The inservice day on Monday 13th November will take a different format from usual, with staff being deployed in a variety of ways to lead and take forward Cathedral’s current priorities.
Our four ‘Pedagogy Leads’ will be visiting St Andrew’s Primary in Falkirk. Mrs McCarthy and Mrs McLaughlan will be supporting two St Andrew’s staff to introduce ‘Active8’ in their own classrooms and Mrs Gillespie and Mrs McDerment will be observing St Andrew’s approach to play to see if there’s anything we can learn to improve our own approach and practice.
Mrs Tominey, Mrs Loose, Mr Feeney and Mr Hamill will be at St Brendan’s Primary working with other P4 teachers from across the cluster to plan a piece of Writing moderation. This will ensure there is a shared understanding of standards and attainment across the three cluster primary schools.
Mrs Laird, Mrs Carroll and Miss Cameron will be attending Equalities and Inclusion training at Cardinal Newman High School.
Miss Cawley, Mrs Callaghan and Mrs Findlay will be auditing our current maths resources and ordering additional materials to plug any gaps.
Mrs McCoy, Miss Forsyth and Miss Tyrell will be making final preparations for next week’s Play Family Learning sessions.
Mrs Irwin, Mrs Devaney, Miss Degnan and Mrs McCue will be doing some practical work re-zoning one of our learning streets to implement the children’s ideas gathered through Smart School Council. As can be seen in the above photo, Mrs Irwin met with our twelve House Captains prior to the inservice to have a final discussion about the changes and improvements they would like to see.
Two members of our ‘A Team’, Mrs McMichael and Mrs Cassidy, will be analysing the results from recent maths standardised assessments and looking at pupil attainment over time.
Mr McMullan will be auditing and organising the PE cupboard and our support staff will be assisting with some of the above tasks, as well as getting costumes ready for next month’s Nativity.
Last, but by no means least, Mr Young and Mrs Duffy will be revisiting four Quality Indicators from ‘How good is our school?’ (1.3, 2.3, 3.1 and 3.2) and updating our self-evaluation summary paper and Quality Indicator overviews and evidence boxes. This is in preparation for inspection, which is likely to take place this session.
Our young learners across the school have worked their socks off this term. We wish them a well-earned rest on the inservice day.
