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School Handbook and Admissions Procedure

School Handbook

Click here to download our School Handbook in Word format and Renfrewshire Council's Schools' Admissions Procedure in PDF format.

A Curriculum for Excellence - Outcomes and Experiences

Curriculum for Excellence

Scotland's new Curriculum for Excellence aims to create world class learning experiences for every child and young person from 3 to 18, preparing them for life in the 21st century.

Curriculum for Excellence aims to enable all pupils to develop their capacities as: successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors to society.

The new curriculum is equipping young people to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The experiences and outcomes are an essential component of this new curriculum. They signpost progression in learning and set challenging standards that will prepare learners well for the future.

Find out more information for parents on the Curriculum for Excellence at the parentzone from Learning and Teachng Scotland.

For more information or to ask a question visit:
www.youngscot.org (learners)
www.parentzonescotland.gov.uk (parents and carers)
www.employersandyoungpeople.co.uk (employers)
www.sqa.org.uk (information on qualifications)
www.hmie.gov.uk (standards, inspections)
www.ltscotland.org.uk (teaching practice and support)
www.engageforeducation.org (share ideas and
questions about education issues)
www.scotland.gov.uk/cfeinaction (examples of CfE
in action and signposts to further information).

ReadTogether.co.uk

Read Together

Nobody really knows exactly how we learn to read, but everybody agrees that reading is a very important skill. Parents and carers can do so much to help children become readers. Find out more here.
The Literacy Trust have also produced downloadable activity cards and posters to use with babies, pre-school and primary aged children at http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/familyreading/editableactivitycardposters.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/dynamo/parents/qa/rwathome.shtml How parents can help with reading and writing homework.

Numeracy parent prompts

LTS

have published a series of numeracy parent prompt booklets. Each booklet provides parents with information on what their child will learn, examples to illustrate each outcome and examples of activities they can undertake with their child to support the development of particular concepts of numeracy.

Homework Help Booklets

Homework Help for parents

The school have published some Homework Help booklets for parents which can be easily downloaded

Have Sum Fun

Download Have Sum Fun

The Have Sum Fun leaflet is designed to be used by parents and carers to help them play games with their children which support the development of mathematics and number skills.

The suggested games, for children aged 3-8, focus on learning through play and are based on real-life contexts. A minimum of preparation is required by parents and carers. All you need is some time and enthusiasm.

Planet Science for Parents

Planet Science

Planet Science wants to help parents with ideas for activities and experiments that will entertain the whole family - and not feel in the least bit ‘schooly’. Find out more by clicking here.

Guides to educational jargon

Click here

Crib Sheets are guides to educational jargon, teaching methods and the strange things children may bring back from school as homework. Click here for guides to maths, english, science and art.

Plus some practical advice for parents on supporting and getting better involved in their children's homework

Examples of graded writing to help you support your child in homework writing tasks can be found at http://www.queensferry-pri.edin.sch.uk/pupils/Supportwriting/supportwriting.shtml

Play Talk Read

Smarter Scotland

On the Play Talk Read website you can find play ideas for you and your child. You can also meet new friends, get free stuff and win baby goodies.

Emotional Wellbeing

1) Is your child safe using the internet? -
http://www.besafeonline.org/English/golden_rules.htm
2) Worried about bullying? - Visit the Anti-Bullying Network
http://www.antibullying.net/youngpeople.htm
3) Advice from this website - Life can be a misery when you're being bullied at school and if you feel you don't have any friends. Here's help and advice if you're having a hard time. There's also information on how to stay safe.
http://www.bullying.co.uk
4) A parenting website from the BBC - with advice, support and helpful tips for parents of children of all ages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/parenting
5) Parentzone - This site offers a broad range of information for parents, carers and others responsible for school age children. The website also provides a comprehensive list of links to useful organisations and recent publications.
http://www.parentzonescotland.gov.uk/
6) Anti-bullying Network - The Scottish Executive has established the Network so that teachers, parents and young people can share ideas about how bullying should be tackled.
http://www.antibullying.net/
7) CBBC Newsround Bullying Guide - The story of how one boy managed to stop being the victim of bullying.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/static/guides/bullying/bullying.stm
8) http://www.stoptextbully.com/ All bullying is wrong. Stoptextbully.com is here to help you make a text bully stop.
9) Online bullying by email and text messaging
http://tinyurl.com/93mcw
10) http://www.kathynoll.com Bully advice for Kids
11) http://www.antibullying.net/ Scottish anti-bullying network
12) http://www.bullying.org/splash_page/bullying.cfm?sRes=768
Bullying website from Canada
13) http://www.onthenet.com.au/~townsend/anti-bullying.htm
Bullying from Miami State High School
13) http://members.optusnet.com.au/~terry1950/insideouted/html/kids.html
Bullybusters
14)Straightforward suggestions for children on how to deal with bullies
http://www.educate.co.uk/bullsug.htm
15)This site is gives some good information on bullying and what to do about it, plus it's great fun, with games, movies and more
http://www.beatbullying.org/
16) http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_3670000/newsid_3677000/3677094.stm Quiz on bullying
17) http://www.kidscape.org.uk/childrenteens/childrenteensindex.shtml Kidscape
18) http://www.childline.org.uk/CanYouWorkItOut.asp Cartoon from Childline
19) http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/ Internet bullying for parents from CEOP. Register to receive regular updates.

