It’s been another exciting year here at Cathedral and our 2023/24 Improvement Plan has helped our school and nursery community drive forward change to improve outcomes for our learners. Cathedral’s Annual Improvement Report can be accessed via the link at the bottom of this post. However, here are a 
few highlights of our improvement journey this year:
- Our curriculum, delivered through our Active8 approach, has continued to provide engaging and challenging learning experiences for Cathedral pupils.
- Staff have worked together to further improve learning and teaching, providing pupils with high-quality learning spaces, experiences and interactions. This is something we’ll continue to do through one of next year’s improvement priorities.
- Our new approach to marking and feedback, the introduction of ‘Milestone Moments’ stickers and our bespoke ‘skills mats’ have equipped Cathedral pupils with the language of learning and ensure they are clear about their strengths and next steps.
- We’ve embedded ‘Talk for Writing’ approaches from Primary 1 – 7 and, across all stages, at least 86% of our learners now reach or exceed their expected milestones in writing.
- The Schools Singing Programme, funded by Motherwell Diocese, has given our Primary 4 learners weekly access to high-quality music lessons and supported our choir to go from strength to strength.
- To ensure we are outward looking, we have worked in partnership with St John Paul II Primary, Viewpark, and St Andrew’s Primary, Falkirk, as part of this year’s improvement journey.
- We‘ve invested in 60 new ipads for our Primary 1 – 3 classes and North Lanarkshire digital and computing progression pathways are ensuring pupils across the school develop increasingly sophisticated digital skills.
- Our ‘Attainment Team’ has continued to deliver a range of targeted interventions, supporting a rise in attainment in literacy and numeracy across the school and helping Cathedral Primary make positive headway in closing the poverty-related attainment gap.
- We’re making good progress in returning attendance to pre-COVID levels, with overall pupil attendance now over 93%.
Cathedral’s Annual Improvement Report, which provides detailed information on the school’s improvement journey over the past twelve months, can be accessed via the link below:
