As you can see above, there is always fabulous news to share at St Bart’s. Our boys and girls have more than maintained their fantastic start to the new school year- long may it continue.

I trust that everyone has received their newsletter, ( if not, please check your child’s school bag). This provides very useful information and dates related to the first two terms. Please feel free to hang this from the fridge door to remind yourself  of important dates.

On Monday,we will be visited from  8 senior pupils from St Ambrose, many of who are past pupils. They will be offering a helping hand to our class teachers and of course, to our boys and girls. We are all looking forward to working with you.

Tuesday is our first Parent Council meeting and will be held in the staff room at 6pm. We have moved these meetings to a Tuesday, at the request of the chair of the Parent Council so that elected members of the local council can more readily attend. Council members are often busy on Monday evenings with scheduled meetings and it was thought more pertinent to facilitate their potential attendance. A very warm welcome is extended to all of our parents, especially our new Primary 1 parents to get involved in the life of the school. We look forward to seeing you then.

Ms Jan McCrone, our Continuous Improvement Officer, will be visiting St Bart’s on Tuesday afternoon to meet with Mrs Bolland. I know that she will be extremely impressed with our boys and girls smart appearaand fabulous manners. Mrs MacIntyre will be meeting with a music specialist who will be demonstrating a fantastic music system that will make mass celebrations, assemblies and school shows even better!

On the subject of music, we are very lucky to have Sally Wilkinson visit us on Friday. She will be  working with our Primary 5 pupils,using  Kodaly. Boys and girls, you are in for a treat!

St Bartholomew’s will be a very busy place on Friday afternoon with preparations well underway for Comicon on Saturday. If you are lucky enough to have a ticket for this fabulous event, we very much look forward to seeing you then and joining in with a huge variety of fun filled events.
Mrs Bolland