New Year, New Career
The Studio, 67 Hope Street, Glasgow
Thursday 1 February 2018
9.30am for 10.00am until 11.30am

You may have noticed in the media this week that Early Years Scotland, in partnership with Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and the Daily Record, has been extensively promoting and advertising our exciting first ever Careers Morning.

Early Years Scotland has been funded by SDS to organise and deliver this event to support the national expansion of the ELC workforce by 2020.

We would like to ask you to share this invitation with anyone you feel may be interested in coming along. The link below can be used to book a FREE space. A crèche (also free) is available, and can be booked when registering.

http://www.earlyyearsnewcareer.co.uk/register.html

You would of course be most welcome to come along too if you have time and availability on Thursday 1 February. We would ask that you also follow the link to book a space.

I look forward to welcoming everyone on the day!

Best Wishes,
Jean Carwood-Edwards
Chief Executive

Catholic Education Week begins 28th January – 3rd February. Children will be celebrating the theme ‘serving the common good’.

Our pupils are encouraged to wear their uniform at Mass on Sunday 28th Jan where they will celebrate the start of CEW.

The parent equality forum will take place on the 5th Feb in St Luke’s HS from 7pm – 8.30pm.

Due to a yellow weather warning which will remain in place until Thursday, the Equalities Forum which was due to take place in Mearns Castle High School on 18th January  is now postponed . 

A rearranged date will be agreed in due course.

Applications for places in East Renfrewshire primary schools will take place from Monday 15 January until Friday 19 January between 1.45pm and 3.15pm. Parents and carers of children who will be five-years-old between March 2018 and February 2019 should apply to their local denominational or non-denominational school at this time. A number of documents are required to be brought along for the application process, and it is important these are produced so that the application process runs as smoothly as possible. Documents required are:

• Child’s full birth certificate
• Current Council Tax notice
• Roman Catholic baptismal certificate (if applicable)
• Mortgage statement or signed and witnessed rental agreement for a period of at least one year
• Child benefit statement
• Driving license, recent utility bill (within last 3 months) or recent bank statement can also be accepted if no longer in receipt of child benefit

The next parent Equalities forum is from 7.00pm to 8.30pm on Thursday 18th January in Mearns Castle High School. We look forward to seeing you there.

Office 365 ProPlus

All Glow users, can get copies of Microsoft Office 2016 to use on their home devices – PC, Mac, phones and tablets.

This will enable the use of a range of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, OneNote etc) on up to 15 home devices without cost (the 15 licences being split as 5 for PCs and/or Macs, 5 for tablets and 5 for phones).

To do this, login to Glow, from the launch pad click the Office 365 Home tile (image below) then the “Install Office apps” button and follow the instructions.

Please click on the link below to view more information about swimming lessons.

https://www.ercultureandleisure.org/article/8118/Lesson-Level-Information

Please find attached information on Hazeldene’s Open Day on Wednesday 6^th December. 

Hazeldene Family Centre 20th Anniversary Invitation

Girl’s Catechism Club

The girls catechism club will start on Monday 27th November from 5.15-6.15pm in the St Cadoc’s Parish Hall. Girls in Primary 4 & 5 are invited to attend. The club offers the chance for the girls to learn their catechism in a relaxed and fun environment and is excellent preparation for First Reconciliation and First Holy Communion.

Our JRSO are presenting to each class about  Road Safety Awareness this week. Have a look at their presentation!

JRSO 2017

Please click on the link below to view some of the experiences our children had learning about the Scottish Language.

Scots language week

Important Notice

School Closure

We have had to close the school due to a problem with Scottish Water. Please pick up your child right away. Please don’t phone the school unless in an emergency.

Thank you

Please click on the link below to view our parent calendar.

Parent Calendar 1718

Listed below are the dates and venues for the Parent Council Chairs’ forum and the Equalities forum for Session 2017/18.  Please note that all meetings will commence at 7.00pm. 

If you wish to put forward an item for the agenda, please e-mail me at pauleen.smith@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk

Parent Council Chairs’ Forum

Equalities Forum