St Bartholomew’s Church was packed to the doors yesterday morning for First Holy Communions. Our Primary 4 pupils were perfect in every way and kept their minds and hearts focused on the true meaning of the day throughout the Mass. There was a lovely atmosphere in the church and I would like to take this opportunity to thank parents, carers, family and friends for turning up in such great numbers to support the children. Special thanks to Mrs McLean for preparing the children for the sacrament, to Fr Doherty for all his support over the past few months, to parishioners for preparing the church and to Mrs McFarlane and the P5-7 choir for leading the music at yesterday’s Mass. We continue to pray for our Primary 4 pupils this week. It just seems like yesterday that they were walking into St Bart’s as Primary 1s!

This will be the last blog I will personally write this week as I will be spending the week in Yorkshire with Primary 7. We’ll be leaving the school at 8.30am tomorrow, with our first port of call being Eden Camp World War II museum in Malton. This is a fascinating museum and only a 45 minute journey to our final destination of Scarborough. Of course, although Mrs Bolland will be writing the blog, I certainly won’t be disappearing: keep an eye on Twitter for updates throughout the coming days of all the exciting things Primary 7 get up to during the trip!