To coincide with Anti-Bullying Week which runs from Monday 14th November until Friday 18th November, we are hosting a family learning session presented by Fiona White, Health and Wellbeing Officer from Renfrewshire Council on Wednesday 6.30pm until 7.30pm in our school hall. This session aims to help parents and carers build their knowledge, skills and confidence to have everyday conversations with their child to support them to be safer online. It will introduce Thinkuknow curricular materials and supports aimed at opening up dialogue in school regarding what children do online and how they should carry out their online relationships.
Welcome to the 32nd Sunday of the year and an apology. Due to technical difficulties we are not able to bring you the usual PowerPoint but there is no time to waste. Kids Church brings you some links, some information and some hymns to help you focus on the message this Sunday.
So let us begin.
God of heaven and earth, your Kingdom has room for us all. May we see each other through your eyes. Amen.
If you go to www.Cafod.org you will find children’s liturgy and the prayer sheet for the day.
P1 registration for the 2023 – 2024 session will be live online from 1st to 4th November 2022. All parents/carers of pre-school children should register their child for school on one of these dates, they will be required to upload proof of residency and child’s birth certificate. Parents who do not have internet access or miss registering on these days should contact the catchment school directly to arrange registration in person.
If a parent/carer wants their child to be considered for a school outwith their catchment school, they will need to complete a placing request application as well as registering their child at their catchment school. The deadline for placing requests for the 2023 – 2024 session is 15 March 2023, all applications received by this date will have a written response by 30 April 2023.
For more information, please click the link below.
Please click on the links below to access information regarding the benefits that are on offer from Social Security Scotland, eligibility and how to make an application.
Benefits which are currently available:
Scottish Child Payment – as of 14 November 2022, The Scottish Child Payment benefit will be extended to those responsible for eligible children under the age of 16 and at that point will be increased from £20 to £25 per week. Applications must be made for this.
Also available is the Local Delivery Service which aims to make application for these benefits as easy as possible and support applicants to complete applications through an appointment at a time and location convenient to them.
The website for the Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme, freebus.scot, is now live.
The website contains lots of helpful information for families and young people about free bus travel, how it works, how to apply, the benefits and some tips for travelling safely too. It also features the decision tool feature, to help you understand the different ways they can apply.
The Keep Safe Kids app is a new and easier way for children and young people to access health and wellbeing information and support as well as to report bullying directly to their school.
Pupils can open the app and make reports at any time of day or night as well as make anonymous reports, helping them to control when and how they tell someone about an incident or their concerns.
Reports are sent directly to that child or young person’s school to be picked up in line with the school’s anti-bullying and wellbeing policies. Reports are not held on the app or accessible to anyone else, ensuring confidentiality and reports will not be picked up outside standard school hours.
If you have wellbeing concerns for your child, please do not hesitate to contact us directly. We are here to help.
To find out how to download or use the Keep Safe Kids app, visit the I Am Me Scotland website.
‘I Am Me’ website
