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Newsletters, Whole School News

Weekly Update 04/01/21 and Key Worker Information

As outlined above, school will be open for vulnerable pupils and pupils of keyworkers only from Thursday 7th January.

The school is closed to all other pupils from Wednesday 6th January and  Home learning will re-commence on Monday 11th January.

To qualify for a place in school, both parents must be keyworkers, or a single parent keyworker, and have no other childcare options.

Keyworkers are defined as:

  • Category 1 – Health and Care workers directly supporting COVID-19 response, and associated staff; Health and Care workers supporting life threatening emergency work, as well as critical primary and community care provision; Energy suppliers (small numbers identified as top priority already); staff providing childcare/learning for other category 1 staff.
  • Category 2 – All other Health and Care workers, and wider public sector workers providing emergency/critical welfare services (for example: fire, police, prisons, social workers), as well as those supporting our Critical National Infrastructure, without whom serious damage to the welfare of the people of Scotland could be caused.
  • Category 3 – All workers (private, public or third sector) without whom there could be a significant impact on Scotland (but where the response to COVID-19, or the ability to perform essential tasks to keep the country running, would not be severely compromised).

In light of the announcement on Monday the 4th January, if you have applied for a place but no longer require it due to the fact you are now working from home, please phone the school office on Wednesday 6th January to let us know.

Newsletters, Whole School News

Weekly Update 16/11/20

We have been listening to your feedback about our monthly newsletter and have been looking for a more information friendly way to share what is happening in our school. Until the Christmas break, we are going to trial this weekly format to share key pieces of information with you.  If you click on the image, you can view it in a larger size.

We would love you to bear with us for a few weeks and then give us some feedback on what you think and how we can best share information with you moving forward.

Newsletters, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3/4, Primary 4/5, Primary 6/7, Whole School News

*IMPORTANT INFORMATION* Launch of ParentsPortal for Annual Data Check

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

A step-by-step guide can also be accessed by clicking the image below: