A warm welcome to 2014, I trust everyone enjoyed a Happy & Holy Christmas and a New Year to remember.

We began our year on a rather sad note at our first assembly where we prayed for Mrs Collins and her family. Mrs Collins husband, Jim, sadly passed away over the holiday period. We extend our hearfelt sympathy to Mrs Collins, and her children Martin and Claire. Please remember them in your prayers.

As a school community we have decided to focus on three New Year Resolutions. Each of the resolutions has been taken from those identified by Pope Francis. They are:

Don’t Gossip

Finish Your Meals

Be Happy

Please talk to your child/ren about these resolutions and help us to fulfil our New Year promises.

During Monday morning assembly we welcomed some gentlemen from The Knights of Saint Columba, they came to deliver the good news that eight of our children had been successful in achieveing awards in the Keep Christ in Christmas Competition. The winners are:

Julia Brola

Laura McCann

Mark Fitzpatrick

Rebecca Whaite

Molly Tominey

Hannah gallagher

Laura Findlay

Imogen Mcfadden

Caitlin Ross

Well done to all of our children for their active participation.

We continued our week settling back into school routine. Pupils from P5,P6 & P7 auditioned for parts in our forthcoming school show – Pinocchio. Parts were issued on Friday, we look forward beginning our rehearsals very soon. The theme of Pinocchio will be replicated throughout many classes as this is the chosen Topic for this forthcoming term.

This coming week we look forward to welcoming our prospective P1 pupils for August 2014. Enrolments will be on-going Monday to Friday 1.30pm – 3.00pm.

In our ever expanding nursery this week, they’ve been having great fun…..

Welcome all to 2014!

On Monday we welcomed back all of our nursery children and as the week went on we welcomed some new children as well. On Thursday our new teacher Miss Love joined us filled with great enthusiasm. Miss Love is job sharing with Mrs Keenan. Miss Love spent her first few days getting to know the children. We welcome Miss Love to the nursery team.  Over the next few weeks the last of our children will be joining us.
Some of the areas in the playroom have had a makeover. The sensory area has moved over to a quieter area and has had a revamp. The music area is now more accessible in the middle of the room. The home corner is now a home again and a new washing machine was delivered on Thursday and the children got busy roleplaying doing the washing and hanging it out to dry.

This week we have been concentrating on revisiting our Golden Rules and our Golden People.

In the writing area the children have been telling their own stories of the Golden People and what they think they get up to at nightime in the playroom. These will be displayed in the cloakroom during the week so please take time to look at their fantastic stories.

In the maths area the children have been measuring themselves and objects in the playroom. They are going to check out how much they have grown since they started nursery.

In the art area they explored snow using cornflour and baby oil and made snowglobes with snowmen in them.

Outdoors they had great fun jumping in muddy puddles and measuring rainfall in the raincatchers.

In the snack area they were busy making jelly and angel delight. They were exploring how water can change form when different things are added.

The lending library is up and running again as we continue to promote reading for enjoyment.

Mrs Shields