Arrangements for Returning to School – 5th August 2020

Please find below information regarding the arrangements for returning to school in August 2020.

Information from South Lanarkshire Council regarding the ‘phased return’ to full time learning for all schools from August 2020

Click here to access the link to a letter from SLC 

In order to plan the safe return of our children to Kirkton Primary School, there will be a number of arrangements in place, based on the guidance from the Scottish Government and SLC Education Resources.

Return to Kirkton PS Letter to parents – August 2020

Information which summarises all of the arrangements for quick reference and provides maps for entry and exit points

Infographic – Returning to Kirkton Primary School

Map – Entering & Exiting our School Safely

Please direct any feedback or questions to gw14kirktonpsoffice@glow.sch.uk or telephone 01555 772466.  Please note email and answering machine messages will be responded to after 11th August 2020.

The leadership team will be available on Monday 10th August 2020 from 10am until 12 noon and we will be happy to speak with you on the phone that day, if you have any urgent questions regarding the reopening of school.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM SLC FOR PARENTS ON KEEPING OUR CHILDREN SAFE AT HOME  AND ONLINE – 20.5.20

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM SLC FOR PARENTS ON KEEPING OUR CHILDREN SAFE AT HOME  AND ONLINE

Learning At Home

Moving forward teachers will be providing learning tasks on a weekly basis.  Tasks will be posted on the Website “Learning at Home”, on the app and in Google Classroom.

These tasks are not compulsory and children can do as many or as few as you would like.

We would recommend the following daily and weekly tasks:

Each Day

  • Read for 15 minutes – this can be any book you have at home
  • Practice your spelling – your teacher will give you this each week.
  • Practice your mental maths – your teacher will give you this each week.

Each Week (try to complete)

  • 3 Literacy
  • 3 Mathematics
  • 3 Learning Across the Curriculum Activities

We have also added a personal class challenge, this is an activity you do with members of your household if you have time.  If you are able to, you can complete more.

  • We also have our grids with skills, apps and online activities as well as things to do without technology which can be used instead/or as well as the activities on the weekly grid.  (see below).

Many of the activities can also be re-visited. If you can, post work that you are proud of for your teacher to see on Twitter or Google Classroom.

Support from SLC

LC want to ensure our learners have everything they need for their wellbeing & to access learning at home. They are offering a range of supports, which will be delivered directly to homes during difficult time.

If you need access to any of these, please complete this form ASAP.

Click here for the link to the form.

Request for support will be forwarded to South Lanarkshire Council and a member of the central time will contact you directly.

**By completeing this form you agree to your details being passed to SLC. The form will close on Friday 1st May at 4pm.

BBC Bitesize

Some superb home learning resources on BBC Bitesize. Check out the link below;

BBC Bitesize Homepage

The site can be searched by primary stage and there are daily lessons for homeschooling in Maths and English, as well as regular lessons in Science, History, Geography and more. You can search by Primary stage here;

Bitesize Daily Lessons by Primary Stage

Each day BBC iPlayer and the Red Button are hosting Bitesize Daily programmes too.

Teachers have worked with the BBC team to create fun-packed programmes full of learning and inspiration. Each programme will include a combination of core subjects like English, Maths and Science, as well as other subjects such as History, Geography, Music and French. The daily schedule can be accessed here;

Bitesize Daily TV Schedule

We would love to hear about your experiences of using the site. Why don’t you post what you have learned on your Google Classroom page?

 

Welcome Back

Good Morning everyone.

We hope you are all well and managed to have some chill time during the Easter Holidays.

We managed to speak to almost all of our families last week and it was lovely to hear how everyone was doing.

As we prepare to start a very different Summer Term, the staff of Kirkton would like to applaud our children and our parents & carers too.  We know the extra worries & stresses you will be facing at times but home learning should NOT be one of them. Before we finished for the lockdown we issued all our children with home learning packs which should last for at least the next 2 weeks, although we know that this may last longer than this.

Moving forward staff will issue weekly activities which will be uploaded to the app, website as well as google classroom.

Staff have produced some additional guides which will give you an idea of some useful apps, online activities as well as things which can be done without technology.

Teachers will check in with their classes each day on google classroom, where pupils can upload their learning, share photos and be involved in discussions with their teacher.

If you are unable to access google classroom please click on this link and someone will get back to you as soon as they can.  Click here for the online form.

These are unprecedented times and we want to reassure parents that children can complete as little or as much home learning as they/you feel is manageable, please do what is right for you and your family.

If there are any questions or queries please contact us via the form above or by email either through the office or gw20slckirkton@glow.sch.uk

If we missed you last week and you would like a call, please let us know.

Stay safe and take care,

Mrs Brennan

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