Category Archives: Pupils

Study Guide ‘Preparing and Supporting your Child for Success’ 2021-2022

Mental health during the Coronavirus outbreak

In St Luke’s High School nurturing every child’s god given talents to enable them to flourish beyond school and un-leash their potential, is at the centre of everything we strive for as practitioners and as parents/carers.
Studying and preparing is vital to exam success. The Study Guide ‘Preparing and Supporting your Child for Success’2021-2022 contains useful tips on supported study and targeted study approaches to suit different types of learning that are specific to your child.

Supporting your Child’s Wellbeing through Assessment Booklet 2021-2022

Mental health during the Coronavirus outbreak

Exams are a daunting time for both learners and parents. The fear of failure or not living up to expectation is a very real anxiety some children face prior to exams. This period can be extremely overwhelming for young people, some will ask for help, others will hide away and some will seem completely in control only to begin study leave and all of sudden emotions are running high. The aim of the St Luke’s High School Supporting your Child’s wellbeing through assessment booklet is to provide support in partnership with your child’s teachers and suggest strategies that can protect your child’s well-being on the build up to exams.

St Luke’s High School Wider Achievement Catalogue

Wider Achievement recognises the life and work skills that are gained from taking part in activities outside of the classroom. These achievements can come from learning within the school, home and wider community and can cover a wide variety of activities ranging from hobbies, volunteering to recognised award programmes.
This helps develop skills for learning, life and work and can be invaluable for our young people as they grow up.

See the St Luke’s High School Wider Achievement Catalogue for clubs and opportunities for our young people.   The catalogue gives  a description of different wellbeing activities on offer.   The dates of these clubs have been updated for session 22-23 and can be found here.

St Luke's High School Wider Achievement Opportunities Catalogue

City of Glasgow College Clearing 2020

City of Glasgow College will host a virtual event on Monday 10th August 2020 between 12 and 2pm and/or 4pm and 6pm.

We still have limited availability for some courses beginning August/September 2020 but the event is equally suitable for next year’s leavers and guidance staff/parents requiring further information.

Attendees can:

  • Chat to lecturers about full-time courses starting in August.
  • Discuss your options if you have not met the conditions of your offer.
  • Chat to our Student Support Team about funding and other support available.

www.cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk/clearing2020

City of Glasgow College Clearing 2020

Skills Development Scotland – Foundation Apprenticeships

If you are interested in finding out more information around Foundation Apprenticeships, contact the school and ask to speak with Mr Toal.

Foundation Apprenticeships – COVID-19 update and news

We continue to work closely with awarding bodies, partners and Scottish Government to quickly respond to issues arising from the epidemic to support you and learners in the delivery of Foundation Apprenticeships.

SDS appreciates all the work being done by learning providers and stakeholders at this time to support FAs. 

We remain committed to working with all key partners to build on the success of recent years, maintain delivery for the benefit of learners and employers during this period of uncertainty. 

We recognise that COVID-19 poses challenges for us all and we will work with yourselves to find solutions where required. 

SQA Accreditation

Thank you for submitting the requested information outlining the extent of SVQ completion against each framework for your learners. 

This continues to inform our engagement with SQA as we seek a solution. 

We expect to be in a position to provide a more detailed update on the work with SQA in the coming days.

Recruitment

Cohort 5 recruitment 

We’re contacting pupils who have submitted an expression of interest for a Foundation Apprenticeship via email to establish if they have completed an application with a learning provider or need additional support from SDS.

This is being tested on a small batch before being rolled out more widely.

Recruitment materials 

We’re currently developing new materials to support recruitment over the summer months – these will include social media assets and key messaging.  

Letters to current FAs

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be sending a letter to all Foundation Apprentices going into their second year.

The letter will support the “keeping in touch” process by providing additional reassurance from SDS, whilst highlighting the support available from SDS Careers Advisers to all learners.   

A copy of the letter will be shared with all providers.

Careers Information Advice and Guidance service offer

A reminder that SDS has support in place for individual FA learners through our Careers Advisers. 

Advisers are available over the phone or online. To speak to a school Careers Adviser, call the local centre and ask for them by name.  

As part of this enhanced support, SDS Careers Advisers have been contacting FA learners on a one to one basis via existing procedures. 

Find a local careers centre or get more information on myworldofwork.co.uk.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please check our COVID-19 FAQs for regular updates. 

We have added an answer on Disclosure Scotland and their capacity to support PVGs going forward this week. 

The FAQ guide for training providers is on the training provider area within the COVID-19 section of the SDS website.

This will continue to be updated to respond to FAQs coming through from you.

Further support

If you have any questions or issues not addressed by the guidance above, please email newapprenticeships@sds.co.uk

We continue to liaise with SQA on measures to support providers through this uncertain period.

We urge you to follow the Scottish Government’s latest information and advice on Coronavirus at gov.scot/coronavirus.

Public health advice can be found at: Coronavirus (COVID-19) on NHS Inform.

Keep up to date with guidance and information about COVID-19 issues on the SDS website.