St Bartholomews

We have all had a fantastic first week back after the Easter  holiday. I think some of our boys and girls were starting to get a little bored and were in need of the stimulus from learning. A number of of our pupils attended the various clubs and sports camps that were available over the Easter break and thoroughly enjoyed them. Some children reported that they attended every day and particularly enjoyed the social element of meeting new friends whilst joining in with sporting activities.

Mrs MacIntyre will post our ‘Pupil’s of the Week’ later on this afternoon. Many teachers have reported that they are spoiled for choice as to who will receive this award as so many boys and girls have been working hard and behaving so well. Good luck boys and girls!

Mrs Bolland

This young man in the photograph above, has been working on problem solving skills with Ms McLennaghan. What a superstar!

Our pupils are settling in very well after the Easter break and have been working incredibly hard on various projects, in addition to core learning.

Primary 7 parents and carers are reminded that a York information meeting will be held on Monday, in the school hall at 6pm. This is to provide parents and carers with more detail about the variety of excursions that are included in the trip and a schedule of events. We look forward to welcoming to you then.

Mrs Bolland

North Lanarkshire Council have organised Respectme Workshops, specifically focusing on the theme of Online Safety and Responding to Bullying.Respectme, the national anti-bullying network who worked with North Lanarkshire Council to develop our anti-bullying strategy, has organised a series of local workshops across the country. A session on Online Safety is scheduled to take place in Coatbridge Community Centre on Tuesday 24th April at 6.30pm.

This would provide many of our parents and carers with valuable and appropriate information that could potentially keep children safe online. Please email to book a place on, enquires@respectme.org.uk , although it is not necessary to book a place .

Mrs Bolland

Please check your child’s school bag for a letter that informs you of a great family fun night out on Saturday. The family disco will take place in St Bartholomew’s church hall at 7.30pm. This will be a super night that all of the family can enjoy and children are free of cost, which is an added bonus! As you know, many of our children are fantastic dancers and performers and would thoroughly enjoy an opportunity show off their moves…This event has been organised to raise funds for the rewiring project at St Bartholomew’s church and your support would be very much appreciated.

During my class visits yesterday, I saw a few tired faces, where a handful of children found it hard to readjust to getting up early again. However, I am happy to report that all of our boys and girls were working hard and trying their very best. We also welcomed two more pupils to St Bartholomew’s yesterday and I am delighted to say that they were very happy with their new school and have made some new friends already.Well done girls!

Mrs Bolland

Welcome back everyone! I hope that our entire school community has enjoyed a wonderful Easter holiday. There have been a number of varied opportunities to take advantage of during this particular holiday. Club 365, NL Active Schools Easter Club and football camps, to name but a few. These clubs offered huge scope for fitness opportunities, in addition to meeting up with friends on a social basis. I am looking forward to hearing about  some of the adventures experienced by our pupils.

Our final term of session 2017/ 2018 is a very busy one. As always, we will keep you up to date via the daily HT blog, twitter, Dojo, letters and termly newsletter. Thank you for your continued support, it is very much appreciated.

Mrs Bolland

The Easter holidays begin at 2.30pm today and all of the staff and pupils would like to wish our whole school community a very happy and Holy Easter. A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to our Lenten charity, Missio, through the Easter Basket activity and         ‘Balloon Bingo’ today , organised by our Faith in Action group. This is a very deserving charity and all of your efforts are very much appreciated. Thank you.

Easter services at St Bartholomew’s church are as follows;

Holy Thursday , Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7pm

Good Friday, Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 3pm

Holy Saturday, Easter Vigil  Liturgy, 5.30pm

Easter Sunday, 11.30am

Have a very restful and enjoyable Easter Holiday and please encourage  children to get involved with the 365Club and other Easter Camp’s during the holidays. We look forward to seeing you back at school, safe and sound on Monday 16th April.

Mrs Bolland

Our Primary 5 pupils will be taking part in a lovely retreat today, organised by the diocese of Motherwell. This is especially poignant as it is Holy Week in Lent. Our boys and girls thoroughly enjoyed the previous retreats that they took part in and gained so much in terms of different skills and knowledge. I am confident that this retreat will produce the same outcome for our boys and girls. A big thank you to Mrs O’Neill for organising this for us.

A huge thank you to Mrs Carlin and the Faith in Action group for organising ‘ balloon bingo’ to support our Lenten events and activities. This is such a great event and the children have fantastic fun whilst doing it!

Mrs Bolland

We have the community Police in this afternoon to talk to our Primary 1 to Primary 3 children about stranger danger. I thought that this was a good time of year to arrange this input from Police Scotland as we are coming up to a school holiday, in addition to lighter nights and children being out and about a bit more. Our pupils are always very responsive to the Police and thoroughly enjoy their presentations. We welcome the officers from Police Scotland to St Bartholomew’s!

Some parents have been asking about the time that school finishes in Thursday. It is 2.30pm. This is always the case at Christmas and Easter and we make sure that other local schools follow the same pattern, so that it is convenient for parents.

Mrs Bolland

Apologies that the leaflet above is a little worse for wear! Our Primary 7 House Captains put them to good use when visiting all of our classes to publise the Easter Football Camp , held at Albion Rovers football ground. This is a great opportunity to support your local football team, keep fit, meet friends and generally have fun! The Mark Millar foundation is sponsoring 5 children from both St Bartholomew’s Primary and Townhead Primary to attend for a whole week.I will let the lucky boys and girls who they are tomorrow. Thank you Mark and Lucy for thinking about us, it is much appreciated.

Our lucky winners from the Easter basket competition were delighted that their efforts had been rewarded and were especially excited about the lovely Easter egg that they won. Every child was rewarded with a creme egg to take home, whether 5hey had an Easter Basket or not. We even managed to give all of our staff a creme egg, who I know appreciated the wee sugar boost on a Friday afternoon. Thank you everyone for all of your efforts this week!

As you know, it’s Holy Week and to Mark this very special time in the Church’s calendar, we have asked Fr James to celebrate mass in the school for our entire Parish community. We would encourage you to join us in this celebration of the liturgy and hope to see you at 10am.

Mrs Bolland

Primary 1 – Fiona

Primary 1/2 – Leyla

Primary 2/3 – Ryan

Primary 3 – Cameron

Primary 4 – Skye

Primary 4/5 – Nathan

Primary 5/6 – Sean

Primary 6/7 – Ellie

Primary 7 – Gabrielle

Cool Class:  Primary 7

Winning House: Lochend