St Bartholomews

Primary 1 – Derek

Primary 1/2 – Olivia

Primary 2/3 – Cody

Primary 3 – Emma

Primary 4 -Terri-Lee

Primary 4/5 – Jay

Primary 5/6 – Molly

Primary 6/7 – Callum

Primary 7 – Ally

Today should have been our final day for new Primary 1 enrolments, however due to adverse weather conditions, this will be extended to accommodate this. Please pop in and see us and we will be happy to oblige.We appreciate that it has been incredibly difficult to get around, especially with buggies etc.

We are looking forward to seeing our Primary 4 children from Ms Connor’s class, on stage this afternoon. Parents and carers are certainly in for a treat ! Please take a seat in the hall for 2 pm.

Reminder for next week…Parents and carers from P6/7 have the opportunity to take part in a ‘Heart Start’ related activity , with their children on Wednesday and Kevin from Skillforce, one of our school partners, will be on hand to demonstrate some importance first aid skills. Primary 7 parents and carers will also have the opportunity to learn alongside their children on Friday, when they will be able to experiment with our STEM resources.  We look forward to welcoming you then.

We also look forward to  welcoming Elizabeth Montgomery and the team from HMIe next week. I am sure that they will be impressed with our wonderful boys and girls.

Mrs Bolland

Our Primary 4 pupils are very much looking forward to presenting their assembly to parents and carers tomorrow. They have been practising in the hall over the last couple of days, and I have to say that their singing was fabulous. The boys and girls will all contribute to the assembly, be it, speaking parts, singing or acting. I know that they are all super excited and can’t wait to show off their many gifts and talents. The assembly starts at 2pm

As always, parents and carers are invited to go back to the classroom after the children have performed for some refreshments.  This will also provide an opportunity for mums, dads, carers and extended family to have a look at children’s work and see for themselves how hard our boys and girls work! We look forward to welcoming you.

Mrs Bolland

As you can see from the photographs above, our Primary 7 pupils made pizza at their cookery lesson yesterday. The boys and girls were delighted with themselves , after taking a few simple ingredients like flour, water, oil, tomatoes ,cheese , adding a few toppings of their choice and then creating such delicious food. Well done boys and girls. I am not so sure if many of their efforts reached home as I think that they were all eaten before 3pm. Sorry mums and dads…

The children have all loved taking part in food handling/ preparation and increasing their knowledge in nutrition . These skills will stand them in good stead for the future and in fact, it has been reported that some of the children have applied some of this learning to helping out at home. Fantastic news.

Please keep up to date with twitter and class pages as you can see some examples of wonderful work and experiences that the children have been having. You will see from some of these pictures that the boys and girls’ teachers took advantage of the weather, and created outdoor learning opportunities.Looks like a lot of fun to me!

Mrs Bolland

It was lovely to see some of our prospective primary 1 boys and girls yesterday. I am looking forward to seeing a number of familiar faces this week, from our nursery and , of course, further afield. All are welcome.Could I please ask that parents and carers remind parents in the local community with school age children to register their child, in order to achieve their place at school for August. Thank you for your cooperation with this matter.

As you can see, it is snowing this morning. Please make sure that your child is wrapped up well with warm coats,scarves,gloves etc. The snow is scheduled to continue today and tomorrow. As always, please check north Lanarkshire council’s website for notification of school closure. We will endeavour to text all parents in this eventuality. Please access the website below for further information. ;http://https//:www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk

We have plenty of activities posted on Glow in the event of inclement weather, if this is required.

Mrs Bolland

This is an exciting week in St Bartholomew’s Primary School as we are enrolling boys and girls who will be starting school in August. We are all looking forward to meeting our prospective Primary 1 children. I know that there will be a number of familiar faces coming through our doors this week as many our new Primary 1 pupils currently attend our nursery. Familiar and unfamiliar faces alike, you are all most welcome!

The important  information that parents and carers need to be aware of is;

Your child must have reached 5 years of age between 1st March 2018 and the 28th February 2019.

Registration takes place from Monday 15th January to Friday 19th January 2018, from 10am – 2.30pm each day.

