School Captains<\/strong><\/p>\n We were able to appoint our School Captains early on and congratulations go to our successful applicants:\u00a0 Matthew & Miya (School Captains) and Kian & Klaudia (Vice Captains).\u00a0 We will be working with them to try and some implement some of the great ideas they spoke about during their interview.<\/p>\n Houses<\/strong><\/p>\n As we were adding an additional member of staff to our Pupil Support Team we made the decision to rebrand our Houses and to rename them after Marian Shrines.\u00a0 After consultation with pupils, staff and parents our new houses have been named as:<\/p>\n The House captains have now been appointed and congratulations go to:<\/p>\n Feast Day Mass<\/strong><\/p>\n As you will know the changing rooms are still being completed, however we hope to have them back in use very soon.\u00a0 As a result of the work we have had to postpone or cancel events.\u00a0 Unfortunately we were unable to have our big Feast Day Mass but were delighted that Fr Bobby Kane was able to come into the school to celebrate a \u00a0Mass with the S6 Captains along with their S1 buddies.<\/p>\n Assemblies<\/strong><\/p>\n Early in term we had assemblies for all year groups where we revisited our mission, values and aims and also went over some of the basics, including behaviour in and around the local community, particularly at lunchtime.\u00a0 All behaviour, good or bad, will affect the reputation of a school, so we need to make every effort to ensure that our pupils behave and show respect outside school as well as they do inside school.<\/p>\n Vocations Mass<\/strong><\/p>\n At the end of August the Annual Diocesan Vocations Mass took place.\u00a0 We were delighted with the large turnout of S6 pupils who attended, representing the school.<\/p>\n Future Fridays<\/strong><\/p>\n Our Future Fridays offer continues on a Friday afternoon and it is great to see an increasing number of pupils getting involved as the weeks go on.\u00a0 There is also a large number of senior pupils getting involved in helping out with activities, which is an excellent opportunity for them.\u00a0 Mr McMaster is organising this and pupils can sign up every week by going on to Teams and filling out the form.<\/p>\n School App<\/strong><\/p>\n We have a school app which has a calendar, links to Twitter, general information and is also another way to send messages.\u00a0 If you have not loaded it you will find it by searching for ‘School App for Parents’ on the app store or equivalent and then adding ‘Our Lady’s High School, Motherwell’.<\/p>\n Twitter<\/b><\/p>\n A reminder that there are a number of Twitter accounts in the school that you can follow to see what is happening in the school.\u00a0 The details are below:<\/p>\n Forthcoming Events<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunday 18th<\/sup> September \u2013 St Andrew\u2019s Hospice 6K run in Strathclyde Park<\/p>\n Monday 19th<\/sup> September \u2013 Bank Holiday for Queen\u2019s Funeral<\/p>\n Friday 23 & Monday 26th<\/sup> September \u2013 Holiday Weekend<\/p>\n Wednesday 28th<\/sup> September \u2013 Senior Awards Ceremony<\/p>\n Thursday 6th<\/sup> October \u2013 Caritas Commissioning Service (10am in the Cathedral)<\/p>\n Monday 17th<\/sup> \u2013 Friday 21st<\/sup> October \u2013 October week holiday<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been a quick start to the term and I can\u2019t quite believe that we are already 5 weeks into it! 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