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Family Challenge May 2020

family learning challenge 12th May

Good Evening Everyone

Please find a link above for a wee challenge for all our families.  Mrs Rae, PT at Banton PS made this for us and we would like to put both schools together to spread a positive message and give pupils and staff, if they wish the opportunity to see everyone.  Photographs of children should not have their name on their work.

Don’t worry if you don’t want your child’s photo to be seen – only for you, please put a name on the poster, with a photo of the work.

Just a wee bit of fun.

Kind Regards
Siobhan McLeod &
Chapelgreen Team

New direct payment system for free school meals

A new payment system is being set up for pupils who receive free school meals.

It will start on Friday 27 March and run throughout the current health crisis.

Parents and carers of pupils who receive free school meals will be sent a message twice a week from the council.

It will include a voucher code for £10.00 (you will receive a total of £20.00 per child per week).

The message will be sent either as a text message to your mobile phone, by email or as a printed copy if you don’t have internet access.

You can use the voucher code at any shop that accepts Pay Point, for a list of your local Pay Point retailers visit Find your local PayPoint store and enter your postcode.

For more information, please email the free school meals team on: FME@northlan.gov.uk.

Home Learning

We will be posting activities for our learning community on this school and nursery blog from Monday 23.3.20.  There will be a mixture of written, online and practical activities.

Try to keep a routine going in the house, with specific learning times and breaks.  Pupils can be learning practical skills at home too, such as preparing snacks, helping in the garden, sorting the laundry etc.  

Follow us on twitter, (Chapelgreen_PS) as we will be following sites that will provide additional activities and daily challenges.

Don’t forget to get exercise in too!  Lots of opportunities will be offered through the tv and other sites. 

We are always hopeful that this situation will resolve sooner and we can get back to having everyone at school.  Fingers crossed! 

The Chapelgreen Team

Here are a few ideas from NLC to get you going:

Early The final two years of early learning and childcare before a child goes to school and P1, or later for some.
First To the end of P4, but earlier or later for some.
Second To the end of P7, but earlier or later for some.

Literacy

Early Level Speech & Language Home Activities

Early Level Literacy Home Activities

First Level Literacy Home Activities

First Level Speech & Language Home Activities

Second Level Literacy Activities

Second Level Speech & Language Homework Activities

Maths

Early Level Mathematics and Numeracy Home Activities

First Level Mathematics and Numeracy Home Activities

Second Level Mathematics and Numeracy Activities

 

 

NLC Key Worker Categories

KEY WORKERS

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

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, will be open.

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.

 

Scottish Event

Thank you very much for being a great audience for our pupils.  They really enjoyed presenting their Scottish songs, poems and performing the dances.   We are very proud of everyone who took part.

Herbs Galore!

Thank you to Miss Donald for organising a fun health focus day.  Everyone enjoyed the activities and the smell of the herbs must have reached to the centre of Kilsyth!


A hearty pot of carrot and coriander boiling away in Room 4.

 

 

 

 

Some pasta with basil and pesto created by Room 2.