Please bring your child’s birth certificate and proof of address in the form of council tax notice.

Parents/carers have the right to make a placing request for their child(ren) to be educated in a school other than the one which serves this area. You have the right to make a placing request to another school.This form will be issued to you at enrolment at your catchment school.

St Bartholomew’s staff are very much looking forward to meeting our new Primary 1 boys and girls and their families and to working with you in the very near  future .

Mrs Bolland

Primary 1 – Ryan

Primary 1/2 – Kaiden

Primary 2/3 – Jada

Primary 3 – Calvin

Primary 4 – Brodie

Primary 4/5 – Emma

Primary 5/6 – Cameron

Primary 6/7 – Aidan

Primary 7 – Stella

Cool Class Cup: Primary 3

Winning House: Summerlee

We are looking forward to listening to Vikki from NLC Active Schools today at assembly. Vikki will be talking about the after school clubs  on offer this term and providing our boys and girls with information about; dance, netball,gymnastics and  running club. She will also be telling us about forthcoming events such as ‘Fun Games’ and the ‘Walking Challenge’.

There are so many benefits to join an after school club and I would ask you to encourage your child to get involved in as many as possible. It is  a brilliant opportunity to get fit and active and also to be sociable and perhaps meet new friends. We are incredibly fortunate to have Vikki as an integral member of our team and has coordinated so many physical  and active learning experiences for our children. Thank you Vikki.

I am sure that we are all looking forward to finding out who our ‘Pupil of the Week’ from each class is today. The lucky boys and girls will enjoy ‘ Tea with Mrs B’ as a reward for this achievement, in addition to the pride and delight that it will bring their families.

Mrs Bolland

Clare from the Lanarkshire NHS dental team visited us yesterday and was impressed with our boys and girls toothbrushing technique! Especially, our infant and nursery department where much improved skills have been noted. Maintaining good oral health and hygiene is so important and contributes to good general health. A big thank you to Claire for all of her support and looking after our toothbrushing resources so well. The lovely bonus to all of this hard work is that our pupils will all have beautiful, gleaming smiles. Sounds good to me!

Joe Bradley, our Gaelic football coach was in school yesterday and was very impressed with our P5/6 pupils, who started a taster session with him for the next four weeks. Gaelic football coaching will then recommence with Primary 7 on the 7th of February. Joe has offered us the opportunity to take part in a ‘Sport Move and Learn’ programme that he is creating. This will allow children to enhance their physical skills with a sporting activity and then receive a theoretical input in class. There is real potential for impact with this scheme. Thank you for thinking about us Joe.

I hope that a significant number of our parents and carers have managed to spare 10 minutes or so to complete the survey from Education Scotland Inspectors and perhaps arrange a meeting with them.Your support with this is very much appreciated. Thank you.

Mrs Bolland

You will have recently received a text,and then a letter in your child’s school bag about our forthcoming visit from HM Inspectors from Education Scotland . They will be visiting us to conduct an inspection during the week commencing 22nd January.
As part of the inspection, Inspectors gather the views of stakeholders via an online survey which is available from;

https://forms.education.gov.scot/s/GZYOH/

I would be very grateful if you could find 10 minutes of your time to complete the survey, either from the direct link above, or alternatively from the web address in the letter that you can access from your browser.As key stakeholders, your continued support is very much appreciated and we are grateful to you for taking the time to take part in the allocated survey and look forward to your response.Inspectors will also be meeting with groups of parents during the inspection so to be part of that discussion you should complete the survey with additional links provided to indicate your interest in taking part.You should complete the survey by 15th January 2018 for one child or for each of your children in attendance. Children from Primary 4 to Primary 7 have also been asked to share their views, as have our  staff and all of our external partners.

We are looking forward to extending a warm welcome to the Inspection team from Education Scotland to St Bartholomew’s Primary and look forward to their feedback.

I am very happy to report that all  of our pupils have settled back in to school life after the Christmas holidays, and are working hard. It has been lovely to share in their news about all of the exciting experiences that this time of year brings.Well done boys and girls!

Mrs Bolland