Please click on this link to view our most current Handbook
Mental Health Workshops Parents
19/2/24 | Understanding and Managing Stress and Anxiety | 1pm – 2.30pm |
20/2/24 | Listening to and Supporting My Child | 6.30pm – 8pm |
21/2/24 | Managing My Wellbeing | 10am – 11.30am |
26/2/24 | Managing My Wellbeing | 1pm – 2.30pm |
26/2/24 | Understanding and Managing Stress and Anxiety | 6.30pm – 8pm |
28/2/24 | Listening to and Supporting My Child | 10am – 11.30am |
29/2/24 | Mental Health Awareness | 1pm – 2.30pm |
To All Parents Carers – Come along for a Brew and A Blether
Victoria Park School’s Parent Council would like to invite all our parents and carers to come into school for a brew and a blether on Thursday the 8th February at 1.30pm. Come along to meet other parents for an informal cuppa and a chat.
For your diary: There will be another Brew and A Blether on Thursday 7th March – watch this space.
Statutory Consultation
All SLC schools have been asked to share details of this consultation. Please see message below for details.
Statutory Consultation Proposal: to alter the qualifying distance for free secondary school mainstream transport to those living over 3 miles from their catchment secondary school. (current entitlement is more than 2 miles).
The Council will be conducting a statutory consultation on the proposal to alter the qualifying distance for free secondary school mainstream transport to those living over 3 miles from their catchment secondary school. (current entitlement is more than 2 miles).
The proposal will be open to statutory public consultation from Monday 15 January to Friday 1 March 2024. Public meetings will take place during the week of the 29 January 2024.
Details on this proposal will be contained in a Consultation Proposal Document, including how to feedback any comments and how to book a place at a public meeting.
The proposal document will be available via the following link from 15 January 2024.
Comments, complaints and consultations – South Lanarkshire Council
NHS Neurodevelopmental Service Workshops
Please see attached information about workshops available to parents and carers.
If you would like more details use the QR code in the leaflets or contact the office. We have copies of flyers for each of the separate workshops available on request
Home Learning for Wednesday 8th November
In the event of school being closed on Wednesday next week – Please see the previous post “Home Learning – Autumn Pack” Below are some additional learning activities for you to try with your child indoors and out. If you can please let us know how you and your child got on with any of the activities in the comments below.
Some links to further resources for learning around our bodies
Pictures of weather yoga positions and links links to videos of simple yoga moves
A Picture Communication Symbol chat board to support communication while doing the dishes together
We all like a sensory box at Victoria Park. Here are some ideas for things to put in a bag or box to play with while sharing “joint attention”
Home Learning – Autumn Pack
Victoria Park School will be closed due to industrial action on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week. We have added a home learning pack that you can use with your child during these days.
Standards and Quality Report for Last Session and New Standards and Quality Improvement Plan (SQIP)
Dear Parents, Carers and Friends
Pupils and Staff are very settled into the routines of the school week once again and Autumn seems fast approaching. We look forward to working with you in creative ways based on strong relationships, throughout the session to support our children to be the best they can be.
I am delighted to share with you our Standards and Quality Report for Session 2022 – 2023, where we report on all the fantastic school improvement work carried out last year across our school community.
Also for your information, please see below a link to our new format Standards and Quality Improvement Plan (in line with all SLC schools) for the coming session. Here we set out our plans for continued improvement in the following areas:
- “Curriculum Development”
- “Parental Engagement and Family Learning”
- “Embedding a Culture of High Quality Professional Learning”
SQIP 2023.24 Victoria Park School 2
A hard copy of these reports can be provided by contacting the school office on office@
Kind regards
Liz Coomber
Head Teacher
Speech and Language Therapy Questionnaire: Parents Views
As part of the Speech and Language Therapy review, SLC are seeking the views of parents and carers through an online survey. Clicking on the the link below will take you to the survey. The link provides a full explanation of the purpose of the questionnaire and how the information collated will be used.
SLC Speech and Language Therapy
Please see below a message from SAMH Scottish Association Mental Health
“We are going to be running a range of parent workshops online over the summer which has a focus on empowering parents to support not just their own Mental health, but their child/young persons too.”
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/samh-lets-connect-67397018633
Please click on the links to view SAMHs flyer and a link for booking places on the workshops.