Category: Parents

Starting/finishing times:

P1 Monday and Tuesday 9.30am. From Wednesday P1 start at 8.50am.  Finishing time 2.50pm every day.

P2 8.55am – 2.55pm

P2/3 9am – 3pm

P3 8.50am – 2.50pm

P4 8.55am – 2.55pm

P5 9am – 3pm

P6 8.50am – 2.50pm

P7 8.55am – 2.55pm

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As we head into the long weekend, we would urge all parents and carers to remain aware of online activity among your children. Online learning has massively increased the use of cameras – in particular your child’s ability to use them. With this inevitably comes risks and dangers from people taking advantage of the situation.

There is a TikTok viral going around today encouraging children to visit the website omegle.com

This is a website where anyone is randomly matched to someone else and they are instantly connected via webcam. This of course is dangerous and could easily expose your children to the worst of the internet, so please remain vigilant.

We would strongly encourage everyone to use the long weekend to –

1. Speak to the children about remaining safe online
2. Review your parental settings on your wifi/devices
3. Check in with your child’s device in terms of apps and people they have ‘added’ on these apps.

In school we always state if they do not physically know the person, they should not be their contact in an app and should not be able to contact them.

For excellent, up-to-date and easily to digest information on every subject to do with online safety, please click this link.

Are you, or do you know, a family who would be eligible for the Scottish Child Payment?  If so apply now to ensure your payments will start when the payments begin in February 2021.

https://www.mygov.scot/scottish-child-payment

Money Matters are still working during lock-down, and are continuing to provide support for families.  Families can call 0303 123 1008 Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) between the hours of 10 am till 3pm. If there is no answer, leave a message and someone will get back to you as soon as possible. Money Matters can also be contacted by email:  Moneymatters.lanark@southlanarkshire.gov.uk The Telephone Advice Line for women and families with young families or during pregnancy can be accessed through: telephoneadviceline@southlanarkshire.gov.uk

New applications for School Age Payments opened on the 1st June 2020. This is a £250 payment made around the time a child normally starts Primary 1 to help with the costs of a child starting school. Below is the link to the website which has the latest information and stakeholder resources available including social media posts.  https://www.socialsecurity.gov.scot/what-we-do/stakeholder-resources/best-start- grant-school-age-payment

We wish to reassure our parents/carers that provision will be made to enable learning to continue at home should your child be absent due to Coronavirus symptoms or self-isolation reasons. Please see the letter in your child’s homelink today. Thank you for your patience whilst we work to make this available to our children and families.  We aim for this to be in place by the end of this week. Keep up to date on the school app and website.

Following advice given by South Lanarkshire Council, parents’ evenings, events and extra-curricular activities (after school clubs) are cancelled until further notice. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Letters will be coming out in the near future for Parents Evening. The dates this year are Wednesday 25th March and Thursday 26th March.

If anyone is able to donate trousers for our swap rail in the main entrance we would really appreciate it…we are running low!