Please read our March newsletter:

Parental newsletter march 2021

As we are once again supporting SCIAF as our Lenten Charity we are going to FUNdraise while having FUN! For the next four Fridays we are going to do something fun to raise awareness and money for SCIAF.

Friday, 12th March – Wear it purple day.

Purple is our Church’s colour of Lent. You can wear 1 thing purple or you can go purple crazy and wear as much purple as you can!! If you are in school you can bring £1 for SCIAF if you are at home you can put your £1 in a safe place and bring it when you return to school. P4-7 on Friday you will have a google meet with your class and you can show everyone what your purple thing is.

Friday, 19th March – Crazy hair day.

Friday, 26th March – Own clothes day.

Thursday – 1st April, (the day we stop for the Easter break) – PYJAMA day!!!!

If you can please bring £1 each of these Fridays for SCIAF. Maybe you can do chores for your families to earn these pounds.

Thank you children.

Well done to this week’s star pupils! We are so proud of the fabulous work all of our pupils are doing. Keep doing your best and remember to show our school values at home.

star pupils week ending 26 Feb 2021

Well done to this week’s star pupils! We are so proud of the fabulous work all of our pupils are doing. Keep doing your best and remember to show our school values at home.

star pupils 17 Feb 2021

We are encouraging all St Peter’s Primary School families to follow Renfrewshire Leisure Sports Services social media platforms. Together we aim to support all of our young people and families to remain active during this challenging time. Active Schools will be posting resources, local campaigns, virtual sport/physical activity sessions and lots more on their social media channels below. Please like/follow their platforms to help us get Renfrewshire families, more active, more often.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RLSportsServices

Twitter: @RLSportServices

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rlsportservices/

YouTube :       https://youtube.com/channel/UCMkJUF4KR3MIzxVwvdqINeg 

Download your Lent Journal and follow the lessons and activities during each week of Lent:

Lent Booklet – Primary 1

Lent Booklet – Primary 2-4

Lent Booklet – Primary 5-7

Well done to this week’s star pupils! We are so proud of the fabulous work all of our pupils are doing. Keep doing your best and remember to show our school values at home.

star pupils week beginning 02 February 2021 2

Well done to this week’s star pupils! We are so proud of the fabulous work all of our pupils are doing. Keep doing your best and remember to show our school values at home.

Star pupils week beg 25 Jan

Please find below a link to some lockdown learning links from our Primary Outreach Librarians.  These may be useful in supporting learning at home:

https://sway.office.com/NRcyH4w2wwW9FjQs?ref=Link

Wellbeing resources: lots of toolkits/ materials for children and school staff to use can be accessed at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children & Families:

https://www.annafreud.org/schools-and-colleges/resources/

Please read our January newsletter and also some advice to ensure you stay safe online.

January 2021 update newsletter

Google Meet Advice Leaflet (002) 22 Jan 2021

Our teachers are so proud of the efforts of everyone in their class.

The following children have been highlighted for this week:

Star pupils term 1 2020 2021

Hope you enjoy our Christmas performance.

Classes have been looking at the winter Olympics.

P2/3 have been learning about snowboarding and designed their own snowboard,

P3 – bobsleighing and they designed their own kit.

P6/7 – ice hockey and they learned how to play this in the playground.

Primary 1

Piper McCrystal                 For being brave
Aimia Allison                        Showing kindness to her classmates
Ben McElroy                        For having a great attitude to learning
Darcie Donlon                   Always trying her best in all curricular areas
Chrisvin Varghese          For following classroom rules
Eilidh McKee                     Showing kindness and helping others in the                                                        playground
Kian Manson            Has a great understanding of the classroom rules.
Zuzanna Wesolowska    For being a great friend

Primary 1/2

Kyle Doherty                    For always having lovely manners
Aiden O’Malley               Voted by his classmates for being a good friend
Heidi McGivern               For good listening skills during class lessons
Mia Crangle                       Always working hard during reading activities
Orla Craig                            Showing kindness to her classmates
Joshua McPhee                Excellent drawing skills
Nina Mothersole             For having excellent listening skills and                                                                  following instructions
Saffron Bradley                Working hard during reading activities

Primary 2/3

Faith MacPherson       For gaining confidence and answering out
Johan Isaac                      For trying really hard with his classwork in                                                          particular his very good writing
Matthew Coulthard    Confidently answering maths questions                                                                 beyond 50!
Daniel Crook                    Beautiful artwork for our Christmas wall
Olivia Jamieson              Looking out for others and making sure                                                                 everyone in included
Arnis Jurenkovas           Fantastic writing about fireworks.

