St Bartholomews

Schools and nurseries are expected to be open as normal tomorrow. Breakfast club starts at 8.15am. It might be a good idea to have spare socks/ tights in school bags incase feet get wet on the walk to school. Please be careful on the journey in to school, pavements may be particularly difficult to walk on. Take our time please!

Pleas keep your eye on the North Lanarkshire Council website,

https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=20199      

and on twitter, @nlcwinter , in respect of updates on the current weather situation from 7am. I will keep you up to date with any new information that I may receive.

Remember that our netball team have a tournament scheduled for tomorrow morning, transport difficultiumay change this. However, please ensur3 that children come to school with kits and water bottles etc. Fingers crossed that this event goes ahead and the very bes5 of luck boys and girls!

We are all looking forward to sharing in everyone’s snow adventures…

Mrs Bolland

All North Lanarkshire Council Schools and nurseries will be closed on Friday, 2nd March. This is again, due to the inclement weather. Safety for all of our pupils, staff and stakeholders is of paramount importance. Please use the resources on our information section, contained within our website. Encourage your child to use their glow password, as this will  allow them to access a huge and varied amount of exciting and interesting activities. Using the unusual environment that we are all experiencing at the moment, provides a great opportunity to learn. Please let us know what you are all up to and I have enjoyed sharing in your adventures from  some  of your pictures on twitter. Keep posting!

World Book Day will now be rescheduled to next week and I will liaise with Mrs MacIntyre to agree on a suitable date. We will let you know , as soon as possible.

A netball tournament is due to take place on Monday morning for our upper school pupils. Please come prepared in the hope that it will still go ahead. Better safe than sorry! Fingers crossed that everything is back on track on Monday…

Mrs Bolland

All North Lanarkshire Council schools and nurseries will be closed today. Again, this is due to the severe weather that we are experiencing at  the moment. I will use the blog and twitter  to update parents and carers with any significant events regarding the weather.

Again, please use the resources, under ‘Information’ on our home page to access resources in severe weather for the children to complete. Children will be able to access a huge variety of interesting tasks on ‘glow’ and I know that Primary 1 children are well versed in accessing homework tasks from here.

Important learning can be creating from exploring outdoors and using this very unusual weather as a stimulus could prove very worthwhile. I would encourage all of our children to experience the outdoors, if  it is safe to do so. We are all looking forward to hearing about snow adventures when we return to school.

It’s World Book Day today and as we can’t enjoy it in school, please find an opportunity for children to read and write today, whether it’s simply retelling a story about the effects of the snow outside, from a window or being engrossed in a favourite book. Get involved! Hopefully, we can simply move our planned events in respect of dressing as a favourite character and our ‘readathon’ from today until tomorrow, weather permitting of course.

Mrs Bolland

Please be advised that all NLC school are closed today due to severe weather. I will keep you up to date with arrangements for tomorrow as soon as I am informed from the authority.Additionally, keep your eye on twitter for up to date information.

In order to continue our pupil’s education, we have arranged a severe weather section on our weather, under the school information section. Please take advantage of this and also encourage your child to use their glow account to access a huge variety of resources.

I am sure that the children will also find some time to enjoy playing in the snow!

Mrs Bolland

The weather is very much highly featured in the news at the moment, and I would encourage you to check the North Lanarkshire Council website to keep you up to date on;

https://www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=20199

Fingers crossed that the snow does not have a detrimental effect on our pupils’ education! As always, we will endeavour to do our very best to deliver our service.

St Ambrose High School sports leaders will be working with our Primary 6/7 boys and girls. Our pupils very much look forward to working with this enthusiastic group of young people. Thank you everyone!

It’s World Book Day on Thursday and  leaflets have already been sent out in school bags, last week ,to provide relevant information. Mrs Dunn also sent out a text to provide some basic details. Children are invited to dress up as their favourite character from a book in the afternoon, as a special assembly will be held  to award prizes to the pupil from each class with the most interesting costume. We are looking forward to some interesting creations! Thank you in advance for your support with this.

