Thank you to Fr Joshua, our altar servers and the P6 Pope Francis Faith Award candidates who helped us celebrate our Ash Wednesday Service in school today.

We have a winner! Our theme for the next Pupil Choice Lunch is Chinese! It won by a very small margin. The lunch will be on Thursday 5th February. We will meet with Sheena in the kitchen in the coming days to finalise our menu and post this around the school and it will be emailed to you.

Some of the Pupil Council members met recently to see if we could come up with some ideas for Health and Well-being linked IDL topics we could share with the teachers. We thought about contexts we would enjoy. It was not an easy job but we enjoyed it and came up with some great ideas.

The children are enjoying the panto Cinderella this morning!

…European 1 (Hungarian, German, Polish and Swedish), European 2 (Spanish, Greek, French, Portuguese etc) and Chinese. The kids can offer suggested dishes or alternative European dishes on the voting sheets.

We have started to organise our Pupil Choice lunch for this term. The children can vote for one of the three options on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week and the winner will be announced on Friday at Assembly. The options are…

We are going to try come up with some ideas for new H and WB topics and, of course, plan and deliver our Lenten fundraiser. It’s going to be a busy term ahead. 😁

We met with the Pupil Council this week to discuss our planned actions for the term ahead. To help with our SIP for Health and Well-being, we are going to evaluate our display areas around the school to see how health and well-being is being promoted in our school…

Congratulations to our gospel value certificate winners for December. They were voted by their peers for showing the value of ‘purity and holiness’. Well done! 👏🏻😇

Near the end of term we had our House Meetings. The House Captains gave certificates to children from each class who have been earning lots of points, we found out the leading house, had a Christmas quiz and much more. Thank you to the House Captains and the P7 teachers for organising this.

A huge thank you to everyone who donated money and supported our activities for Christmas Jumper Day. You raised just over £545 for Missio! We cannot thank you enough. This is a fantastic amount. Well done everyone! 👏🏻🤩

A huge thank you to the Pupil Council members who helped on the day to ensure all the activities ran smoothly and everyone had fun raising money for Missio! We couldn’t have done it without them. 👏🏻

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Guess the Christmas Song Quiz. We hope you enjoyed it! We enjoyed making it. Lots of people got 10/10 so we pulled the entries out of the sack and the winner was GK! Well done to her and the runners up. 👏🏻

The children who caught Santa were given a raffle ticket and this was drawn at Assembly. Well done to our runners up and our winner, LO! 👏🏻

Catch Santa was a really fun activity to help us raise funds for charity on Christmas Jumper Day. It was not easy to catch Santa because he is a very fast runner. Mrs Clause also had a wee shot too.

Our classes looked great in their Christmas jumpers that day too! Thank you to everyone who made a donation for wearing their jumper.

The remaining cookies went on sale for the rest of the children in the school and were very popular. We had to sell again in the afternoon because we did not want to turn customers away. Thank you again to all those who entered the competition as we raised lots of money from selling the cookies.

The winner is…. N. Her red velvet cookies on the top of the image were simply wonderful according to the judges. Second place went to LS in P5 (the melting snowmen) and third place went to CR in P7 (the cinnamon stars). Well done everyone! You made it so difficult for the judges. 👏🏻

Our judges had the difficult job of picking a winner out of all these amazing entries!

Everything looked so delicious and clearly we have some very talented bakers in our St Andrew’s family.

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted an entry to our Christmas Cookie Competition on Christmas Jumper Day. We were amazed by how many wonderful entries we received!

Christmas lunch 2025!

Thank you to Sheena and all the ladies in the kitchen for preparing our meals and making the dinner hall look great for our special lunch.

Our delicious Christmas lunch on Tuesday helped to get everyone into the Christmas spirit!

We have some great singers in our school.

More karaoke classics.

It’s that time of year again! Today the boys and girls enjoyed some Christmas karaoke! It was great fun. 😁

Just a little reminder that Christmas Jumper Day is on Friday 12th December so children are welcome to come to school wearing their Christmas jumper (or Santa hat etc) and bring in their donation. We would recommend £1 but any size of donation is welcome and appreciate. 😁

Catch Santa for Christmas Jumper Day will be on in the Hall at lunch on Friday 12th. It’s 50p to enter and if you catch Santa (Mr Laird), you go into the raffle to win the Amazon voucher. It’s going to be a really fun fundraising activity.

We also have our Christmas Cookies Competition on Friday. All entries should be in on Thursday or early Friday morning so they are in time for the judging. Please put your name on the tub and lid. The left over cookies will be sold at break, costing no more than 50p. Good luck and happy baking!

Our classes have been busy creating these beautiful Christmas banners to help decorate our Hall for the Advent season.

@primaryandrew.bsky.social Tomorrow is the last day to hand in your entries for the ‘Guess the Christmas Song’ quiz. The tracks can be found in your emails and on your child’s Seesaw page. Remember to bring your 50p entry fee. Good luck!

We met with the Pupil Council today to record our song clips for the Guess the Christmas Song quiz. It was such good fun. There will be 10 songs to identify and we are working on getting everything ready.

Our Christmas postbox is available from tomorrow. It will be in the P1-3 Area on Mondays in December, P4/5 Area on Tuesday, P6/7 on Wednesday and the Blue Area on Thursday. Cards are sorted & distributed on a Friday. Please ensure your child writes the names and classes clearly on the envelope.

Happy St Andrew’s Day to all our staff, pupils and their families!

Meet the Fairtrade Committee for 2025/2026! These children have been proudly elected by their peers to represent them on the committee. We are excited to see all the great things you will achieve as you lead Fairtrade learning in our school! 😁

Meet the St Andrew’s Children’s Rights Committee (StAR) for 2025/2026! This group of children have been elected by their peers to represent them this year. We are looking forward to seeing all you accomplish as you lead on children’s rights in our school community. 😁

St. Andrew’s R.C Primary School are delighted to announce the football team for the 2025/26 season. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Mr Laird would like to thank all the pupils who came to the trials. It was a really difficult decision. All pupils showed be extremely proud of themselves.

Congratulation to our new Ninian House Captains! They were voted by the children in their house to represent them this year. 👏🏻💚💚

Congratulation to our new Margaret House Captains! They were voted by the children in their house to represent them this year. 👏🏻🩵🩵

Congratulation to our new Columba House Captains! They were voted by the children in their house to represent them this year. 👏🏻💛💛

Congratulation to our new Aidan House Captains! They were voted by the children in their house to represent them this year. 👏🏻❤️❤️

We are excited that we can now share with you our new Pupil Representatives for this session. They were voted by their peers and the staff who know them best.👏🏻😁