Cathedral learners and staff made a prayerful journey around the school grounds on Tuesday 2nd April for our annual outdoor Stations of the Cross. Each station was led by a group of Primary 7 pupils and the 12th Station featured a large wooden cross on top of the hill. The children were extremely respectful throughout this special Lenten opportunity for our whole school community to pray and reflect together.
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you. Because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world.
The latest artwork to appear in Cathedral GOMA (Gallery Of Magnificent Art) online exhibition comes from Primary 5b.
Cathedral’s 150th Anniversary Theatre was officially opened by Mr Charlie Miller from Forgewood Holdings on Tuesday 1st April. Following the ceremonial cutting of the ribbon, the ‘Gie it Laldie’ choir, accompanied by Mrs Campbell on guitar, performed three pieces, including the Welly Boot Song. Mr Miller then enjoyed a tour of the school and was absolutely blown away by Cathedral pupils’ behaviour, manners and enthusiasm for learning. Mr Young played a wee ‘April Fools’ on Primary 1a by introducing Mr Miller to the children as an inspector!
Primary 4 parents and carers were the last cohort this term to join their child in class for a digital family learning workshop. Each of the two sessions on Tuesday 1st April opened with a presentation on how digital can support literacy and numeracy across the curriculum. Our Primary 4 learners then enjoyed using ‘Scratch’ on their tablets to do some coding with their parent/carer which involved creating moving characters. Very impressive computing skills!
There’s a bit of an ongoing issue in Cathedral’s school grounds with tree roots lifting the monoblocks. For health and safety reasons, we have – up
until now – intermittently gathered loose blocks and stored them in the shed. However, following an ingenious idea dropped into the Smart School Council suggestion box, the monoblocks have now been placed in a designated corner of the playground to create an outdoor construction area. As you can see, it’s already attracted some eager builders and is being put to very good use. Fun outdoor learning at zero cost!
As part of their current Religious Education, exploring the events of Holy Week and Easter, Primary 3a have an ‘Explore & Extend’ activity on their Active8 task-board which sets the challenge of building Jerusalem at the time of Christ from Lego. These learners decided to collaborate on the task and were very proud to showcase their impressive construction to Mr Young on Monday 31st March. Not only was it a fun activity, it will also help our Primary 3 learners visualise the location of the different events of Holy Week and Easter.
Mr Young chuckled to himself when this young 
learner popped along to his office on Monday 31st March with a picture he’d drawn during free-play. It shows Mr Young at assembly, complete with red tie, saying “Get ready for the inspectors”. How encouraging to know that even our youngest learners are thinking ahead to Cathedral’s visit from His Majesty’s Inspectors of Education, whenever that might be!
Good attendance makes a HUGE difference to your child’s progress and attainment. Every school day really does count!
Primary 5b learners set up a mini enterprise during the last week of term, selling beautiful hand-crafted finger rosaries. Not only did their enterprise promote prayer during this season of Lent, it also raised money for Missio, which will be added to our Friday Lenten almsgiving.
The big storm back in January not only brought down branches around the school grounds (as well as an entire tree next to our pitch, which damaged the fence) but also blew in a huge amount of litter. With the clocks changing and spring having well and truly arrived, Cathedral learners teamed-up during the week beginning 31st March for Project Ground Force . Armed with gloves, litter-pickers and rakes, our incredible army of workers gave Cathedral’s grounds a major spring clean. Thank you to each and every one of you! WHAT A TEAM!