Click on the link for a worksheet to assist you in researching your options.

UCAS researching options

Don’t forget there is lots of useful info on the UCAS website: https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/after-you-apply/coronavirus-covid-19/information-students-scotland

Hope you and your families are all well and managing to cope with these trying times. It is extremely strange to contact you about an end of term when we have not been in school for the last two weeks nor likely to be back after Easter. However, on the bright side the hub is now up and running to support families of our front line workers and is now based at Cathedral Primary school. Our staff, as you know they would, continue to volunteer to help. We are delighted at how many of our pupils are accessing the online materials staff are regularly posting.

We are, conscious it has been a long , hard and unsettling term for all of us. What we are proposing is that we all draw breath over the next two weeks. Staff will take a break from posting resources online. We will however,  post some websites we would recommend you can access if you wish to keep a routine or need something to stretch your mind. We strongly recommend that you continue with some form of daily exercise, preferably a walk in the fresh air! After the break it will be back to business! Please note the HUB is open over the two week period and those staff helping, and cover the whole week, will take their week after the break. It is important you remind your child they cannot meet up with their friends during this time and should maintain a distance of 2m.

We will still be checking our emails so please do not hesitate to get in touch if you need our support in anyway. You will find the email addresses of pupil support staff on our website.

Please take care over the next two weeks.

Mrs Rooney

Dear Parent/Carer

Hope this email finds you and your family well. I know there are so many concerns at present, especially with regards SQA , but the most important thing is that you and your family remain in good health.

However, we appreciate this is a particularly stressful time for your child when they are also concerned with regards their exam results. The Scottish Government, as you are fully aware, cancelled all the exams and the SQA are now working extremely hard as to the best way they can deal with this so it is not detrimental to your child. I would like to reassure you that it has always been the policy of the SQA to work with the school to ensure the results your child receives is a true reflection of their hard work and ability. This will continue.

I have provided a link from the SQA which takes you a helpful question and answer section for parents on their website.

https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/93777.html

In the meantime please take care of yourselves. If you need us please do not hesitate to get in touch. Your child is able to contact their teachers through glow teams and the email addresses for their pupil support teacher is available on our website.

Mrs Rooney

Head Teacher

Remember Covid-19 can be passed from person to person if you are TOO CLOSE together. Please avoid groups of more than two at stay 2m apart. Otherwise you run the risk of infection.

Talk to your friends on social media; use video links for face-to-face contact. Do NOT meet in person. Avoid Covid 19 – stay safe!

Click here for lots of useful info from young scot website

Support for Key Workers (Update 29.03.20)

School Hubs 

We are now providing a seven-day school and childcare support operation across ten school hubs ONLY for key workers to enable them to carry out their critical roles in the NHS or other essential services during this health emergency.

All ten of our school hubs will be open from:

Monday to Friday from tomorrow, Monday 30 March between the hours of 8am and 8pm and at the weekends on Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 3pm, to provide crucial care for key workers and other vulnerable groups.

It is essential, to stop the spread of coronavirus, that parents and carers who are able to take care of their children at home or have a partner who is not a key worker, provide childcare. This seven-day support is being offered to key workers who absolutely require it to enable NHS and other critical services to function.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should any child who has symptoms of coronavirus, or who lives in a household where someone has symptoms, present at school. The whole family must follow the self-isolation advice..

The service outlined below will be available at the following schools Monday to Friday for children and young people at early years (from birth to age five), primary and secondary age:

Pre-school:  8am – 9am

School day: 9am – 3pm

After care:   3pm – 8pm

School hubs

If your child normally goes to school in KILSYTH and surrounding villages:
Please take your child to St Patrick’s Primary School, Backbrae Street, G65 0NA.

If your child normally goes to school in MOODIESBURN, CHRYSTON, STEPPS and surrounding areas:
Please take your child to Chryston High School, Lindsaybeg Rd, Chryston, G69 9DL

If your child normally goes to school in CUMBERNAULD:
Please take your child to Cumbernauld Academy, South Kildrum Ring Rd, Cumbernauld G67 2UF

If your child normally goes to school in AIRDRIE and surrounding villages:
Please take your child to Hilltop Primary School, Petersburn Rd, Airdrie ML6 8BH

If your child normally goes to school in MOSSEND, NEW STEVENSTON, HOLYTOWN and surrounding villages:

Please take your child to New Stevenston Primary School, Coronation Rd East, New Stevenston, Motherwell ML1 4HX

If your child normally goes to school in BELLSHILL or VIEWPARK:
Please take your child to St John Paul II Primary School, 1 Laburnum Rd, Viewpark, G71 5DG

