This short week we welcomed back all of our P2,3,4,5,6&7 pupils whilst extending our friendship to our 82 new Primary One pupils. A fabulous start, we couldn’t ask for more. All of our children returned happy, excited and filled with enthusiasm for an exciting year ahead. We were also delighted to welcome back our pre-school nursery children and a whole new set of anti-pre school children.
We also extend our welcome to our 7 new pupils throughout the school and to all of our families, both new and ‘old’.
Our school community (which encompasses our fabulous nursery) is an excellent place of learning and we pride ourselves on our Faith, our friendship and our positive attitude to education. This success is due to the team effort of all pupils, staff, clergy and parents working together to achieve our common goal; The very best for all of our children.
We began our week introducing our new Primary one pupils into our school, they arrived shiny and new with huge smiles (well nearly all). At 11am on our first day we came together as a community of faith and learning to begin our year in prayer. Primary 2 through to Primary 7 joined me in assembly. It was great to see everyone back in such great numbers. Our school community now totals 617, with 517 being in school and 100 in the nursery.
Within our staff we have said goodbye to Mrs Danielle Keenan, our nursery teacher. Mrs Keenan has secured a teaching post in Our Lady of St Francis School. I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to Danielle for all her work in our nursery and indeed in our school, on behalf of all in our school community we wish her continued success. Mrs Leigh-Ann Kinnear and Mrs Denise Higgins (both well kent faces in the nursery) will overtake the nursery post.
In school we have no new staff – this is a first! All of our staff are familiar faces, what a settled way to begin your school year – fantastic.
On Wednesday our nursery welcomed all of our pre-school returners with our brand new 3 year olds coming in on Thursday and Friday. A very happy start to the nursery year with our enthusiastic staff ensuring a safe and nurturing environment for our youngest pupils.
Monday and Tuesday of this week our confirmandi (P6 & P7) will attend Mass in Cathedral Church as part of 40 hours Adoration. Please come along and join our young people in supporting our Parish.
Thursday of this week P5b – Mrs Tominey’s class will begin their 12 week programme of swimming and dry sports, an energetic start to the year for P5b! Again, parent helpers/volunteers very welcome.
Please let me know if writing this weekly blog is of use to you. communication is always an area of improvement for our school community, please help us by telling us what methods of communication are the most effective. I look forward to hearing from you.
Mrs Shields
I find this blog a very useful method of communication. It’s a great way of letting parents find out what is going on at school and sharing photographs of the children.
Despite asking my children on a daily basis what they did at school, the usual answers I get are “Great, we did maths” from one child and from the other ” Awful, we did maths!” So I look forward to reading the blog at the weekend to find out what other things they did at school besides maths! I think the blog is a great way to keep parents involved in what is going on within the school and nursery.
My husband and I are treated to a full breakdown of our son’s day at school as he enthusiastically reports every heartbeat of his day! The blog is a great way to see a range of photographs to aid family discussions and also to learn about other aspects of school life, especially those in higher primary levels which we can prepare our child for. Many thanks.