Cathedral parent and native Spanish speaker, Mrs Pech, launched a new Spanish club for Primary 4 learners on Monday 28th April. The children are already enjoying learning Spanish with Miss Cawley as part of their core learning but are very excited about getting tuition from someone whose first language is Spanish in the coming weeks.
Earlier in the year, Mrs Pech gave a fascinating presentation to Primary 7 learners on the importance and benefits of being able to speak Spanish:
Gracias Señora Pech for giving so generously of your time to inspire Cathedral learners!
His Majesty’s Inspectors of Education (HMIe) will carry out an inspection of Cathedral Primary School and Nursery Class during the week commencing Monday 12th May. Please click on the link below to access an interactive summary of the strengths and good practice Cathedral Primary will share and celebrate with inspectors during their visit:
Preparing for Cathedral’s inspection |
Elections for our 2025/26 House Captains took place in the first week of term. The twelve newly-elected captains will be mentored by our current House Captains during the remainder of the year before the ceremonial ‘handing over of the batons’ at the Primary 7 graduation in June. Mentoring will include training in leading ‘Smart School Council’, which gives every learner a voice and is instrumental in bringing about ongoing change and improvement in Cathedral.
School and Nursery Class during the week commencing Monday 12th May. Please click on the link below to access an interactive summary of the strengths and good practice Cathedral Primary will share and celebrate with inspectors during their visit:
This Primary 5 learner excelled in a Celtic music competition in Glasgow on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th April. Following several outstanding performances on the Celtic harp and the concertina, the talented musician walked away with two gold, two silver and two bronze medals. Very impressive and definitely something to add to your Rose Trainer Achievement Award record card!
These learners took the opportunity to signpost parishioners to Cathedral’s interactive inspection page after Mass on Sunday 27th April. Posters have also been displayed in St Luke’s and the QR code printed in the parish bulletin.
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With this week’s beautiful weather, our young learners in the nursery have been out in the garden area planting and tending to the plants.
This has given them the opportunity to learn to identify and name the different parts of plants and flowers such as the leaf and the stem.
To permanently mark Cathedral’s 150th anniversary, a stunning stained glass window, featuring an image of Our Lady, has been installed in the school’s main stairwell. Fr Lamb gathered with our IGNITE Junior Chaplaincy Team on Friday 25th April to bless and dedicate the beautiful two-storey window, which will inspire learners, staff and visitors for many, many years to come.
A new group of nursery learners made the short journey to our forest site on Thursday 22nd April, taking shared responsibility to get there safely. The sun shone throughout their forest adventure and the children had great fun climbing, relaxing on the hammock and improving their balancing skills on the rope ladder. Our young explorers left the site just as they found it, showing themselves to be very responsible (the wellbeing indicator they are focusing on this week). More forest fun awaits them next week!
Our Primary 6 classrooms were transformed into court rooms on Thursday 24th April for an 
engaging Developing the Young Workforce activity, facilitated by Cathedral parent, Mrs Neville. Mrs Neville works as a Sheriffdom Legal Advisor for the Scottish Courts & Tribunals Service and supported our Primary 6 learners to run their very own court case, the case of the stolen jelly beans. The big question was: who stole the jelly beans, gifted to him by Mrs Duffy, from Mr Young’s office?
Learners, along with their parents and carers, participated in a school improvement workshop on Wednesday 23rd April. There was the opportunity to reflect on this year’s improvement priorities and think about how successful Cathedral learners, staff and parents/carers have been in taking them forward. 70% of participants graded our success as ‘excellent’ and 30% as ‘very good’.