If your child normally goes to school in COATBRIDGE and surrounding villages:
Please take your child to St Ambrose High School, 65 Townhead Rd, Coatbridge ML5 2JE

If your child normally goes to school in MOTHERWELL:
Please take your child to Cathedral Primary School, 171 Milton Street, Motherwell, ML1 1DH

If your child normally goes to school in WISHAW and surrounding areas:
Please take your child to Clyde Valley High School, Castlehill Rd, Wishaw ML2 0QS

If your child normally goes to school in SHOTTS and surrounding areas:
Please take your child to Calderhead High School, Dyfrig St, Shotts ML7 4DH

For early years’ childcare in Shotts, please take your child to Shotts Family Learning Centre, Shottskirk Road, ML7 4ER

 

If you are a parent/carer of a child who attends an LCSC unit, and you require school support as you are a key worker, your child should attend the nearest school to you as listed above.

All children and young people will be provided with a hot meal and snack.

The service will be managed by a team of volunteer staff from Education and Families and other services across the council and will provide learning appropriate to the needs of children and young people, Monday to Friday. Children and young people will be offered a range of indoor and outdoor active play, sport and leisure activities with Active Schools, Culture and Leisure North Lanarkshire (CLNL) and third-sector partners for the after-care and weekend service.

In line with government guidance, all staff and children and young people attending the hub schools are exercising social distancing measures and practising good hand hygiene while enjoying a range of activities.

Appropriate risk assessments have been carried out at each venue and incorporate relevant adult/pupil ratios and the specific needs of children and young people.

As before, all parents/carers will need to complete a keyworker form on arrival at the hub school.

Volunteer staff should attend hub school nearest their place of work for 8.45am.

 

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Transport

Key workers must take their child to the relevant school hub as listed above. No school transport will run.

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Free school meals

A new payment system is being set up for pupils who receive free school meals – this includes all primary 1 to primary 3 pupils.

This commenced on Friday 27 March and will run throughout the current health crisis.

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ASN Schools

From Monday 30 March 2020, five ASN schools will be in operation as listed below. They will be open Monday to Friday between the hours of 9am and 3pm:

Firpark Primary School, 177 Milton Street, Motherwell, ML1 1DH

Buchanan High School, 67 Townhead Road, Coatbridge, ML5 2HT

Mavisbank School, Mitchell St, Airdrie ML6 0EB

Redburn School and Nursery, Kildrum Rd, Cumbernauld, Glasgow G67 2EL

Portland High School, 31-33 Kildonan St, Coatbridge ML5 3LG

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Early Years Provision

Key workers who require care for their child or children will be supported by the school hubs as outlined above.

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Key worker categories

Please note: these are the categories of key workers who can, if absolutely necessary, access support. The council does not make decisions, beyond council employees, about who must or must not attend work. Your employer must behave responsibly in making decisions and heed UK and Scottish Government advice.

Category 1

Includes:

• Health and care workers directly supporting COVID-19 response and associated staff
• Workers supporting life-threatening emergency work as well as critical primary and community care provision
• Staff of energy suppliers
• Staff, including teachers and early years workers, providing childcare and learning for other key workers and staff who support school buildings

Category 2

Please note that the first presumption is that staff who can work from home will work from home

• All other health and care workers including home support staff and care home staff
• Emergency services staff, including police, fire and rescue, prison officers
• Military personnel
• Social workers
• Homelessness staff

Those supporting critical national infrastructure including:

• Staff keeping air, water, road and rail passenger transport operating
• Oil, gas, electricity and water and sewerage workers
• Logistics staff including drivers and transport workers
• Food and other necessary goods staff including food production, processing, distribution, sale, delivery as well as those essential to the provision of hygienic and veterinary medicines
• Staff in essential financial service provision including: banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure; IT and data infrastructure; postal services; civil nuclear, chemicals and telecommunications; payment providers; waste disposal.
• Journalists and broadcasters

Category 3

Other council and associated staff in the following categories. Please note that the first presumption is that staff who can work from home will work from home

• Strategic-level management and support staff
• Waste services staff
• Fleet services staff
• Cemeteries staff
• Property repairs and maintenance staff including frontline workers of Mears and Saltire
• Roads and lighting maintenance staff including staff of Amey
• Facility support services including cleaning, catering, school crossing patrollers and janitorial staff
• Essential human resources staff including payroll and employee service centre
• Essential IT staff
• Essential communications staff
• Essential finance staff including welfare, revenue and benefits staff and municipal bank staff
• Registration staff
• Essential legal services
• Psychological services staff

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