{"id":14879,"date":"2017-02-03T22:35:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T22:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/?p=14879"},"modified":"2017-02-05T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T09:55:48","slug":"40th-anniversary-of-st-ninians-1st-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2017\/02\/03\/40th-anniversary-of-st-ninians-1st-february\/","title":{"rendered":"40th Anniversary of St Ninian&#8217;s &#8211; 1st February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">We were very excited to welcome Archbishop Leo Cushley and Fr Tony Lappin to celebrate Mass with us on 1st February to mark our\u00a0school&#8217;s 40th Anniversary. It was a beautiful Mass, very prayerful and filled with joy. We celebrated St Ninian&#8217;s past and present, involving various members of our school community in the liturgy making the celebration a meaningful and memorable occasion in the history of the school. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">All of the\u00a0children\u00a0were fantastic and participated\u00a0so well. I was very proud of them all. I was also\u00a0delighted that our school brass band provided music for the Mass. \u00a0They were impressive and I was grateful to Mrs Downs for preparing them so well. \u00a0We were joined by some of our former pupils and some special guests who have all made a great contribution to our school over the years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">During the Mass everyone was given the gift of\u00a0a St Ninian&#8217;s prayer card, produced by some of our pupils especially for the 40th anniversary. \u00a0Archbishop Cushley referred to the prayer card during his inspirational Homily. He reminded the children about\u00a0\u00a0the importance of prayer in their lives as way of growing closer to God and each other. \u00a0It was so very special to have him lead us in prayer using our own school prayer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: small\">I am very proud to be the Headteacher of St Ninian&#8217;s and to be part of such an inspirational school family!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 We were very excited to welcome Archbishop Leo Cushley and Fr Tony Lappin to celebrate Mass with us on 1st February to mark our\u00a0school&#8217;s 40th Anniversary. It was a beautiful Mass, very prayerful and filled with joy. We celebrated St Ninian&#8217;s past and present, involving various members of our school community in the liturgy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/2017\/02\/03\/40th-anniversary-of-st-ninians-1st-february\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;40th Anniversary of St Ninian&#8217;s &#8211; 1st February 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14879"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14904,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879\/revisions\/14904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stniniansps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}