Welcome back everyone and an especially warm welcome to our new Primary 1 pupils. I hope you all had a fantastic summer holiday.

Our new Primary 1 children will start at the slightly later time of 9.45am this morning to allow the rest of the pupils to get in and settled.

I am absolutely delighted to inform you that Mr Fowler will be remaining at St Bartholomew’s after all. Great news for him and our whole school community!

Many of you will have noticed that the new nursery extension has appeared at the end of the playground. Unfortunately, the building work is incomplete and will continue over the next few weeks. This means that pupils and parents/carers will need to use the top gate to enter and exit the playground until further notice. It also means that spaces will be extremely limited in the car-park. Please can I ask, therefore, that the car-park is only used for essential reasons to ensure that as many spaces as possible are kept free for staff. Thank you for your support and cooperation.

Finally, I received the following message from a former pupil over the holidays. Hopefully some of last year’s P7 pupils will read today’s blog and pick up Daniel’s message.

Dear Former Primary 7 and both Mrs MacFarlane and Mr.Young,

Thank you for such a fabulous experience from P3-7. You have truly given me some great advice and I hope the best for the former Primary 7. As I know the former Primary 7 will not see this, I have sent it here in the hope you know I am OK since you did not get a chance to say goodbye as you were busy the few previous days before my exit from St. Bartholomew’s all the way to my great new life in Perth!

Sincerely,

Former Student of St. Bartholomew’s, Daniel McGregor

Have a fantastic first day back, everyone!