Calderglen RMPS

Blessings to our Baha’i community on this the beginning of Ridvan, their holiest and most important festival.

🕎Happy Pesach/Passover to our Jewish community. A family festival that commemorates the Exodus. ✡️

☪️It’s been announced that tomorrow will be Eid ul Fitr - the festival that celebrates the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Eid Mubarak to our Muslim community. Peace and blessings at this happy time.

Fantastic final of Calderglen’s Youth and Philanthropy Initiative. Six S3 groups represented their chosen charities so well. Congratulations to the Emmaus girls. Your presentation was described by YPI as one of the best they’ve seen across the country.

Good article for our current S2 who are studying Islam. How Manchester City helps Muslim players during Ramadan bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

For the first time in many years, Ramadan and Lent, the fasts of the two largest world faiths, started on the same day. In some places, members of both religions celebrated this together. ✝️ ☪️ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Today marks the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan for our Islamic community. Muslims will be fasting during daylight hours and be even more observant during this holy month. The fast (Sawm) is one of the five pillars of Islam. ☪️

Today is Shrove Tuesday - the day before the Christian fast of Lent. Traditionally all the good l, sweet stuff would be used up today. So Pancakes are made or, in the French speaking world, it’s Mardi Gras - Fat Tuesday.

Xin Nian Kuai Le (Happy New Year) to our Chinese community. We wish a prosperous year at this happy time. Today is the start of the year of the Fire Horse 🐎. (I’m a fire horse myself which reveals my age)

Interesting story about new homes in Scotland to have bricks designed for swifts, swallows and house martins to nest in. These once common birds have become endangered partly due to lack of suitable breeding sites. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Recent stolperstein (Holocaust memorial stone, placed in memory near their home) placed in Edinburgh in memory of the Scottish victim, the Christian teacher Jane Haining, who stayed with her Jewish pupils until the end.

Today remembering Holocaust Memorial Day. Learning about the past to create a better future. We commemorate the victims of genocide during World War 2 and all those before and after. 🕯️

Visit to Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre, Conishead Priory near Ulverston in Cumbria. A Buddhist monastery and world peace centre. Well worth a visit.

Happy Hanukkah to our Jewish community. Our thoughts with those who were lost today in the horrific antisemitic attack in Australia.

Comedy and a great atmosphere in support of a good cause at the C7 Conference Centre.

Pope Leo denounces misuse of religion for ‘justifying’ war, violence or fanaticism cnn.com/2025/11/28/eur…

Lovely tribute to the Scot who would not leave her pupils and went with them to Auschwitz. She has been memorialized with a brass stolperstein or “slipping stone”. These can be found over Germany outside a place of importance to a victim of the Holocaust. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Sorry kids, but this is REAL Halloween. Only a few teachers (like me) will remember carving out a turnip and going guising- not the American trick or treating. Actually real Halloween is the Celtic festival of Samhain. It was “borrowed” by Christianity as All Hallows Eve.

Many thanks to Dougie and Bonnie 🐶 from the charity Therapets who came into school today to be interviewed by a group of S3 pupils. The boys have chosen to represent Therapets for their Youth and Philanthropy Initiative. One of our many partner charities that support us.