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
