Hi Everyone

Hope you all have had a good week and are all keeping well and staying safe.

It has been great to see so many of you joining your classes on TEAMs . It is lovely to chat this way and to see some of the photographs and work you have been posting .

If you haven’t done this yet , please try if you can as I think the pupils will really enjoy chatting to their own teachers and hearing what their friends have been up to as well.

From Monday 18th  , Class Teachers will be posting tasks and activities on their Class Teams and using this to make regular communication with you all . They can chat , discuss work , set activities and check ups and comment on any thing you choose to share with them – completed work , photos etc.

Any problems with access to this please just email Mr Henderson or I and we will organise a suitable time to contact you to help you with this.

ht@oldmonkland.n-lanark.sch.uk

For now , we will also post new weekly activities on here-  the School Website / Blog , as we have been since the start of closure, to ensure families can still get all of the information until access issues are resolved for as many of you as possible.

If anyone requires support in terms of Internet Access or ICT equipment please get in touch if you can as we would also try to support you with this over the coming weeks.

We have been working on collating and completing your Pupil Progress Reports (School and Nursery) we intended to issue just before the Easter holidays as always . These are ready for you, but we need to print , sign and copy these . Therefore we will get these issued to you as soon as we can do that .

I very much appreciate in particular ,  pupils and families in P7 moving to Secondary and Nursery children and families due to start Primary School in August , are anxious all the activities we are missing that support a smooth transition and celebrate achievements to date. We are doing our best from home with a variety of plans that we can prioritise as soon as we have confirmation of how and when schools will reopen. I am holding off sending out information as I do not want to send out any mixed messages but please be reassured we will be in touch as soon as I have any clear information .

We will celebrate the achievements of all our Nursery Children and P.7 as soon as we can- that s a promise from us all!

As always , thank you for your kind words this week in calls , emails and now  in TEAMs too . It means the world to us and it reassures  us that you are well , safe and happy as well as learning when you can from the activities we are doing our best to provide ! Thank you families!

Have a lovely weekend

Love

Miss McFadden x