It is with great regret, that in conjunction with Father Kane,   we  announce the scheduled First Communions for our Pr. 4 pupils will have to be postponed.  This decision has been made in light of the pending school closures and current nhs guidelines.

In light of the recent announcement by Nicola Sturgeon this afternoon the school would like to inform you that if you are not self isolating at present and have the capacity to visit the school please do so to uplift an envelope for your child. This will include an interim report that was to be shared at the parents evening had it gone ahead this week and will also include the login details – username and password – for accessing glow.  All teachers have uploaded materials to the site that includes planned learning and links to online teaching resources that would support home learning in the weeks ahead.  Please make arrangements for this to be uplifted if your child is not in attendance at school today.

We are responding to an overwhelming volume of calls in relation to Home Learning Packs as a result of many of our families making the decision to keep their children at home at present. Whilst many of our children know how to get access to glow using their glow username and password the majority of our pupils have not attended school since the beginning of the week and may not readily be able to report to you their glow username and password.  Access to St.Augustine’s Glow SharePoint will enable all families to readily access resources, note recommended online resources suitable for your child and will also provide a platform for communication between pupils and their teacher.  The school is undertaking measures to ensure all pupils and parents can access glow and the sharepoint by providing pupils with their login details.  Children who are in attendance at school today will come home with their username and password and an interim report in light of the cancelled parents evenings this week.  The interim report will provide you with details in terms of your child’s attainment, progress, engagement in learning and next steps.  More details to follow in regard of advice around accessing glow.

Understandably, we know that parents, carers and pupils have a lot of questions around coronavirus and how we are managing this within school.

It is important that we follow advice from the government and NHS and only make decisions that are guided by experts.

The advice is clear: anyone displaying the symptoms of the coronavirus should self-isolate at home for 14 days if living with people in a household. Symptoms include a new persistent cough or a high temperature. More information on self-isolation and symptoms is available at www.nhsinform.scot/coronovirus.

This advice applies to everyone, including school pupils who display these symptoms.

In line with national health advice, North Lanarkshire is not closing schools where there are reports of pupils with these symptoms. All schools are being cleaned on a daily basis with a particular focus on cleaning surface areas.

These are very challenging times and we thank you for your support and co-operation.

For the latest information and advice, go to https://www.nhsinform.scot/coronavirus

You can also follow @NHS24 on Twitter and Facebook.

Please note that due the ever changing picture around COVID19 the school has taken the reluctant decision to cancel the Parents Evenings at this time.  We hope you appreciate our decision to do so.  Arrangements are being made to ensure an interim report will be sent out to inform you of your child’s attainment, progress, engagement in learning and next steps.  This will be issued shortly.  Please note that the school has also made the decsion to cancel all afterschool clubs at this time.  Please be assured that the school is doing all it can to ensure all pupils in attendance regularly wash their hands and follow nhs advice. We are in unprecedented times.

You may be aware that a pupil at the school has displayed symptoms of coronavirus and is now self-isolating. While this is not a confirmed case, a deep clean of the school has been carried out today and the school will open as normal on Monday March 16.
The council continues to work closely with NHS and it is important that the national advice on symptoms is followed. Anyone with a new, persistent cough and fever should not attend school and self-isolate for 7 days. More information and advice can be found on www.nhsinform.scot/coronavirus.

The Eco Committee met to discuss the areas we feel need attention to ensure our school remains an Eco friendly place.  The agenda was busy but we got through it all and left with lots of action points.

Our next project is to encourage as many pupils as possible to ensure they take home their lunch boxes as currently far too many are left behind which means they start to smell and make our school look untidy.  We think we may give a prize to the class with the least on the trolly at the end of the day.

It was great to get outside today and spend some time repairing our fairy garden which had sadly been affected by the bad weather.  We washed our decorative items and laid out a new pathway ready to encourage people to check out our bug hotel.  We checked things out and saw lots of big worms, slugs oh

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and a massive spider!

Mrs Drummond has been looking through our entries for the Scottish Primary Engineering Awards and is delighted at our inventions.  She has loved all the visitors to her class showing off their fabulous drawings and prototypes.  It’s probably just as well Mrs Drummond doesn’t have to buy all these fabulous ideas.  She has signed up for the torch that goes around the corner and the silent hairdryer for dogs.  Wow! Just look at this fabulous homework project. Keep up the  creativity boys and girls.