Our Christmas Fair was an amazing success with a huge turnout of parents and children.  There was a great community spirit and both the school and PTA would like to announce that their great efforts and your amazing support raised an outstanding £4,000.  What a sum of money! A huge big than you to the ladies of the PTA who have worked tirelessly throughout the year to raise school funds and contribute so significantly to the community life of our school.  We really couldn’t do it without you!

Tickets for the Christmas Concert on Wed. 14th Dec’ at 1.00pm and Thursday 15th Dec’ at 7.00pm are available from the school office.  Tickets are limited to two per family in order to accommodate everyone at the performances.  Your co-operation in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

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Christmas Lunch – Thursday 8^th Dec

PTA Christmas Stall – pocket money priced gifts for sale – Frid. 9^th

Enterprise Committee Charity Day – Christmas Jumper/Non-Uniform Day – £1.00 – all proceeds to Mary’s Meals. Bring a tin/Pack a snack  – all proceeds to Coatbridge Food Bank – Monday 12^th

Dress Rehearsal – Mon. 12^th Dec

School Choir to perform at James Dempsey Gardens – Mon. 12^th

 Christmas Nativity and Concert – Wed. 14^th  1.00pm – tickets on sale at school office

Christmas Nativity and Concert – Thur. 15^th   7.00pm – tickets on sale at school office

Christmas Movie Afternoon – Frid. 16^th

Christmas Party Pr.4 and Pr.5 – Tues.20^th

Christmas Party Pr.6 and Pr.7 – Wed. 21^st

Christmas Party Pr.1,2 and Pr.3 – Thurs. 22^nd

Christmas Service – St.Aug’s Church – Frid. 23^rd  10.00am

Please note Christmas Lunch will be served on Thursday.  Children will be notified of any changes to the menu this week.

The school community and PTA were delighted that parents and grandparents turned out in such amazing numbers to support our Christmas Fair.  It was a fabulous event with many stalls selling out fast.  Santa was busy all morning with a long line of excited children eager to make sure he knew exactly what they would like for Christmas.  A huge thank you to everyone who supported this great school event – the list is extremely long and includes our great staff team, wonderful children and amazing PTA who worked tirelessly behind the scenes in preparation for the day.  Quite amazing!  Please watch out for the announcement in regard of how much money was raised for school funds.

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Congratulations to all the boys and girls for putting on such a polished performance on the 30th November to celebrate St.Andrew’s Day.  You were a real credit to your teachers.  Learning all those verses was a real accomplishment.  It was lovely to be joined by a representative of MacMillan Nurses who came along to receive a cheque for £510.67 thanks to our Coffee/Tea morning way back in September.   We were also joined by Lindsay from St.Andrew’s Hospice who recrived a cheque for over £500 thanks to donations and the sale of raffle tickets that afternoon.  Many thanks to everyone for your great generosity.

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The Season of Advent is now upon us and we are asked to prepare for the Birth of Jesus by renewing our commitment to Christ the Lord through prayer, penance and actions of faith. To support us on this Advent Journey we are asked to make an effort to attend Holy Mass before the start of our school day.  Father Kane and Father Travers will serve Mass at 8.40am each morning in St.Augustine’s Church.  In school Mrs.Lally will lead a short prayer service each Thursday at 8.45am in the school music room, parents and children are most welcome to attend.  In school we will follow Father Kane’s message of making an Advent Promise to carry out a good deed, act of kindness.  This will involve the children in making their promise on paper and adding it to our undecorated Christmas Tree in the school hall.  Children can make their promise, such as ‘go to bed when I am told’, ‘be kind to someone you perhaps don’t get on with’, ‘help out more at home’, ‘go to Mass during Advent’ and add their completed decoration and promise to the tree.  Hopefully our Christmas Tree will be alive with the promises of our children to make a difference and we can give the Christ Child the kind of gifts/presents he longs to receive – our good deeds and kindness to others throughout Advent.

The whole school will be celebrating the Feast Day of our nations patron saint on Wednesday.  We will join parishioners for Holy Mass at 10 o’clock.  Our St.Andrew’s Day concert will take place at 1.30pm with all classes entertaining us through song and dance.  Please note the school hall has limited capacity so we kindly ask that only one family member come along to see their child in order that we can accommodate everyone.  Your support in this regard would be greatly appreciated.

Our Christmas Fair takes place on Saturday 3rd December from 11.00am – 1.00pm.  The school welcomes any donations for the tombola and bottle stall and also donations of children’s books and toys.

Santa will be in residence at St.Augustine’s for the duration of the fair so please remember to bring along your little ones to visit Santa in his grotto.