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Parents Evening – 17th and 25th November 2021

Dear Families,

As you know, this session we had hoped to forge ahead with our usual Parents Evening format either before or just after the October break, but unfortunately centralised guidance clearly directed that all ‘in person’ parents meetings should not go ahead and that this position will not qualify for review until March 2022, and as a result, parent and teacher discussions should be replaced by either phone calls or in some instances, online meetings.

We will be proceeding with our planned dates for consultations (WEDNESDAY 17TH NOVEMBER AND THURSDAY 25TH NOVEMBER), but after investigation, it has been confirmed that our wifi capacity will not support a high volume of video calls on the same evening for all classes. To avoid further rescheduling and inconvenience for families, we have made the decision to pilot video calls at our two key stages for transition and have Primary 1 and Primary 7 online consultations via Microsoft Teams. Primary 2 to Primary 6 parent and teacher discussions will be by phone call this term. We hope to be able to meet all of parents in person for parents evening in 2022 if restrictions are relaxed.

Our dates for parents evenings are confirmed as WEDNESDAY 17TH NOVEMBER AND THURSDAY 25TH NOVEMBER.
If you previously had a Wednesday appointment, your original time transfers to Wednesday 17th of November. If you had a Thursday appointment, then this moves to Thursday 25th November. Teachers will re-post the scheduled appointments on SeeSaw as a reminder on Monday for families. If you can no longer take your call at the time you were offered then please let your child’s teacher know by contacting our school office on 0141 339 7207 as soon as possible.

In order for you to access the P1 or P7 Teams video call you will be required to download the Teams app onto a personal device such as a tablet, iPad or smartphone and login using your child’s details. Information on how to access Teams and how to access your child’s login details will be sent out tomorrow both digitally and in paper copy; Primary One pupils will have their glow details released to allow our school to use this email address as the link for the parent and teacher consultation, Primary 7 pupils already have this information. If you have any difficulty sourcing a device for this meeting please let us know so we can find an alternative or supported means of contacting you. Telephone consultations will run from the first contact details on your child’s records; if you need to change a contact number for the discussion, please let our office know.

For P1 and P7 video calls- Families will be asked to join the call at the specified time (your appointment) and the teacher will invite parents into the call at the time you have been allocated. Should you connect earlier than your appointment time you will wait in a virtual lobby until the teacher admits you at your scheduled time. Telephone calls will be placed at the scheduled time, we hope that there will not be any overlap. We respectfully remind all parties that these calls need to run to time, so that other calls are not disadvantaged and that all calls (whether video or telephone) should not be recorded.

Should technical difficulties arise on the date of your video call then we will contact you by telephone instead.

We look forward to meeting with you virtually or via phone calls on the 17th and 25th of November.

Kind regards

Hyndland Primary School Team

Class Fundraising Christmas Cards

Last year, we successfully raised over £1200 for school funds through Class Fundraising Christmas Cards.

Pupils across the school have been busy designing cards for the holiday season and as always they have created some stunning designs. If your child created a design, it will come home in their school bag, today or tomorrow.

This year payments will be made via Parent Pay. However we will still require the completed envelope order form to allow us to process your chosen items. Please make sure that names are accurate on the back of the cards as once we have placed the order these cannot be altered. Please make sure that payments are made via Parent Pay when you return the order form to school, as orders cannot be made without payment.

If you need a new copy of the details for Parent Pay please contact the school office.

Thank you again for your support,

Mrs Batista

Words for the World Competition

Within Hyndland Primary we are lucky to have pupils and families from all over the world.

We’re hoping to celebrate this more over the coming year and would like to share a competition run by SCILT (Scotland’s National Centre for Languages) with families to get us started.

Malala Yousafzai said:
“We must believe in the power and the strength of our words. Our words can change the world.”
Inspired by Malala’s words, we would love you to use your words to show how the world can be a better place. This could be about climate change, helping the environment, how we treat one another, equality – whichever area you are most concerned about, or would most like to see change.

Your challenge:
-Use a language (or languages) other than English to show your ideas, hopes or even advice for our world.
-It can be in any format, for example a poem, an essay, a song, a cartoon – be creative!
-There is no minimum or maximum number of words!
-Judging categories: P1-4 and P5-7.
-Individual or group entries are welcome.
-Entries will be judged on language use, content and creativity.
-Winners will be announced at an online event at the time of the COP26 summit.
-If an entry is in a language not usually taught within schools, please include an English translation.

If you would like to enter please ask your teacher for a consent form which they can get from Mrs Batista (P7B). Could all entries please be returned to school by Friday 17th of October in order for us to scan them and submit them.

We look forward to seeing your entries and to being able to display them in our school!

SCILT Words for the World competition flyer