We are celebrating All Saints day with scheduled visits to our beautiful Oratory. Mrs Carlin has kindly organised  appropriate prayer service materials for all of our staff to use, with their class, in the Oratory. As previously mentioned, we are unable to celebrate this important Holiday of Obligation in Church,due to commitments with our business partners for Developing the Young Workforce events. Fr O’Kane has asked me to inform our Parish community of services in St Bartholomew’s RC Church  at 7pm.It would be lovely to see many of our pupils with their families.

Today is one of the busiest days for DYW events. Primary 1 to Primary 3 will be entertained in the hall with a company called ‘Hoots Owls’. The children will be enthralled by these beautiful birds and be able to enjoy the experience of seeing them up close! Exciting stuff… Primary 4/5 are visiting Tesco today and will have the opportunity to see behinds the scenes and ask a variety of questions , related to a number of different jobs. Primary 5/6 are visiting the Sky Academy in Livingston this afternoon. This is a very sought after experience and is booked up very quickly, well in advance. Our pupils are very lucky to take part in this experience and are looking forward to this trip immensely. Primary 7 are travelling to Paisley, in order to visit the University of West of Scotland. The children will be immersed in university life and experience some of the wonderful opportunities that current students have.

Primary 4 visited Coatbridge Fire Station yesterday and Primary 6/7 will visit Terex,in Coatbridge tomorrow. What a busy week! A huge thank you to Mrs McLean for organising the huge amount of varied and exciting activities and opportunities for all of our pupils this week. It is very much appreciated.

Finally, thank you to all of our parent helpers,who have supported the supervision of the wide variety of outings this week. We literally couldn’t do it without you!

Mrs Bolland