Please use the link below to find out more information about the Easter Sports Camp.

https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/er/StNinians/2016/02/29/easter-sports-camps-2016/

Unfortunately First Friday Mass for P6 in St Vincent’s on Friday 4th March has to be cancelled.

E R Primary Music Information

P5 CHOIR MEMO – 25^th February 2016
Following the letter regarding the school choir performing at the Glasgow Music Festival on Tuesday 15^th March, we have important information for the parents/carers of Primary 5 children wishing to attend on the day. Due to the number of children in the choir this year, we are required to split the Primary 5 children between the two performances.
Primary 5c and d will be performing in the Hymn Singing category at 11:45am.
Primary 5a and b will be performing in the Scots Song category at 3:45pm.
When the children are not performing, they will be supporting the choir as members of the audience.
Miss Kane and Miss McKenna

P7a & b will have their last Cluster Working visit to St Ninian’s tomorrow.  During this whole day visit pupils will have the opportunity buy their lunch from the St Ninian’s cafeteria for £2.  If pupils do not wish to purchase a lunch they should bring a packed lunch with them.

Led by the NET Minstries Team this event is open to  all PRIMARY SIX AND SEVEN pupils from across the diocese. Come and spend time with your friends and make some new ones too! The event will involve games, activities exploring the work of Mary’s Meals and refreshments. The afternoon will conclude with mass at 6pm which family members are free to attend.
The event will run from 3pm – 6:45pm (mass at 6pm) and takes place in St Aidan’s Parish, Tower Road, Johnstone PA5 0AD
Transport will be provided from Greenock, Port Glasgow and Paisley.    (Departure times – St Mary’s Church, Houston St Greenock 2:00pm, Coronation Park, Port Glasgow 2:10pm, St Mirin’s Cathedral, Paisley 2:30pm)
Interested in coming along? Please contact youth@rcdop.org.uk or telephone 01505 813103

World thinking day will be celebrated in school on Monday 22nd February.  Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Girl Scouts are invited to come to school in their guide uniforms.

Mass of Enrolment
Children and parents/carers can attend any Mass in St Joseph’s Church on 20th / 21st February

A reminder that Primary 4 Stage Mass will take place in the Junior Department on Thursday 25th February at 1.45.  Tea and coffee afterwards.

Link to Online Brochure

The pupils and staff of P1 would like to invite you to a Scottish Morning in the school.
It will take place on:
P1a and P1b              Tuesday 23^rd February at 9.15
P1d                               Wednesday 24th February at 9.15
P1c and 1e                 Thursday 25^th February at 9.15
The pupils will take you on a virtual tour of Scotland to share what they have been learning in Social Studies.
We look forward to seeing you at our Scottish event!
Thanks,
P1 staff and pupils

St. Andrew’s Foundation for Catholic Teacher Education
University of Glasgow
Cardinal Winning Lecture 2016
February 6 2016: 9.45 am
Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre (1, University Avenue)

Professor Tracey Rowland – John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family (Melbourne, Australia)  – Catholic Education: A Theological Project

 Summary
A Catholic vision of education is built upon a Catholic anthropology.  A basic Catholic theological principle is that everything in creation has been marked by the form of the Trinity, and this is especially so of the human person.  Trinitarian relationships abound in nature as mathematicians tell us, and within Catholic anthropology there is a highly important Trinitarian relationship between faculties of the human soul, such as the intellect, the memory and the will, and the theological virtues of faith, hope and love, and the transcendental properties of being, principally, truth, beauty and goodness.  Getting these anthropological foundations right was the secret of the success of the great religious educational orders.

Professor Rowland is the Dean and Permanent Fellow of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family, Melbourne, Australia.

 To register for the lecture please email Arlene Burns, putting ‘Cardinal Winning Lecture 2016’ in the subject box: arlene.burns@glasgow.ac.uk

Fr Jim Duggan from St. Joseph’s Parish will say Mass for P4 classes on Thursday 25^th February at 1.45pm in the Junior Department School Hall and family of Primary 4 pupils are welcome to attend. Tea and coffee will be served afterwards.

     St. Vincent’s Church                        Friday 5^th February
Weather permitting; Primary 6 classes will attend Mass in St. Vincent’s Church, Thornliebank on Friday 5^th February at 10am.
We shall leave from school at 9.30am accompanied by members of staff and will return at 11.00am.
The children will walk to/from church via a local route alongside Woodfarm High School and through parkland, thus avoiding any major road crossings.

• Full school uniform, shirt, tie, school shoes
• Children to dress appropriately for the weather conditions of the day.
• Parent helpers are needed to assist. If you are able to help, please indicate on the tear-off slip below and return to school.
• If there is any change in medical conditions / medication, from information given at the start of term, please inform school office