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Family Lenten Retreat

 

Family Lenten Retreat –  Sunday 11th February  3pm-4.30pm  @ St Joseph’s Church Hall

You and your family are warmly invited to a short Lenten Retreat at St Joseph’s Church hall.

Please join us as we offer some prayerful and practical ideas for families to enjoy a more meaningful Lenten period.

Teas/Coffee, cakes and biscuits will be available. (Lent won’t have started J)

Please let us know if you would like to attend by emailing parentsinprayer@stjosephs.co or text 07528655783. Please confirm number of children and age ranges. Thank you .

 

 

Information, Weather

Adverse Weather

Adverse Weather

 

Dear Parent/Carer

In the event of severe weather conditions, Head Teachers are guided by the Education Department’s Standard Circular 10b. Following an assessment of the situation, in consultation with relevant staff in the Education Department, a decision will be made on whether or not to close the school. If an emergency closure of the school is to be carried out, the following procedures will take place:

  • We will contact the transport providers to ensure that the school buses and taxis will be available. If they are not, pupils will need to wait in school to be collected by parents.
  • We will send a text to the main contact on your child’s record.
  • We will put information on the school’s website about the arrangements for the closure. There will also be up to date information on ERC’s Twitter page. It is really important that in any severe weather, parents and carers make every effort to regularly monitor the ERC and school websites. These websites will be regularly updated with any important information.
  • At this point we will start to evacuate the school.
  • Parents who arrive at the school will be greeted at the main entrance by a member of staff who will then arrange for the child/children to join them and be taken home.
  • If we have not heard from parents/carers of remaining children, we will attempt to contact other emergency contacts on their record.

In very extreme circumstances, some pupils may not be able to get home and may have to remain in school beyond the school day. This situation will be discussed with parents and, with support of senior school staff and the Education Department; pupils will be accommodated in school until arrangements are put in place for their safe transport home.

When the school has been safely closed, we will liaise with the Education Department on subsequent arrangements. At the earliest opportunity, we will then carry out an assessment of the conditions for re-opening the school. Arrangements for re-opening the school will be communicated to parents via the school’s website and other local media.

Should the school require to be closed for more than one day, information will be posted on the school’s website to allow pupils to continue their learning.

Hopefully we will not need to put these arrangements in place. However, we trust you will find the information helpful and I ask that you ensure your child/children know what arrangements you have made in the event of school closure.

For any updates on school closures in severe weather please check East Renfrewshire Council Twitter at

https://twitter.com/EastRenCouncil

 

Yours sincerely

S Martin

Head Teacher

 

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Office 365 ProPlus for GLOW users

For all Glow users, it is possible for you to get copies of Microsoft Office 2016 to use on your home machines – PC, Mac, phones and tablets.

By having this available to you, will enable you to use 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,

 

Note that if you are downloading to an iPad or iPhone the process is different, you have to download the apps from the App Store and then log in using your Glow username. There is more information from Microsoft available here

When logging in, you will be asked to enter your user name and this is your Glow user name plus the domain e.g. gw15examplejames@glow.sch.uk, once you do this, you will be transferred to the usual Glow login screen, once you enter your details here your registration is complete.

The Glow username will only activate the software for as long as that account is active in Glow.

It is also possible to download the apps from within Microsoft O365 – within O365, click on the Office 365 link in the top left of your screen and from the O365 home page, click on “Install Office 2016”

 

Information

ADVERSE WEATHER

In case of adverse weather conditions we will, if possible, text and or email all parents to notify them of any closures. Should this not be possible please see the link below for information about school closures.   The school website can also be consulted for the schools procedures in these circumstances.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/StJosephs

For any updates on school closures in severe weather please check East Renfrewshire Council Twitter at

https://twitter.com/EastRenCouncil

Competition

New exhibition at Eastwood Park Theatre

We are delighted to be able to host the Tesco Bank & National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools exhibition at Eastwood Park Theatre. The exhibition will run until 14 January 2018 with free entry. The exhibition showcases work from schools across Scotland, with the aim of encouraging school children to interact with, and be inspired by, artworks in the National Galleries of Scotland’s collection.

I’d be grateful if you could please encourage your staff and pupils to visit the exhibition. If you would like to bring any classes or groups along to view the work, please let me know and I can arrange for the venue to accommodate this.

Best wishes,

Tess

 

 

Tess Forbes-McMurchie

Arts Development Officer

East Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure Limited

0141 577 3710

www.ercultureandleisure.org

 

Book your tickets online here