All of our pupils this week have been developing their artistic skills by creating a Japanese themed picture for our Mikado Art Gallery this term.  Parents will receive a letter this week with details about the Art Gallery and how you can view all of the amazing pieces of art.

Hockey Fridays continue to be very popular with our pupils, with primary 3 now involved in the weekly sessions.  Tom from Uddingston Hockey Club works with our children each week, developing their skills and also offers an after school hockey club for our senior pupils, which is very well attended.

This week our Sports Committee met with Laura Somerville, our Active Schools Co-ordinator, to discuss the possibility of an application to SportsScotland for a School Sport Award.  This is a national, lottery funded award designed to encourage schools to continuously improve P.E. and sporting opportunities.  At St. Mary’s we are involved in many sporting opportunities, however this application is the perfect way to involve our Sports Committee in our self evaluation process, looking at how we can improve to make learning better for every child in our school.

We have a very short week next week with the May holiday on Monday and a Staff Development Day on Thursday, however our pupils are working overtime as they will be involved in various competitions in the evenings and at the weekend!  A busy week ahead!

Thanks for reading,

Mrs. Elaine Fitzpatrick

Headteacher