Dear Parents/Carers,
Assembly
Upper and Lower Assembly today had a focus on our next Building Resilience Unit – Have a Goal
In this unit, we will be learning that: • Setting a realistic goal helps to motivate us • Learning to overcome setbacks helps us cope with future ones • It is important to celebrate our successes Talk it Over: Talk to your child about a goal you set yourself and how you dealt with setbacks and failures along the way.
Family Task: Set a goal together to be completed within three weeks. Think about what you can use to help you and agree how you will celebrate once you’ve achieved it.
Key Book: ‘Rosie Revere Engineer’ by Andrea Beaty
Latecoming
We have a lot of our children not making the line in the morning, and some who are extremely late. There are times when all families can be late for a variety of reasons, which is understandable, but some are persistently late and by quite a margin. Latecoming disturbs the Office staff, teachers, learners and impacts on the learning of the individual. Learning starts almost immediately in the morning. Please ensure everyone is in the lines on time.
Embracing Difference
Embracing Difference is a 6-session recorded group for parents of primary aged children who are neurodivergent or present with developmental divergence.
The group aims to provide parents with up-to-date information and strategies to support their child, to optimise their learning and reduce distress. It also offers strategies to support parental self-care and wellbeing. Embracing Difference draws from current research and evidence-based practice to provide information on how to support children who are neuro-divergent.
Each week focusses on a different area and provides strategies and information for parents to use with their child, in order to support them to flourish.
• Session 1: Introduction to neurodevelopmental diversity • Session 2: Communication • Session 3: Sensory issues & sleep • Session 4: Social emotional skills • Session 5: Supporting behaviour • Session 6: Celebrating difference
Raising Children with Confidence
This free course aims to give all parents and carers the latest findings from evidence and research to explain what influences the development of positive mental health and emotional wellbeing, and why what you do makes such a difference.
Over six two-hour sessions they cover the following topics: • Promoting Wellbeing: Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing • The Developing Brain: How experience shapes the brain • Why Love Matters: Creating positive relationships and attachments • Staying Connected: Listening to understand and developing empathy • Building Resilience: Coping with life’s ups and downs • Looking After Ourselves: The importance of parental wellbeing
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Cyber Scotland Week 2025: Keeping children safe online
The internet can be a wonderful place for children and young people, but the online world also comes with risks, like inappropriate content, cyberbullying and scams. Police Scotland are keen to increase awareness around some of the risks associated with the digital world in order to keep the public safe online. In partnership with Police Scotland’s Cybercrime Harm Prevention Team, Parenting Across Scotland is hosting a virtual event for parents and carers during Cyber Scotland Week 2025. The event will explore how you can help keep yourself and your loved ones safe whilst online – there will be a short presentation by Police Scotland, followed by the opportunity to ask questions. Tuesday 25 February 2025 | 5:30-6:30pm | Online (Zoom) Click here to sign up!
EDAN
Join the Edinburgh Disability and Neurodiversity (EDAN) Hub for an Information Session. You will meet with Sophie Jenkins from the Yard and Raymond Girling from the Children’s Disability Social Work Team. These will be online sessions and are an hour long. There are sessions on Wednesday January 22nd 12:30pm – 1:30pm or Thursday 30th January 3:30pm – 4:30pm. You will learn about the EDAN Hub, a little more about the services we offer and how to support families to access the Hub. There will be plenty of space to ask any questions you may have! Please find the EDAN Hub website here: EDAN Hub | The Yard.
Find links here:
- Wednesday 22nd January 12:30pm: Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 366 969 774 372 Passcode: fL6J8XS9
- Thursday 30th January 3:30pm: Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 348 039 800 670 Passcode: 6BL2ke6w
Child benefit (See attached)
We want to make sure parents and carers are getting all the support they’re entitled to, so here’s some important information on Child Benefit. In April 2024, the amount people can earn before they start paying the High Income Child Benefit Charge increased to £60,000.
For parents and carers who have not yet claimed Child Benefit, or who opted out of payments and have income between £60,000 and £80,000, it can now be financially worth their while to claim. The easiest way to do this is on the HMRC app or online.
Kind regards,
Stephen Gilhooley