Author: WLPatricia.Mooney@glow

Good Afternoon!

Firstly, a huge thank you for your support at the Christmas Fair on Friday.  As always, your generosity has been overwhelming.

The  school and nursery continues to be a hive of activity with preparations for Parties, Panto and Nativity!  Not to mention the excitement of Santa.

Party Reminder

Nursery Party Wednesday 18th December  2.00 pm-3.45 pm

AM and PM children can arrive from 11.00 am on the day and the session will end at 3.45pm.

The session for all day children will run as normal.

Parents of the Nursery children are welcome to attend from 3.15 pm onward on this day.

P1, P1/2,&P2 Party Monday 16th December (AM)

P3&P4 Party Monday 16th December (PM)

P5 & P6 Party Tuesday 17th December (AM)

P7 Party Tuesday 17th December (PM)

Children can attend school in their party clothes on the day or bring them and change. Alternatively, for those afternoon parties, children can be collected from the foyer at the main entrance at 12.00 pm and returned to school by 1.00 pm  Please advise your child of the arrangements for the day.

The Nursery Children will be attending the Panto at the Regal Theatre, Bathgate, on Wednesday 11th December.  The bus will depart from school at 11.30 am however, AM and PM children can arrive at nursery from 11.00am. Children will return  at approximately 3.45pm. This will be the end of the day’s session for AM and PM children.  The session for all day children will run as normal.

Nursery Christmas jumper day will be Thursday 12th of December and children are asked to donate £1.  All proceeds will go to Save the Children.  Thank you in advance for your generosity.

The visiting theatre company will be in school on the afternoon of Thursday 19th of December, where the school children will be treated to a production of Peter Pan.

Our annual Nativity, performed by the P1, P1/2, and P2 children and followed by a music medley by the children in P3-P7 will take place on Friday 13th of December in the school hall, starting at 10.30am.  Doors will open at 10.15am.  Where possible, children are asked to wear a festive jumper.

The oldest child in each family received two tickets today for the Nativity/concert.  Please check your child’s bag.

What better way to mark the end of the term but with a school Mass in St. Joseph’s Church on Friday the 20th of December at 10.00am.  The children will again treat you to a collection of carols.  Please come along and join us as we celebrate this special time of year, as we await the birth of Jesus!

Have a Happy and Holy holiday season and a prosperous New Year when it comes.

From Mrs Burns and all the staff at St Joseph’s.

A reminder that the Parent Group annual Halloween disco is tomorrow.  Primaries 1-3 will be in the afternoon from 1.00pm-2.30pm.  Parents are welcome to collect their child/ children to take them home and get them into their costumes, returning to school for 12.50pm. Alternatively, children can bring their costumes with them and change at school.

The Disco for the children  in primaries 4-7 will be in the evening from 6.00pm-7.30pm.  There will be a fee of £1 which children can pay at the door.

Happy Haunting. 👻👻🕸🕷

Good afternoon.

A reminder that there will be no Basketball after school club today.  It will resume next week, the 29th of October 2019.

Thank you

Good Afternoon,

During Parental Consultations on Thursday, 10th of October 2019, artwork completed by all our children, across Primaries 1-7 will be on display.  This is an opportunity to showcase their learning, following our recent partnership work with the National Galleries.  We are sure you will be delighted with what they have produced.

On the night, you will have the opportunity to purchase your child’s work for a fee of £7.  All work has been professionally framed and would be a wonderful keepsake.

Regards

Mrs Mooney

Good Morning.

We are all very excited about the upcoming family Race Night, organised by the Parent Forum on the 1st of November in the Parish Centre.  Doors will open at 6.30pm.  Tickets are available to purchase from the School office.  Adults are £2 per ticket and children are free.

An order slip will come home with your child this week.  Please complete and return it to the school with payment for the tickets.

One, Five Race Forecast per family will also be sent home.  Please complete and return with payment to the school if you would like to take part.

As always, thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Mooney

Good Morning,

A little reminder, the Nursery will be open as normal on the 21st of October 2019.  Please note, this is an In-Service day for all other children in Primaries, 1-7.

Regards

Mrs Mooney

Good evening.

We are delighted to announce that the Parent Council will be holding a Race Night on Friday 1st November 2019.  The money raised at these events goes towards providing  invaluable resources and experiences for our children across the school and nursery.

To help support this wonderful event, the Parent Council are looking for donations from our school community, namely;  bottles, sweets, gift sets, vouchers etc.  If you are able to support this fund raising event, donations can be delivered to the school  office.  Please don’t give children bottles or valuable items to bring to the school.

