Inspection of Loanhead Primary School and Nursery ClassMidlothian Council
Please be advised that the Summarised Inspection Findings (SIF) have now been published on our website and are available from this link:
https://education.gov.scot/education-scotland/inspection-reports/reports-page/?id=3483.
Hi everyone,
Hope we are all well and keeping safe! We miss you all and don’t quite know how to fill our days without all your little people keeping us busy.
We will be posting on here hopefully quite regularly and sharing some things that your children enjoy while at nursery with us.
Our first share for today is a Youtube channel that you may be familiar with called Cosmic Kids Yoga.
https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
We use this within nursery to have some quiet time usually after lunch and the children engage with this so well. Yoga is beneficial to children both physically and emotionally. Physically it enhances their flexibility, coordination, muscle tone and their spacial awareness. Emotionally it helps them to relax and relieve any anxiety they may feel. It will also help them to concentrate and focus on any tasks they may have later in the day. Most importantly it can help them sleep better at night – worth a go I think!
Our personal favourites at nursery are:
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
Frozen
Trolls
Popcorn the Dolphin
There are lots of different videos that you can all get involved with as a whole family! Please share any photos or videos of you doing yoga with us via email!
Stay safe everyone and please do not hesitate to reach out to any of us.
Loanhead Nursery x
The following statement was sent to schools this evening. At the bottom of the statement are links to parental guidance and advice which will be very useful in this time. We will keep you updated as, and when, we know anything else.
All schools will be closed to Primary Pupils and S1-3 Pupils with the following exceptions:
· Saltersgate School will remain open to support our children with severe and complex needs. The Head Teacher will be in contact with individual families outlining the individual arrangements which will be in place.
· All Secondary Schools will be open to S4-6 Pupils only in order to complete any SQA mandatory coursework and assessments prior to the published deadlines. Please refer to individual High School Websites for further updates. We are planning a phased approach to distance learning however priority will be given to S4-S6 to begin with.
· We are now focussed on planning for the families of staff belonging to the following groups key worker groups: Emergency Services, NHS, Health and Social Care Partnership including Care at Home, Teachers and Council Staff who have requested assistance with Childcare in order to ensure that we deliver critical services. This requested provision will be delivered through 4 secondary and 4 primary schools acting as Hubs. Individual Schools will be in touch with the individual families to alert them to the arrangements which will be put in place.
· Free School Meals: We are currently working with catering services in order to finalise arrangements for the distribution of food for children entitled to free school meals and further information will be communicated as soon as plans have been finalised.
Public health advice and guidance should continue to be followed for staff and pupils with underlying health conditions and self-isolation.
As you will appreciate there is significant planning needed to move this forward and we will continue to update our website to keep you informed.
You can listen to the Deputy First Ministers announcement at this link:
https://news.gov.scot/speeches-and-briefings/statement-on-covid19-managing-the-impacts-on-scottish-education
Andrew Sheridan
Schools Group Manager (ASN & Inclusion)
Guidance for parents and carers in the event of school closure due to Coronavirus
This week most pupils should bring home their digital learning passwords for Sumdog, Glow and Education City.
In class, pupils will practise logging into these and using them to enhance learning.
Google classroom is an app within Glow Scotland where each class has a ‘google classroom’. It works best on Google chrome and is accessible on most devices.
There are also tiles on the Glow home page for typing, maths, literacy games and activities too.
Pupils are asked to have a play about with these at home but also have passwords in school bags every day. This will be a learning curve for many and we appreciate your support, patience and cooperation at this time.
Thanks
Mrs Hinton
The NHS Scotland advice poster was sent home today which shows current advice for schools in Scotland. Please see below
Coronavirus advice poster – Education – 4 March 2020 (1)
For parents of primary school children;
https://forms.education.gov.scot/s/04&seed=5543924&t=1
For parents of nursery class children
After the success of our donations to the food bank last year for the church service, we have decided to organise the same again this year. We ask that pupils bring a non perishable item for The Food Bank (January) with them to carry down to church on the last day of term. Items in demand include:
https://midlothian.foodbank.org.uk/2016/11/23/christmas-appeal-2016/
Christmas Fair Friday 29th November 12.30pm – 2pm
This is our main school fundraiser and your support is greatly appreciated.
Donations Appeal – We are looking for toys in good condition, unwanted gifts, bottles for the bottle tombola and chocolate for the chocolate tombola. On the day and days leading up to this we will also be collecting your delicious home baking!
