ERC Early Years Open Day
Family Mass Sunday 25th August
The annual Family Mass celebrating the start of the school year will take place this Sunday at 10am, St Cadoc’s Church. All pupils attending are encouraged to wear full school uniform.
St Cadoc’s Nursery Induction
You Asked, we Answered
Calendar of Events 2019-20
Click the link below to view the Parental Calendar for session 2019-20. You will also receive a paper copy early in the new session.
Eyes Open Summer Campaign
A new @CPCScotland summer campaign encourages everyone to help protect vulnerable children in the school holidays. If you’re worried, say something. #EyesOpen
Further information via the link below.
http://www.celcis.org//eyes-open-2019
School Entry & Exit Arrangements 2019-20
Entry Arrangements 2019-20
Please click on the image for larger view.
Exit Arrangements 2019-20
A Guide to Your Child’s Report and Feedback Form
A Guide to Your Child’s Report and Feedback Form
A Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is a skills based curriculum, developing:
CfE is less about how fast children learn and more about how deeply they learn. It is also about how they apply the skills they have learned. Below is the national benchmark of learning and progression for Curriculum for Excellence.
Progress at a Level: Children will progress at different rates and some will attain levels more quickly than others.
- ERC Standardised Assessments:
Standardised Assessments are also carried out in East Renfrewshire schools for pupils in P3, P5, P7 and S2. They have an important role to play in providing teachers with concise objective information on a child’s level of development. We track pupils’ progress at every stage in school. The results provide information for planning future teaching and learning. Standardised scores can range from 70-130. A score of 100 is the average.
- Scottish National Assessments:
The Scottish Government has introduced a single, nationally developed set of standardised assessments, designed to reflect the way we deliver education in Scotland, through Curriculum for Excellence. Assessments are administered to each child once within the relevant school year. Individual teachers and schools, with guidance from their local authorities, will decide the most appropriate time during the school year for your child to take the standardised assessments. Assessments are completed online, marked automatically, giving teachers immediate feedback to help children progress. The online assessment system will provide feedback information about where your child did well and where further support is required. The feedback will be used to help plan next steps and further support as appropriate.
- Feedback:
Please complete the feedback form below. Questions 1-6 are parent/carer questions and questions 7-8 provide an opportunity for you to discuss and feeback your child’s views.
Summer Reading Challenge
The Summer Reading challenge is a great way to keep children reading during the school holidays. Children can sign up at the library, then read six library books to complete the Challenge. There are exclusive rewards to collect along the way, and it’s FREE to take part! …
Please visit the libraries website https://www.ercultureandleisure.org/Activities-Children to find out about Fun for all the Family with
•Stories
•Sci-Fi Labs
•Space Crafts
•Virtual Reality
•Space Training
•Alien Hunts and more.
All ages welcome, free, contact the library to book your interest.
Festival of Colour
St. Cadoc’s Nursery Class Information
We have now added a St. Cadoc’s Nursery Class information section to our website. This will be updated regularly and provide you with any relevant information. You can access the website via the link below and select Nursery Information.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/StCadocs/
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 pilot.
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 and will remain open until 27 June 2019.
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://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=24585&p=0
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.
Home Baking Request
The PSA will be providing refreshments at the following events and really need as much home baking(nut free as many children have nut allergies) as possible to make these events the success they were last year.
P4 Thanksgiving mass – Monday 10th June
P7 Leavers Ceilidh – Thursday 13 June
P7 Leavers Mass – Monday 17th June
If you are able to provide baking (which can be dropped off at the school at any time during the day or just prior to the event itself) can you please text/call Wendy Kelly on 07432201816 or email stcadocspsa@gmail.com
Many Thanks
The St Cadoc’s PSA Committee
School Improvement Plan Survey
Last week our house captains and vice captains held a coffee afternoon to discuss our School Improvement Plan. They discussed what is going well within the school and how you can help us improve it further. If you were unable to attend this event, we would still love to hear your views.
Please take a few minutes to complete our survey via the link below and have your say in St Cadoc’s next steps for improvement.
View the full presentation below.
St Cadoc’s School Improvement Plan 2018 -2019 Presentation
Primary 4 – Thanksgiving Mass
Internet Safety for Parents and Carers
School Improvement Plan -Pupil Feedback
First Holy Communion
Good luck to Primary 4b and 4d who are making their First Holy Communion at 10 a.m. on Saturday the 18th May in St. Cadoc’s church. Our thoughts and prayers are with them on this special day.
We would appreciate if you could be mindful of the neighbours when parking at the church so that everyone is safe.
After Mass, there will be lots of time for photographs so we ask that no photographs are taken during the Mass. At the end of Mass, the official photographer will take two class photographs. As the children will be moving around at this time, we ask that you remain in your seats until both of these photographs have been taken.
Many thanks for your support.
First Holy Communion
Good luck to Primary 4a and c who are making their First Holy Communion at 10 a.m. on Saturday the 11th May in St. Cadoc’s church. Our thoughts and prayers are with them on this special day.
We would appreciate if you could be mindful of the neighbours when parking at the church so that everyone is safe.
After Mass, there will be lots of time for photographs so we ask that no photographs are taken during the Mass. At the end of Mass, the official photographer will take two class photographs. As the children will be moving around at this time, we ask that you remain in your seats until both of these photographs have been taken. Many thanks for your support.
Confirmation
Good luck to Primary 7 who are making their Confirmation this evening in St. Mirin’s cathedral. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this very special time.
PRIMARY 7 INFORMATION EVENING ST. NINIAN’S HIGH SCHOOL – Tuesday 14th May 7pm
The Primary 7 Information Evening for parents and pupils will take place on Tuesday 14th May at 7pm. This is a wonderful opportunity for parents to obtain important information for their children who will begin S1 in August 2019 in the new session. There will be the opportunity to meet staff from all departments and to have a tour of the school. St. Ninian’s staff look forward to welcoming as many young people (in school uniform ) and parents as possible.
