As you can form the photograph above, our Primary 4 boys and girls performed their assembly for parents and carers on Friday afternoon. The children were fantastic and a huge thank you to Ms Connor for rehearsing the boys and girls so well. Mums and dads were very impressed with the children’s topic related work in class. Well done boys and girls!

I attended mass at St Bartholomew’s church on Sunday and was delighted to see  so many pupils from sacramental classes. Long may that continue.It was also a lovely surprise to share in the baptism of one of our pupils’ younger siblings. Baby was very well behaved and I am sure that his family are delighted to support this young man on his faith journey. Congratulations!

There was so much going on in church that the an appropriate opportunity didn’t present itself for me to speak on behalf of the school in respect of Catholic Education week. A representative from St Ambrose spoke to the congregation last week and I would have simply added to those sentiments. I think it is worth mentioning that in January,  Pope Francis said that education should;

“train young people to be open and interested in the reality that surrounds them, capable of care and tenderness, free from the widespread preluding where you must be competitive, aggressive, and hard towards others, especially towards those who are different, foreign or in any way seen as an obstacle to one’s own affirmation “.

Mrs Bolland