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Access to free sanitary products

We have teamed up with Hey Girls to make sure you are ‘Period Protected’ during Covid – 19.

Thanks to funding from the Scottish Government, free sanitary products will continue to be available throughout Stirling.

Although our School collection points are temporarily closed during COVID-19, we are trialling a new ordering service so you can still get access to the products you need.

Any young person who menstruates up to 25 years is very welcome to use this free service, but you must live, go to school, or work/volunteer in the Stirling Council area and provide a Stirling post code for delivery.

A range of products across four care packs are available to choose from.

The online trial is for an initial two weeks (until 25 May 2020) and then will be reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Products may take up to six weeks to arrive after initial ordering. After the initial 2 weeks, the survey monkey closes orders are confirm then they are packed and delivered to your house.

We will endeavour to keep this time as short as possible but we also want you to plan ahead.

If you don’t receive your order after 6 weeks please email SPandYP@stirling.gov.uk

To make an order complete your online form here.

https://www.young.scot/campaigns/stirling/period-protected-during-covid-19

We made good progress with this prior to the school closure. If you missed this opportunity then we will arrange for this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so. Please keep an eye out on twitter for updates.

Tracking reports will not be issued given the current school closure.

Yes, it is really important that you continue your learning during this period of closure. It will be important for your well-being that you maintain a routine. To support this, your class teachers will be posting regular work on google classroom. You might want to consider following your school timetable to support this. However, do not worry if you are unwell or you are spending time caring for others and are unable to complete it all. Also, if you need help or don’t understand something, you should contact your teacher directly through your google classroom. More support for Google Classroom can be found on the school website, specifically in the Digital School Bag.

Yes, it is important that you continue with all the subjects in your Broad General Education. Our curriculum has been designed to meet all the requirements and entitlements of a Curriculum for Excellence and it will help to ensure that you have a breadth of knowledge going forward. Also, we are unable to confirm subject choices at this stage and you therefore do not know what you will be studying next year.

Your Principal Teacher of Pupil Support will be in touch with you shortly to ask you to complete this process. If they do not get in touch then you have already made your choices and we will be in touch once that process is finalised.

No, at the moment the school is closed to all pupils. We will update you as soon as the situation changes. Keep an eye out on Twitter for updates!

Foreign Office and Government advice has stated that all foreign trips should be cancelled. However, as yet there is no guidance regarding the timescale for this advice. As this trip is planned to take place at the end of May, we are currently awaiting instruction from Stirling Council regarding next steps. Our Senior Education team is working closely with Stirling Council insurance department and we will update you all as soon as we can.

UPDATE | 02/04/2020

Schools are cancelling trips in line with Government guidelines and timescales for cancellation. Through individual company insurance or Council insurance, every endeavour will be made to recover the full monies to return to parents. As we work through this process, more information will follow as soon as possible.

We don’t know yet. Our work experience arrangements may need to be cancelled if schools remain closed and/or employers are unable to accommodate placements. We are monitoring the situation and will provide you with an update as soon as we are sure.

All the meetings that would normally take place will be postponed and rescheduled for when everything is back to normal. However, your Pupil Support Teacher will be making contact over the phone to make sure that everything is going well.

You can contact your PT Pupil Support via the Year Group Google Classroom.

For Parents/carers:

Stirling Council has set up a dedicated telephone advice line and email enquiry service for those seeking advice about children and young people’s support needs, learning and well being during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

You can contact the advice line by either:

• Telephone - 01786 404040 (Monday-Friday from 10am-12.30pm and from 1.30pm-4pm)

This link will take you to all of the current ways to get support from Stirling Council:

https://www.stirling.gov.uk/learning-education/coronavirus-education-updates/coronavirus-education-advice-form/