St. Dominic’s Primary School, Airdrie

Huge thanks to Sneaker Saviours for this fantastic donation of children’s shoes and trainers. This is just in time to help with a lot of children looking for shoes for returning to school. All shoes were cleaned and repaired where necessary and are looking fantastic.

If you’ve got a pair of trainers in need of a little bit of tlc give their page a look https://www.facebook.com/sneakersavioursglasgow

Today is the feast day of our patron Saint - St. Dominic. May he continue to bless and inspire our school community. 🙏🏻

A reminder that all pupils in P1-P4 are now entitled to free school meals. We are on Week 1 of the Menu this week. 🍽

We hope you all had a lovely summer break and look forward to welcoming all pupils back to school at 9am on Monday. New Primary 1 pupils should arrive for a 10am start for the first day only.

Pick up times will be the same as last session.

P1 & P2 - 2.50pm
P3 & 4 - 2.55pm
P5, 6 & 7 - 3pm

Read the latest guidance for schools returning on Monday including information on wearing face coverings, physical distancing, testing and vaccinations. northlanarkshire.gov.uk/schoolupdates

Primary 7 would like to thank the Parent Council for gifting them their Leaver’s hoodies. They were the highlight of their year. 😊

Congratulations to our first group of Primary 4 pupils who celebrated the Sacrament of First Holy Communion this afternoon. 🙏🏻

Can’t wait to welcome back out pupils in P4-7. 🎉

We are working on the detail around the part-time return to classrooms for all secondary school pupils from Monday 15 March, as outlined by the First Minister today. All primary school children will also return on a full-time basis (P1-P7) from 15 March.

We'll be in touch with staff, parents/carers and pupils as soon as we have more information.

School newsletter was sent by email yesterday. If you didn’t receive it please call the school to update your email address. Mrs S 😃

Please see note regarding Confirmation.

Congratulations to our Primary 5 children who received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion for the first time this morning. May God bless you all. 🙏🏻

URGENT! Can we please ask parents to be considerate when using the school car park. Parents should only park in designated bays or in drop off points and not on pavements or roads. Your children’s safety is of the highest priority to us. 🚘 🚙

Congratulations to these primary 5 pupils who received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion this morning. God bless you all. 🙏🏻

May God bless our first group of Primary 5 pupils who will receive the Sacrament of First Holy Communion this morning.

‪A polite reminder to ask all parents / carers to follow social distancing guidelines and to wear masks at pick up and drop off times. We appreciate your cooperation in this matter.‬

‪Our school newsletter for August was emailed to all parents today. Please read as it contains some very important information. If you did not receive a copy please call the school office to update your email address‬.

The new lunch menu for our return to school can be accessed on the following link.
northlanarkshire.gov.uk/index.aspx?art…

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Breakfast club will resume on Wednesday 12th August from 8.15am until 8.45am. 🍞

‪An email outlining guidance on return to school has now been sent to all parents. If, for any reason you have not received it please contact: [email protected]‬

Return to school next week

We know you'll have lots of questions about things like safety and hygiene measures, transport and meals. We've put the most commonly asked questions on our page here: https://crowd.in/GqNSVu to assist and we'll add more.

Return to school plans.

Return to Schools

Schools across North Lanarkshire will return from Wednesday August 12. Our head teachers have been working hard to go through every part of the Scottish Government guidance and we’ve decided that this return will be phased until Friday August 14 to allow pupils to familiarise themselves with new routines, changes to buildings and hygiene measures.

FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

• Wednesday August 12: Primary One, Two and Three will be in school.
• Thursday August 13: Primary One, Four, Five, Six and Seven will be in school.
• From Friday August 14, all pupils will be in school.

All Primary One pupils will attend on each of these days. Please also note that arrival and departure times at primary schools may vary, particularly for Primary One. Your school will be in direct contact if that is the case.

FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

• Wednesday August 12: First Year, Second Year and Third Year will be in school.
• Thursday August 13: First Year, Fourth Year, Fifth Year and Sixth Year will be in school.
• From Friday August 14, all pupils will be in school.

All First Year pupils will attend on each of these days.

FOR ASN SCHOOLS

Arrangements will be in line with those for primary and secondary schools set out above. However, there may be a need for local variation based on the specific needs of children and your school will be in direct contact with you of that is the case.

FOR NURSERY CLASSES AND FAMILY LEARNING CENTRES

Nursery classes at primary schools will return on Wednesday 12 August and those based at Family Learning Centres will return on Thursday 13 August. The exception to this is Stepping Stones Family Learning Centre, which is open on Wednesday 12 August. If you have not already heard from your provider confirming your child’s session, your provider will be in touch shortly.

For more info, please see the letter on our dedicated web page at https://crowd.in/OdVvld.
We know you’ll have lots of questions about things like safety and hygiene measures, transport and meals. On Wednesday August 5 we will publish common questions and answers on our website, and we’ll add to these in the coming days.

We're reviewing the detailed guidance on the return of schools and early learning centres in August.

We'll be in contact with parents and carers as soon as possible to outline our arrangements for the safe return of staff, children and young people and what health and safety measures will be in place at facilities to help prevent the transmission of coronavirus.

We hope to have all existing clothing grant application payments made by early next week.

Once these are all processed we will then begin processing new applications.

Check out tomorrow's Advertiser for our latest four-page feature of departing Primary Seven pupils pictured during their P1 days, alongside special messages from their head teachers. The schools appearing in tomorrow's paper are St Andrew's Primary (pictured), Golfhill Primary, St Dominic's Primary and Victoria Primary in Airdrie and Coatbridge's St Bartholomew's Primary and St Monica's Primary

Schools update Tuesday 23 June 2020

We are currently assessing the impact of the Scottish Government's announcement that schools are to reopen full time from August.

As this was only announced today, we will make further information available on how this impacts on North Lanarkshire schools as soon as we can and we will ensure that pupils, parents and staff are kept updated.

Our priority is the safety of our pupils and staff across our network of primary, secondary and ASN schools, as well as our early learning and childcare settings.

We are preparing for pupils to return full-time to school on 12 August.

Many thanks to Mrs McGill, Mrs Love and Mrs Daly for the work they have done during their time on St. Dominic’s Parent Council. We will miss you all. 😢

Congratulations to all of our P7 pupils who joined us for one last time today. You have been a pleasure and we are so proud of each and every one of you. Keep being you as you move on to high school and you can’t go wrong. 💛🖤💛

A new Summer Community Hub offer with essential support for children of key workers, vulnerable children, and children and young people with additional support needs will start from Thursday.

Booking forms now live on northlanarkshire.gov.uk/summerhubs since 5pm. We’re aware some people have completed the school hub form rather than summer hub – please update.

Parents and carers will be able to book day-long care at nine hub facilities and ten family learning centres that we’ve set up with our partners specifically for the summer holiday period across North Lanarkshire for children and young people from birth to 16 years of age from 25 June until 10 August.

Provision for 5-16 year old ages (including children and young people with additional support needs) at nine hubs, Monday to Friday (and at one centre in Airdrie at the weekend) in a choice of culture and leisure facilities where they will experience a range of sports, activities, arts and crafts.

Ten family learning centres for babies and children up to five years who have not started school will offer childcare Monday to Friday only. There will also be 3 hubs with children with more complex needs.

In addition, free packed lunches will be available to primary pupils through our Club 365 programme from the nine summer hubs.

Bookings can be made online on Monday 22 June at https://crowd.in/t2jLDj

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☎️ Teachers will be calling home over the next few days to speak to their pupils. Please be sure to answer as they want to wish you all a happy holiday in person. ☎️