From:  Gerard McLaughlin, Head of Education (North)

 

Message to Parents/Carers

 

Parents and carers are advised that North Lanarkshire Council Communications team are preparing to release information as soon as possible through its normal communication channels regarding the closure of schools to pupils from today.  This will include

 

• Arrangements for children of key workers (including clarification of who Key Workers are)
• Clarfication of arrangements for S4-S6 pupils for SQA accreditation purposes
• Arrangements for those children requiring free school meals from Monday onwards
• Arrangements for children with additional support needs from Monday

 

Further information will be available through your school’s normal communication channels from Monday onwards.

 

Regards

 

Gerard

 

Gerard J. McLaughlin

Head of Education (North)

Education and Families

Civic Centre,

Motherwell

 

NLC Supporting Children

From:  Derek Brown, Executive Director

 

Dear Parents /Carers

 

Following advice from the Scottish Government to close educational establishment today, we fully recognise that from today children and young people may be at home for a long period of time and we have produced a suite of materials to support their learning – further information about materials will be sent to you in due course.

 

Understandably, this is an unsettling time for children, young people and their carers and many people will be feeling anxious about the current situation and the impact that it may have on the health and wellbeing of family, friends and colleagues.

 

For this reason we have also included information to help you reassure your child.  Many of these resources have been developed in collaboration with South Lanarkshire Council.  The attached document provides some advice and guidance.

 

We will continue to up-date this resource and ensure that it is widely available online.  You will be notified of these updates next week.

 

Thank you for your on-going support during these challenging times.

 

Regards

 

Derek Brown

Executive Director

We hope that these links and stories will help to ease the burden whilst your child is unable to attend nursery.

All the links for the sites are underlined which you can click to take you straight through.

Take lots of pictures which you can share when we get the chance to reconnect.

The staff team are always here for you any time.  We thank you for the loving kindness you have shown to us during the last week.

Lynn would like to take this opportunity to personally thank each and every one of you for enabling us to become part of your family.

Shotts Family Learning Centre Supporting Play at Home March 2020 We recognise that this is a difficult time for you and your family, to support your learning together at home we have put together a few suggestions. Go to this Sway