Our current Cathedral Pupil Parliament theme is Our health & wellbeing, with a specific focus on refurbishing the space used by our school counsellor. At their recent Class Council meetings, pupils
across the school were asked: ‘What changes could we make to the Visiting Services room to make it a more homely space for counselling and quiet meetings?’. Given that our school counsellor is originally from Denmark, the children were asked to consider what might give the room ‘hygge’.
Our Pupil Parliament action board, which helps Cathedral continually drive forward change and improvement, has now been updated and our two Cabinet Secretaries for Health will lead and oversee the current priority over the coming weeks. They have already agreed on the colour of the walls, contacted the painter and ordered furniture and lighting from Ikea. Watch this space to see the transformation!
You can find out more about Cathedral Pupil Parliament by clicking on the link below:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/olga/smart-school-council/
October’s wellbeing indicator is HEALTHY. Please use the prompts below to talk to your child about this indicator. This will help them complete their wellbeing wheel in school.
North Lanarkshire Council have now finalised term and holiday dates for the 2026/27 academic year. These are detailed below:
Primary 2 learners and parents enjoyed a family learning workshop in Cathedral school library on Wednesday 1st October. While teachers read a story to their class and spoke about the rules of the library, Mrs McCoy provided parents and carers with some practical ideas to help them support their child’s reading at home. Parents then had the opportunity to chose and read a book with their child.
Mrs McMichael and Mrs Murphy from Cathedral’s Attainment Team hosted a targeted family learning workshop on Wednesday 1st October at which parents and carers had the opportunity to learn alongside their child using the Read Write Inc. Fresh Start programme. The Attainment Team also provided parents and carers with learning packs to further support their child’s learning at home. There was a great buzz around the room and parent/carer feedback on the sessions was exceptionally positive. One parent said:
These P4/5 learners were very proud to share a maths ‘Milestone Moment’ with Mrs Duffy on Tuesday 30th September. Their maths group have been using different methods to develop their understanding of place value and they demonstrated their recent learning by using Numicon to represent larger numbers. Impressive!
I understand positive things about friendships and relationships but when something worries or upsets me I know who I should talk to. HWB 0-44a
Cathedral’s current group of nursery learners enjoyed their final day in the great outdoors on Thursday 25th September, and parents and carers came along to see them graduate from their forest adventures. Over the last few weeks, our young learners have gained many new skills and knowledge in the forest including working as a team to set up the forest area, safety skills while exploring, climbing and fire building. During the final session, parents and carers had the opportunity to make autumn crowns with their child and complete a scavenger hunt. Many congratulations to our forest graduates!
These three Primary 6b learners popped down to see Mrs Duffy and Mrs Campbell on Thursday 25th September to share the product of some exciting learner led-learning:
Following the Primary 1 Welcome Mass on Thursdays 25th, our young learners were presented with their 150th anniversary commemorate medals. What a wonderful year to join the Cathedral family!