FROM THE BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4770000/newsid_4772600/4772605.stm
Information and resources to help combat bullying
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bullying/
Information about bullying and advice on how to stop it happening
http://tinyurl.com/zkp62
Special report on bullying, with reports and helpful games to learn how to deal with bullies
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/specials/bullying/default.stm

Mental Health

Factsheets from alcohol and drug problems to stress

1. Royal College of Psychiatrists factsheets for parents, teachers and young people, in the Mental Health and Growing Up series. 36 factsheets on a range of common mental health problems, including suicide and deliberate self-harm.
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/info/index.htm

2. SNAP(Scottish Needs Assessment Programme) report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health go to the website of the Public Health Institute of Scotland
http://www.phis.org.uk

3. Office for National Statistics porduced major report on 2000. The mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain Download the summary report at
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=3983&Pos=&ColRank=1&Rank=272

4. Mental Health Foundation, for general information about mental health problems go to Problems on their website.
http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk

5. Confused, sad, mad, glad? Dealing with feelings http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/

Parentzone

Click here for help with discipline

Parentzone at http://www.parentzonescotland.gov.uk/ helps parents to get involved in their children's education.

http://www.disciplinehelp.com/ 'You can handle them all'- discipline help for parents.

Gifted Children

Website links

Links to websites for gifted children

Dyspraxia and Development Co-ordination Disorder (DCD)

Download free factsheets here.

Visit http://dyscovery.co.uk for free factsheets on dyspraxia and DCD and help sheets on behaviour, writing, ball skills and many others.
http://www.dotolearn.com/ Find resources to help here.
http://www.numicon.com Resources to help with maths.
http://www.mycorkboard.com/ Personalize your PC with the award-winning MyCorkboard screen saver! Pick from hundreds of drag-and-drop items to create your own personal design. Add clocks, photos, calendars, sticky notes, to do lists etc.

Dyslexia
Information about products and services for dyslexia plus a range of articles explaining how technology can help dyslexic people of all ages make the most of their abilities. http://www.dyslexic.com http://www.iansyst.co.uk

Advice about Meningitis

Meningitis advice

Information for parents on how to keep up to date with advice about meningitis.

Additional Support Needs

This website, by the Govan Law Centre, is a brief guide to the new Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act 2004. http://www.additionalsupportneeds.org.uk/

http://www.enquire.org.uk/ Enquire is the Scottish Advice service for Additonal support for Learning

http://www.infoscotland.com/justask/ Parents now have the right to ‘Just Ask’ for help for their children, either from school or the local authority, to help them navigate their way through issues affecting them.

Useful links

SureStart - http://www.surestart.gov.uk
ParentZone - http://www.parentzonescotland.gov.uk
BBC Parents - http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/parents
One Parent Families Scotland - http://www.opfs.org.uk
Parentscentre - http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk
ParentLine Scotland - http://www.children1st.org.uk/parentline
Parent Network Scotland - http://www.parentnetworkscotland.org.uk

Additional Support for Learning
Enquire - http://www.enquire.org.uk
Health Promoting Schools - http://www.parentscentre.gov.ukwww.healthpromotingschools.co.uk
Healthy Living - http://www.healthyliving.gov.uk
Healthy Eating from the NHS - http://www.5aday.nhs.uk
British Nutrition Foundation - http://www.nutrition.org.uk
Health Behavior in School Aged Children - http://www.hbsc.org
Kids Health from the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/kids
Emotional Health - http://www.youngminds.org.uk

Emotional well-being
Anti Bullying Network - http://www.antibullying.net
ChildLine - http://www.childline.org.uk
Stepfamily Helpline - http://www.stepfamilyscotland.org.uk/

Physical Activity
Paths for All - http://www.pathsforall.org.uk
Healthy Living Website - http://www.healthyliving.gov.uk/physicalactivity

Internet Safety
Safer Children in a Digital World: the report of the Byron Review - http://www.dfes.gov.uk/byronreview/
http://www.childnet-int.org/kia/parents/ How to keep your child safe on the internet.

NHS24 You can find information and advice on the simple steps you can take to protect yourself from the swine flu virus at http://tinyurl.com/d4k47b

Child Protection
If you have any concerns then please use one of the telephone numbers below to contact someone who will help you deal with the concern.

•Social Work (Evening and Weekends) - 0800 811505
•Social Work - Paisley Area Team - 0141 842 4085
•Social Work - Johnstone Area Team - 01505 342300
•Social Work - Renfrew Area Team - 0141 207 7777
•Childline - 0800 1111
•Police (Paisley general number) - 0141 532 5900
•Emergency - 999
•National Child Protection Line - 0800 0223222

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This website complies with Renfrewshire Council's *Guidelines for the development of school websites *(Lifelong Learning and Work Policy Board, 11 December 2003). The design and content of the site have been created by the school.