Dear Parents and Carers,
Please find attached our School Guide for families and staff. This is quite a large document to read but I’m sure you will want to know the actions we are taking in school to keep everyone as safe as possible. The sections in black type contain the key information for families and the sections in blue type are more relevant for staff. It’s more important that you become familiar with the sections in black for the children returning to school.
On behalf of all the staff at Dalmeny, we would like to wish you a safe and happy holidays. We hope you take the time to relax and enjoy spending time with your families and friends.
End of Term times.
Please note that we will maintain our staggered finish times on Friday.
P1/2 12.15 P3 12.15 P4/5 12.25
P7 will finish at 12.00 pm ( Nursery entrance)
The whole school will clap out our P7’s for their last day at Dalmeny. We wish all our P7’s the very best of luck and have every confidence that they will be successful in High School and beyond. We would also like to thank all our P7’s for their support over the years. THANK YOU!
We have changed our front page to provide access to numbers of organisations that may be of support for families:
Social Care Direct – 0131 200 2324 Mon-Thurs 8:30am-5pm Fri 8:30am-3:55pm
Email socialcaredirect@edinburgh.gov.uk
Emergency Social work service – (out of hours) – 0800 731 6969
Police Scotland Edinburgh – 01786 289070
Police text phone – 18000
Domestic abuse helpline – 0808 802 3333
Children 1st – 0131 446 2300
NSPCC – 0808 800 5000
Samaritans – 116123 or jo@samaritans.org
Parent line Scotland – 08000282233 Home Link – voluntary agency offering advice or support for families – 0131 661 0890
Home Start – voluntary agency offering advice or support for families – 0131 564 1540
Cedar – voluntary agency offering advice or support for children affected by domestic abuse – 0131 315 8116/ 07850515283
Circle – voluntary agency offering advice or support for families – 0131 552 0305
CHAI- voluntary agency offering advice, housing support and employability support – 0131 442 1009
Additional Support for Learning (ASL) Service Supports
The Additional Support for Learning Service supports children with complex additional support needs who are struggling to have their needs met in their school. We will work with wider partners to continue to offer support for pupils and families. However, to find much more information about the service, phone numbers for support services and to access further links to useful educational websites for your children, read the ASL Guide by clicking on the link below.
Hello everyone,
All of the work for the week has been uploaded on the nursery and class pages.
Here is the folder containing the OPTIONAL whole school challenge pack:
Whole_School_Challenge_Pack_WB__08.06.20
If you have a child starting with us after the summer, please have a wee look at our new video on the transition page. There is also a message for our P7s from the DHT at QHS.
We hope you have a good week.
Hello everyone,
We hope you are all well and managed to enjoy the sunshine over the weekend. All work has now been added to the nursery and class pages for the week.
Please see below for a letter from Andy Gray, the Chief Education Officer for Cfe:
Letter to Parents and Carers 29 May 2020
And here is a folder containing the OPTIONAL whole school challenge pack:
Whole_School_Challenge_Pack_WB__01.06.20_
Finally, for our primary 7 leavers, we have received the Primary 7 transition booklet for Queensferry High School:
Hello everyone.
We hope you enjoyed your Monday holiday last week. This week, we are back to normal and a full week’s work has been added to the nursery and class pages.
Mr Nelson has added some new athletic activities to the PE section and there are some new information leaflets in the Health and Wellbeing section (one on supporting young people in bereavement, and one on an online course to better understand your child.)
Here is the folder containing the OPTIONAL whole school challenge pack:
Whole_School_Challenge_Pack_WB__25.05.20
We hope you have a good week and enjoy your learning.
Hello everyone!
Please remember that Monday is a holiday this week so teachers have uploaded work for you to complete from Tuesday. Please take the Monday to relax, play and (hopefully!) enjoy the outdoors.
Here is the folder containing the whole school OPTIONAL challenge pack:
Whole_School_Challenge_Pack_WB_18.05.20
We also have a new transition tab at the top of the page, where we will put all the information about starting primary one after the holidays. If you have a little one joining us, please check this regularly.
We hope you have a good week.
Another week of hard work done!
The work for week beginning 11.5.2020 has now been uploaded to the class pages.
There is also a letter and leaflet containing important information about the transition to primary one on the nursery page. If you have a child starting with us after the summer please take a look.
Finally here is the folder containing the OPTIONAL whole school challenge pack:
Whole_School_Challenge_Pack_WB_11.05.20
We hope you have a great week and fingers crossed we get some more sunshine!
Hello everyone.
Well done for another week of hard work at home. This week is a 3 day school week as Monday is an inservice and Friday is the May holiday. Subsequently, the teachers have only provided 3 days worth of work. Please continue to relax, play, spend time with family and enjoy the outdoors on the other two days.
You will find the work for the week in the class and nursery folders, along with the optional ‘challenge packs.’ Mr Nelson has also provided some new activities for the PE page. Here is the folder containing the OPTIONAL challenge pack for the whole school:
Challenge_Packs_WB04.05.20_–_Whole_School
And don’t forget to look in the Health and Wellbeing folder too for ideas and strategies for coping in this uncertain time. This week, there is a great link for a free book which explains the coronavirus to children.
We hope you have a lovely week and enjoy the activities provided. We miss you and can’t wait to see you all again!
Hello everyone.
Well done for all of your hard work so far. It is a new way of learning for us all, but lots of you have managed to rise to this challenge. We hope you have also had lots of opportunities to enjoy the sunshine.
All of the home learning has now been uploaded under the relevant class and nursery pages for the week. You will also find the OPTIONAL class challenge folders there. The whole school challenge activities are here:
WB_27.04.20_-_Whole_School_Challenge_Pack
Don’t forget to have a look at Mr Nelson’s activities in the PE section too!
Finally, there are some new toolkits for managing home learning in the Health and Wellbeing section (under Information and Useful Links.)
We hope you have a good week and stay safe.
