Such a busy, exciting week coming up I’ve decided to keep you up to date as and when events unfold.

Monday morning we began our week, as always, with our school assembly. This week our focus in ‘The Year of Mercy’ launched at the weekend. Mgr. Millar has very kindly gifted two free standing banners depicting the beautiful logo of the Year of Mercy.

Coupled with this we were delighted to enjoy our annual visit from the gentlemen from The Knights of St. Columba. They came, as always, bearing very good news. Congratulations go to Esme Colenso and Elizabeth Ross who were both successful winner in Keep Christ in Christmas competition. Congtatulations to both girls.

Meanwhile, Primary 6 were all out on this day enjoying a very Victorian Christmas at Motherwell Heritage Centre. Huge thanks to our faithful parent helpers who came along to assist with supervision. A great time was had by all, and the children learned lots of new skills whilst having such fun.

Not to be outdone! Primary 7 set off after assembly round to Mission Place to sing some Christmas cheer to our local elderly friends. The children sang beautifully (whilst bedecked in their Christmas jumpers, hats, hairbands etc etc).

Whilst at Mission Place they met with a very interesting gentleman, Mr Don Williams. Don is an animator for Disney – working for over thirty years with the Disney Foundation. Don kindly sketched some animations for our children during their visit and mad a promise to return to our school and provide a workshop! How amazing is that! Go on-line and google Don williams, animator for a potted history, it’s a very interesting read. Here’s some photographs of Priamry Seven(and Don) in action.

Thanks, once again, to Mrs Carr for organising this visit. The children will all be given a collage of all four designs whilst the originals will be framed and displayed in school.

Oh…and there’s more….and yes it is STILL Monday!

Down in the nursery we enjoyed a very busy day with an AM visit from Inspector Kara Doonan from Care Commission. kara spent the morning in the nursery working alongside our wonderful staff and brilliant children. Kara was most impressed by the calm, happy way our children come into nursery, the range of activities available to our children and the variety of outdoor learning opportunities. We look forward to welcoming Kara back to join us on Wednesday to meet with Mrs Duffy, Mrs Murphy and myself – an evidence based meeting. Kara will also meet with all parents/carers who volunteered to come along whilst attending our nursery shows. Thanks again to all who volunteered, we’ve decided to accept every one of our volunteers both AM and PM. Kara will be a busy lady! She is also going to spend some additional time in the playroom on her return. We will keep you posted on our progress.