Firstly, I want to thank-you for all your support, patience and understanding throughout the last few months. We know it has been an unsettling time for everyone but we take great comfort from the strength of our school community and to have witnessed our school values in action throughout this time.

This is the last day of school before the summer holidays. However for me, it will be my last day at Cochrane Castle for at least a year and I just wanted to take this opportunity to say what a pleasure and a privilege it has been to be your Headteacher working alongside all our wonderful children and families.

This week, I was delighted to have the opportunity to welcome our new Primary One pupils into the school and give them the chance to meet their teacher and visit their classroom. I know they will quickly become part of the Cochrane Castle family and I wish them every success on the start of their school journey.

I was also honoured to invite the P7 pupils back for one last day to celebrate their valedictory. It was really important to say good bye to them as they move on to the next part of their journey. If you missed it, you can see all the glorious event here: https://www.facebook.com/CochraneCastlePS/videos/255919545707287 

I just want to sign off by wishing pupils, parents and staff every success in the future. Have a wonderful summer holiday and good luck!

We apologise to our parents and carers who are waiting for a refund for any day and residential school trips that have been cancelled. It has been a complex process and our staff have worked incredibly hard to resolve matters to ensure refunds can be paid. All refunds should be made by the middle of July.

Please find attached a letter from Steven Quinn, Director of Children’s Services at Renfrewshire Council.

Parent Update Letter 24 June

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 🙂

This August will look different from any other year in that schools will return to a model of blended learning – with pupils learning in school on some days and from home on others. The letters below outline what this will look like.

A text will be sent from the school telling you which group your child is in.

If your child is in P1 from August 2020:

P1 Grp A Parental Letter 0820

P1 Grp B Parental Letter 0820

If your child is in P2, P3, P4, P5 or P6 from August 2020:

Group A Parental Letter 0820

Group B Parental Letter 0820

If your child is in P7 from August 2020:

P7 Grp A Parental Letter 0820

P7 Grp B Parental Letter 0820

If you have any questions about this, please contact the school.

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:

• Look through the posts from this week if there is anything you have missed.
• Reading Eggspress
• Sumdog
• The music activity from Wednesday
• Catch up on the Nowhere Emporium videos

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Below is the link to the School Age Section on the Social Security Scotland website, this has all the information about the benefit which opened for applications on 1^st June. I would also recommend following Social Security Scotland on Facebook as there is a number of posts made regarding this payment.

https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/what-we-do/stakeholder-resources/best-start-grant-school-age-payment

Hello Cochrane Castle Family,

Today I want to share with you about a new and awesome opportunity that Place2Be has created for parents.  Parenting Fast and Slow is a new interactive online parenting course that is fun highly effective with helping parents makes positive changes for themselves’ and their children.

Parenting Fast & Slow is designed for parents with children aged 3-9 years old. You can learn new ways to help your child be calmer, more helpful, and learn better. There are fun film clips, cartoons and exercises. You can do the course on your mobile, tablet or laptop. The methods are proven to work, and you can practice putting your new skills into action at home from day one.

By doing this online course you will help your children become happier, more rounded, and easier to live with. You will get a better understanding of what makes them tick, and crucially, practical techniques on how to relate to them in a different way. You will find that your children are surprisingly responsive to the changes you make.

Features

•    It’s proven to work: its principles have been successful in trials with over 10,000 children – you get more co-operation, fewer sulks and refusals!

•    Builds inner strength: by responding more sensitively to your child, they will carry forward a sense of security to all future relationships

•    Better learning: it shows enjoyable ways to read with your child that are proven to increase their reading age – and with fewer squabbles over homework!

•    Improves brain growth: applying the course principles develops the parts of the brain that affect learning, feelings and behaviour

•    It’s personalised: the quizzes tell you where you are at compared with other parents and children. As you go along, you write down your experiences which get stored privately in “My Portfolio” so you have a record of your progress

•    It’s interactive and fun: with exercises to help you learn new skills

•    Become part of our community: share tips and experiences with other parents.

If you would like to learn more, click here. I currently have several vouchers that parents can use to make this course free. If you have any questions or are interested in joining please reach out to me!

-Melissa

Call or Text 07976 229491

Email Melissa.dever@place2be.org.uk 

Good morning everyone,

Here is a link to today’s work.

Wednesday 10.6.20