June | 2016 | St. Mary's Hamilton HT Blog

Each year we strengthen our links with Holy Cross and this year has been no exception. Our Primary 7 pupils have been involved in various transition events throughout the year, such as the team building day, maths challenge and various teacher visits. We also pass on more formal information to ensure that staff at Holy Cross know our children’s strengths when they begin in first year. Our children were involved in what is considered to be the most important transition event, the P7 induction days, this week. They had a great time getting to know pupils from other schools in our learning community and being involved in various lessons such as drama, P.E., English, Maths and many more. It was great to see their photographs on the Holy Cross Twitter page and even better to see their smiles as they participated in the lessons, leaving us in no doubt that they are well and truly ready for their transition to high school.

Our Primary 7 pupils also took part in a Primary 7 retreat this week at Holy Family church in Mossend. The retreat was organised to allow the pupils to reflect upon the journey that they have made since Primary 1 and to consider what the future holds for them. The day was a very peaceful and reflective one and once again staff from Holy Family commented on the impeccable manners and behaviour of our children.

This week was Financial Education week. Our pupils were involved in lots of different online and practical activities making them more aware of the value of money, interest rates, money calculations, savings and profit and loss.

Our yearly Scholastic Book Fayre was once again a success. We really appreciate the support from parents with this venture as each class benefits from the profits of the book fayre. Last year, every stage was able to choose a class set of books from which they created a book study to develop their reading and comprehension skills. A huge thank you to Mrs Gilgunn for organising the book fayre and to our faithful parent helpers.

Our Parent Council organised a very busy and successful ‘Sausage Sunday’ after 10am and 11.130am mass this morning. The morning was well supported by lots of parent helpers and families who were able to chat with friends and have a tasty roll after attending morning mass.

I look forward to seeing you all at our Summer Show this week!

Mrs Elaine Fitzpatrick

Mikado Mania has officially hit St. Mary’s! Our Primary 5-7 pupils have been busy rehearsing to ensure that the show will be a great success. Not long to go now!

Over the past fortnight, we have welcomed our new Primary 1 pupils for their primary 1 induction afternoons. The pupils visited our infant classrooms and met their fellow classmates, whilst their parents listened to various presentations on life at St. Mary’s and what to expect when your child starts school. The most valuable presentations were from our Primary 7 and Primary 1 pupils who described what they liked about being at St. Mary’s! The parents also had the opportunity to meet our Parent Council Chairperson, Justine Docherty and chat to other P1 parents over a cup of tea and coffee.

Our footballers took part in the Summer Cup on Friday. History repeated itself with our Girl’s team being victorious and our Boy’s team narrowly missing out on winning the tournament! All of our footballers have worked extremely hard this year and have shown real sportsmanship and teamwork at every single game they have played. We are very proud of them!

On Friday we waved goodbye to Room 8’s teacher, Mrs Cotter, who begins her maternity leave on 6th June. We wish her all the very best and cannot wait to meet and have a wee cuddle from her bundle of joy!

On Saturday we had an extremely successful Summer Fayre. With the sun shining, our families enjoyed taking part in the various fun games, perusing the stalls, chancing their luck at the raffle, listening to our fab DJ and eating our delicious burgers, hotdogs, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Equi’s ice cream! Not to forget our famous St. Mary’s Bake Off! I cannot thank our fantastic Parent Council enough who worked very hard at organising the event and the many parent helpers who came to help set up the fayre, worked on the stalls and stayed to tidy up afterwards! Thanks also to the dedicated staff of St. Mary’s who came to support their school and to Mr Cluckie, our resident DJ! It was a fantastic day and raised an astonishing £3000 for school funds! Thank you so much for all of your support.

The countdown to Summer may be on but life at St. Mary’s does not slow down and we look forward to a busy 3 weeks ahead!

Mrs. Elaine Fitzpatrick

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