Renfrewshire Council are fully aware of the additional difficulties that have been placed on families as a result of the Covid – 19 pandemic. This helpful guide should alleviate some concerns and support you in doing the safest thing for your family and the local community.
In support of Renfrewshire’s ambition to provide better communications between parents/carers and our schools, we are excited to launch Parentsportal.scot – an exciting new initiative which enables and creates a digital relationship between parents, pupils and schools.
The portal is designed to replace the ‘schoolbag run’, giving parents online access to a range of school-related services. At the heart of the system, is a secure online account through mygov.scot which is referred to as a ‘My Account’. This is already used in over half of Renfrewshire schools enabling parents to make payments online.
The first phase of the service will introduce basic information about your school and will allow you to link to your child and update your own, as well as your child’s details as part of the Annual Data Check process, that is now managed electronically.
As the portal develops, we look forward to seeing more services introduced in the coming months.
On signing up to the portal, you will be able to link to your child and gain access to the services which are currently available. Please note this service is only available to Primary and Secondary children. In order to link to your child, the data you provide during the sign up process must match the most up-to-date data that your child’s school holds.
Click on the link below to get started:
The school office will no longer be accepting cash and instead families will be invoiced for payment for school lunches.
Please click the link for more information.
Hello Cochrane Castle Families,
Welcome back! It has been so wonderful seeing you all at the morning drop off and finally having your kiddos back in the school. These past few months have been such a whirlwind and it’s totally understandable if you find yourself having a lot of mixed emotions about the return to school.
The Place2Be counselling program on West Johnstone Campus will be resuming shortly. Including our work with parents, one-to-one counselling, and our lunch time self-referral service called Place2Talk, which was hugely popular last year with students.
Last year signed permission slips were required for students to be able to use the Place2Talk service. This year we are moving to a negative consent. Meaning that if you want your child to have access to this service no signed permission slip is required, just do nothing. How simple is that!
If you DO NOT want your child to have access to this service please contact me or the school (via email, phone, or morning drop off), or print off the negative consent form below and we will remove your child from the approved list. You can change your consent at any time.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me or your head teacher. I am so excited to be working with your kids this upcoming academic year.
Attached at the bottom of this post is the negative consent form as well as a FAQ sheet about the Place2Talk program.
Click the link below and the file will download. If you have any trouble viewing the document please contact me, and I can send you a copy via email or home with your child.
Place2talk Negative Consent Letter and FAQS
-Melissa Dever, School Counsellor
Melissa.dever@place2be.org.uk
It has been lovely to see our children returning to school yesterday and today.
They have all settled very well and are enjoying being back at Cochrane Castle.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our families for helping us by following the procedures we have put in place.
We are looking forward to welcoming the Primary 5s and Primary 6s back to school tomorrow.
I hope you are all having a lovely week despite the turn in weather. I am very excited to see you all this afternoon when I come to visit!
Today Ms Harper will be setting you all sports tasks, if you didn’t manage to do Mrs Campbell’s art yesterday you could also catch up with that, Sumdog, Bugclub or any of your words and sounds you would like to have an extra go at!
Have a fantastic morning and I will see you all soon 🙂
Happy Friday everyone!
Thank you for all of the great work this week! I was really impressed with the fractions work and your creative stories yesterday.
Today is a catch up day for you to use as you want. Some ideas are:
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
