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

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.

Our P1 pupils celebrated Mothers’ Day with a lovely assembly this morning!! We are really proud of them.

Part of their assembly was a video of the children telling everyone why they loved their Mummy. I have now posted these videos in the “documents” section of the P1 classes Glow pages if anyone missed today or wants another look!

Here’s a wee bit of info about what’s going on in St John Paul II for week beginning 29th February.

On Monday, our P4 (Base 11) are heading off to Holy Family on their First Communion retreat. Please remember that the children need to bring a snack and their packed lunch with them.

At 9.30am on Friday our Primary 1 pupils will perform their Mother’s Day assembly. In the afternoon at our usual assembly, we will have a presentation from the Lanarkshire Baby Bank.

Our morning Mass for Lent continues at 8.15am each day. We are continuing to collect money for the SCIAF Wee Box appeal to build our “Road to Calvary” around the school.

Remember to keep your eyes on the individual class Glow blogs for more in-depth updates on what’s going on in your child’s class.

Just a few wee notes about next week.

On Tuesday 22nd we will have our Christmas Carol service in the hall at 11am. This is a lovely way to start the Christmas celebrations, and you are very welcome to come along and join us.

School closes for the Christmas holidays on Tuesday 22nd December at 2.30pm.

We will reopen on Wednesday 6th January at 9.00am