We are very happy to launch our new section of the website dedicated to transition today! We hope it will be of use particularly in the current period of closure. You will find the new section in the top menu on our website homepage. You can also find it in the ‘Information’ section of the school app. Please feel free to have a look at all the different sections including –
- Transition handbooks for Woodpark Primary and Lesmahagow High School
- Handy hints and ideas for getting your child ready for each stage
- Video tours of Woodpark Primary and Lesmahagow High School
- Ask any question you may have about transition.
We hope you find this new resource useful and that it may help in the current situation.
Please click here to view the new transition section.
If you did not manage to collect your child’s resource pack today, you can do so from the school office between 9:30-12pm tomorrow (Fri 1st May).
Thank you to all parents who collected resource packs and brought back books today, we really appreciate your continued support.
This week we have been preparing more resources to support home learning in the weeks ahead. Please see the message that your child’s teacher has put on their Google Classroom page which advises what should be returned to school. We will also send a copy of these messages out via the app shortly.
When you come to the school please do not enter the glass ‘bubble’ at the main door until the person in front of you has left and we would ask you to queue towards the playground at 2 metres distance from others. We will work through classes as quickly as we can. Parents with children in various classes will be given all class packs at the one time.
Times to pick up resources:
Primary 7 – 9:30am – 10am
Primary 6 – 10:30am – 11am
Primary 5 – 11am – 11:30am
Primary 4 – 11:30am – 12pm
Primary 3 – 12pm – 12:30pm
Primary 2 – 12:30pm – 1pm
Primary 1/2 – 1pm – 1:30pm
Primary 1 – 1:30pm – 2pm
Thank you all so very much for all your hard work, motivating the children to log in to Google Classrooms each day. Teachers are working hard to provide a range of core learning and wider interest activities to support home learning and keep the children’s interest up. We know this is a challenging time for everybody but we really appreciate your continued support. If you have not yet been able to log in to Google Classrooms please get in touch so we can help you, either by phoning the school office on 01555 892251 or email
wp@glow.sch.uk
Take care everyone.
Resources for families during Covid-19 school closures
In order to identify what resources you may require during this period of Covid-19 closure I would be grateful if you could take a few moments to complete the online survey, link attached. Thank you
Please click here to access the form
We hope that everyone is staying well and safe and that you all managed to enjoy some of this sunny weather during the Spring holidays. We will continue to provide a range of learning activities for children to take part in via Google Classrooms and the class pages on the school website during this period of lockdown. It has been lovely to see so many of the children joining in.
If you have any problems logging in please send an email to wp@glow.sch.uk and we will help you as soon as possible.
We will prepare more resource packs next week to help support learning at home this term and will send out an alert and app message to let you know when they are ready. Please when collecting new packs could old reading books be returned to us, thank you. In the meantime look after yourselves and stay safe.
The current system for school meals during the Coronavirus is changing.
Please click this link for information on the new system.
As of
Thursday 26th March SLC will move to a Hub model and will operate 20 hubs across four geographical areas in SLC.
There is a central application process for hubs
managed by Education Resources. Eligibility criteria will be detailed in the application form.
Application forms for Early Years and school aged children will go live via the council website and twitter this evening. A link to the form can be found below.
Hubs will be regarded as child care provision for key workers and will be managed and staffed by volunteers from within the localities.
The initial deadline for parental returns is
9am on Wed 25th March 2020. HQ will manage this process including notifying parents directly. Applications received thereafter will be allocated spaces on the basis of availability.
https://forms.gle/jbYuYd5BLaBxE2uc7
Emergency childcare
will be provided again tomorrow, Tuesday 24th March, for children
whose parents are in the following categories:
FOR CATEGORY 1 SERVICES:
Health and Care workers directly supporting
COVID 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 SERVICES:
Police, fire and rescue, ambulance,
prison service
*Please note that this is for those families whose children are well and who do not have another family member who is not in the above categories.
School
lunches for children entitled to free school meals (this includes all P1-P3)
will be available between 12pm and 1.30pm.
Please call the school office before 9.30am to advise of attendance and
place lunch order. Parents bringing
their child for lunch may also order a meal.
Please be aware that this provision is for lunch only.
Again, we
thank you for your patience at such an unprecedented time. I would also like to
express my sincere thanks to our wonderful Woodpark staff who have stepped up
to face this huge challenge, demonstrating
their commitment to ensuring that, as far as possible, learning continues
remotely and emergency childcare can be provided.
If you have still to collect your
child’s home learning pack please come to the school office between 9am and 3pm
tomorrow, or call if that is not possible so we can make arrangements, thank
you.
We will
continue to keep you up to date via our website, app and Twitter.
Meantime,
keep safe and well everybody.
Debbie MacKenna Head Teacher