As always,  thank you for your continued  support.

Mrs Mooney

Dear Parents/Carers

The annual West Lothian Schools Area Swimming Heats 2019 will take place on, Sunday 10^th November 2019 at Deans Community High School, Livingston.

If your child is a Club swimmer and would like to enter the West Lothian Swimming Trials then please inform the school by Friday, 27^th September, providing the following information;

Child’s Name

Class and stage

Date of Birth

Consideration Times.

Events Entered

Please refer to the attached copies of the events programme and qualifying times guide before considering.

Information from Active Schools

The Meet will run over two sessions; session 1 – warm up 9.15 start 10.00 and session 2 – warm up 13.00 starts 13.45.

As these act as the qualifying heats for the 2019 Scottish Schools Swimming Championships to be held in January 2019(TBC), the entry age for swimmers will be calculated as at the 31^st December 2020. This means that, a swimmer born in 2005 is classed as 15 years old not 14 years and will therefore swim in the 15/16 years age category at the heats.

Once again, the Scottish School’s sponsor, Brodies Solicitors, will provide medals for 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd places.

In order to comply with time constraints and Health & Safety requirements, it will be necessary to limit the number of competitors in each event. To enable this to be done fairly, there are consideration times for this event and therefore entry times must be submitted with entries.

Entries:

12 and under swimmers may enter a maximum of two events.

13 and over swimmers may enter a maximum of four events, two of which MUST be 200m or over.  Swimmers can only enter a maximum of two 100m events.

The first three swimmers from each event will be put forward to the Scottish Schools finals as long as they have achieved the qualifying time.  Unfortunately, this does not always guarantee them a swim at the finals as three swimmers from all areas in Scotland are put forward and only the fastest 12 are selected (fastest 6 in open events and 17/19 age group).  Information on finalists will be relayed to the schools as soon as possible.  Swimmers will be asked to select entry for final. Entry forms should be completed before leaving the meet.

Please note:  There will be a Boys and Girls 12 & under relay events this year

There will be no cost of entry this year.

Dear Parents/Carers

The annual West Lothian Schools Area Swimming Heats 2019 will take place on, Sunday 10^th November 2019 at Deans Community High School, Livingston.

If your child is a Club swimmer and would like to enter the West Lothian Swimming Trials then please inform the school by Friday, 27^th September, providing the following information;

Child’s Name

Class and stage

Date of Birth

Consideration Times.

Events Entered

Please refer to the attached copies of the events programme and qualifying times guide before considering.

Information from Active Schools

The Meet will run over two sessions; session 1 – warm up 9.15 start 10.00 and session 2 – warm up 13.00 starts 13.45.

As these act as the qualifying heats for the 2019 Scottish Schools Swimming Championships to be held in January 2019(TBC), the entry age for swimmers will be calculated as at the 31^st December 2020. This means that, a swimmer born in 2005 is classed as 15 years old not 14 years and will therefore swim in the 15/16 years age category at the heats.

Once again, the Scottish School’s sponsor, Brodies Solicitors, will provide medals for 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd places.

In order to comply with time constraints and Health & Safety requirements, it will be necessary to limit the number of competitors in each event. To enable this to be done fairly, there are consideration times for this event and therefore entry times must be submitted with entries.

Entries:

12 and under swimmers may enter a maximum of two events.

13 and over swimmers may enter a maximum of four events, two of which MUST be 200m or over.  Swimmers can only enter a maximum of two 100m events.

The first three swimmers from each event will be put forward to the Scottish Schools finals as long as they have achieved the qualifying time.  Unfortunately, this does not always guarantee them a swim at the finals as three swimmers from all areas in Scotland are put forward and only the fastest 12 are selected (fastest 6 in open events and 17/19 age group).  Information on finalists will be relayed to the schools as soon as possible.  Swimmers will be asked to select entry for final. Entry forms should be completed before leaving the meet.

Please note:  There will be a Boys and Girls 12 & under relay events this year

There will be no cost of entry this year.

 It’s the responsibility of the parents/carers to attend with their child on the day.

West Lothian Notification 2019 (1)

 Mrs Mooney

As we continue to promote and encourage independence, we would like to remind parents/ carers, that as of Monday 23rd September parents/carers are kindly asked not to enter the playgrounds in the morning.  Staff are present in the playgrounds to supervise the children.

May we thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Mrs Mooney