What an incredibly quick school year this has been, it’s hard to believe we are now in our final 10 week term. A most successful and productive year to date.

We ended our last term with some excellent news. Mrs Pauline Findlay & Miss Monica Donnelly have now been appointed to our school as permanent members of staff, we are delighted (as are both ladies too). This continuity of quality teaching staff is a great way forward for our school. In August we will also welcome a further new permanent member of staff, Miss Kathleen McAlinden. We look forward to Miss McAlinden joining our fabulous team.

Tuesday morning began with more celebrations as two new signs diplaying our recent successes were installed.

A few of our Come Clubbing @ Cathedral after school classes have begun already in this first week of term. Miss Love is running a lower school astronomy club, they’ll all be seeing stars!

Choir has resumed for this last term with our focus now on a brand new project. We are delighted to have been asked to take part in a Diocese of Motherwell project entitled: The Mass of St. Francis. This will take the format of an evening performance in O.L.G.A Cathedral Church on Thursday 8th June based on the life of St. Francis. We are joined by Motherwell Diocescan Choir, the choir of St. Cuthbert’s Primary in Burnbank and the choir from St. Bridget’s Primary, Baillieston. Further details to follow.

Friday of this week we were delighted to be joined by The Tapestry Team, Professor Nigel Osbourne, Mr Graeme Wilson, Mr Richie Carey, Mrs Kathryn Clarke and Miss Carolyn McCluskey. Carolyn is a former pupil of our school.

This is a project entitled ‘Building Stronger Communities in Motherwell’ the aim being as the title suggests. Essentially this is a secondary school initiative involving P7 pupils as a further element of transition. Mrs Marie Clare Duffy is our school representative at all planning meetings and is driving this initiative forward within our school. Thanks to Mrs Duffy for her preparatory and on-going work with this important initiative.

The photographs give a wee flavour of the project. As we go through this project with P7 I will ask the children to provide their thoughts and opinions on their work and report this through my Blog.

A quiet start in our nursery this week, here’s a wee snippet from Mrs M M Murphy of how the first week back has been.

On Tuesday we welcomed the children back after their long Easter holiday. They all looked well rested and some even looked as if they had been in a grow bag over the holidays.

This term the nursery children are learning all about Spring and new beginnings. They will be discussing traditional Nursery Rhymes, looking at life cycles, planting, growing, looking after and naming the different parts of plants. They will be comparing and matching sizes through animals and their offsprings

This week they have chosen the story of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ and are busy listening to the story and creating the characters and the events in the story. Look out for their hard work on a display next week.

A big thank you to everyone for supporting our Easter Fayre. We raised a WHOPPING £1044. This money is going to good use in our outdoor area and other projects.

As always, thanks for taking the time to read our blog, why not take another wee minute and leave a comment…..please.

thanks

Mrs Shields