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Swap Shop

Dear Parents and Carers,

 

Thank you to everyone who has donated clothes to our Swap Shop. We have built up quite a collection and will be launching at Parent’s Evening on Thursday 8th March. Please stop by our stall and pick up any pieces of uniform that you need at excellent prices. If you have any donations we will also be collecting that evening and will do a straight exchange for new uniform. We are especially keen to build up a bank of PE Kits.

Primary 4 have their First Holy Communion in May and we are appealing to Parents with older pupils to consider donating your Communion dresses, kilts, suits, shoes or accessories. We would also be delighted to accept any donations from the current primary 4 children after their First Holy Communion has taken place to store for nest session.

Thank you for all of your support,

The Swap Shop Committee

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Parliamentary Motion

As we celebrate Catholic Education Week, I wanted to bring to your attention two Motions put to the Westminster and Scottish Parliaments in support of Catholic Education, and in particular the note that we are marking the Centenary of the 1918 Education (Scotland) Act.

 

We would like to encourage every MP and MSP to sign the appropriate Motion as a sign of the continuing partnership between Church and Government. I would therefore ask your assistance in encouraging our parents, parishioners, staff and pupils to contact their local MP and MSP to ask if they will be publicly supporting Catholic Education by putting their name to this Motion.

 

http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx?SearchType=Advance&ReferenceNumbers=S5M-10034&ResultsPerPage=10

 

http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2017-19/735

 

 

As you will see there are already 8 supporters (including the proposer Donald Cameron) in the Scottish Parliament and 19 in Westminster.  We would hope that with the help of our Catholic Education community we could contact all MPs and MSPs and encourage them to sign.

 

 

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New Year, New Career

New Year, New Career
The Studio, 67 Hope Street, Glasgow
Thursday 1 February 2018
9.30am for 10.00am until 11.30am

You may have noticed in the media this week that Early Years Scotland, in partnership with Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and the Daily Record, has been extensively promoting and advertising our exciting first ever Careers Morning.

Early Years Scotland has been funded by SDS to organise and deliver this event to support the national expansion of the ELC workforce by 2020.

We would like to ask you to share this invitation with anyone you feel may be interested in coming along. The link below can be used to book a FREE space. A crèche (also free) is available, and can be booked when registering.

http://www.earlyyearsnewcareer.co.uk/register.html

You would of course be most welcome to come along too if you have time and availability on Thursday 1 February. We would ask that you also follow the link to book a space.

I look forward to welcoming everyone on the day!

Best Wishes,
Jean Carwood-Edwards
Chief Executive

parent council

We Need You!

Dear Parents/ Carers,

St Mark’s Primary School will be participating in a Validated Self Evaluation (VSE) activity where we will work with Quality Improvement Officers and Head Teachers from East Renfrewshire Council to evaluate our progress as a school.

 As part of the activity, we will be gathering views from staff, pupils and parents.

 We would appreciate you taking 5 minutes to complete the short line survey which can be accessed via the link below.

 Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you require any clarification on any of the questions.  This questionnaire will be available until 4pm on Thursday.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKVLfhEyIoIdEur-aU-UYWIpURUVDTUxISlowRUZLVUJJTDRLWEc0SFAxMS4u

 

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Children’s Nativity

On Sunday, 26th November, rehearsals will begin in St John’s Church for the Nativity performance presented by the Children’s Liturgy group at 6.30 pm on Christmas Eve.  Children of Primary school age who would like to participate should meet in front of the altar after 10am mass each Sunday from the 26th until Christmas. We need plenty of sheep, shepherds and angels in addition to the main characters! The practices will last approximately 20 minutes. Parents and carers should wait in the church to collect their children when the rehearsal is finished.