Mrs Bolland

We look forward to seeing Mrs McGuiness today, who has been teaching our pupils about food handling and nutrition. This will be her last day, working in St Bartholomew’s Primary and we wish Mrs McGuiness all the very best for a long and happy retirement. Thank you for helping our boys increase their skills and knowledge in cookery, skills that will stay with them for a very long time.

Claire Gordon from our NHS dental team will be working with us today to ensure that our toothbrushing programme is maintained. This is a very worthwhile programme as our dental health is fundamental to overall general good health. Thank you Claire.

Primary 5 are very much looking forward to their swimming lessons a5 the Time Capsule and have been sharing the bus with Primary 5 boys and girls from Townhead Primary. There are plans afoot for the Primary 5 children from both schools to work together in a meaningful way that both Mrs Gamson and myself will let you know about in due course.

Mrs Bolland

Primary 6 and Primary 7 boys and girls will be attending a netball festival today. The very best of luck everyone and we know that you will make us all proud. Enjoy the challenge!

A reminder that the dance after school club is on today and a reminder to parents and carers to ensure that the children gather their kits and water bottles so that they are fully equipped to enjoy this activity.

Our monthly Parent Council meeting is on this evening, and as always, faces that are familiar and those who are unfamiliar, are more than welcome. I would encourage you to  get involved in the life of the school and contribute to your child’s experiences at St Bartholomew’s. See you at 6pm until approximately 7pm.

This Friday is World  Day  of Prayer and the theme is ‘ All God’s Creation is very good’ , and has been written by the Christian Women of Suriname. We will keep you up to date on how we will mark this very special day in the Church’s calendar.

Mrs Bolland

The day has finally arrived for Primary 1/2- it’s assembly time! The children will be performing at 2pm, and we will open the doors at 1.45pm so that parents/carers can be settled in plenty of time, before  the assembly starts.

A big thank you to Fr James for celebrating mass in our Oratory at 8.30am, yesterday morning. The same arrangement will take place next Thursday and future arrangements will follow shortly in respect of Lenten services. I would encourage as many people as possible to join us in these services, at this very special time in the Church’s calendar.

Lenten thought;

We ask the Lord to change in us whatever needs changing, to mould us in whatever way we need moulding, so that we always see as God sees, and live as people of the light, whatever the consequences. Redemptorists

Mrs Bolland

Fr O’Kane will be celebrating mass for us this morning , at 8.30am,as it is Lent. He will also be here next Thursday and will confirm dates in due course, for March. We are very grateful to Fr James for volunteering to do this for our parish community. It is much appreciated as I know that he has a very busy schedule.We look forward to seeing you there.

A reminder to P1/2 parents and carers that the children are performing their assembly tomorrow afternoon at 2pm. We will open the doors at 1.45pm and look forward to seeing you! As always, parents and carers will be invited to join the children in their class, after assembly and be able to enjoy some light refreshments whilst you are there. The children have been working hard in rehearsals or their ‘Friendship’ themed assembly and are sounding great.

Mrs Bolland

A wee reminder that our weekly service is on today at 8.45am. As it is lent, this is a particularly special time in the church’s calendar and a great opportunity for our faith community to attend this service, the children lead this service and is a wonderful opportunity for them to fully immmerse themselves in God’s words and teachings. We look forward to seeing you there.

World Book day is on Thursday 1st March and we have some great planned activities for the children to look forward to. From our parent survey in October, some parents and carers expressed a desire for children to take a more active role in World Book day. We have responded! From the beginning of that week, children will take part in related activities in class. On Thursday itself, children will have the opportunity to dress up as their favourite character from a book. We will hold an assembly on Thursday afternoon, where a prize will be given to a pupil from each class for the winning costume- the more creative the better! A ‘readathon’ will take place on Friday, where children will time to simply read for enjoyment.

Mrs Bolland