This week saw the start of Lent.  We joined our parish community for Ash Wednesday Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church and our children sang beautifully – well done, boys and girls.

Friday was our first Lenten Charity fundraiser with ‘Crazy Hair Day’.  What a great effort everyone went to with their crazy hairstyles – I think some children might have had different coloured pillows by the morning with all the bright coloured hair on show!  Thank you to all parents and carers for entering into the spirit of this (and staff too).

Morning Mass at 820am also started on Thursday and it was fantastic to see such a good turnout from our school – I hope this continues throughout Lent.  Children who attend Mass still have time to make it to our breakfast club before school starts.

We were fortunate enough to have a visit from a representative from the ‘Let the Children Live’ charity on Tuesday at our assembly, which is one of our Lenten Charities this year.  This week some sixth year Caritas pupils from Taylor High will speak at our whole assembly about SCIAF, another of our Lenten Charities.

We continue to have Elisenda working with our upper school classes to learn Spanish.  Elisenda is a Spanish assistant at Taylor High School and will be working with us for the next few weeks.  Elisenda was most impressed by our children’s enthusiasm and ability to speak in the Spanish language.

The Literacy Base tutors also continue to work with us in school and this term they are working with P2, P3, P4 and P5/6.  All of our children are benefitting from their expertise and we are very grateful for their continued support.

Our garden plans are coming along – Mr White has kindly organised for all necessary resources to be purchased, and we are now awaiting the delivery of 10 raised planters and we can start growing food as a school.  This is a very exciting project which I am sure children will really benefit from and enjoy immensely.

For our week ahead, we have our ‘Dress as your favourite film star’ day on Friday and also our Frozen Singalong on Friday evening – it looks set to be another great week!