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Easy Fundraising

Easy Fundraising - Girlguiding Midlands

Did you know that whenever you buy anything online from your weekly shop to your annual holiday you could be raising a free donation for our Parent Council? So far this year our Parent Council has received £146.16 of donations through East Fundraising.

There are nearly 3,000 retailers including Amazon, John Lewis, Aviva, the Trainline and Sainsbury’s, who will donate a percentage of the amount you spend to our Parent Council to say thank you for shopping with them.

It’s really simple, and doesn’t cost you anything.

All you have to do is:

1. Go to https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/hyndlandprimary/

2. Sign up for free

3. Get shopping – your donations will be collected by Easy Fundraising and automatically sent to our Parent Council. It couldn’t be easier!

There are no catches or hidden charges and we would be really grateful for your donations.

More information can be found through the EasyFundraising’s how to videos https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/raisemore/get-started/videos

Thank you for your support!

Young Scot National Entitlement Card (NEC)

Dear Parent/Carer,

Pupils can now get free bus travel by applying for a new or replacement Young Scot National Entitlement Card (NEC). To make this process as easy as possible Education have published a simplified version of the government application form on Smart Survey for parents/carers of children under 12. Your application will go to Glasgow Life who will process your details and arrange for the cards to be delivered to your home address. You can access the survey here:

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https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/YoungScotNEC/

 

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The survey will close on March 18th. If you would prefer a hard copy of the application, please contact your school. After March 18th you will need to apply using the government website or in person at a Glasgow Life library.

Sustainability Superheroes Applications

Our school is on the lookout for some Sustainability Superheroes!

Would you like to help to make our school more environmentally friendly? Do you have lots of ideas about how we could make a difference to our school and the surrounding area? Would you like to be a Sustainability Superhero?

As a Sustainability Superhero you will work with other pupils from across the school to help make Hyndland Primary a more environmentally friendly place. You will also work with others to learn and share your knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals and think of ways we can help achieve these. One pupil from each class will be selected to become a Sustainability Superhero for the rest of the school year. Our meetings will be on a Thursday during school time.

Further information on how to apply can be found here: Application Poster

All applications should be returned by Wednesday 19th of January.

January Updates

These FAQs may be useful to you, following the advice issued yesterday.

SI Summary and FAQs: 6.1.22 Self Isolation Changes Summary and FAQs

The following two letters were sent to families on the 6th of January regarding the return of some mitigations and general covid updates for this term. As well as updated guidance regarding self isolation and positive cases.

January updated guidance: January guidance

Self isolation and positive cases guidance: SI and Positive Cases

 

COVID 19 – Updated 10/12/21

Dear Hyndland Families,

I appreciate that the vast majority of you will not have had the opportunity to watch the FM’s announcement on Friday 10th of December, so am writing to give you a brief update:

  • She painted a clear picture about the rate of increase in infections with the Omicron variant. A briefing paper is available on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/omicron-scotland-evidence-paper/
  • Ms Sturgeon advised that work Christmas parties should be deferred.
  • She warned that difficult decisions were likely to be ahead.
  • From tomorrow, a significant change to contact tracing and isolation will take effect:
      • Household contacts of any PCR confirmed case need to isolate for 10 days irrespective of vaccination status or their own PCR test result.
      • Some exemptions will be made for critical services. (It is not clear yet whether any exemption will apply to school staff nor what shape such an exemption would take. As soon as there is more information about this, we will share this with our community .)
      • Non-household contacts are asked to isolate until they receive a PCR test result. They can leave isolation if they have a negative result AND are double vaccinated.

While clearly an unwelcome development with huge implications for all of us, and for staffing in many workplaces including schools, I hope this update is helpful and we will provide further updates as appropriate.

Kind regards
The Hyndland Team

Rising Stars

As some of you have already noticed, our Rising Stars subscription for some of our digital reading books has now expired.

Thank you to those of you who took the time to complete the survey about the Rising Stars resource that was shared earlier in the term and provide such honest and constructive feedback – this is greatly appreciated! I have since been able to share the findings of this with the Hodder Education who produce the resource.

I communicated the difficulties that staff, parents, carers and learners have experienced at various points over the last year of subscription during a phonecall with the sales manager and have also been in regular contact with the Director of Digital Change from the company. As a result, they are currently looking into ways that they can make up for this to the school and our families moving forward.

I will be in touch in due course when I hear the outcome form the company. Many thanks again for your ongoing patience and support.

S. Frame

Depute Headteacher

Water Bottles

This is a reminder to please send pupils to school with water (enough for a full day). On the occasions when they might forget/ run out, we do have water available. However, it is helpful if they come with their own water as a matter of routine.

Many thanks for your co-operation with this.

Request for Re-Homing Outgrown Clothing

If you have any underwear (pants, socks, tights) or trousers your wee one has outgrown, we would happily take donations for our ‘spares’ box – they come in really handy when there are little toilet accidents. Just hand to Ms Chambers in the playground if you can help.

Many thanks!