Coatbridge Comicon was a fabulous success on Saturday! A huge thank you to Mark and Lucy Millar for organising this fabulous event in aid of supporting local charities. Both St Bartholomew’s church and Townhead church will benefit from the huge generosity of the Millar’s. As you can see from the photographs above, great fun was had by all and there was a huge variety of presentations, stalls and activities to take part in. I saw a number of familiar faces and it was great to see to so many past pupils and their families.

Maths week starts this week and we have plenty of interesting activities for the children to take part. The Sumdog contest started on Friday and continues until the end of the week. We are looking forward to finding out who will win! Our younger children will take part in ‘escapes rooms’ on Monday, which includes fun  problem solving tasks. I know that our pupils loved this last year and are looking forward to taking part.

On Tuesday, our junior and senior pupils will take part in ‘The escape rooms’, which again, include problem solving tasks and will challenge and interest all of our boys and girls. The Airdrie and Coatbridge advertiser will be visiting our school in order to take a photograph of our new Primary 1 boys and girls. Please remember to give those those lovely teeth an extra brush on Tuesday morning so that smiles have a sparkle…

A variety of maths challenges and activities will take place throughout the week and we look forward to further engaging our pupils in maths and numeracy.

On Thursday, Primary 7 representatives will be travellin*to Gartlea Community Centre in Airdrie to take part in the Junior Road Safety Officer’s conference. This is a wonderful opportunity for our senior pupils to meet other children from other schools and pick up some great ideas on how to improve current practices.

Friday will mark the  end Maths Week and we look forward to reflecting back on activities and improved skills and knowledge.

Mrs Bolland