A huge thank you to all our families for supporting our recent Travelling Book Fair. Your generosity raised £1087.50 earning the school £543.75 to spend on new reading resources for the school.
Author: WLPatricia.Mooney@glow
Impact Arts
Final set of Impactful Parents Creative Employability sessions for lone parents and ethnic minority (non-white or non-British) parents. The dates and locations for our final programmes are as follows:
Wednesdays (January 21st-March 18th) from 9:30am-2:30pm at Voluntary Sector Gateway, Bathgate
Thursdays (January 22nd-March 19th) from 9:30am-2:30pm at Reconnect Howden Park, Livingston
Fridays (January 16th-March 13th) from 9:30am-12:30pm ONLINE
As part of the programme, participants will gain employability skills and an SQA qualification, receive 1-2-1 support towards future employment, and enjoy plenty of fun and engaging creative arts activities. As part of attending, participants can receive up to £15 per day training allowance for attending the programme, plus travel expenses. In-person participants will receive a free catered lunch at every session whilst online participants will receive an art pack with a variety of arts materials which they can use both within and beyond the sessions.
Impact Arts’ friendly, supportive delivery staff will work with participants to ensure everyone reaches their potential and has a great experience. Our dedicated Wellbeing & Opportunities Worker will support participants to gain an SQA qualification and will offer tailored pastoral support. Our Creative Lead tutor will introduce participants to new artistic techniques and will support them in creating artworks using various artforms.
At the end of the programme, there will be a celebratory showcase of work that will be planned, collated and hosted by the participants. Friends and family members can help the participants to celebrate their achievements.
We aim to help each participant to build confidence and develop employability skills to ensure they go on to a positive destination once they complete the programme. This could be further training, education or employment.
This programme is open to lone parents and ethnic minority (non-white or non-British) parents who live in West Lothian who are experiencing barriers to employment.
If you are a lone parent or an ethnic minority parent living in West Lothian or a referral agency, and you’d like to express an interest in joining the Impactful Parents programme, please complete our REFERRAL FORM. A member of staff from Impact Arts will then be in touch. If you’d like more information about the programme, you can visit our website: IMPACT ARTS WEBSITE
School Clothing Request Form
Final reminder!
Please complete the attached FORM if you require Mrs Mooney to order school uniform, boots, etc for your child. This is open to All.
School Clothing – Fill in form
Spend Smart Eat Well
Young Scot National Entitlement Card
Please see below, the link to Young Scot National Entitlement card. We would encourage ALL, parents and carers to apply on behalf of their children to benefit from free travel as well as other exciting discounts.
Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel – Young Scot
Galaday Pageant Selection
Please see below the details for Galaday Pageant selection, this year.
This involves ALL P2, P3, P5 and P7 Children as well as, P6 boys ONLY
National Heritage Lottery Funding
Recovery Cafe
Good Morning.
Please see the attached information regarding a new Recovery Café being delivered from the Strathbrock Partnership Centre. The open day for this being the 19th of September.
Sustainable Future
Hello,
My name is Melissa Dunn and I work with the Education Department to support and develop Health and Wellbeing (HWB) and Learning for Sustainability (LfS). I attended St Joseph’s Primary and then went on to work here as a class teacher for several years. I also worked at St Mary’s in Bathgate before moving to work at Southdale Primary in Armadale when it opened in 2016.
To find out what is important to communities, especially around travel, transport and facilities in your local area I plan to work with all feeder primaries to St Kentigern’s Academy. In finding out what matters to you and your community I intend to put forward a grant proposal to the Scottish Government to see if we can help deliver some of the action points that come from our meetings.
Attached is a poster that details of this project. If you are interested in being part of this working group please contact your school office as they have further information including times and dates.
I look forward to meeting and working with you soon.
Best Wishes
Melissa
Financial Wellbeing
The West Lothian Advice Network is hosting a Financial Wellbeing Networking Event on Wednesday 20 March 2024 from 2.00pm – 4.00pm at Whitburn Partnership Centre.The aim of the event is to raise awareness of the organisations that provide support to the wider West Lothian community including:
- A fun speed networking session where you can hear directly from services within a set time
- Information stalls to learn more about the wide range of support services on offer
- Time for networking and discussion with other attendees
We have a vast range of organisations attending the event – if you work with people who are struggling financially, need advice about money, debts, budgeting or information on the wider support available then this event is for you!
To book your place click here or go to www.ticketsource.co.uk/west-lothian-council-advice-shop
