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For all children and young people accessing term time ELC in one of our schools, or attending primary and secondary school, the Christmas holidays begin at 12 noon on Wednesday 23 December 2020.
Children who access our ELC ‘extended week offer’ where the ELC sessions run for more weeks of the year there will have no change to your ELC setting’s finish time on Wednesday 23 December. If you are in any doubt as to the finish time of your ELC session, please contact your school.
Start of term in January
Following the announcement by the First Minister on Saturday 19 December, we are making changes to arrangements for the start of term in January. These arrangements are designed to reduce the transmission of COVID-19.
All schools and school-based nurseries will re-open on Wednesday 6 January only for the children of key workers and for other children identified by the head teacher or ELC manager. If you think that you qualify for a place, please contact your school directly. School phone lines are already very busy so if you can, please email your school. You can find a list of school contact email addresses on these links: Primary Schools and Secondary Schools.
For all other children, the festive holiday will be extended up to Monday 11 January 2021 when online learning will begin, continuing until at least Monday 18 January 2021.
Find out more about the arrangements.
What to do if your child becomes unwell
If your child(ren) develops symptoms of COVID-19 during the school holidays, the advice and support, as well as the requirement to self isolate and routes to COVID-19 testing remain unchanged.
If your child becomes unwell at any time with:
- a new, continuous cough
- a fever
- a change in or loss of sense of smell of taste
the whole household should self isolate and anyone else in the household with symptoms listed above should also be tested. Find out more about self isolation and how to book a test on NHS Inform Covid-19
Contract tracing or if your child is identified as a close contact
The process for contact tracing for staff/children who test positive for Covid-19 over the Christmas holiday period will be slightly different to term time. You will be contacted directly by Test and Protect rather than by the school.
If your child is identified as a close contact of a positive Covid-19 case, you will receive a call from NHS Tayside’s Test and Protect Team to let you know that your child is required to self isolate and for how long.
Find out more about contract tracing during term time and advice and support available.
Places for our P7s due to start secondary in August
We are currently allocating places for our P7s due to start secondary in August.
Groupcall messages/emails were sent to parents/carers of P7 pupils last week.If you did not receive this, please contact your child’s current primary school.
Moving to secondary school information.
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£100 extra payment for families on low income.
Following an announcement by the First Minister, we will be issuing £100 for each child who receives free school meals due to low income. Payments will go out the 21 December and should reach bank accounts on 23 December. If your child registered for free school meals after 18 December, you’ll get the payment in January 2021.
You can use this payment to prepare for winter and is in addition to the continuation of free school meals due to low income.
Secondary school children can now download the Protect Scotland app
All secondary school pupils can now download the free Protect Scotland app to help reduce outbreaks.
Find out more about the Protect Scotland app. Stopping the spread starts with all of us.
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 Abertay’s Self Lab needs your help!
Are you a parent with children aged between 7 and 11 years? Abertay University is running a free online study for children who live in Angus.
The event involves a video call session lasting no more than 60 minutes with a researcher. The activities are numeracy and literacy based. Everyone who takes part will receive a downloadable thank-you certificate and will be entered into a prize draw where they can win one of three £25 Amazon vouchers.
If you are interested, please contact Karen k.golden@abertay.ac.uk or Josh j.march@abertay.ac.uk at Abertay University for more information.
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