Playscheme Update Our Spring Playscheme was well attended; the children seemed to have had a great time as we had lots of positive feedback. The children helped to make some playscheme posters with quotes and photographs of what they were up to; these are displayed on our notice board. As predicted the weather meant we needed to make a few changes to what we were doing at the last minute. Please can we remind all families that the Bosca doors open for the children at 8.30am. Staff members arriving before this time do so to be briefed on the day ahead. They can let you in to the foyer however adults must stay with the children until the internal door opens at 8.30am. The Bosca phone number 07815007657 will be displayed on the main door during Summer playscheme. If you arrive to drop off or collect your child between 9am and 5pm and there is not a Bosca person there to let you in please call the number and a member of staff will come to the door. GDPR The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was approved and adopted by the EU Parliament in April 2016. The regulation will take effect this May and will be in force 25th May 2018. Later this month all newsletter subscribers will receive a new subscription email where you will be asked how you want Bosca to communicate with you. The subscription will ask you to personalise your Marketing Permissions. Bosca is required to collect consent from all users, if we do not receive consent we will not be able to contact you as it will infringe the new data privacy and security principles. Dates for your diary Monday 7th May 2018 (May Day) Bosca will be closed. Tuesday 8th May 2018 In-service day. The sign up sheet is at the desk please add your child’s name if your need a space. Friday 25th May and Monday 28th May 2018 (May Weekend) Bosca will be closed. Monday 4th June 6.30pm Next Board meeting venue – modular building on annexe site. Monday 4th June release of summer playscheme booking forms. Registration June 2018 Week beginning Monday 4th June – Registration Week Fees Your final fees payment for the 2017-18 term should reach Bosca’s this week. If your account will not be settled by May please speak to myself or Susan as children cannot be re-registered for the next academic year with outstanding fees. Registration Week Registration for August 2018 will take place the week beginning 4th June in the modular building on annexe site, more details to follow. Waiting List We are currently experiencing an exceptionally large list of children awaiting places at Bosca. This list includes those who currently attend and those who have had their name on the waiting list for a number of years who are due to start Primary 1 in August 2018. If your child will reduce their attendance for the next term please speak to me asap. Staff Update We have increased the number of employed staff to allow for students to go on placements, staff holidays and absences. We say goodbye to Cheryl and welcome Courtney, Erin and Hannah. Staff training is ongoing Cheryldean, Susan and Winnie and I have all renewed our first aid training. All staff members are updating their Health and Safety modules and are completing online training modules from the care inspectorate on the Duty of Candour. The purpose of the new duty of candour provisions is to support the implementation of consistent responses across health and social care providers. This is very informative for the staff and useful for updating our policy documents. If you would like any further information on this please do get in touch. I will be going on holiday from Wednesday 16th May – 31st May 2018. Please use the Bosca number to speak to the staff team 07815 007 657. |