Please take time to open and read the letter from our Director of Education, outlining the arrangements for pupils after the Christmas holiday.

Please find attached the form you must complete if you feel all parents/carers in the house are officially classified as Key Workers.

If this is the case, please have your child return the completed form to school on Thursday 7th January.

Definition of a key worker:

• Health and Care workers directly supporting COVID response, and associated staff; Health and Care workers supporting life threatening emergency work, as well as critical primary and community care provision; Energy suppliers (small numbers identified as top priority already); staff providing support for childcare/learning.
• All other Health and Care workers, and wider public sector workers providing emergency/critical welfare services (for example: fire, police, prisons, social workers), as well as those supporting our Critical National Infrastructure, without whom serious damage to the welfare of the people of Scotland could be caused.
• All workers (private, public or third sector) without whom there could be a significant impact on Scotland (but where the response to COVID-19, or the ability to perform essential tasks to keep the country running, would not be severely compromised).

In order to be eligible to access childcare:

• both parents must be keyworkers. (or, in the case of a single parent should meet criteria)

• children should attend only when there are no alternative childcare arrangements

SLC are pleased to announce some new financial supports for families who have pupils entitled to means tested Free School Meals. More info can be found on the SLC Website.

https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200228/health_and_medical_information/1863/coronavirus_covid-19_advice/21

Please take some time to open and read a letter from Test and Protect with regards to contact tracing.

Please take some time to open and read our latest school newsletter.

We will be having our special Christmas Lunch in school on Tuesday 15th December. Please click on the links below to get the details.

Please take some time to watch the attached video clip, which gives a good overview of how pupils and families can work Google Classroom at home. Please note that the email teacher function mentioned near the end is not available in South Lanarkshire schools. Instead, pupils and families can send the teacher a message using the Stream section, as outlined in the video.

Issued 12 November 2020

Scottish Child Payment

A new Scottish Child Payment benefit is being introduced from 15 February 2021 and Social Security Scotland started taking applications for this benefit from 9^th November 2020.

Scottish Child Payment will be the biggest benefit introduced to date and initially, it will be available for those children under 6 years old, with 194,000 children expected to be eligible in the first year.

Families who meet the criteria and are eligible to apply will receive a payment of £10 per child, per week (equivalent to £520 per year) and payment will be made on a four-weekly basis.  There are no limits to the number of children per family who can receive this benefit.

If you would like to know more about this benefit and how to apply, you can contact Social Security Scotland by phone on 0800 182 2222, or look online at My Gov Scot

Paul Manning

Executive Director – Finance and Corporate Resources

Please take some time to open and read an update from NHS Lanarkshire.

Please take some time to open and read our latest school newsletter.