Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Mark Ross who passed away yesterday.
Mark had only recently finished S6. He was a wonderful young man and he will be sadly missed by so many.
My last day in Our Lady’s today joined by my family! Mixed emotions! A wonderful school and community. Been a privilege and honour to have been HT in such a great place. Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year when it comes.
Our school chaplain Fr Ness has kindly offered to say a Mass for Mark Ross which will be streamed live this Friday at 12pm. Please join us as a community to pray for Mark and his family via St Brendan’s Facebook page. StBrendan's Rcdom - Home | Facebook
A friend of Mark’s family has set up a page to raise money to help with funeral arrangements for the family, with any extra money raised being donated to Prostate Cancer Trust. Fundraiser by Sophie Lloyd : In loving memory of Mark Ross
Thanks to Fr Ness
@StBrendanRCDOM
for celebrating Mass for Mark Ross. A lovely Mass which is available to view at for those who missed it. It was much appreciated by the family and
@OLHSMotherwell
community. Rest in Peace Mark.
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Head Teacher, Mrs McGraw. We wish you every success in your new role. The OLHS Newsletter will be regularly posted here and on the school website. Mrs McGraw will be providing key updates and information for parents and carers.
OLHS class of 2022 it has been an absolute pleasure. We are all so proud of you. Thank you all for 6 great years and an incredible last day in school. You will always be part of the OLHS family💜
Keep working and all the best with your exams.
Congrats to our U15’s boy team who defeated
@CHS_Chryston
2-1 in the Lanarkshire Schools' Football League Final!
A huge thanks to everyone involved, especially the P.E department & to all who came to cheer the team on! (Even Mr Lang 🤪)
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What a great Prom night as we said farewell to a fantastic year group, the Class of 2022! As one door closes another one opens, but the OLHS door is always open for our former pupils - great speeches from the Captains Mark and Claire.
A great Christmas Concert showcasing the fantastic talent in Our Lady’s. Thanks to all the pupils and staff involved! A thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining evening.
We pray for the repose of the soul of well known former member of staff Mr John White who passed away peacefully at the age of 99. May he rest in peace. 🙏🏻
Congratulations to our S5/S6 SQA Award winners. We are all very proud of the way you have approached your studies in a very difficult year & the success you have achieved.
Great to welcome our new S5/6 pupils back to school today. Thanks to Fr Kieran who came along to celebrate Mass this morning as part of their full induction day.
Here are a few pictures as OLHS prepared for the S1 Halloween disco!
Eva as Mrs McGraw, Raitis as Mr Lang and Mrs McGuire as Eva!
More pictures from the S1 Halloween pictures 🔜
The October week has arrived. 🎉 Thanks to all our wonderful staff and pupils who have stayed positive and strong throughout these difficult times. And thanks to our parents who have been so supportive as always. Have a fantastic, well deserved break!
Our first Mass of the year took place today with Fr Ness who is celebrating Masses with all the new S1 classes. Lovely to be back in our beautiful chapel again. Thanks to Fr Ness
@StBrendanRCDOM
We are delighted to have been awarded UNICEF's Gold Rights Respecting School Award. This is a great achievement for the school and I would like to thank all the staff, pupils and parents who made this possible. Special thanks to Mrs Woolley who led the team taking this forward.
What a day! Great to have everyone back! A letter has been emailed to parents that includes arrangements for pupils to wear their PE kit to school on the days they have PE, until we can use changing rooms. Have a great weekend and see you all on Monday.
It was lovely to see some of our S6 Caritas pupils join together with a pupil from
@StAugustine_PS
to celebrate Scottish Catholic Education tonight
@CathedralParish
.
Today is the final session of Easter study camp where we have had over 170 pupils attend various subjects across the week! 🐣📚
Thanks to all the members of staff who have given up their time to support the pupils in preparation for their SQA exams!
Thanks to Bishop Toal
@rcmotherwell
for celebrating Mass for us today. And to Brenna, Lara, Mark and Niamh for distributing ashes during our services throughout the day.
Senior pupils & staff took part in the annual 6km fun run at Strathclyde Park on Sunday to raise funds for
@StAndrewHospice
Well done to Logan who finished 2nd in the boys race!😁
What a wonderful way to send our amazing S6 off today with a leavers’ mass. We wish you guys all the best in your future and hope to hear how well you are all doing soon!
You will be missed!
Pictures to follow soon 😁
Today we celebrate the Nativity of Our Lady. Around now we would normally have a big celebration in the school with guests coming in for a whole school Mass. This can’t happen this year but we look forward to opportunities in the future to come together again as a community.
It's been a great week and has been so good to see the pupils again! They have all been fantastic - a little tired but happy to be here! Same days next week. Have a good weekend!
Today, and yesterday, staff returned to OLHS for our INSET days which included:
- School Improvement Plans
- Learning & Teaching
- Pupil Participation
- & lots more!
We look forward to welcoming back our pupils & the new S1 tomorrow!
