You will probably have lots of questions ahead of the return to school next week. NLC have tried their best to answer them on their website. Questions in relation to safety and hygiene, transport, school meals etc are all to be found on the link below. More will be added in the coming days.
Return to school frequently asked questions
I hope that you have had a relaxing break and are ready for a return to some normality. May I take this opportunity to thank you once again for your ongoing support and patience during these challenging times. All staff are very much looking forward to welcoming our pupils back to school from Wednesday 12th August.
Please access the link below to the NLC website and the latest information in regard of the phased return commencing Wed. 12th August. More information from the school will follow later.
As you are aware, information was recently sent out in respect of operating procedures for August (featured in a previous post). In addition, class arrangements for August were sent via text today. Our return to school was based on the contingency plans outlined by Scottish Government and NLC and was always subject to change. Please note the following statement from North Lanarkshire Council in light of the announcement today.
Schools update Tuesday 23rd June NLC
Today’s announcement from the Scottish Government outlines the plan to reopen all schools on a full time basis from August.
We are currently considering the practicalities and implications of this announcement and will await further clarification and guidance from government, particularly in relation to public health and scientific advice.
Our priority is the safety or our pupils and staff across our network or primary, secondary and ASN schools, as well as our early learning and childcare settings.
We understand that you will have questions, and as this news was only announced today, we will make further information available on how this impacts on our schools and facilities in the coming days.
We are preparing for pupils to return full-time to school on 12th August and we will be working closely with our schools and partners, including our early years and childcare provision to establish our plans, which we will communicate as soon as we are in a position to do so.
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Huge thanks to our PTA for organising and preparing a lovely video montage for our Primary 7 pupils. We are sure you will agree they have turned out to be superb young people who have shown outstanding resilience over the last few months. We couldn’t be any more proud.
We are sorry the end of their school year didn’t go as planned but know they will go on and continue to be amazing . Good luck P7 we will miss you!
Please note that all parents will receive a text message on Tuesday to indicate the days your child/children will attend school from August. Our classes have been split in half with Group A children attending on Mon/Tues and Group B children attending Thurs/Frid. A letter will also be sent to every family to give fuller details in regard of class teacher and time for starting and finishing school.
Please note the booklet below gives some details to support the return to school in August.
St.Augustine Back to School Booklet 2020
As a staff team we thank you for your great support at these challenging times and for supporting your child’s learning at home. It has been a delight to see how well children have interacted with their teachers and completed their assigned tasks. Great independent and successful learners. They really have been a credit to you and a joy to work with this session.
Due to the Coronavirus crisis the department responsible for preparing Young Scot Cards for P7 pupils were unable to process applications as they normally would. The normal timescales and processes were completely disrupted as you might imagine.
The last communication received has indicated they aim to have cards produced for pupils returning to school in August, and the likely scenario will be that they will arrange for cards to be sent to high schools prior to the start of the new term. This is a change to normal systems where we would issue these to pupils in June.
In the meantime P7 pupils may like to familiarise themselves with excellent resources at www.young.scot including local pages at https://young.scot/north-lanarkshire. Young people aged 12+ can sign up for young scot membership and access additional opportunities, rewards and discounts on the web page. Social media pages also contain lots of great information about events, opportunities and youth issues, so please follow @NLCYouthwork and encourage pupils to do the same.
We will update you further should anything change before August.
Thanks for your patience.
Please note the Frequently Asked Questions response which was developed through work with Parent Council Groups across the authority this week.
Please note the letter from Derek Brown that details the latest information from North Lanarkshire Council.
Please share this around all Primary 7 Parents and Carers regarding a socially distanced visit to the school on Tuesday.
We have signed up for NL Active Schools Virtual Sports Day on Monday 22nd June and hope as many of our pupils as possible will take part. Family members are encouraged to take part too!
You will see from the attached timeline the order of events. Please ensure you take plenty of pictures and tag us on Twitter as well as @NLActiveSchools using the #NLSportsDay
A Resource pack is attached to help you plan for the day as well as an Equipment list. Good Luck everyone! We can’t wait to see your photos. 