Primary 3

Orla Harkins                         Fantastic learning and understanding of                                                               acrostic poems
Sam Clark                              Helping his classmates learn new football                                                             skills
Zuzia Kawalec                   Being responsible and helping to tidy and                                                            clean the classroom
Leo McLean                       Helping to cheer up a friend at playtime and                                                        using encouraging words to help others with                                                     their writing
Michael Roberts            Delivering a fantastic solo talk about his                                                              favourite book
Alexander McLean       Showing excellent prediction skills when                                                              using  clues
Isabella Noble                Showing kindness and asking to help tidy up                                                        the class
Nataniel Oles                Giving a confident performance in our class                                                         Nativity.
Orla Harkins                   Showing kindness to others and helping them                                                    make up when they had fallen out.
Terry O’Hare                   For showing kindness to a class friend and                                                             playing with them when they felt sad during                                                      playtime.
Leona Richardson         For taking the time to show kindness to a                                                             classmate and helping them feel better when                                                     they were sad.

Primary 4

Abi Nicholas                     Working hard on her report writing
Shane Richardson         Showing excellent manners
Caoimhe Ogilvie             For being kind and helpful.
Christa Vargause            For always listening.
Roybn Gilhooley             For working hard in all curricular areas.
Regan Stewart                 For being a good friend.
Kate Smith                         For working hard, particularly in maths.
Shay Timony                      For being a caring friend.

Primary 4/5

Emily Jamieson          Showing kindness to all the children in P5/6
Lukas Jurenkovas     Excellent skills in Science and STEM
Joseph Moohan         Excellent performance from home for school                                                     show
Jessica Noble              Fantastic ideas in story writing
Jack Cameron            For showcasing his imaginative skills in drama

Primary 6/7

Ryan McManus             Always works hard in class and is respectful to                                                 everyone
Harry Higgins                Very kind and helpful to everyone
Aiden Wood                   Working hard to make progress in writing
Daniel Carr                     Working hard to make progress in maths
Treasure Onwubolu   Using ambitious vocabulary in all writing                                                              activities
Lucas Corrigan               Fascinating imagination in writing.

Primary 7

Paulina Ragauskaite          Very hard working and always does what is                                                          asked of her
Mirin Muldoon                      Always very kind and respectful
Mateo de Medina Doig    Showing good manners all of the time.
AmyEllen O’Neill                  Being kind and thoughtful of others’                                                                        feelings.
Joseph Fallon                         Showing good sportsmanship.
Suzanna Kotnowska           Working hard and showing respect to                                                                     everyone.
Imogen Porteous –               Being responsible and helpful to others.
Sean Dolan                               Being a good and helpful friend.

Please read our November newsletter:

November 2020 Parents Newsletter

Music teacher, Mark Traynor, will soon begin the process of  selecting P5 and P6 pupils for inclusion on the school instrumental music programme. Please read the letter below for more information.

IMS Pupil Recruitment (Initial Letter) 2020-21

Please read the latest update letter from Steven Quinn, Director of Children’s Services.

ParentCarer Update Letter

Review of Additional Support Needs Provision – Update from Gordon McKinlay

Parents – ASN Review Sept

Please read our updated September newsletter:

September update newsletter 2020

Please read our September newsletter:

St Peter’s Parental newsletter September2020

This leaflet explains what data Barnardos PATHS programme keeps about you and your family, what Barnardo’s does with this data and your rights in relation to it. If you would like more information about how your data is handled or if you would like your child to be excluded from the PATHS questionnaires, please contact our coordinator Katrina McGovern at katrina.mcgovern@barnardos.org.uk

KM Barnardo’s PATHS Privacy Statement 2020

It has been a joy and a pleasure watching you grow and learn during your time at St. Peter’s Nursery. You are now ready for the new adventures, challenges and opportunities school will offer.

       *** Every End Has A New Beginning***

Thank you to our parents, carers and families for choosing St. Peter’s Nursery to care for your child.

Please have a look at how our school will look when the children return in August. Our images show classroom / nursery layouts, corridor / reception signage and distancing measures and  cleaning stations.

