Dear Parent/Carer,
Firstly, may we wish you all a happy new year. We hope you all had a relaxing break and that 2021 brings health and happiness for us all.
As you will be aware, the Scottish Government announced further lockdown measures and a letter outlining the impact of this on schools and nurseries was emailed to all parents/carers yesterday; we have attached a further copy to this email for your reference. At this point, only the children of key worker children who have no other childcare arrangements in place should be attending school and over the next few days we will review and request documentation to support requests received.
Remote Learning
For the vast majority of pupils, remote learning will begin on Monday 11th January 2021, but unlike the previous lockdown, the learning set for your child will be specific, progressive and relevant to what they are learning in class and therefore we urge you to ensure that your child completes and returns the set learning. This learning is currently being planned by teachers and we will communicate details of what this looks like to you by the end of this week.
Although, the expectation is that all children complete the set learning, our approach to offer a Flexible, Accessible, Supportive and Timely learning experience and this video explains our approach:
In addition to this, North Lanarkshire Council have a Virtual Classroom available on Microsoft Teams and we have attached a guide to this for you to review. Your child’s teacher will communicate to them via Microsoft Teams the colour of work they can access on the NLC Virtual Classroom and this will supplement the work they set. The code for your child to join the Team is: r0f8wg2.
We have a fully interactive Nursery Zone online with personalised content for our youngest children, our Nursery staff will be updating this content weekly. You can access this directly from our website at: https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/mossendnursery/.
We appreciate that remote learning will be a juggle and it is not ideal for anyone. Teachers and school staff are all working full time, educating remotely and in the school building for those children in attendance. We hope that our approach will be supportive to you and remind you can contact us by telephone and email should we be able to help.
Kind Regards,
Team Mossend
