Parents and Carers – if you are a Key Worker in vital services and plan to send your child to school during the week commencing Monday 23 March 2020, please complete the form, following the link attached below.  This will be sent out every Thursday via the app.  Please ensure this is completed by 5pm each Saturday in order to allow the following week’s programme to be devised. Support is available from 9.00am – 3.00pm each day. Please remember to indicate if you need support for the whole day, or for the morning or afternoon only.

Pupils should wear their school uniform at all times.

Your support with this is very much appreciated.

Front Line Form

You may already be aware that from the most recent address from the First Minister that:

Scottish schools will close by the end of this week

Tomorrow, John Swinney will provide some detail about the following:

• Support for more vulnerable young people.
• Plans for the forthcoming SQA examinations
• How school communities will try to support the children of workers of key services over the coming weeks as schools remain closed.

In addition, staff in all departments across Lourdes Secondary have been working to ensure every pupil has access to her/his GLOW account. Any pupil who does not know of their GLOW login details can approach their Pastoral Care teacher or Year Head within the next few days to be reminded of these. Subject teachers are also reminding pupils of the online learning and revision resources available to them at this time, for example:  on GLOW, Teams, the SQA website and BBC Bitesize.

Last night the UK and Scottish Governments updated their advice on self-isolation. You can find the advice here: https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/infections-and-poisoning/coronavirus-covid-19

 The advice is now that you should self-isolate for seven days if you have any new symptoms:

•  a high temperature
• a new cough

 Please do not call 111 unless your symptoms start to worsen.

 “People who are self-isolating should remain at home and should not go to work, school or public areas.  You should avoid close contact with others by: 

• avoiding having visitors
• not using taxis or public transport
• asking a friend or neighbour to get any shopping you require, or arranging for a delivery that can be left at your door
• avoiding intimate contact
• not sharing towels, clothes, toothbrushes or razors.”

 In any case, it is essential to practice good hand hygiene by regularly washing your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. If soap and water is not available then use suitable alcohol hand sanitiser as an alternative. This video may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQCP7waTRWU&feature=youtu.be

With regards to any of our future school trips, we are awaiting guidance from Glasgow City Council and our Tour Operators.  As soon as we have any further information we will pass this onto you.

Currently we are taking each day as it comes but we are taking every step to ensure we are operating as normal.

Today is the start of our 2020 Safer Internet Campaign.  Pupils will be receiving lessons in PSE and BECS subjects highlight the importance of digital technology but more importantly looking at ways they can remain safe.

If you are a parent, please follow our school twitter feed on the school app or @lourdessec for daily updates during the month of February.  If you have any concerns over your child please look at our Schools Online Safety page by clicking here.

The Music Department are proud to present a Christmas Spectacular.  Tickets are on sale and available from the Music Department now.