Please find attached a letter from Renfrewshire Council’s Music Service

IMS Recovery Letter 250820

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.

https://tinyurl.com/y52jftgq

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:

http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/schools/parentsportal

Create MyAccount Guidance

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.

https://tinyurl.com/y5yvvdp6

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

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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.

Return to School Info update

To all children and families of Cochrane Castle,

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you all. My name is Graeme Mothersole and I have been appointed as Acting Head Teacher of Cochrane Castle while Mrs McDowall is on secondment. I have most recently been working as Acting Head Teacher of Our Lady of Peace Primary in Linwood and prior to that I was Depute Head Teacher of Brediland Primary in Foxbar for 7 years.

I am really looking forward to meeting you all and working with you next session. I have had the opportunity to meet the staff team and Mrs McDowall has spoken to me about the wonderful children and the amazing things that go on in the school.

I appreciate that this may be a time of great uncertainty for many of you but please know that the school is prepared for every eventuality that August may bring. Renfrewshire Council will continue to keep everyone updated throughout the summer and myself and the staff will be ready and refreshed to welcome you all back to Cochrane Castle at the beginning of the new term.

I hope you all have a wonderful summer and I will see you in August.

Thank you

Mr G T Mothersole
Acting Head Teacher

Have a lovely Summer holidays from all the staff at Cochrane Castle ☺️