Head Teacher’s Blog

Session 2025 – 26

Week ending 10th October 2025

Star Workers  

Room 1 – Daryl for Star Literacy 

Room 2 – Nico for Star Effort 

Room 3 – Scott for Star Maths 

Room 4 – Elisha for Star Writer 

Room 5 – Rory for Star Maths 

Room 6 – Harley for Star Effort 

Room 7 – Abbey for Star Effort 

Room 8 – Aidan for Star Worker 

Room 9 – Mia for Star Effort 

Room 10 – Kalli for Star Writer  

MISSIO 

Today we welcomed Gerard from MISSIO to our Assembly.  He spoke to the children about the work that the charity does and how their fundraising helps.  Our MISSIO Champions in P6 collect in weekly donations from all classes.  Children are welcome to bring in a few pennies every week to pop in their class donation box.  Thank you for your support in this.  Further details on the charity can be found via their website: https://missio.org.uk/ 

Pope Leo and Bishop Toal ask that in schools we support this as our main charity, and we have done so for many years.  We have achieved 5 Star Status as a MISSIO school, one of very few in Scotland.  

Parents’ Evening

Many thanks for your attendance at our Parents’ Evening this week.   

After School Clubs  

Monday 20th Oct – Athletics  

Tuesday 21st Oct – Boxing and Dancing 

Thursday 23rd Oct – P7 Football  

Thursday 23rd Oct – Choir

Diary Dates

 A list of diary dates can be found on the website. Please take a note of dates of the school holidays.   

 Have a lovely holiday week and we look forward to welcoming everyone back to school on Monday 20th October. 

Week ending 3rd October 2025

Star Workers  

Room 1 – Jeremi for Star Maths 

Room 2 – Kyla for Star Writer 

Room 3 – Orlagh for Star Worker 

Room 4 – Niamh for Star Effort 

Room 5 – Karleigh for Star Writer  

Room 6 – Addison for Star Worker   

Room 7 – Rian for Star Effort 

Room 8 – Ben for Star Literacy  

Room 9 – Chloe for Star Reader 

Room 10 – Payton for Star Effort  

Values 

Room 1 – Ciaran for Kindness 

Room 2 – Idris for Friendship 

Room 3 – Ruth for Kindness and Love 

Room 4 – Ciaran for Respect 

Room 5 – Eva for Respect 

Room 6 – Andrew for Kindness and Friendship 

Room 7 – Sophia for Friendship 

Room 8 – Conor for Respect and Kindness 

Room 9 – Aidan for Kindness and Respect 

Room 10 – Cameron for Respect  

Parish Links 

Sacramental dates are as follows: 

P3 First Confession – Monday 16th March from 6pm.  Please note that an appointment time will be provided to you nearer the time. 

P4 First Holy Communion – Saturday 9th May at 10am. 

P7 Confirmation – a date will be issued to us from the Diocese.  We will notify parents once we are in receipt of this.  

Our P6 MISSIO Champions and P5 Mini-Vinnies are invited to attend a Commissioning Mass on Sunday 26th October at 10am.  We warmly invite you to attend and share in this parish celebration. 

Restart a Heart

This week our classes engaged in a live lesson on CPR and using a Defib.  This can be viewed again by you at home if you wish to do so via the link. 

 http://Restartaheart.live

Our PTA held a fundraiser last term to raise funds for a Defib, and we are delighted to announce that this is now in our possession.  It will be held in the school office, hopefully never to be used!  Our thanks go to everyone for raising the funds for this very important lifesaving device.   

Parents’ Evening

Thank you for booking your appointment for Parents’ Evening on Wednesday 8th October.  If you haven’t done so, then this should be done via ParentPay no later than Monday.  If possible, it would be better for children to not attend. However, if you do need to bring them then they should always remain in the hall with you.  

Please note that appointments to meet with the class teacher to discuss progress will take place on this date only.  We cannot offer appointments out with this time due to working hour allocations.  

Our next Parents’ Evening will take place on Thursday 26th March.  

After School Clubs

Tuesday 7th Oct – Boxing and Dancing 

Thursday 9th Oct – P6 Football  

Diary Dates

A list of diary dates can be found on the website. Please take a note of dates of the school holidays.   

 A polite reminder that the school is closed Monday 13th – Friday 17th October.  

 

Week ending 25th September 2025

Rookie Rockstars 

Thank you for your support in attending this week’s concerts.  The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and gained a lot from the message behind the Rookie Rockstars programme about mental health and bullying.  

Thank you to our PTA for booking this and for supporting in this venture. 

After School Clubs 

Tuesday 30th Sept – Boxing and Dancing 

Thursday 2nd Oct – P7 Football  

Diary Dates  

A list of diary dates can be found on the website. Please take a note of dates of the school holidays.   

Week ending 19th September 2025

Star Workers  

Room 1 – Matthew for Star Athlete 

Room 2 – Blake for Star Effort 

Room 3 – Sophia H for Star Respect and Manners 

Room 4 – Travis for Star Listener and Effort  

Room 5 – Aanya for Star Writer 

Room 6 – Kayden for Star Literacy 

Room 7 – Kian for Star Maths 

Room 8 – Ciaran for Star Effort as Vice-Captain  

Room 9 – Kieran for Star Maths 

Room 10 – Leo for Star Effort  

Rookie Rockstars 

An email was issued today with a registration link to assist us with information on how many children are attending the concert. 

Children should arrive at 6pm via the main school entrance and report to the PTA/Staff in the dining hall.  They should be collected following the concert at 7.30pm.  For safe exit we will dismiss children via the dining hall class by class.  Parents/carers are asked to wait in the playground at this time.  