Please read the latest update on future learning plans from the Director of Children’s Services, Steven Quinn.

Parent Update Letter

We will continue to offer a critical childcare service for the children of single parents who are key workers or for children with two parents if they are both key workers. We are also supporting children, young people and families where there is a need.

We have already contacted key workers and families who are currently using our service. If you think you meet the criteria for this support, you can find out more and how to apply on the council’s website.

Parents who already have children in our Early Years hubs are not required to make application again for summer provision.

http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/coronavirus-childcare

Renfrewshire Council are gathering information about home learning. Your responses will help to inform the planning for August. It would be really helpful if you could complete this before 15th June.

https://hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_79WgmpjSD2cO84t

Taking consideration of the blended approach to learning which is being planned as well as the increased amount of outdoor learning that we aim to deliver, we are suggesting a slight change to our traditional school uniform for August.  We ask that pupils attend school wearing a red polo shirt, black sweatshirt and black leggings, joggers or comfortable trousers.  Polo shirts and sweatshirts with our school badge are available from local school wear shops.  Children should bring a suitable jacket/coat to school every day.  They should come to school wearing trainers or other footwear suited to learning outdoors and will require a change of shoes, such as plimsoles for wearing in the gym hall. If your child is unable to tie their own shoe laces please consider Velcro fastening footwear to avoid unnecessary close contact with staff during the day.

We are aware that many parents like to have photographs taken of children starting school, and understand that this is a very important occasion, but we ask that you think carefully about purchasing uniform items that children may not get full use out of.

Mrs Mazzoni

Earlier this month, Renfrewshire Council asked parents and carers to submit their questions on schools and nurseries. Thank you to everyone who took part, there was a phenomenal response with more than 1,000 questions.

Your most-asked questions were put to Steven Quinn, Director of Children’s Services, which you can see at www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/coronavirus-schools. You can also find answers to many more questions there too.

Thank you for your continued patience and support for our school/nursery during this difficult time. We hope to see you back in our school/nursery as soon as it is safe to do so.

Some useful information from Renfrewshire Council.

General Coronavirus Information (includes a link to schools information): http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/coronavirus

Coronavirus Information and FAQs about early years and schools:  http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/coronavirus-schools

Online application for free school meals:  http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/Freeschoolmealsandclothinggrants (Visit the page and then click on ‘Apply for Free School Meals’ under Related Links on the right hand side of the page)

Online application for clothing grants:  this should reopen on 1 June 2020 or shortly thereafter and information is on the same page as for meals.  http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/Freeschoolmealsandclothinggrants

Do you have a child born between 1 March 2015 – 29 Feb 2016? The Best Start Grant School Age Payment is £250 from Social Security Scotland to  help families, who get certain benefits or tax credits,  with the costs when a child would normally start Primary 1.

Apply at http://mygov.scot/beststart

The Scottish Government has set out the route map for schools and nurseries to reopen for children and young people across Scotland. You can read a statement from Director of Children’s Services, Steven Quinn, about the route map, on the council’s website.

http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/coronavirus-educationroutemap

Please enjoy a short video from the staff and children of St Peter’s ELCC.

If you are a parent or carer living in Renfrewshire and are concerned about  your child’s  communication,  you can call  The Speech and Language Therapy Helpline.

For more information, click the link below.

SLT Helpline

Archbishop Tartaglia, Bishop President for Catholic Education in Scotland, will offer Mass for Catholic educators and schools on Sunday 10th May at 12 o’clock  from St. Andrew’s Cathedral. School communities are invited to join the Archbishop live using the video-link:

https://www.mcnmedia.tv/camera/st-andrews-cathedral

This week is a shorter week for learning.

Children: Mon. 4th and Tues. 5th – only online learning days this week

Staff: Wed. 6th and Thurs. 7th – in-service days

Friday 8th – holiday

Please click the link to see a message from the staff of St Peter’s

Please follow us on Twitter for regular updates.

Message from the staff

Please read the document from Renfrewshire Council:

Guidance on Remote Learning Primary Parents

Aberlour Children’s Charity  is calling on their supporters and members of the public to give what they can to their Urgent Assistance Fund

This is a very uncertain and worrying time for everyone, especially the families we support, some of whom, you will know, are already at breaking point. For that reason, we would like to ask for your help to share the information about our Urgent Assistance Fund more widely, so we are able to reach more vulnerable families across Scotland who need us.

