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

So, in case you’ve all forgotten, it’s back to school tomorrow!! Hope you’re all ready!

Our P2 – P7 pupils should return at 9am, and line up in the yard as normal.

Our new P1 pupils should arrive in the playground between 9.50am and 10am. Your child’s buddy will be there to meet them and take them to their line. The class teachers and buddies will them escort the children into the school. You will have the opportunity to take pictures of your child in class when you collect them from 2pm onwards.

Next week, 23rd to 26th May, will be our Health Week. Your child will have the opportunity to take part in a range of activities aimed at enhancing their physical, emotional and social wellbeing.

To help cover the cost of the planned activities, it is asked that each child pay £1.50. The school will meet the additional cost. Children should wear their PE kit to school every day.

Just a reminder for our P7 pupils. Tomorrow and Wednesday is your two day visit to Cardinal Newman. You should make your own way there and meet in the red social area. Your class lists and Mrs McGhee will be there waiting for you!! Have fun, we can’t wait to hear all about it on Thursday!!!

With the excitement of anniversary week behind us, there’s still lots going on this week in St John Paul II!

Monday 9th: Our Parent Council will meet at 6pm

Tuesday 10th: Our P7 pupils are off for the first of their two day visit to Cardinal Newman. Our P5 pupils are going on their school trip to Glasgow Science Centre.

Wednesday 11th: It’s the second day for our P7 pupils at CNHS.

Saturday 14th: Our P4 pupils will celebrate the sacrament of First Holy Communion in St Gabriel’s at 12pm

Sunday 15th: Our P4 pupils will celebrate the sacrament of First Holy Communion in St Columba’s at 3pm

Our prayers will be with all of you as you take this important step on your faith journey.

And that’s our anniversary week over. We’ve had an Open Day and Fun Day to celebrate. We finished today with a beautiful mass in our hall. Many thanks to all our invited guests, parents, family members and members of the wider community who joined us today. A special thanks to Mr Thomas for the music.

Our children were fabulous this morning. A big thanks to those who read, did the offertory and sang with the choir. The boys and girls celebrated this afternoon with cake and an extra play!!

A huge thanks to all of you who supported and celebrated with us this week. It’s been a fabulous 10 years here – wonder what the next 10 will hold???

A huge thank you to everyone for their support in our Lenten fundraiser today! We raised the amazing total of £1219.62

Just a reminder – there’s no after school netball tonight. There will be an extra after school drama rehearsal instead.

Here are a few wee bits of info about the week ahead of us!

On Tuesday of this week (15th) our school choir will take part in the Glasgow Music Festival Choir Competition is the Royal Concert Hall. They have worked really hard to prepare for this, giving up their lunchtimes to rehearse and we wish them the very best of luck. Could all choir members please remember to wear their shirt and tie.

On Thursday of this week (17th) we will be having out Lenten Fundraising day! This will help boost the money the children have been bring in daily for SCIAF. It will be a non-uniform day, which will cost the children £1. There will be a tombola and raffle on the day, and raffle tickets will be on sale from Monday. Tickets for both all be 20p. We will also have a “Beat the Goalie” event. For 50p, the children will have 3 chances to score a goal past our world class keepers – Mr McLaughlin and Mr McGroarty.
In the afternoon there will be a netball match, which will see the school netball team take on a staff team. All the children will be allowed to come and watch this, and this is included in the £1 the children have already paid.
We’re looking forward to a great day.

On Friday (18th) our P6 pupils will present their assembly. It is entitled “Our Learning Journey” and will give us an insight into what’s been going on in their classes this year. You are welcome to join us for this at 2.15pm.

As part of our Lenten preparations Father Jim will continue to say Mass in St Columba’s for us each morning at 8.15am.

Congratulations to all our P3 pupils who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation this evening in St Gabriel’s. We are very proud of you all boys and girls.

We’ve got another busy week ahead of us.

On Monday (7th) our P3 pupils will make their First Reconciliation in St Gabriel’s at 7pm. Our prayers will be with them as they take another important step on their faith journey.

On Thursday (10th) the Cardinal Newman roadshow will be in our school at 3.15. There will be representatives from the staff and pupils of CNHS there ready to speak to our P7 pupils about what’s ahead for them. This is a great experience and opportunity for our pupils as well as parents and we encourage you all to attend.

Our 8.15am Mass continues every morning during this period of Lent.