Place 2B would love for more families across Scotland to know about and benefit from a resource which is designed to be an accessible tool providing practical advice for parents and carers of children aged 4-11. All advice is evidence-based and created by Place2B mental health experts.
The free website can be accessed at: https://parentingsmart.place2be.org.uk/
As part of assembly today we learned lots watching a BBC Teach lesson about harvest, seasonal foods and food production.
As part of the lesson we saw a lovely soup being prepared and quite a number of us would like to try it. So, if you watch the video on the link below you can find out how to make a quick and easy soup using seasonal produce.
Harvest – Live Lesson – BBC Teach
Let us know how it goes.
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:
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
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!
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
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.
As part of Book Week Scotland 2020 we are taking part in lots of reading activities to develop a love of reading. We are using the hashtag #readliveimaginesucceed which was created through a whole school house competition. This winning hashtag was a combination of one word from each house’s best entry so that is 100 golden tokens for each house.
Mrs Hunter from Mossend Primary has also recorded a story telling session just as I have here as we cannot visit each other’s schools in the way we would usually do. Primary 7 have been recording stories for our younger classes and P4/5 have been doing this for the nursery also !
Remember on Friday it is Come To School In Your PJs With A Book Day ! We will be able to curl up with our books and listen to some audio books as well while our younger pupils will receive their gift bags of books from Read Write Count.
Please send photos of you reading at home to the school twitter account using the #readliveimaginesucceed and lets have some fun with reading this week !!
Click on the following link to listen to Mrs Wilson reading the book East Girl, West Girl.
Following the update from North Lanarkshire Council regarding schools return for the new session I have revised our planned return model to incorporate Scottish government and local authority advice. As always this is subject to change should government advice alter. I am meeting with the parent council tomorrow night and I wanted to share my planning with you all prior to that to allow for any subsequent questions.
I have tried to make as few changes as possible to the recovery planning outlined in June and have also included again the playground and building diagrams you saw then to refresh everyone’s memory.
I know many of you will be feeling nervous about this move to full time schooling and I want to reassure you that we are well prepared to meet the challenges that lie ahead. Our risk assessment for full return is also incuded in this post.
We are all looking forward to welcoming the children back next week and working with you and the local community again albeit at a social distance. Until then please contact me at my email address if you have any issues you would like to discuss.
ht@holyfamily.n-lanark.sch.uk
Return to school parental information updated HF Covid 4.8.20
HF Coronvirus-nursery-environment-risk-assessment.updated 4.8.20
Welcome to my final weekly update of session 2019/2020. I want to take this opportunity to thank all our families for the support they have given the school by working in partnership with us over these last few difficult months. Your feed back in our questionnaire in particular has been vital in planning effectively for the children in a way that also meets your needs as working adults. I know how challenging remote learning is and the strain of juggling home schooling with the demands of your own workload can only add to that so thank you for your commitment and support.
Moving forward in the new session as you know your child will have a minimum of 2 days face to face class teaching but hopefully this will only be a temporary measure if the covid 19 threat continues to reduce.
We have managed to accommodate sibling groups and linked in with the nursery too to create a similar pattern of days. The groupings were also planned to take into account working groups and allow for high quality, ability focused teaching while meeting the class size restrictions based on the 2 metre rule. As a result the days your child has been allocated are not open to change. While I appreciate this may be challenging the capacity of the classrooms does not allow us to accommodate more than 50% so I would physically not have space to change the allocated days.
READING CHALLENGE
I have been contacted by NLC with details of the summer reading challenge in a new format.
This year, the national Summer Reading Challenge is online! Silly Squad was launched last Friday, with a host of authors and celebrities helping to promote this to families all over the UK.
Alongside this, Culture NL Libraries are hosting a ‘Silly Staycation’ with our local celebrity, panto favourite Sheepie fronting our summer campaign; check it out here!
Follow the links to get the kids signed up for a Silly Staycation!
CASH PAYMENTS
From August, cash can no longer be accepted in schools and parents/carers will be asked to use cards via the online payment system to pay for things like school lunches etc. Children will not be able to bring cash into school to top up their lunch cards. North Lanarkshire Council will be in touch nearer the time to notify parents of this and will advise them to use the online payment system.
SUMMER HUB PROVISION
An enormous thank you to our Holy Family Primary and Nursery Volunteers who have worked so hard in our hubs to support our vulnerable children and the children of key workers, as always you are stars.
Please note
Current hub provision will end on Wednesday 24th June 2020 at 8pm and will move to a new community based hub model.
The following 9 venues have been identified as summer community hubs:
Staff from Community Learning and Development, Culture Leisure NL and Active Schools will collaborate to lead and manage these hubs. Hubs will operate Monday to Friday from 9am until 5pm.
Any key workers looking to access a placement should do so using the following link: www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/keyworkers
I will be in school over the holidays and will also be available by email so please get in touch with any concerns or questions you may have.
If there is any change to school plans due to updated government guidelines I will inform you straight away by text.
Boys and Girls – Have a lovely summer holiday and put those school books down for now.
Stay safe, be kind and take care of yourselves and those around you. I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to seeing you all back in school in August, I have missed you so much.
God Bless
Mrs Wilson x
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