Right now we are focussing on getting more donations to our urgent assistance fund so that we are able to help more people.

Could you help the Fundraising Team by:-

1.       Sharing our appeal link on your social media pages https://www.aberlour.org.uk/coronavirus-urgent-assistance-appeal/

2.       Sharing the link for applications, in order to sign post any family who may require our help at this difficult time https://www.aberlour.org.uk/service-category/urgent-assistance-fund/

3.       Or share and take part in our #TowerForAberlour social media push by creating and posting and picture and including our text to donate number, text ‘TOWER’ to 70085 to donate £3. You could also maybe tag some of your friends which might encourage others to take part too. While this approach is a more fun and light hearted way to get involved, it will really help us to raise profile with the public and hopefully funds too, so please get involved if you can.

Here are the rules:

1. Build a tower using household items ONLY (#stayathome)
2. Share your tower on social media tagging @AberlourCC and donate what you can to our Coronavirus Urgent Assistance Fund: https://bit.ly/3ajK1pA
3. Challenge three friends to build a #TowerForAberlour

If anyone has any questions or requires any further  information  on any of the above please don’t hesitate to get in touch with one of our Regional Fundraisers Nadia.whitmore@aberlour.org.uk or Abby.parkhouse@aberlour.org.uk .

With very best wishes from everyone at Aberlour.

Please read the letter from the Director of Children’s Services regarding emergency childcare.

Childcare arrangements – 23-03-20

Please read the Keyworker Provision information letter that has been provided by Renfrewshire Council

Parent Letter – Key Worker Provision

Please read the two leaflets that have been prepared for parents

Helping children and young people manage in unsettling times

Helping children and young people manage in unsettling times visual only

For your information, you can visit the council website for the latest advice and guidance on Coronavirus at www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/coronavirus

Congratulations to one of our former pupils, Ashton Bradley who is performing on the BBC’s Greatest Dancer.

Ashton is a member of the Dancepoint dance group who have successfully made it through to the next stage in the competition. Well done Ashton, we wish you every success.

This afternoon the whole school enjoyed a St. Andrews Day Assembly. Each class had been recorded performing a Scottish song or poem ( If it Wisnae Fur Yer Wellies, 3 Craws, Ye Cannae Shove Yer Grannie Off a Bus and A Dug, a Dug to name a few) and the videos were played during assembly. Well done to everyone who performed.

This afternoon we enjoyed a very funny performance of Mother Goose from Hopscotch Theatre Company. Our pupils had a great afternoon.

Today the whole school took part in a Missio service which was conducted by Canon Eddie and Sister Anne.

Halloween treat for the kids at lunchtime today. Don’t you agree our catering staff look scary!!

There has been a change to the Renfrewshire school holidays for 2019 – 2020 session. Please note that Friday 1st May 2020 is no longer an In-Service day.

School holidays

This event is the only national event for parents with children in Catholic schools and aims to support them as the first educators of their children.  The day will include activities for children, so that child care is not an obstacle to attending.  We hope that the programme will be of interest to all families and will help strengthen the link between Catholic homes, the parish and their schools.

Event details:

National Gathering for parents with children in Catholic Schools.  Saturday 21^st September 2019, 9.30-3pm, St Francis Xavier Primary School – Falkirk.  Separate programme for children.  Lunch will be provided.  Places are free but need to be booked by phoning  0415564727

Today we held our Family Board Game session. The kids and family members had fun playing the games and were very competitive.

Thank you to everyone who attended. Board Game Club will continue again next session.

Everyone had a great time at our Sports Day yesterday and the weather was kind to us.

Applications for free school meals and clothing grants are now open. By applying for either or both provisions now parents can ensure everything is in place ahead of the new school year.

Parents must make sure their application is received by the council no later than Friday 12 July to guarantee payment of clothing grants before the schools go back or to have free school meals from the start of term.

Those parents who have previously applied for free school meals and clothing grants will be sent a letter to their home address. If there has been no change in your family circumstances that affect any benefits you may receive, you can complete and sign the declaration form and return it to the council.

If there has been a change in your family circumstances or if you are applying for the first time, visit www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/freeschoolmealsandclothinggrants to complete an application form. You will also be able to read about eligibility for free school meals and school clothing grants as well as what information you need to include with your form.

