Welcome back, everyone! I hope you all had an enjoyable September weekend.

We have a busy week ahead of us here at St Bart’s. Amongst other things, the first Parent Council meeting of the session takes place this evening at 6.00pm, tomorrow sees the first fixture of the new Coatbridge Primary Schools’ football league and Thursday, of course, is Parents’ Evening.

There was a great turnout at last Thursday’s Primary 1 Prayer Service. The boys and girls led a beautiful service and were also fantastic hosts during the classroom reception afterwards. Many thanks to Mrs Carlin and Miss Duffy for preparing the children and to Mrs Ruddy, Mrs Dolan and Mrs McNaughton for organising the refreshments.

There has been a slight mix up in the arrangements for the delivery of our Book Fayre, so this will not begin today as originally planned. However, the fayre will be open for Thursday’s Parents’ Evening and will then run into the beginning of next week. Apologies for any inconvenience, especially to those parents who have volunteered to help man the fayre.