On Friday 16^th September, Mrs Johnston and Mrs Wilson held a Girl Power Assembly for S4 to discuss Female Empowerment and Uniform.  To access the presentation, please click on the link below.

School-Uniform

Tickets are now available from the school office for our Ruby Revue which celebrates 40 years of our amazing school. The event promises to be a walk down memory lane and featuring faces old and new ! Please use the link to reserve your ticket

https://forms.office.com/r/F1f2yXRmz4

Time is running out to notify the Child Benefit office if your child aged 16-19 is staying in approved education or training

You  must act now and notify the Child Benefit Office by 31 August 2022 if your child is aged 16  years or above and is staying on at school or in approved education or training.

Call the Child Benefit Office on 0300 200 3100 or report the change online

If you do this you can continue to receive Child Benefit for a child or young person aged 16-19. However, if your fail to notify the Child Benefit Office of this your Child Benefit, for any child aged 16 years or above, will stop automatically.

I have also attached a copy of a booklet we have prepared – ‘Financial support for families with children at school’ which gives details of financial support that may be available. There are hard copies of the booklet available and if you require copies, please e-mail me and I can get these sent out.

The links below also offer advice and assistance

Managing your money | North Lanarkshire Council

Cost of living help | North Lanarkshire Council

23.8.22 Financial support for families with children leaflet

As we move towards the beginning of the formal exam period on Tuesday, we know centres may have questions around public health guidance in relation to COVID-19.

This email provides advance information on the Scottish Government’s public health guidance, which is set to change in Scotland from 1 May, as well as an update on the Examination Exceptional Circumstances Consideration Service.

Public Health Guidance

For exams taking place before 1 May, the current public health guidance remains in place with PCR testing available for individuals who are symptomatic, and contact tracing and isolation guidance also remaining in place. Population wide asymptomatic testing (LFD universal offer) ended in mid-April, including in schools.

What is changing from 1 May?

From 1 May, advice to people with respiratory symptoms including COVID-19 will change in Scotland in line with the Test and Protect Transition Plan published on 15 March 2022. The general public will no longer be advised to seek a test if symptomatic.

From 1 May, people with symptoms of respiratory illness in Scotland, including COVID-19, will be asked to follow general public health guidance which will be available on 1 May. As set out on the Public Health Scotland website, this new guidance will be published on NHS Inform and will broadly align with the current UKHSA ‘Stay at Home’ Advice.

Information for parents, carers and learners

We understand that parents and carers may be anxious about the impact public health guidance may have on whether learners should attend exams if they feel unwell, and we know that many will look to you for advice. To that end we encourage you to use the following information with your networks:

Please see below a series of Construction based webinar events organised through DYW and Lanarkshire local and national businesses. The Webinars are available for all to attend and will be aimed to promote working in that sector. All sessions will also be interactive to allow feedback and a Q&A at the end of the session.

Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2022 Daily Session Guide