Paper copies are also available for our school and from the Council’s customer service centres.

As a Fairtrade school, St Peter’s will be hosting a Fairtrade Day on Thursday 20th June. Children are invited to wear Fairtrade colours to school. (Green, blue – no football strips please).

There will be a Fairtrade Beat the Goalie event taking place with our brand new Fairtrade footballs.

There is no charge for this, although there will be a Fairtrade tuckshop available at lunchtime on this day. Items are priced from £1 to £1.20.

Many thanks for your continued support.

St Peter’s Parent Council are holding their Spring Fling on Friday 17th May at 3pm to 4.30pm in the school gym hall.

STALLS + CHOCOLATE & BOTTLE TOMBOLA + CREPE STAND + BEAT THE GOALIE + MUCH, MUCH MORE….

Cost £1 per adult, kids go free!

Donations of homebaking would be greatly appreciated and can be handed in to the school on Friday morning, thank you.

Please read our latest Dates for your Diary:

LATEST DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 2019

Last week at homework club the kids enjoyed a special treat of making Empire Biscuits after they had completed their homework.

Homework club is on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday after school from 3.00pm to 4.30pm.

On Thursday our Primary 7 pupils attended a Confirmation Retreat along with Primary 7 pupils from St. Paul’s Primary School.  In preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation, the children
took part in some fun activities, including meditation, which re-enforced their learning about the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.
The children had a great day!

Bikeability Scotland are looking for volunteers who could help deliver cycle training in schools.

For more information, please see the form below:

Bikeability Flyer

Yesterday we had a very enjoyable and informative performance from the Hopscotch Theatre Company about being cyber safe.

Cyberbuddy taught us how to be S.M.A.R.T while online. The children were fully engaged throughout the whole performance and learned some very valuable lessons on the importance of being safe online.

We recently ran another successful Family Art Session. Thanks to all who attended.

Have a look at some of our art work:

Dates for your diary:

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY MARCH 2019

Here is a link to the activities that are available through Renfrewshire Leisure during the Spring Break.

Our children have researched various jobs and prepared a short speech about a job that they would like to do. Each class was asked to vote for the talk they found most interesting and engaging. Our class winners  presented their talks to the whole school and the overall winner was James Docherty in P6/7, who would like to be a detective. Yesterday, James had the opportunity to be our Head Teacher for the day.

I think you’ll agree that he looks very comfortable in that chair! James did a great job and very kindly announced that we could have an extra 5 minutes break!

Here are all of our  class winners:

Some of our P7 girls collected money for the Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal and raised £59.26.

Our Fairtrade Coffee morning was a great success and we raised £85.10.

Thank you again for your baking donations and continued support.

On Friday 29th March, we are celebrating an international day to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Children can pay £1 (£2 per family) to come in dressed in clothes from a country of their choice. Alternatively they can wear a small symbol representing the country of their choice. For example, a thistle, piece of tartan, sombrero, a small picture of a flag using face paints. There will also be competitions held on the day and they can choose which of these they would like to enter for 50p each. The competitions are:

• A rock, paper, scissors tournament (originated in China)
• Guess how many sweets are in the jar ( invented by a Hungarian)
• Enter a drawing competition using pencils ( first created in English)

The Fundraising Group

Primary 3/4 have given presentations to their class about their dream jobs. There was a varied list of dream jobs, including: Artist, Chef, Electrician, Medical Scientist, Art Teacher and Teacher.

Fairtrade Coffee Morning

As St Peter’s is a Fairtade school we will be hosting a Fairtrade coffee morning on Friday 15th March. This will take place in the dinner hall from 9.30 – 10.30am.  We would like to invite parents along to support our event. If anyone would like to donate Fairtrade baking for this we would be extremely grateful.

Many thanks for your continued support.

On Monday our school were given an introduction to Judo. Our instructor, Jack demonstrated some Judo moves to each class and also introduced them to some Japanese words. The children really enjoyed the sessions.

Happy World Thinking Day to our pupils from various organisations.

Well done to our girls football team yesterday on their fantastic performance at the Renfrewshire Active Schools Girls Football League at Castlehead High School. Their great teamwork and determination paid off with them winning 5 of their 6 games. Well done girls!!

Please Note:

A new phone system will be installed in the school on the 28th Feb. Our new number will be 0300 300 0188.

Thanks.