Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog
A place for news, information and sharing learning from PUSCPS
Support to Parents and Carers
“We want to take this opportunity to thank you for all that you are doing to support your child’s learning in these uncertain times. We appreciate the challenges that we are all facing as we adapt to the current circumstances and hope that you find the information in this link helpful to you as you continue to support your family’s wellbeing.”
“We appreciate the additional challenges that are faced by our children and young people with autism at this time and hope that you find this resource and sources of support helpful to you.”
We note today’s announcement by the First Minister regarding schools closing to pupils from Monday 23 March.
We are awaiting further details from the Scottish Government, and will confirm details with pupils and parents/carers as soon as we can.
Extensive preparations have already been made for this situation and we will work to maintain learning and to support students at this difficult time.
Each session West Lothian issue a parent ethos survey for families to complete about your child’s school. The findings of this questionnaire, along with our school evaluations, help us to plan future improvements.
Thank you to everyone who has already taken part in the questionnaire. We would value if you could take ten minutes to complete the survey using the link below.
https://www.esurveycreator.co.uk/s/6b30b67
Please find below the West Lothian Council Attendance at School Policy:
Attendance_at_School_Policy (7)
This flow chart may also help you understand the process:
As you are aware Thursday 12th December is an Election Day. Our school dinner hall is a voting station but our school and nursery will be open as normal.
Children attending Breakfast Club should enter through the main office and go into the gym hall.
School lunches that day will be green tray only (packed lunch) or children can bring their own packed lunch to school.
Dear parent/ carer,
The letter below was issued to all parents in June through groupcall from West Lothian Council. 50% of our school families are now using this service.
It is important that ALL our families sign up to use this service for a number of reasons:
This will also improve communication between home and school, use less paper and protect our admin staff’s time (due to a reduction in hours).
The annual data check has been issued from West Council through Parent Portal. We therefore request that you sign up as soon as possible, as it is essential that we have up to date information about your child and their emergency contact details.
We appreciate your support with this, and if you do have any issues or concerns please contact the school office on 01506 280995 or wlpuscps@westlothian.org.uk
Kind regards,
Miss Burton
|
Dear Parent/GuardianIn support of West Lothian Council’s ambition to transform communications between parents/carers we have been working with national partners to develop a “Parents Portal”.
The portal is designed to replace the ‘schoolbag run’, giving parents online access to a range of school-related services. At the heart of the system is a secure online account through mygov.scot which is referred to as a ‘My Account’, and this is already used in all West Lothian schools to enable parents to make online payments.
Initially, this new service will introduce basic information about your child’s school and will allow you to:-
As the product develops we look forward to seeing more services introduced including electronic permission slips and consent forms.
This is an exciting first phase of a new initiative which enables and creates a digital relationship between parents, pupils and schools.
For further information, guidance and access to parentsportal.scot, please click on the link below:-
On signing up to the portal, you will be able to link to your child and gain access to the above named services which are currently available. Please note this service is only available to Primary and Secondary children. In order to link to your child the data you provide during the sign up process must match the most up-to-date data that your child’s school holds.
We hope that parentsportal.scot and its services will become an integral part of you and your child’s school experience.
Yours sincerely
James Cameron
Head of Education (Learning, Policy and Resources
As you are aware Thursday 12th December is an Election Day. Our school dinner hall is a voting station but our school and nursery will be open as normal.
Children attending Breakfast Club should enter through the main office and go into the gym hall.
School lunches that day will be green tray only (packed lunch) or children can bring their own packed lunch to school.
