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Period Dignity Week 2025

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Period Dignity Week 2025: Free Period Products Across North Lanarkshire

We are excited to announce that Period Dignity Week will be taking place from 17th to 21st February 2025 across North Lanarkshire. As part of this initiative, the Community Partnership Team will be hosting 12 pop-up stalls throughout the region to offer a wide range of free period products and promote our pick-up points.

This is a fantastic opportunity for pupils, parents, carers, and the local community to access essential period products at no cost. We encourage everyone to visit the pop-up stalls, which will be conveniently located across North Lanarkshire.

For more details on stall locations and times, please visit our website at Free Period Products or scan here:

We appreciate your support in spreading the word and helping us raise awareness about this important initiative. Together, we can ensure that period products are accessible to all who need them.

Thank you for your support!

Kind Regards,
Jordan Irving
Project Support Assistant
Community Partnership Team | North Lanarkshire Council
Email: Irvingjor@northlan.gov.uk
Website: NorthLanarkshire.Gov.UK

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St. Andrew’s Day Celebrations

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Eco, Whole School

Christmas Jumper Swap! Book Swap Reintroduction

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The Eco Team met on Friday and came up with TWO fantastic ideas to help reduce waste:

Christmas Jumper Swap

Textile (Clothing) waste is a BIG problem. Items like children’s Christmas jumpers are rarely worn for more than one season because children grow out of clothes so quickly. Some statistics on textile (clothing) waste:

  • Each person in Britain throws away about 3.1kg of textiles every year, and that 1.7kg of fashion waste is landfilled yearly per person.
  • The United Kingdom is second in terms of annual spending on new clothing, with  an average of £980.50 per person.

So, here at Holy Family, we want to address this by hosting a Christmas Jumper Swap where you can donate Christmas jumpers that are too small and take away, for free, a Christmas jumper that will fit you!

FAQs

  1. You don’t need to donate to get a free jumper.
  2. If you have lots of jumpers that are too small, we’ll happily take all of them off your hands.
  3. Please give generously!
  4. Can you make sure they’re washed and dried before donating please? Thanks 🙂

Book Swap Reintroduction

There is a display area just inside the main door to the back playground which used to be used for a Book Swap. Covid restrictions meant we had to stop that but now we are delighted to announce we can reintroduce it! If you would like to take a book from this display, help yourself for free! If you would like to donate any books, bring them in and display them here for others to take. Please give generously!

Mrs Cooney will fill the Book Swap area with Christmas/winter-themed books to kick off the Book Swap in seasonal style!

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God’s Loving Plan

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A lot of our classes will be covering God’s Loving Plan as our final RE topic of the term. For more information and what this means your child will be learning about, please click on the link below. Any other questions, please feel free to contact the school.

This document is intended as a supplementary reference to provide parents with information about the learning and teaching detailed in ‘God’s Loving Plan’ for each stage across the primary school. In addition to a summary of the core learning for each stage you will find information about the vocabulary introduced and details of the corresponding learning. Information regarding the vision behind ‘God’s Loving Plan’ and suggestions on how you can support your child at home can be found in the guide for parents available at:

http://sces.org.uk/download/guidance-for-parents-on-gods-loving-plan/

Click to access vocabulary_guide_glp_2016.pdf

 

 

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FREE ACCESS TO SOLIHULL ONLINE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY

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FREE ACCESS TO SOLIHULL ONLINE LEARNING OPPORTUNITY

North Lanarkshire Council has made available free Solihull training for all families living within North Lanarkshire with an associated postcode. This learning opportunity is available to support general parenting guidance.

Solihull training is used for our own staff development and this is a fantastic opportunity to access this resource free of charge.

Please click on the links below to find out more about this and the course described below.

https://inourplace.heiapply.com/online-learning/

The access code will be LANERCH3.

The course described below has been adapted from this main Solihull training to specifically develop understanding of children with additional support needs.

Information for parents

This online course is for parents with a child with additional needs. It is for parents, relatives and friends of children who may have a physical or learning disability or who may have autistic traits. In the UK, you may be within the SEND (Special educational needs and disability) system. Some parents describe their child as differently abled, or neuroatypical.

This course is in 2 sections.

Level 1 lays the foundation for understanding your child.

Level 2 looks at some particular aspects of parenting: sleeping and anger management, together with more about how we interact with each other. Understanding this can make it easier to work with your child’s behaviour as well as supporting their development.

Once you finish Level 1 you can progress to Level 2 if you’d like to.