesday, 26 January at 7pm.

The annual event cannot be held as it normally would due to Covid-19, so instead as in 2021 a Ceremony will be hosted virtually on the Councils’ Facebook and Twitter channels.

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2022 is One Day.  Survivors of the Holocaust and of genocide often talk about the One Day when everything changed, sometimes for the worse and sometimes for better.   

The Ceremony will have comments from Provost Fletcher of East Renfrewshire and Provost Cameron of Renfrewshire.  Amongst other things, the Ceremony will also include footage of local residents describing their family’s persecution and their subsequent move to Scotland; music provided by East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire school pupils; a prayer; and an opportunity to light a candle in your own home in memory of all those who were murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution and in other genocides which have taken place such as in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

You can join the virtual memorial on Wednesday, 26 January from 7pm using the links below:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eastrenfrewshirecouncil
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTha5en8Mq3kODNuJvc8Wyw