ONLINE PHOTOGRAPH PERMISSION 2024-2025
As always, we are updating our records and we ask that if you DO NOT WANT your child’s photo to appear on our website, newsletter, Teams or Social Media to please let us know by completing this short form. You only need to complete this if you DO NOT want us to use your child’s photograph. Those who are happy for us to use their photograph need not fill the form in!
Please click HERE to complete the form by Monday 2nd September 2024.
ANNUAL DATA UPDATE AND PARENTS PORTAL – Action Required!
The Office Team have been busy preparing some information to send out to you. There will be some forms to complete and some of these will be sent back to school. Some of these will be completed online.
- Parents Portal information/iPayment and Fusion sign up – please ensure you are signed up for this to receive annual reports, log an absence, give permission for trips, make payments, book appointments, etc. Our office staff can assist with.
- Local Excursion Permission – this form should be completed and sent back to school. We use these paper copies so that staff can take them on trips with them and this gives them access to medical and allergy information as well as emergency contacts. These forms also give us permission to take children out on local walks and short trips (for example to church, the library, local park.)
- Annual Data Check – Those who are on Parents Portal are asked to ensure we have the most up to date contact information, medical information, etc. You can do this online. If you are not already on Parents Portal we will send a paper copy to you and you should complete this ASAP.
THE SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHER
Chris McIntyre Photography will be in school from 17th – 19th September 2024. We will circulate more information about this. He will take the following photographs:
- Individual Photos (all children)
- Sibling Photos (children St. John Paul II Nursery and Laburnum FLC are welcome to join older siblings)
- Primary 1 Class and Primary 7 Class Photographs will also be taken.
Full school uniform should be worn on these days.
FLU IMMUNISATION
The Flu Immunisation takes place on 5th December and forms have been sent out about this for most children. HOWEVER… The Primary 1 forms have not yet been delivered to school. We will send these out as soon as we have them.
If you’ve just recently moved to the area or have just joined our school, your details will not have been with the NHS for St. John Paul II and so Mrs Cummings has sent a letter home this week in your child’s bag. If the letter has been lost or hasn’t arrived home, please call and we can give you the details of who to contact!
SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION – TUESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
If your child is due to make one of the following Sacraments, you are invited to attend a meeting with your Parish Priest. All meetings take place in St. Gabriel’s and St. Columba’s on the same day, but you should attend the meeting in your own parish:
- Primary 3 – First Confession – 6pm
- Primary 4 – First Holy Communion – 6:30pm
- Primary 7 – Confirmation – 7pm
All meeting take place on Tuesday 17th September 2025 at the times above and in the church you attend.
IMPORTANT: Your attendance at these meetings is essential and is your way of enrolling your child in the Sacraments. If you cannot make the meeting and you cannot send a representative, you should call your Parish Priest.
Father Bogan at St. Columba’s: Phone: 01698 813311 Email: stcolumba@rcdom.org.uk
Father Morris at St. Gabriel’s: Phone: 01698 817609 Email: stgabriel@rcdom.org.uk
