Education Services Alva Academy Academy Avenue, Alva FK12 5FE Tel. 01259 452322 Direct Mrs M Brown contact: Depute Headteacher Telephone: 01259 452322 Email: [email protected] Our ref: MB/JB Date: 3rd February 2021

Dear Parents and Carers,

In my letter of 2nd November 2020, I stated that we planned to hold an online event where you would be able to hear from school staff and pupils about life at the school and the arrangements for this year’s transition before the Christmas holidays. Unfortunately, like many other schools across the country, we faced an ever changing picture during the month of December, and were unable to hold the event as planned.

We will now be holding two parent events on Wednesday 10th February 2021. These will be held via Google Classroom, and as the capacity for any meeting is 100, we will be holding two events. The first is at 11am and is for parents/carers of children who attend , Strathdevon, and Primary Schools. The second is at 11.45am and is for parents/carers of pupils attending Alva and Primary Schools. Given the capacity of the meeting is 100, can I ask that families log in on one device only please? It is our intention to record these meetings and have these recordings available within the P7 Transition Classroom which your child will be invited to join before the meeting. We will not share a meeting code with parents for this meeting as the link for joining is at the top of the stream within the Google Classroom. As some Alva Academy pupils will be joining us at the event and presenting to parents, it is important that the link to the meeting is not shared out with Google Classroom. I hope you understand the reasoning behind this. We will be liaising with your child’s teacher who will forward the class code for the P7 Transition Classroom to you in advance of the meetings.

I understand that you may have questions about the transition arrangements; we will place information on the P7 tab within the Alva Academy website for you to access before the meetings. This will include a link to the P7 Information Booklet which will hopefully answer some of those questions. We will monitor the chat during the live events and try to answer as many questions as possible. If we are unable to respond to all of the questions at the live meetings, we will produce a Q & A guide following the meetings which will be placed in the Google Classroom and on the school website.

Whilst this is not the event we would have wanted to hold, I very much looking forward to you joining us on the 10th and look forward to welcoming both your child and yourselves to the school in person very soon.

If you have any questions about the event please email the school at [email protected] and mark it for the attention of Mrs Brown.

Yours sincerely,

Margaret Brown Depute Head Teacher