The Bell foundation have released some information for parents to help with understanding the Scottish Education system – Primary and Secondary. This has been translated into several other languages and may be a useful for new arrivals from other countries.
Translated copies available through the first link.
Here is a link to the holidays for 2023-2024 in Perth and Kinross council.
We wish you all a lovely summer when it comes and look forward to welcoming you back in school on Wednesday 16th August 2023.
Best regards – The EAL Service
PKC School term & holiday dates 2023-2024
Easter holidays begin at the end of the school day tomorrow in Perth & Kinross council. We would like to wish all our families a Happy Easter and look forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday 17th April. #HappyEaster #EAL #PKC #Multilingual #PKCEALService #Holidays
Embrace Equity.
Celebrating International Women’s Day today.
A link to information about schools closed in the next 3 weeks in PKC due to strike action. Perth & Kinross council will update this information as soon as any changes are announced.
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t is the end of term at 12:00 today in Perth & Kinross. We would like to wish all our families, colleagues and students and very happy festive break. Enjoy your holidays and we look forward to welcoming you back on the 9th January 2023. #EAL #Christmaswishes #PKCEALService
As refugees come from countries in conflict you may be able to source support for students experiencing trauma related to these difficulties. Barnardo’s applications can be made for local support or there are links to other supports for young people on this site, with specific links for students from Ukraine and Afghanistan.
Help for anyone fleeing the Ukrainian conflict | Barnardo’s (barnardos.org.uk)
Supporting your family in the UK | Afghan families (barnardos.org.uk)
Welcome back to all our families on the 17th August 2022.
We hope you had a lovely summer – Enjoy the last few days of the holidays!
The Interactive Voice Response (IVR) on our 111 service is now available in 7 languages: Arabic, Mandarin, Polish, Spanish, Romanian, Sorani and Ukrainian.
Our communication toolkit (attached) includes: text to use in any emails, articles or bulletins; multi-lingual WhatsApp messages, static images and an animated gif (these resources can be used on other social media channels); links to short multi-lingual animations; links to multi-lingual leaflets developed to help callers whose first language is not English access the 111 service.
You can also download sections of the toolkit Feature Article WhatsApp Messages WhatsApp animated image (GIF) and multi-lingual animations on www.nhs24.scot
BSL users can communicate with our services via Contact Scotland BSL, and people with hearing and speech difficulties can use Relay UK (Previously Next Generation Text) to call our phone-based services.
If you have any questions about the multi-lingual IVR, or about any other NHS 24 services, do email the team at NHS24.EngagementTeam@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk.
NHS 24 Communication toolkit – muti-lingual IVR v1
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