CatholicErskine are joining with other churches in Erskine to provide places where people can meet and share a modest meal.
The Meet and Heat Cafes are open to all and offer a place for soup, bread and cake/scones with tea/coffee. They don’t talk about religion, they just try to ‘love our neighbour’. The meet is from 11:00am to 1:00pm in St. John Bosco (Thursday) and St. Bernadette (Friday).
Please come along and/or invite family or neighbours to join us. All are welcome.
Renfrewshire Council Adult and Family Learning Services provide informal non-accredited ESOL for Beginners classes free of charge in various venues across Renfrewshire.
Classes are for adults living, working, or volunteering in Renfrewshire. They are suitable for people with little or no English, or for basic/elementary ESOL learners who want to improve language skills to access support and services, or participate in cultural and leisure opportunities in their new communities.
For information on classes and how to book, please click on the link.
ESOL Class Information January 2023 – June 2023
Hello everyone and welcome to Kids Church for this week. It is the first week in Advent. What a great day to come to church and see the lighting of the candle. Every child will be able to pick up a sheet on the Jesse Tree. What is that? Well come along and find out.
We have a few dates for you to keep free.
Saturday 26th November 4.30 mass at St John Bosco Pick up a free Jesse Tree resource
Sunday 27th November 10.30 mass at St Bernadette Pick up a free Jesse Tree resource.
Saturday 3rd December 4.30 mass at St John Bosco. Short Christmas film after mass.
Sunday 4th December 10.30 mass at St Bernadette. Short Christmas film after mass .
Saturday 10th December 4.30 mass in St John Bosco. Christmas jumper day – photo opportunity.
Sunday 11th December 10.30 mass in St Bernadette. Christmas jumper day – photo opportunity.
It will be great to see you all there. All welcome of course.
This Advent programme helps us to grow in faith and to look forward to many more events in the new year where families can be supported in their journey of faith. Please put the dates in your diary and maybe spread the word to other families.
Here is the link for some guidance on thinking about the Gospel –
For the illustration so that you can colour in –
As always we would love to see your pictures for this Sunday. Please post them on line.
All those who like to sing should try to learn a hymn for this month.
And if you like to dance along.
Thanks and have a good week.
To coincide with Anti-Bullying Week which runs from Monday 14th November until Friday 18th November, we are hosting a family learning session presented by Fiona White, Health and Wellbeing Officer from Renfrewshire Council on Wednesday 6.30pm until 7.30pm in our school hall. This session aims to help parents and carers build their knowledge, skills and confidence to have everyday conversations with their child to support them to be safer online. It will introduce Thinkuknow curricular materials and supports aimed at opening up dialogue in school regarding what children do online and how they should carry out their online relationships.
Welcome to the 32nd Sunday of the year and an apology. Due to technical difficulties we are not able to bring you the usual PowerPoint but there is no time to waste. Kids Church brings you some links, some information and some hymns to help you focus on the message this Sunday.
So let us begin.
God of heaven and earth, your Kingdom has room for us all. May we see each other through your eyes. Amen.
If you go to www.Cafod.org you will find children’s liturgy and the prayer sheet for the day.
https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Children-s-liturgy
If you want to think about the Gospel and colour in the picture go to
Hymn for this week – God Is So Good.
And if you want to dance and sing – LOVE, Love.
P1 registration for the 2023 – 2024 session will be live online from 1st to 4th November 2022. All parents/carers of pre-school children should register their child for school on one of these dates, they will be required to upload proof of residency and child’s birth certificate. Parents who do not have internet access or miss registering on these days should contact the catchment school directly to arrange registration in person.
If a parent/carer wants their child to be considered for a school outwith their catchment school, they will need to complete a placing request application as well as registering their child at their catchment school. The deadline for placing requests for the 2023 – 2024 session is 15 March 2023, all applications received by this date will have a written response by 30 April 2023.
For more information, please click the link below.
Please click on the links below to access information regarding the benefits that are on offer from Social Security Scotland, eligibility and how to make an application.
Benefits which are currently available:
5 Family Payments Information March 2022
Adult Disability Payment April 2022
Child Disability Payment April 2022
Also available is the Local Delivery Service which aims to make application for these benefits as easy as possible and support applicants to complete applications through an appointment at a time and location convenient to them.
Statement from Renfrewshire’s Provost Lorraine Cameron following the death of Her Majesty The Queen.
The website for the Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme, freebus.scot, is now live.
The website contains lots of helpful information for families and young people about free bus travel, how it works, how to apply, the benefits and some tips for travelling safely too. It also features the decision tool feature, to help you understand the different ways they can apply.
The Keep Safe Kids app is a new and easier way for children and young people to access health and wellbeing information and support as well as to report bullying directly to their school.
Pupils can open the app and make reports at any time of day or night as well as make anonymous reports, helping them to control when and how they tell someone about an incident or their concerns.
Reports are sent directly to that child or young person’s school to be picked up in line with the school’s anti-bullying and wellbeing policies. Reports are not held on the app or accessible to anyone else, ensuring confidentiality and reports will not be picked up outside standard school hours.
If you have wellbeing concerns for your child, please do not hesitate to contact us directly. We are here to help.
To find out how to download or use the Keep Safe Kids app, visit the I Am Me Scotland website.
‘I Am Me’ website