We are continuing to provide a seven-day childcare support operation across school hubs over the Easter break – including the Easter weekend.  This support is ONLY for key workers to enable them to carry out their critical roles in the NHS or other essential services during this health emergency.

Please note that we will only be opening four school hubs on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 April and for every weekend going forward, following a review of demand for this service at weekends.

The four school hubs below will be open between the hours of 10am to 3pm at the weekends for children of any key worker:

St Ambrose High School, Townhead Rd, Coatbridge ML5 2JE

Hilltop Primary School, Petersburn Rd, Airdrie ML6 8BH

Clyde Valley High School, Castlehill Rd, Wishaw ML2 0QS

Cumbernauld Academy, South Kildrum Ring Rd, Cumbernauld G67 2UF

We will continue to provide the school and childcare service at ten hubs Monday to Friday from 8am until 8pm.

Please note that following a review of demand, the hub that covers the area of Kilsyth and surrounding villages is now at St Patrick’s Family Learning Centre, (next to the primary school), Backbrae Street, G65 0NA. This facility will cater for children of all ages.

All of our school hubs will be open from:

Monday to Friday (ten school hubs) – between the hours of 8am and 8pm

Saturdays and Sundays (four school hubs) – between the hours of 10am to 3pm

Family Learning Centres will continue to operate over the Easter holiday period and will be in direct contact with parents/carers utilising these facilities.

Please note that due to low demand, Jigsaw and Stepping Stones Family Learning Centres in Muirhead and Stepps will be closed from Thursday 9 April but parents and carers can still access childcare and school support at nearby Chryston High School.

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

Key worker information

Update – Friday 3 April 2020
School and Childcare Support for Key Workers

As the school Spring holiday starts from today, please note that we are providing a seven-day school and childcare support operation across ten school hubs over the Easter break – including the Easter weekend.

This support is 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 – between the hours of 8am and 8pm

Saturdays and Sundays – between the hours of 10am to 3pm

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.

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

Pre-school:        08.00 – 09.00
School Day:        09.00 – 15.00
After care:          15.00 – 20.00

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

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.

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.

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.

Family Learning Centres will also be operating over the Easter holiday period and will be in direct contact with parents/carers.

Key worker information                                   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 service during this health emergency.

Our hub is CUMBERNAULD ACADEMY. (South Kildrum Ring Road, G67 2UF)

It will be open from 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 the 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 CUMBERNAULD ACADEMY 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

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 are exercising social distancing measures and practising good hand hygiene while enjoying a range of activities.

Appropriate risk assessments have been carried have been out at the hub 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.

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

Transport

No school transport will run.

Free 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.

Early Years Provision

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

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 from home will work from home

• All other health and care workers including home support 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
• 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

Dear Parents, Carers and Pupils,

We hope you are keeping well and safe. Hopefully, the Home Learning grids have been enjoyable and given you and your family some fun tasks to do when not at school. We are all missing school and especially missing our pupils.  Please know you are all very much in our thoughts.

This week (30.03.20 – 3.04.20) we will be posting new learning activities.  The learning grids or projects provide work for the week.  Our aim is to keep pupils learning in a way that is manageable for children and parents and is not overwhelming. We will post the activities on our website and in ‘Microsoft Teams’ on Glow on Monday 30.03.20. Click on the Home Learning Link above to see the new challenges. We will attach instructions on how to access your ‘Microsoft Team’ below.

Microsoft Team will help us to keep in regular contact with our pupils.  It will be our virtual class giving pupils and parents an opportunity to communicate with the class teacher – asking questions and seeking information relating to school – just like being in the class.  We are excited about using ‘Microsoft Teams’ as it will help us connect again – something we have been really missing.

In using ‘Microsoft Teams’ it is important that we establish some expectations and guidelines to be followed.  This will help to ensure that we all focus on supporting each other’s learning and wellbeing.

• Microsoft Team is for asking questions or seeking information relating to tasks and learning – just like a conversation between the pupil and teacher. Unfortunately it is not a social platform for chatting with friends.  You have lots of other ways of doing this.
• Remember our RESPECT values – always use appropriate language and conversation when speaking on the chat.
• It can be used by parents to seek information when appropriate especially on behalf of younger pupils.
• Please no personal info or photographs – this is to keep everyone safe.
• No video calls – as you can imagine the teaching staff were very keen for this to be agreed!!!
• Questions will be responded to at points throughout the school working day.  We will do our very best to get back to you.  Please be mindful that staff are also working on additional school tasks throughout the day.
• We are seeking the support of parents in monitoring your child’s safe use of ‘Microsoft Team’.

In addition to the grids or projects and the support from class teachers we will also provide regular information on useful sites, apps and activities to help support learning, family time and to help ‘Bust the Boredom’.  Look out for these on our website and Teams.

Please see instructions for accessing ‘Microsoft Team’ instructions below.

Please be patient with us as a staff, this is fairly new to us and we are learning every day!  We look forward to working together in this new format and making connections again.

We are very appreciative of your support and cooperation.

The staff of Cumbernauld Primary.

Accessing Microsoft Teams

Just a little reminder that we are using the home learning grids for the moment. You can access these from the drop down menu at the top of the page.

We will be using other methods to deliver work soon but we will keep you updated on this, and give you all the relevant information when the time comes.

Stay safe and well.