Parent/ Carer Call for Help with P4-7 Glow Teams

First of all, can I please say thank you for your support as we move to Teams for learning. The staff are working really hard to check in with children and set learning tasks. It is fantastic to see so many children engaged and accessing the learning.
As we add more content there are a few points we need your help with as we don’t want the groups to be difficult to navigate. Therefore we would appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to speak to your children about the following points.
  1. Use their chat channel for ‘chit chat’. Please do not post ‘hi’ etc in the learning areas.This is making them cluttered.
  2. When uploading work, they must click reply to the post. That way all the learning for that task stays on the same thread and their teacher gets a notification. Currently, some children, after being reminded, are still posting their work as new posts, meaning the Team channels are becoming difficult to navigate.
  3. Children all learn in different ways, and we know devices in your home might be limited or on a rotation. Therefore, no child should feel stressed to complete all the tasks. They can access them when it is appropriate. However, please ensure your child is accessing something, this indicates to us that they are still learning.
Failing this, we will have to begin deleting the random posts and comments in order to ensure our groups are easy to access and navigate for all children.
If you need any help, please contact the school office on wlpuscps@westlothian.org.uk and we will try our best to help.
Thank you for your continued support during this difficult time.

School packed lunches and hot meals update – Wednesday 25 March

All Children Entitled to Free School Meals (including all P1-P3) can collect a packed lunch and a breakfast cereal bar/cereal or have a hot meal at the following schools between 12 noon and 1.30pm.  The list of locations has now been extended and is below.

  • All 11 secondary schools
  • All of the primary schools are listed below:
    • Addiewell Primary School
    • Armadale Primary School
    • Bellsquarry Primary School
    • Blackridge Primary School
    • Bridgend Primary School
    • Deans Primary School
    • Dechmont Infant School
    • East Calder Primary School
    • Greenrigg Primary School
    • Howden St Andrew’s Primary School, Livingston
    • Kirkhill Primary School, Broxburn
    • Kirknewton Primary School
    • Longridge Primary School
    • Mid Calder Primary School
    • Murrayfield Primary School, Blackburn
    • Our Lady’s Primary School, Stoneyburn
    • Parkhead Primary School
    • Peel Primary School, Livingston
    • Polkemmet Primary School, Whitburn
    • Pumpherston and Uphall Station Primary School
    • Riverside Primary School, Livingston
    • Seafield Primary School
    • St John The Baptist Primary School, Fauldhouse
    • Torphichen Primary School
    • Westfield Primary School
    • Winchburgh Primary School
    • Woodmuir Primary School

Please note that the following schools below provide a packed lunch for collection only.

  • Harrysmuir PS, Livingston
  • Knightsridge PS, Livingston
  • Springfield PS, Linlithgow
  • Simpson PS, Bathgate
  • St Ninians PS, Livingston
  • St Mary s PS. Bathgate

A small number of children entitled to Free School Meals (FSM) who live at remote addresses will be contacted to offer help accessing these centres

Useful apps/websites

Here are some apps/websites which may help with home learning opportunities:

Literacy

www.spellingcity.com (some games free)

www.teachyourmonstertoread.com

 

STEM

www.tynker.com (for coding)

www.stem.org.uk (for daily challenges around the home/garden)

www.topmarks.co.uk (free maths games for 5-7 year olds)

 

Health and Wellbeing

www.actionforhappiness.org.uk (for mindfulness/acts of kindness)

 

We hope you find these helpful.  We will continue to add to this list over the coming weeks.

 

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