Welcome back everyone and I hope you all had a lovely Easter break.

We finished last term with our final assembly, announcing the total of our Lenten Fundraising efforts. A fantastic sum – £3392.85! This is an outstanding amount of money from a group of 177 children over a period of 4 weeks. There is no doubt that the community of St. Cuthbert’s are certainly putting their faith into action as Pope Francis has asked us to do. We have invited our charity representatives to the school on Thursday 8th May to receive their individual cheques. Huge congratulations and thank you to all involved. We do not underestimate the support for all our families.

Our final week also saw a very special visitor to an extra special assembly on Thursday. Marmie the Shetland pony came to visit and launch our Ready, Steady, Gallop competition, part of the Wild in Art project taking place in the coming months in the area of Hamilton. Marmie was beautifully behaved and certainly got our pupils thinking about how they could decorate our very own miniature Clydesdale horse for the competition. Pupils have been working on their ideas over the holidays and Mrs McGraw will take forward all their thoughts to create our St. Cuthbert’s entry. More news to follow on this exciting project in the coming weeks.

Pupils and staff have settled quickly back into routines this week. We welcomed a new pupil to Primary 1 on Tuesday and are expecting another new pupil on Tuesday of this week into P4.

The celebration of Primary 4’s First Holy Communion will be a key event in the coming weeks. We will be visiting the church and working with Father Bogan to ensure our pupils are ready to celebrate this most important step on their faith journey. Primary 4 will spend tomorrow at Newmains Pastoral Centre experiencing a retreat as part of their preparation. Let’s hope the sun shines – the gardens are always a highlight!

This week sees our computer refresh. We will be without technology from Monday to Wednesday. As technology is an integral part of our daily business this will be challenging but I’m sure we will survive and the benefits will be worthwhile when all systems are up and running. A fantastic new addition will be our Clevertouch board based in the nursery class.
Please check school bags for newsletters published this week. Important dates are included in the school newsletter and every class also received their latest curriculum newsletter.
Spanish phrase of the week will return next week along with a full update of all learning activities in our classes and nursery.

Thanks for reading my blog,
Mrs Hendry