Staff vs S6 football match results ‼️🚨
The staff at OLHS would like to pass on their condolences to the S6 boys after their tragic 7-2 defeat during Future Fridays today! 🤪
#TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
@FridayOlhs
On Thursday, 31st August, 44 S6 pupils & staff members attended the annual Vocations Mass in the Cathedral!
Here are some photos of them representing the school 😀👇
Our Lady's is now the 7th Gold Reading Secondary School in Scotland! Thanks to our Librarian, Mrs Macfadyen, for preparing and submitting evidence, and for building an incredible reading environment with colleagues & young people from around the school
@NLCpeople
@scottishbktrust
Two Masses celebrated with pupils for the Feast of the Ascension. Many thanks to Fr Bobby Kane for celebrating these Masses. And well done to the pupils from all faith backgrounds and none for exemplarary behaviour, showing a prayerful respect throughout.
Thanks to all the staff, pupils, parents and families for all their hard work and support over the last few months. Time to take a break from formal learning! Have a great summer. We will keep you posted on any relevant developments!
Thanks to Mr Bobby Reid from McGovern Reid Court Lawyers who presented to S2 pupils on the use of social media, and the possible consequences of inappropriate use. A very informative presentation.
Last night we had our S6 Prom at
@HamiltonParkRC
! Here are a selection of photos from the event (thanks to the iPad man 🫣). We wish all the very best to our pupils 🥹
Photos can be purchased via this link thanks to
@CMcIPhoto
Link:
What a lovely mass to celebrate the retirement of Mr Johnston from the Science department. After 45 years service, he will be greatly missed by all!
Further celebrations will be held on Wednesday for staff who are retiring or moving on at the end of the term.
A great bingo night fundraiser for the ‘Youth Pilgrimage to Lourdes’.
Thank you to everyone who came and supported the S6 pupils in raising money towards their trip to Lourdes in July.
Congratulations to everyone to who prizes!
There seems to be an issue with Teams this morning due to the demand across the country. Staff have prepared the work, with it scheduled to be uploaded by 9am, however there appears to be a delay which is outwith our control. Bear with us! Thanks
Another great day, this time with S1 again and S4/5/6. Looking forward to seeing everyone in school tomorrow for our first day back together with all year groups. Remember all the procedures we have put in place!
Lovely to join the Apostolic Nuncio, Bishops, priests and others for Mass this morning. Thanks to Cavan and Amanda who came along to represent the school.
What a wonderful way to send our amazing S6 off today with a leavers’ mass & last day celebrations. We wish you all the success in your exams & your future!
Yesterday, pupils & staff took part in the OLHS Champions League tournament!
PSG , coached by Mr McHugh (boo!) managed to see off the rest of the competition & lift the famous trophy!
More photos below 📸
A huge thank you to Mr McKendrick, Mrs Henderson & Mrs McDonald for their years of hard work and dedication to the pupils and community of OLHS.
We wish them a long, happy and peaceful retirement!
We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! 🎄
A lovely day yesterday so had the opportunity for S1 pupils to meet their S6 buddies outside socially distancing. Thanks to Mrs Connor for organising the meeting and the good weather!
With great regret we advise of the death of Fr Terry Donnelly, community leader of
@CarfinSpiritans
who died at 2am this morning following an operation yesterday in Wishaw General Hospital. We pray for the repose of his soul and for the community at Carfin.
Our Lady pray for him
Thanks to
@nlcprovost
Jean Jones for joining us for our Annual Memorial Mass. Thanks also to Fr Ness
@StBrendanRCDOM
for celebrating Mass, Mark and Niamh for reading the roll of honour, the trustees for organising this evening’s Mass and the parishioners.
#LestWeForget
Following discussion with the Parent Council we will be continuing with full school uniform in August. A letter has been emailed to all parents. Mr Lang will contact parents of our new S1.
Last night, OLHS had their annual Christmas Fayre where we raised over £1500! A huge thanks to the Personal Development class & the staff involved for their hard work!
Nice to see Santa managed to attend too!
📸👇
Good morning and welcome to another week of remote learning. Pupils are following their Week 2 timetable. Thank you so much for the high level of engagement so far - we will come through this together!
We have been successful in achieving the Silver Readings School Accreditation. 🎉🥳 Well done to our librarian Mrs Macfadyen for all her hard work in pulling all the evidence together.
Stirring music please ...
The
@OLHSMotherwell
Reading Schools evidence has been submitted to
@scottishbktrust
.
Thank you to everyone who has helped in our journey this far 😍😍😍
Today & tomorrow, we welcome the Primary 7 pupils from a host of different schools
They had the opportunity to experience what a day is like at OLHS by attending a variety of different subjects!
OLHS are raising funds for
@StAndrewHospice
@sciaf
and
@stmgtadoption
Please follow the link to make a donation. Thanks for all contributions however big or small!
As we celebrate our Patronal Feast Day today, the Nativity of Our Lady, we thank Fr Ness
@StBrendanRCDOM
for celebrating Class Masses for our S1 pupils this week in our beautiful War Memorial Chapel. Also planned is a Mass for our Caritas pupils on Friday.