Please see guidance from each of your training providers on working from home. This will allow you to continue working on your qualification and progress your Foundation Apprenticeship qualification. If you do not have ICT access you can call FA Team on 01236 812257 or and homework packs will be posted to your home address.
Online Learning & GLOW
If you need support with GLOW (username or password reset), Office 365, Teams etc please contact us here: GLOW support
We would ask that parents/carers please bear with us at this very difficult time. Every department is currently focused on our S4-S6 pupils and the requirements that may be required for SQA assessment (we are currently waiting on an update from SQA and will provide more information as soon as we can).
In due course we will be providing online learning materials and resources for our BGE pupils (S1-S3). Some departments have already started to use school websites, GLOW, MS Teams, Twitter or a combination to get the info to our pupils.
You child may have been added to a MS team however there may not currently be any materials or tasks posted. This is very much a work in progress and again we ask for our parents/carers understanding at this time.
We will keep our school website (www.braidhurst.org) up to date with the most recent information about online learning opportunities as well as advice from the North Lanarkshire, the Scottish Government and the SQA.
We would also encourage everyone to follow us on Twitter (@braidhurst) and sign up for our school app.
Update from Mrs Rooney
Dear Parent/Carer,
Although all schools officially closed on Friday afternoon at 3pm, we recognise our duty to support Key Workers in posts which ensure that essential services can be delivered and cover tasks within the local community which support the vulnerable and aid community resilience. Definitions of key workers and eligibility are outlined in Appendix A. This service is for families where both parents/carers are key workers or in the case of single parent families, where the main care giver is a key worker.
It is essential to stop the spread of COVID-19 that people who can work from home do work from home. The remaining education support service should only be accessed by those who absolutely require it to enable National Health Service and other critical services to continue and also for vulnerable young people. We appreciate your cooperation with this.
Arrangements for week beginning Monday 23rd March 2020
If you are an eligible key worker, who has no other suitable childcare arrangements then your child can attend school as normal on Monday 23rd March, school transport will run as normal. If you are able to go in person to school or establishment, staff will ask you to complete a proforma. If you are unable to do that then the school or establishment will contact you to gather information.
Future Plans
Over the course of this transition week, the council will collect data from across Schools and Centres and use this data to inform its planning. This may involve closing some schools and moving to a cluster/hub model, with only identified schools and centres remaining open to support Key workers who have no alternative childcare in place. In practice, this may mean that your child attends a different school, but within their locality.
Meeting your needs
This week, you will be asked to complete a form to provide us with essential information about you and your child. This will include information about your employment, work patterns and emergency contact details. This information will be used by the council to build up a picture of the requirement for education services across each locality. The more information you provide the more prepared we can be. Further information will be provided about this later in the week.
Key Workers Pro Forma – PDF format
Key Workers Pro Forma – MS Word format
School Meals
All children who are entitled to free school meals will be able to access these meals. If you need to access this support please take your child to their usual school at the school’s normal lunchtime.
Breakfast clubs will be open in those schools that normally offer them.
SQA Course Work
Scottish Government have clarified your child should not attend school to complete any SQA course work. The school may ask you to complete course work remotely.
Teachers know your children well and already have a wide range of evidence on which to base their professional judgement. Estimated grades will be based on predicted attainment, coursework and assessment. They will NOT only be based on prelim marks. Since all estimates and professional judgements have not yet been carried out, I would ask that you do not contact the school at this time for that information. Although there is no process for appealing professional judgement, the SQA have indicated that their post results service will be free of charge this year. Further information on this will be issued in due course.
Finally, 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.
Thank you for your continued cooperation and support.
Yours sincerely
Mrs Rooney
Head Teacher
Schools and Education Facilities
All North Lanarkshire schools will be open on Monday for the children of the following categories of key workers.
It is essential, to stop the spread of transmission of coronavirus, that people who can work from home do work from home. This is not business as usual and it is vital that this support being offered is only accessed by those who absolutely require it to enable NHS and other critical services to function.
If you’re a key worker who requires support, please take your child to your normal school on Monday. We will review these arrangements over the coming week and it is likely we will fully close some schools but we will inform you of this and the alternative provision we will put in place.
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.
Key worker categories:
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
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
- Homelessness staff
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
- Human resources staff including payroll and employee service centre
- IT staff
- Communications staff
- Finance staff including welfare, revenue and benefits staff and municipal bank staff
- Registration staff
- Essential legal services
- Psychological services staff
SCHOOL MEALS
All children who are entitled to free school meals will be able to access these meals. If you need to access this support please take your child to their usual school at the school’s normal lunchtime, but only at their normal lunchtime.
Breakfast clubs will be open in those schools that normally offer them.
S4, S5 and S6 PUPILS
A normal timetable will not be operating. Only the following pupils should attend at school:
- Children of key workers as detailed above.
Pupils who have already been instructed by their schools to attend at a specific time for coursework purposes.
Other S4, S5 and S6 pupils will be contacted by schools in due course to arrange completion of coursework. Schools have already informed pupils about arrangements for online learning.
Original article: https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=34892
Mental Health Support for Young People
During these challenging times please access support from the agencies below to support your mental health and wellbeing.
You can also contact Linda McGurk, Home School Partnership Officer on Tel 01698 274999 or email lindamcgurk@braidhurst.n-lanark.sch.uk and Linda can signpost you to appropriate agencies.
See Me: www.seemescotland.org
“See Me” is Scotland’s national campaign to end the stigma and discrimination of mental ill-health.
YoungMinds: www.youngminds.org.uk
Advice for young people about what to do when they have problems that are worrying them.
ChildLine: www.childline.org.uk
Helpline for young people to discuss any problems or concerns.
Self Harm UK: www.selfharm.org.uk
Provides self harm recovery, advice and support for young people.
Chris’s House: info@chrisshouse.org.uk
Tel 01698 373570 or Tel 01236 766755
Centre for help, response and intervention surrounding suicide.
You Are My Sunshine (YAMS): www.yams.org.uk
Support and advice for people affected by mental health illness
Useful Contact Numbers
- Samaritans 116123 (24 hour service)
- Breathing Space 0800 838 587 (call between 6pm-2am)
- Childline free 0800 1111
- Parent /carers can access support from SAMH’s Well Informed free service on 0800 073 0918
Schools Closure: Update
Parents and carers are advised that North Lanarkshire Council Communications team are preparing to release information as soon as possible through its normal communication channels regarding the closure of schools to pupils from today. This will include
- Arrangements for children of key workers (including clarification of who Key Workers are)
- Clarification of arrangements for S4-S6 pupils for SQA accreditation purposes
- Arrangements for those children requiring free school meals from Monday onwards
- Arrangements for children with additional support needs from Monday
Further information will be available through our school’s normal communication channels from Monday onwards.
Official school website: www.braidhurst.org
Follow us on Twitter: @braidhurst
Download our school app: click here
Supporting children during unsettled times
Dear Parents /Carers
Following advice from the Scottish Government to close educational establishment today, we fully recognise that from today children and young people may be at home for a long period of time and we have produced a suite of materials to support their learning – further information about materials will be sent to you in due course.
Understandably, this is an unsettling time for children, young people and their carers and many people will be feeling anxious about the current situation and the impact that it may have on the health and wellbeing of family, friends and colleagues.
For this reason we have also included information to help you reassure your child. Many of these resources have been developed in collaboration with South Lanarkshire Council. The attached document provides some advice and guidance.
We will continue to up-date this resource and ensure that it is widely available online. You will be notified of these updates next week.
Thank you for your on-going support during these challenging times.
Regards
Derek Brown
Executive Director
Please click to view/ download: Supporting Children Interactive