Dear Parents,

Thank you:

• For your support for the Book Fair. £2521.10 was spent by parents/ pupils and the school will receive rewards to the value of £1512.66 spend on books which will be a great benefit to us.

• Once more for supporting last week’s ‘pyjama day’- a healthy £218.35 has been allocated  to the school council fund.

Advent- a time for preparation:

Our school will be decorated beautifully for Christmas next Monday by our wonderful staff. From next Tuesday onwards I urge you to have a little peek at the various cribs positioned around the school, when dropping off orcollecting your children. They will be absolutely beautiful and the children will be entranced by them. We love sharing the story of the Nativity with our pupils, it is one of the joys and privileges of our job. I hope that you will hear lots as the month unfolds and I ask you, if you can, to take your children to one of the churches in our town to see the crib scenes and the advent wreaths. We spoke about this at assembly today and the children were so reverent.

Each child will be given a Kris Kringle card to take home on Monday. It will contain the name of a fellow pupil and we ask that your child says a little prayer or gives a caring thought to that pupil each day during Advent. During the last week of school the class teacher will ask each pupil to bring in a Christmas card, bought or made for their prayer friend containing a thoughtful little message. The class will be gathered and the cards will be exchanged. We have been following this tradition for some time now and it is really lovely, showing us all that the exchange of a simple card can be every bit as meaningful as an expensive gift. Its success and impact is really strong when family members join in and think of the Kris Kringle friend in a special way for the month of December.

I remind families one more time that we have the ability to help out with Christmas if anyone needs assistance. If so please, please contact me by next week so that we can provide the best help possible.

Monthly Mass:

On Tuesday we will have our monthly school mass in St Mary’s Church @ 9.30am. Miss Jones’ P5 class will lead the liturgy and whilst all parents and friends are welcome a special invitation is extended to those with a child in her class.  

Display of pre- loved  school coats  and Christmas Jumpers:

Please come on Monday and help yourself to our wide selection of beautiful coats and jumpers. They will be stationed outside the school office and will be distributed on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.

Looking forward to seeing you,

Yours in partnership,

Mrs Monaghan 

I really need your help parents and remind you:

That we operate a 'drop off zone' and a one way system. We have had a few 'near misses as parents have not followed the one way system and have 'cut off' across the flow of traffic, to park in the area beside the canteen. I am very fearful that we will have an accident.

1. That you need to be so careful when dropping off children. Pupils should disembark onto the pavement- not onto the road/ car park side, where cars are busily trying to depart.
2. When driving off from your'drop off position' that you need to be mindful of other cars coming up from behind. We have had a few 'near collisions' re this.
3. That buses are being held up when some of you stay too long in your 'drop off' position. I have frequently seen the bus unable to take the bend to get to its drop off position because some of you have left your car unattended or are delaying your departure to make phone calls etc, unaware that your vehicle is blocking the way.

I know that with your support we can make the process safer for our school community.

Mrs Monaghan