St Margaret College, Zabbar Primary A

The 30th of January, School Day of Peace and Non-Violence, is an excellent
opportunity to renew one’s commitment to peace, to reflect on its meaning and
especially on how to build peace through our relationship with nature.
There are several awareness-raising activities and/or concrete actions to carry
out to demonstrate our own commitment.
For this reason, we decided to take the Living Peace mandalas our year 2 students drew and donate them to Dar Sagra Familja and St Angela Kindergarten School, two institutions in Zabbar.

Students look forward to pyjama days at school. Kids like to show off their pyjamas while admiring everyone else’s. It gives them another reason to look forward to school.

So, the School Council suggested for the students to come to school wearing their pyjamas or a casual tracksuit (not uniform tracksuit) against a donation of 1 Euro on Friday 28th January. Money will be collected in a container at the school entrance before students put on the hand sanitizer. 

L-istudenti kollha jkunu eċitati għal dik il-ġurnata meta jkunu jistgħu jmorru l-iskola bil-piġama. It-tfal jieħdu gost jiġu l-iskola juru l-piġama tagħhom u jammiraw il-piġami differenti ta’ tfal oħra. Din il-ġuranta tagħtihom raġuni oħra biex jattendu l-iskola b’entużjażmu.

Għalhekk, il-Kunsill Skolastiku ssuġġerixxa li l-istudenti jiġu l-iskola libsin il-piġama jew tracksuit (mhix tal-uniformi) u jagħtu donazzjoni ta’ Ewro nhar il-Ġimgħa 28 ta’ Jannar. Il-flus jinġabru ġo kontenitur waqt li t-tfal ikunu deħlin l-iskola, u wara jiddiżinfettaw idejhom bħas-soltu. 

The school has organised several activities as part of Christmas 2021 celebrations.

On Monday, 20^th December Fr Jonathan Debattista from the Zabbar Parish Church celebrated online Mass for our primary classes. As usual Fr Jonathan celebrated this mass in a very child friendly mode. On Tuesday 21^st we had a surprise visit from Fr Evan Caruana, the Parish Priest and the beloved character of St Nicholas. Together they visited each and every class to bless our little ones. To the pupils’ delight, St Nicholas gave not only his blessings but also handed out chocolate coins.

The school administration together with all the educators in our school would like to wish all the community a blessed festive season.

The holidays are coming and we wanted to prepare some gifts for those,
young people and adults who are in difficult situations or in health centres,
shelters, rest homes… around the world.

We painted mandalas and donated them to be delivered to various structures/institutions to
decorate their rooms. We sent them to be shared with the whole Living Peace International network!

All the cat food brought to school by our students during the first term of school, was handed over to Animal Guardians Cat shelter which is located inside the premises of St Vincent De Paule residence.

On the 10th of December we had an online meeting with this cat shelter and our students had a virtual walk throughout the shelter. The children could see the cats homed at the shelter from inside their classrooms and they could be seen looking attentively inside the sanctuary. Ms Carmen, who is in charge of the sanctuary, related the stories of a number of the cats. She explained to the children that some of these cats were blind and that some were injured before they were rescued. This experience definitely helped the children to  become more sensitive and caring towards animals. Animal Guardians care for more than 200 cats and anyone who would like to visit them, may do so on Sundays between 11am and noon.

We thank everyone for their kind help and urge you all to keep on helping our stray animals.

We wish you all the best for the festive season.

Zabbar Primary A SMT.

Several Christmas decorations were bought and done to decorate the school for this festive season.

All the dog food collected during the first term of school, was handed over to Ms Frances who has her own sanctuary with 25 dogs and 25 cats in B’Bugia.

 A big thank you goes to those parents who have sent the food to school, with their children. While wishing you all A Very Happy Christmas and A Prosperous New Year, we urge all the parents to continue to help us with these initiatives.

This scholastic year, as a school, we invested in more resources for all our Primary classes in order to further enhance literacy skills.