Despite the atrocious weather last Saturday we had a wonderful turnout for our Summer Fayre. Thank you to everyone who attended, it is always great to see the support we have from the community for our school. Even though we had to keep the BBQ under cover and bring the bouncy castles into the hall everything went really well and a big thank you to everyone on the Parent Council for working so hard to make sure all went smoothly. At the moment they are finalising figures but we have raised about £1400. Well done everybody.
As we draw to the end of our school year we have a busy week ahead. As you know Her Majesty’s Inspectors will be with us in school throughout this coming week. We are very much looking forward to sharing the great work of the pupils and staff. Thank you to all of the parents who have volunteered to come along and speak with the team. We also have a number of children who will also be talking about the life and work of the school. The inspection findings will be published in our new school term and I look forward to sharing this with you in the Autumn.
Back to this week – Primary Seven had had their induction days at St. Aidan’s High School, they met their new classmates and had two full days of timetable to get them used to moving around between classes. You will not be surprised to know that they all got on great! We are very proud of you Primary Seven. Remember that their last event is this coming Friday – Leavers’ Mass is at 10:00 in St. Aidan’s Church followed by their leavers’ assembly. We will serve tea/coffee to parents and family during the pupil interval.
Primary Four have also had an outing this week to North Lanarkshire’s Primary Games. They spent today (Friday ) in Ravenscraig enjoying all of the fun activities along with Primary Four pupils from school across the authority.
As it has been such good weather this week a number of classes have been using our outdoor environment for their learning. Out new outdoor gym is proving very popular and is a great way to keep our young people fit.
You will also have noticed our planting beds are thriving. We are very hopeful that with the good weather and the rain it will be the perfect combination to give us a great harvest when we return in August. Already we can see lots of foliage – hoping that we have lots of root vegetables underneath. We are also very hopeful of a good harvest from our fruit trees again this year – lots of plums, pears and apples to be eaten too.
Please remember for this coming week to check the weather – if it is remaining as hot please apply sunscreen before your child leaves the house in the morning.
Just one final reminder that we will rearrange our whole school outing for August and we will tie it into celebrating our patronal feast day. I will give you all of the information surrounding this in the last week. Our winning house will also get their house treat in the last week too.
