{"id":44,"date":"2021-11-01T19:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T19:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbrigidsprimary\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2024-09-02T12:13:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T11:13:22","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbrigidsprimary\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Brigid\u2019s is a Roman Catholic Primary School, which admits both girls and boys from Primary 1 to Primary 7.\u00a0 There are eight bright and spacious classrooms in our part of the building, these open onto two spacious working areas used by class teachers to give pupils the freedom to work independently. The school shares a variety of spaces with Newmains Primary and the Family Learning Centre: STEM and GP room, nurture room, music box, PE hall, cooking lab, 4G football pitch and ICT base. Outside, children have access to a large tarmacadam playground which includes, sensory areas, forest area, tree house and 4G football pitch. These areas are shared with our friends from Newmains Primary.<\/p>\n<p>This session, we have 5 straight classes and two composite class. Parents should note that the configuration and number of classes in the school could vary year by year, dependent upon the number of pupils at each stage and the way in which the children are organised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Associated Secondary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>St Aidan\u2019s High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Waverley Drive,<\/p>\n<p>ML2 7EW<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 01698 352555<\/p>\n<p>Our school is part of the Newmains and St Brigids Community Hub and hosts several community activities in the evening and at weekends including Residents Associations, Tenants Associations, Councillors\u2019 surgeries and local community meetings are also held in the school.<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 01236 632778<\/p>\n<p>school&amp;facilitybookings@culturenl.co.uk<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Brigid&#8217;s Parish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are very fortunate to have our Church St. Brigid&#8217;s, on our doorstep. This means we can walk there for mass and other special times. Our Parish Priest is Father Stephen Rooney, who is also the Parish Priest of St. Ignatius. Father Sweeney, a retired priest, is resident in the Parish House. He also celebrates Mass. \u00a0Sister Maria Gorretti is also a valued member of our school community.<\/p>\n<p>This is the link to our Parish website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stbrigid.org.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.stbrigid.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"261\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stbrigidsprimary\/about-us\/st-brigids\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stbrigidsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/40006\/2021\/11\/03133622\/St-Brigids.png\" data-orig-size=\"677,940\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"St Brigid&#8217;s\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stbrigidsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/40006\/2021\/11\/03133622\/St-Brigids-216x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stbrigidsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/40006\/2021\/11\/03133622\/St-Brigids.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-261\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stbrigidsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/40006\/2021\/11\/03133622\/St-Brigids-216x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stbrigidsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/40006\/2021\/11\/03133622\/St-Brigids-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/stbrigidsprimary\/uploads\/sites\/40006\/2021\/11\/03133622\/St-Brigids.png 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Brigid\u2019s is a Roman Catholic Primary School, which admits both girls and boys from Primary 1 to Primary 7.\u00a0 There are eight bright and spacious classrooms in our part of the building, these open onto two spacious working areas used by class teachers to give pupils the freedom to work independently. 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