Summer Reading Challenge 

Rosslyn from St. Leonard’s Library visited us at Assembly today to present children with The Summer Reading Challenge Certificates.  We had 21 children participate.  Well done! 

  

 Diary Dates  

 A list of diary dates can be found on the website. Please take a note of dates of the school holidays.   

 

 

Week ending 12th September 2025

Star Workers

Room 1 – Killian for Star Helper 

Room 2 – Charlie for Star Reader 

Room 3 – Kai for Star Literacy 

Room 4 – Grace for Star Effort 

Room 5 – Blake for Star Attitude 

Room 6 – Aria for Star Effort 

Room 7 – Mila for Star Attitude  

Room 8 – Orla for Star Artist 

Room 9 – Jacob for Star Effort 

Room 10 – Ella for Star Worker  

 Rookie Rockstars 

A ParentsPortal message was issued today with regards to the Rookie Rockstars PTA Event.  

Tickets will be on sale next week once we have the payment link. 

After School Clubs

Tuesday 16th September – Boxing P7

Tuesday 16th September – Dancing P4-5

Thursday 18th September – Football P6

 Diary Dates  

 A list of diary dates can be found on the website. Please take note of dates of school holidays.   

 Week ending 5th September 2025

Star Workers

Room 1 – Nancy for Star Helper

Room 2 – Nneoma for Star Helper

Room 3 – Oliver for Star Effort and Attitude

Room 4 – Kian for Star Listener

Room 5 – Callum for Star Maths

Room 6 – Orlaith Rose for Star Effort and Attitude

Room 7 – Robbie for Star Effort

Room 8 – Caelan for Star Effort in Writing

Room 9 – Oma for Star Listener

Room 10 – James for Star Pupil

Values

Room 1 – Harry for Respect

Room 2 – Patrick for Respect

Room 3 – Daisy for Kindness

Room 4 – Ijeoma for Respect

Room 5 – Annais for Friendship

Room 6 – Max for Respect

Room 7 – Mila for Respect

Room 8 – Oscar for Respect

Room 9 – Shay for Friendship

Room 10 – Finley for Friendship

Parent Council and PTA

Thank you to those who attended our AGMs this week

Election results are as follows:

Parent Council

Chair – Mhairi Eshghi

Vice-Chair – Marianne Doherty

PTA

Co-Chair – Laura Nelson and Fiona Kelly

Secretary – Tracey Cassidy

Treasurer – Jules McWee

Date of next meeting – Wednesday 12th November

Rookie Rockstars

Rookie Rockstars will be visiting our school to work with the children on mental wellbeing.  They will learn songs and undertake some class lessons.  A concert has been organised for Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th September, starting at 6.30pm.  All children are invited to attend one evening and tickets will be available for sale next week.  Look out for information which will be issued on Monday about this.

https://rookierockstars.org.uk/

P7 Carfin

Our P7 class attended a Jubilee Celebration Mass along with 2000 other P7 pupils from schools in Motherwell Diocese yesterday at Carfin.  This was a wonderful opportunity to come together to celebrate the Jubilee Year and reflect on how they are also Pilgrims of Hope.

Diary Dates

A list of diary dates can be found on the website. Please take note of dates of school holidays.

 

Week ending 29th August 2025

Star Workers  

Room 1 –Callum for Star Effort  

Room 1 – Callum for Star Effort  

Room 2 – Dottie for Star Writer 

Room 3 – Siannan for Star Writer  

Room 4 – Theo for Star Listener  

Room 5 – Hayuni for Star Writer and Artist  

Room 6 – Ivy for Star Attitude 

Room 7 – Sophia for Star Attitude 

Room 8 – Jude for Star Respect 

Room 9 – Oliver for Star Respect 

Room 10 – Murron for Star Helper 

Parent Council and PTA 

Our Parent Council AGM will take place on Wednesday 3rd September at 6.15pm.  Our PTA AGM will be held on the same evening at 7pm.  New members are most welcome.   

 After School Clubs

Thursday 4th Sept – P6/7 Football

More clubs will be organised in due course.

Diary Dates  

 A list of diary dates can be found on the website. Please take note of dates of school holidays.

Week ending 22nd August 2025

Welcome  

A warm welcome back to school to all our pupils, staff and families.  A Welcome Back Newsletter was issued this week and has key information in it. Please do take a few minutes to read over it. 

As always, we will have a brief weekly blog and communicate information this way or via ParentsPortal.  The office can assist if you have any problems initially logging on to ParentsPortal if you are a new parent.  

Please ensure that all paperwork issued either in paper format or electronically is completed and returned as soon as possible e.g. Annual Data Checks, Flu Forms and Photograph Permission. 

Star Workers  

Room 1 – All of P1 for being Star Workers 

Room 2 – All of P2 for being Star Helpers 

Room 3 – Ruth for Star Effort 

Room 4 – Wiktoria for Star Worker 

Room 5 – Olivia K for Star Contributor 

Room 6 – Bryan for Star Role Model 

Room 7 – Zayn for Star Worker  

Room 8 – Keegan for Star Kindness 

Room 9 – Kate for Star Worker 

Room 10 – Jenna for Star Role Model  

School lunch

Our new menu commences on Monday 24th August.  Copies were issued this week and can also be found online.

https://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk/info/200186/primary_school_information/2161/primary_menu_2025-2026

Diary Dates  

A list of diary dates can be found on the website. Please take note of dates of school holidays.   

 

 

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