St Bartholomews

St Bart’s celebrated World Book Day with a Character Assembly today.

Here are some of our winning Characters.

Primary 1 – Ellie

Primary 1/2 – John

Primary 2/3 – Rory

Primary 4 – Maddison

Primary 4/5 – Lucy

Primary 5/6 – Leon

Primary 6/7 Harvey Jo

Primary 7 – Paula

As mentioned in yesterday’s blog, we have a variety of parents and carers from Townhead Primary and St Bartholomew’s, working together on achieving a SQA Emergency First Aid qualification. Well done ladies! I know that you will be successful in achieving this qualification on completion of the course. A big thank you to the Community Learning and Development team, especially to Bernadette Newton who works very closely with us. This is a great example of building community!

Remember that it’s World Book Day celebrations today, and children are invited to come to school dressed as their favourite character from a book. There is no requirement to dress up and if your child chooses not to take part, then please be advised that school uniform must be worn. Assembly will now take place in the morning, as I have been called to Headquarters for an important meeting in the afternoon.

Could I please gently remind parents and carers that Breakfast Club starts at 8.15 am. There has been a noticeable amount of children arriving before this time, please be advised that supervision at this club begins at 8.15 am and we do not hold responsibility before this time.

Mrs Bolland

Fr O’Kane has very kindly offered to celebrate mass in the Oratory at 8.30am today. It would be nice to see as many people from our Parish Community as possible, in the Oratory this morning. Lent is a very special time in the Church’s calendar and the power of prayer cannot be underestimated.

Prayer is the breath of faith: in a relationship of trust, in a relationship of love, dialogue cannot be left out, and prayer is the dialogue of the soul with God. Pope Francis

We look forward to welcoming parents from both Townhead Primary and St Bartholomew’s Primary, who are working on a First Aid course, with the help of our Community Learning and Development team. A big thank you to Bernadette Newton, for organisiang this joint community venture. A very worthwhile exercise!

Mrs Bolland

Our Primary 6/7 pupils will be receiving some input from the junior sports leaders from the High School. This is a mutually beneficial exercise,as the young people from the high school increase their leadership skills and our Primary 6/7 boys and girls learn new skills and knowledge related to fitness. Well done everyone!

A reminder that Parents evening is next Thursday, 15th march. The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed, from our termly newsletter that the original date for this was the 8th of March. We rescheduled,as St Ambrose are holding their parents evening then and as many of you have children enrolled there, we thought that it would be more convenient to move this event. As per the arrangements from the previous parents evening, we will maintain the same on line booking system. I know that a number of our parents and carers enjoyed the convenience of booking appointment with their child/ ren’s teacher on line.

As tradition dictates, we will have the book fayre in school on the same week as Parent’s Evening. We will schedule a timetable so that all of our pupils have the opportunity to think about the choice of book that they may make.

Mrs Bolland

It was lovely to see all of our pupils back where they belong today – at St Bartholomew’s! I know that many of our pupils took full adavantage of the inclement weather and had great fun in the snow. The vast majority of our children were certainly ready to immerse themselves in school life and enjoyed getting back to a routine.

Please be advised that World Book Day will be rescheduled for Friday, 9th March. Children are invited to come to school dressed as their favourite character from a book. We will have a ‘readathon’ in the morning and a special assembly to allow children the opportunity to show all of our pupils, their wonderful costumes. There will be a prize for the best costume in each class. We are all looking forward to sharing in these fantastic creations.

Our loyal group of parent volunteers who regularly fundraise and organise events, such as disco’s etc have decided to organise an Easter Bonnet competition, where monies raised will be donated to Lenten charities. I will keep you posted on when this event will take place. I can say that it will take a similar format to that of the Christmas plates competition. Thank you for organising this ladies- your continued support is much appreciated.

Mrs Bolland

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