St. John Paul II Primary School & Nursery Class, Viewpark

The following information has been taken from North Lanarkshire Council’s website.

Schools update Tuesday 23 June 2020

We are currently assessing the impact of the Scottish Government’s announcement that schools are to reopen full time from August.

As this was only announced today, we will make further information available on how this impacts on North Lanarkshire schools as soon as we can and we will ensure that pupils, parents and staff are kept updated.

We are preparing for pupils to return full-time to school on 12 August.

We have prepared packs of information for all parents/carers. This include class arrangements for next year, and report cards. These will be available to collect from the school from 12noon tomorrow. Please ensure you respect all social distancing rules when coming to collect them.This also includes our new P1 children joining us in August. Please share this information with those who may need it.

There has been a slight delay with the suppliers, meaning these won’t be ready by Wednesday. They will likely be in by the end of the week. As soon as we have them, we will arrange a time for our P7s to come up to the school to collect them from their P7 teachers! Apologies!

What a lovely Mass to celebrate our amazing P7 pupils and to give thanks for our school year together. Thanks to Fr Jim for celebrating this online for us. Lovely to feel together while so far apart. The Mass has been recorded, and will be available online for a few weeks in case you weren’t able to join us live.

St Gabriel’s Webcam link

P1 Transition -Meet the Teacher

Please remember for those children who did not have a visit to school last week you have the opportunity to meet your teacher tomorrow Monday 22nd June between 10am and 11am and Tuesday 23rd June between 1pm and 2pm.
Please come on either of those days at a time which suits you.

Your teacher will be outside waiting to meet you. We can only invite one adult with each child to ensure social distancing. If the weather is not in our favour we will be under cover or, if safe to do so, may use the dining hall. Please follow the directions of our staff.

We look forward to seeing you this week and thank you for your patience and understanding during this time.

Tomorrow we are taking part in Active Schools #NLSportsDay. Here is all the information you need. Please share your pics and videos with us!

Keyworkers – follow this link for information about hubs over the summer.

Summer Hubs for Keyworkers

We have received information from North Lanarkshire Council this afternoon, which gives more of an idea of what things will look like in August when schools reopen and children arrive back.  We are very much looking forward to our school re-opening and we are working hard, in partnership with North Lanarkshire, to prepare for this.

Throughout the Summer Holiday, there will be further information regarding our re-opening in August.  We are aware that there will be some anxiety around days children are attending, how this fits with work schedules and what health and safety will look like.

Mr Thomas has been working (along with the Senior Leadership Team) with staff from NLC to prepare a recovery plan.  There will be a lot of detail circulated about this in the coming weeks.  This information will be given out at appropriate times so as not to overload our Parents/Carers and to ensure that everyone has the right information at the right time.  In the meantime, please follow the link below to the NLC Website to see a letter from Derek Brown, Executive Director of Education & Families.  This give the current position, as agreed by the Council and lets you know what August will look like.

Further information about the exact days your child will be attending school will be given out next week.  It will be an impossible task to accommodate all requests and all circumstances.  We have over 260 families and a roll of over 400.  Please be patient.  We ask for your support and co-operation.  We promise to work with you to support you and your family in return.

Please note, that we will ensure siblings who attend St. John Paul II attend school on the same days.  From there, we will look at working groups for Literacy, so that we can maximise Learning & Teaching time.  It will not be possible to ensure children are allocated days with best friends.

The official return date for children will be Wednesday 12th August 2020.  Tuesday 11th will be an INSET DAY for staff only.

Click here for the North Lanarkshire – Schools Plan Update

North Lanarkshire have issued a Frequently Asked Questions sheet – which you may find useful.  This is a live document and will be updated on a regular basis.  Download it below…

Click here for Update Education FAQs

So, this afternoon we should have been gathering in the hall to celebrate our Primary 7s in their Leavers’ Assembly! We are sad we’re not able to celebrate together, but, we have managed to put together the famous “slideshows” we would usually show! So let’s start at the beginning – and celebrate our Class of 2020! 🥳🎓🥳 (Tissues at the ready! 😢)

Class of 2020

Continuing with our celebration of our fab Primary 7 pupils, here is a wee video with some pictures of our year in P7! 🥳🎓🥳

Our Primary 7 Adventure

And finally, a wee recap of our amazing week in Kilbowie!!

Kilbowie

Our Primary 7s have been amazing! And while we know this isn’t our assembly, it’s at least some memories for you all! These videos will be available on your class Teams pages, where you can download and keep them! 🎉🎓🎉

Attention P7s!
There will be another Virtual Call with CNHS tomorrow (18th June) at 2pm on the Transition Team. Looking forward to hearing from you then.