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

Please click HERE for a letter from Mr Thomas with some initial information for this week, along with some reminders.

PRIMARY 1 INFORMATION

For Thursday 15th:  Start at 9am and enter through the main gates with buddies.  Collect at 2:30pm from the Dining Hall exit (at the side of the pitch).  Siblings will be dismissed at this time and through this door too.

For Friday 16th:   Start at 9am and enter through the main gates with buddies.  Collect at 2:30pm from the Dining Hall exit (at the side of the pitch).  Siblings will be dismissed at this time and through this door too.

From Monday19th on, the following will apply.  9am through the main gates and 3pm through the Dining Hall.

DISMISSAL FOR P2-P7:

P4 and P7 will be dismissed through the Pitch Gates at 3pm.

P2, P3 P5 and P6 will be dismissed through the Main Gates at 3pm.

All children enter through the main gates in the morning.

The end of term is always busy, and we had lots of happy and sad events to celebrate this week.

A message to all our nursery children and P7 pupils, who are moving onto their new adventures (and their families!) We hope you have enjoyed your time with us here, and that you’ve learned lots! We have been privileged to have been part of your journeys and we wish you all the best! As Mr Thomas always says to anyone leaving – if you take one thing from your time here, remember you were loved!

And to everyone in our school community – a huge big thank you! We have had an amazing, busy, fun-filled year. We appreciate all your help and support. Have an amazing summer and we’ll see you all in August.

It may be last few days of term, but they are jam packed!! Loads happening, so here is all the information you need.

We are on Week 2 for lunches this week. Monday and Tuesday are as the menu. Wednesday will be snacks to go only (we finish at 1pm!) and will be a mix of sandwiches. We will look to order these on Tuesday.

On Monday, your child’s report will be available on Parent Portal. If you haven’t yet signed up for Parent Portal you will not receive this report. Please contact the office if you need any support with this.

On Monday afternoon we will have  a “House Party” for the children in Lourdes who won the house points this year. Looking forward to celebrating!

Monday night is our P7 graduation and we are looking forward to celebrating with our fabulous P7 children .

On Wednesday we will all attend the 10am Mass at St Columba’s. This will be our final celebration of the year. Our P6 children will receive their ties, our Pope Francis Faith Awards will be presented to those P7s who have worked on them and we will bid farewell to some staff members. You are all welcome to join us.

School closes at 1pm on Wednesday, please ensure you have made plans to have your child collected at this time.

See – jam packed! 😂

As you know, our reports are being issued via Parents’ Portal this year.  If you have not signed up, you will not receive your child’s report.  We will have over 100 children whose parents have still NOT signed up for Parents’ Portal.

We realise that there could be a number of reasons for this.  We are happy to help!

Please sign up by contacting the school office.  The staff have helped so many Parents/Carers to get started with it and are very happy to do this.  We offered drop in sessions twice recently and only 6 people made use of this service.  We have been advertising this for months now!  Please get in touch to sign up.

If you want to try signing up yourself, please click HERE for the last post we put on our website to help.

Well, what can we say about our amazing drama club??? Our children were amazing! Here are some photos of them all ready to perform! Superstars, every one of them!!!

I just wanted to send out a few reminders in this second last week of term!

JUNE NEWSLETTER

You will see lots of information about upcoming events in our school if you take a look at the June Newsletter which was issued a week ago.  Click HERE to see the Newsletter.

MONDAY 17TH JUNE

We will have our Drama Club Dress Rehearsal today and all of the staff and children will be invited to see the show in the afternoon.  It is looking and sounding amazing!

Drama Club will take place from 3pm – 4pm.

TUESDAY 18TH JUNE

Our Mini Vinnies are visiting Carfin Grotto with hundreds of other Mini Vinnies from around the Diocese of Motherwell.

Our Drama Club Show is at 7pm.  Please contact the office to reserve tickets which are now available to everyone.  All remaining tickets are first-come-first-served.

WEDNESDAY 19TH JUNE

This is the deadline for P7 Parents/Carers to follow the link to order their initial tickets for Graduation.  After this, the tickets will be available on a first-come-first-served basis.  Click HERE to complete the order form.

At 2pm we will have a performance from our School Choir and Brass Instrumentalists.  We have extended this to our Drama Club, who will also perform a couple of numbers from their show.  Please let us know if you intend to come along by clicking here.  We are not handing our tickets, we are just monitoring numbers.  Fr Bogan has also extended an invitation to parishioners.

THIS WILL TAKE PLACE IN ST. COLUMBA’S CHURCH as Laburnum Family Learning Centre are using our school hall for their Graduation.

FRIDAY 21ST JUNE

Our own Nursery Graduation will take place in the afternoon.  Information has already been sent out by Nursery Staff.

Thinking ahead to the new school year…

To apply for Free School Meals (P6 and P7) and also a Clothing Grant (P1-P7), please click HERE.

FRIDAY 14TH JUNE 2024

To celebrate the start of the Euros and to show support for our Scotland International Team, children can wear something Scottish (like a Scotland top or t-shirt) or they can add something ‘Scottish’ to their uniform.  Alternatively, they can come in uniform as normal.  No charge!

PRIMARY 5 SHOULD STILL WEAR THEIR UNIFORM FOR THEIR TRIP:  This makes the children easily identifiable when out and about and in crowds.  It is a health and safety precaution.

SCHOOL CHOIR & BRASS INTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE

The children of our School Choir have been working all year round with Mrs McGregor.

The children who receive Brass Instrumental Tuition have been working with Mr Kane.

We want to showcase their talents!

Wednesday 19th June 2024 at 2pm 

Please note the change of venue:  This will now take place in St. Columba’s Church!

The children will perform as part of an Assembly and we invite parents, carers and family members to join us.

NO TICKETS REQUIRED but please follow the link below to tell us how many people we can expect!

Click HERE to let us know how many seats you require.

BEACH PARTY DISCO

Tickets will be on sale from the office from tomorrow, Thursday 6th June.

The St John Paul II Parent Council BEACH PARTY DISCO is next Thursday 13th June 2024

Primary 1 – 3:

6.00PM to 7.15PM

Primary 4 – 7:

7.30PM to 8.45PM

Tickets are £1.00 each. A tuck shop will also be available on the night with Drinks from 50p and Sweets/Crisps from 30p

The children are welcome to come dressed in beach themed clothes.