St Andrew's High School

The English department have issued a link via Show My Homework for eTextbooks that pupils should work through after the Easter holidays.  Students should check their Show My Homework account for the link.

As a way of supporting pupils during this difficult time, one of our school counselling groups (The Therapeutic Counselling Service) have designed a survey monkey to help with reaching out to pupils and raising awareness of the services they offer.   This Survey Monkey will also help The TCS  with gaining a better insight into how students are coping with the change in circumstances.

Students can access the Survey Monkey at the link below.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/FZJFWWN

Please find attached the latest “Guidance for learners, parents, and carers” from the SQA

SQA NQ 2020: Parent & Carer – Covid19 FAQ

Our school will use SQA guidance on this matter to ensure the awards are fair and representative of all your child’s work this session. More information will be provided when we receive it from the SQA.

The school has been extremely busy manufacturing face shields (as shown in photo below) to support our local critical workers.

Since production started we have made & distributed over 650 masks. At present, we currently have 936 requests and for the time being, we can no longer take any more new orders until we clear the current requests.

Please see the attached document for some really important and worthwhile advice for supporting children and young people during this difficult period of time.

Covid19 Advice for supporting children and young people

Please see attached an important letter from Mr Holmes

Letter to parents and carers

KEY WORKERS

All North Lanarkshire schools will be open on Monday for the children of the following categories of key workers.  It is essential, to stop the spread of transmission of coronavirus, that people who can work from home do work from home. This is not business as usual and it is vital that this support being offered is only accessed by those who absolutely require it to enable NHS and other critical services to function.

If you’re a key worker who requires support, please take your child to your normal school on Monday. We will review these arrangements over the coming week and it is likely we will fully close some schools but we will inform you of this and the alternative provision we will put in place.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should any child who has symptoms of coronavirus, or who lives in a household where someone has symptoms, present at school. The whole family must follow the self-isolation advice.
Key worker categories:

Category 1

Includes:
·       Health and care workers directly supporting COVID-19 response and associated staff
·       Workers supporting life-threatening emergency work as well as critical primary and community care provision
·       Staff of energy suppliers
·       Staff, including teachers and early years workers, providing childcare and learning for other key workers and staff who support school buildings

Category 2

Please note that the first presumption is that staff who can work from home will work from home

·       All other health and care workers including home support staff and care home staff
·       Emergency services staff, including police, fire and rescue, prison officers
·       Military personnel
·       Social workers

Those supporting critical national infrastructure including:

·       Staff keeping air, water, road and rail passenger transport operating
·       Oil, gas, electricity and water and sewerage workers
·       Logistics staff including drivers and transport workers
·       Food and other necessary goods staff including food production, processing, distribution, sale, delivery as well as those essential to the provision of hygienic and veterinary medicines
·       Staff in essential financial service provision including: banks, building societies and financial market infrastructure; IT and data infrastructure; postal services; civil nuclear, chemicals and telecommunications; payment providers; waste disposal.
·       Journalists and broadcasters

Category 3

Other council and associated staff in the following categories. Please note that the first presumption is that staff who can work from home will work from home

·       Strategic-level management and support staff
·       Waste services staff
·       Fleet services staff
·       Cemeteries staff
·       Property repairs and maintenance staff including frontline workers of Mears and Saltire
·       Roads and lighting maintenance staff including staff of Amey
·       Facility support services including cleaning, catering, school crossing patrollers and janitorial staff
·       Human resources staff including payroll and employee service centre
·       IT staff
·       Communications staff
·       Finance staff including welfare, revenue and benefits staff and municipal bank staff
·       Registration staff
·       Essential legal services
·       Psychological services staff


 Only the following pupils should attend at school:

·       Children of Category 1 key workers as detailed above.
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Staff across the school have been busy making arrangements for students to have access to online resources for study & revision. Microsoft Teams, Show My Homework & Scholar are the main platforms that students can utilise. These can all be accessed with students GLOW accounts.

Students unfamiliar with how to access Microsoft Teams can follow this guide to add the app to their GLOW launch pad. The Teams app can also be downloaded onto phones & iPads & can be accessed via the App Store.

Scholar username & passwords have all been individually issued to students in S4-S6.

Students can access  their accounts at the following links

• GLOW –  https://glow.rmunify.com
• SMHW – https://satchelone.com/login or via the SMHW app
• SCHOLAR – https://scholar.hw.ac.uk/login

Any problems accessing your GLOW account please email Mr McCrossan – gw10mccrossanjohn@glow.sch.uk

• Columba 1400
  • Our S3 Columba 1400 pupils spoke to our cluster headteachers about their project and their plans to work with our Primary Schools.  A very impressive presentation from the pupils with great feedback from the cluster headteachers. 
• University Visit
  • S4 pupils enjoyed a very informative day visiting Strathclyde University to experience student life & learn skills for forthcoming exams. Thanks to Angie & all the fab mentors from Focus West who worked with pupils in their widening access programme.
• World Book Day Competition
  • To celebrate ‘World Book Day 2020’, the Library ran a competition. The winners were Bradley Moore 1C and Aaron Spalding 1F.  Both selected a selection of books as their prizes plus an Easter Egg.
• Sports Leadership Academy
  • A great start to the second block of primary placements for the NL Active Schools Sports Leadership Academy pupils.  Fundamentals & Multi Sports after schools clubs are being delivered for primary pupils by our senior pupils.
• North Lanarkshire Cross Country
  • The North Lanarkshire Cross Country Championships was postponed this week because of weather conditions, it has been rescheduled for Wednesday the 18th March.

Saturday School Programme.  This Saturday (14th March) will be our final day of our Saturday School programme.  Students are reminded to notify staff of their intentions to attend each session.