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Today we worked on our Power Maths books. We looked at the place value activities and applied the skills of partitioning, ordering and sorting numbers. Mr Green was very impressed!

Homework this week is a special task for the whole school. Each child has been given a hand print and on each finger the should write a word that describes themselves. The can write one word or a sentence and can draw themselves on the palm. This should be brought back to school on Monday 21st and in line with COVID procedures will be quarantined before being used to create a whole school display.

Today in maths we demonstrated how we can round a number to the nearest 10, the nearest 100 and the nearest 1000.

Well done to the twenty-two pupils who made it onto this week’s Good Work Wall! As you can see from the photograph above, the children produced work of a very high quality and were all worthy winners of a sticker and two House tokens. Well done, boys and girls!

It was an absolute pleasure meeting all the nursery boys and girls properly yesterday. One little girl had clearly been doing her homework on me:

Me: ‘Does anyone know who I am?’

Nursery child: ‘Mr Young!’

Me: ‘Does anyone know what my job is?’

Nursery child: ‘You’re the Head Teacher!’

Me: ‘What does a Head Teacher do?’

Nursery child: ‘Paperwork!’

It was music to my ears when I found out that the nursery children have their names written on their shoes: learning their names will be so much easier.

Of course, I don’t have this luxury further up the school. However, I did manage to memorise all the names in Primary 4b yesterday afternoon and will be working my way through the other classes in the purple bay during the course of this week.

I had a very busy, but thoroughly enjoyable, first week here in Cathedral Primary. As well as having meetings with Derek Brown (Executive Director, Education & Families), Brendan Duffy (our school’s Quality Improvement Manager), and the other OLHS cluster Head Teachers, I also managed to have dedicated meetings with the Lead Practitioners from the Nursery, our three clerical staff and the Head Teacher from Firpark Primary.

On the to-do list for this week is to spend some dedicated time in our Nursery as well as the classes in the purple bay, meet online with the Parent Council this evening, get together with our support staff and last (but certainly not least!!!) of all, meet with teaching staff after school on Thursday.

Please can I take this opportunity, once again, to thank everyone for making me feel so welcome during my first week. I feel very much at home in Cathedral Primary already!

Today we described an underground train journey, using what we have learned about rhythm and rhyme. We then used the title ‘Above My Head’ as our inspiration for another piece of writing

Primary 6/7 enjoyed outdoor PE again today. Playing team games that involve fitness, strategy and teamwork.

Today we imagined that we were standing in a busy city, and using our prior knowledge from this week’s language lessons we had to visualise and describe what was beneath our feet.
Today we got to take part in Woodlands Primary Schools first virtual assembly. We listened to Mr Green, Miss Ferguson and Mrs Thomson. The class were delighted to win the first Cool Class Cup of the new school year.

Primary 1a –  Ella

Primary 1b – Holly

Primary 1c – Maria

Primary 1d – Ethan

Primary 2a – Ruby

Primary 2b – Grace

Primary 2c – Brianna

Primary 3a – Jakub

Primary 3b – Connor

Primary 3c – Zarah

Primary 4a – Kim

Primary 4b – Monica

Primary 4c – Antoine

Primary 5a – Julia

Primary 5b – Joseph

Primary 5c – Julia

Primary 6a – Filip

Primary 6b – Olivia

Primary 6c – Julia

Primary 7a – Nadia

Primary 7b – Chloe

Primary 7c – Riley

WELL DONE, EVERYONE!

There was great excitement across the school yesterday when I informed the children about some changes to weekly Pupil of the Week awards. From tomorrow, the Pupil of the Week from each class will receive one of the certificates shown above, have their name posted on the school website and also be rewarded with an extra playtime with Mr Young which will include a sweet treat to enjoy. The downside, of course, is that Cathedral Primary is full to the brim with polite, hard-working children, so it’s going to be a near impossible task for teachers to select only one child each week! Please check out the website tomorrow morning for this week’s winners.