Hi Everyone

Apologies I have not commented personally for a while , as you can imagine it is very busy in school . I hope you all managed to read my update letter Mr Henderson posted for me earlier this week.

I appreciate this doesn’t give all the answers we are all waiting for but as stated I am still hoping to be able to issue Individual Return To School Letters next week outlining classes , groupings , days to attend and gates etc.

We have submitted our plans for this and are hoping that signage and playground markings will be put in place over the Summer Holidays for pupil return.

For our Nursery families , I believe letters will be sent out very soon as advised by NLC , to outline  information . Nursery Places have to be reviewed in line with the number of children that we can have in Nursery each session, to match new adult /child ratios to support Health and Safety guidelines at this time.

We also have to gather information from families , both returning and new to be sure we are catering for the needs of priority families in the first instance , as your letters will explain more fully.

Of course, where possible we want to try to support families who have children at  nursery and at school too.

Nursery children will of course be able to be escorted to the Nursery with an adult , but access gates will have to be restricted to adhere to guidelines for all. At present Nursery children and families will be able to use the Nursery gate and path which leads to the Nursery Entrance only. I will keep you posted if this changes over the coming weeks.

Staff will be in touch with P.7 families again tomo  – we are very aware this is not the term we wanted for them but really are working hard to organise something for them for now!

Thank you again for all of your support and kind words at this time. Very much appreciated by us all.

Take care for now and as soon as I can , further information will be shared.

As always  – ht@oldmonkland.n-lanark.sch.uk is the best way to get in touch and I will get back to you as soon as I can

Miss McFadden HT