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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!

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