A letter from National Clinical Director

Please find attached a copy of a letter from National Clinical Director, Professor Jason Leitch to all parents/carers of children in ELC settings and school age pupils. Letter to Parents and Carers from Jason Leitch National Clinical Director – 16 September 2021 Click to access Letter-to-Parents-and-Carers-from-Jason-Leitch-National-Clinical-Director-16-September-2021.pdf

St Andrews Hospice Virtual 6K Walk/ Run

St Andrews Hospice Virtual 6K Walk/ Run

Unfortunately, due to current restriction the hospice is unable to organise their annual 6K at Strathclyde Park.  Instead, they are trying to organise a virtual event in which staff and S4-6 can complete this distance at a place and time of their choosing, until the end of September.  We will not be giving out sponsor forms but kindly ask if you are able to make any donations on our ‘Just Giving’ page that our Hospice Ambassadors have set up. Thanks very much Mr. Pettigrewn, Mr. McInally and the Hospice Ambassadors. https://rb.gy/gizzsq

School Dinner; Specialist Diets

Medically Prescribed Diet In some circumstances, diet may be the only treatment of a medical condition or can form a major part of it. These can be required for a wide variety of medical conditions including, diabetes, coeliac disease, overweight and obesity*, food allergies/intolerance and phenylketonuria. In this instance a dietary referral must emanate from either a Medical Practitioner or a Registered Dietitian. Special Diet Request Form Special diets requested for ethical, religious or cultural reasons and can be used to support children with restricted eating habits, in cases such as autism. In these cases, the parent/carer should request the diet in writing to the PT Pupil Support, who will liaise with the Area Manager for catering services. The Area Manager will then provide

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Covid Letters 2021/22

The following two letters are the letters that will be sent out via Groupcall email if a positive case arises in the school community over the session 2021/22, hopefully this is something you won’t see too often over the year! Please continue to promote the mitigations we have in place for all our young people and staff: sanitise regularly wear face coverings at all times in the building avoid all unnecessary contact one-way systems multiple entrances morning, break and lunch Lateral Flow Testing regime 1. Letter for the new term – schools – August 2021 – NHSL – v3 ML final 3. Signpost ‘warn and inform’ Parent-carer letter – August 21 r

2021 National Qualifications Appeals

All requests for an appeal that have been requested by candidates to the SQA have now been passed on to the school. As the SQA guidelines state, before processing, Mrs Anderson will contact all involved to discuss: Reminder/confirmation of how the learner’s provisional result was determined. Reminder/confirmation of the assessment evidence that was used to determine provisional result, including any assessment arrangements that were in place. Reminder of quality checks undertaken – both locally, and nationally – to make sure the provisional results have been determined fairly, and in line with the national standard. Reminder that results can go up or down as the result of an appeal. Any SQA candidate who would like more information must contact Mrs Anderson by Wednesday 18th August.

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New Enquiries Email Address

Please note the school email address has changed to enquiries-at-coltnesshigh@northlan.org.uk If you have sent any messages to the old address since the beginning of July these may not have been seen, please resend it to the new address or contact the school via phone.