November’s wellbeing indicator is ACHIEVING. Please use the prompts below to talk to your child about this indicator. This will help them complete their wellbeing wheel in school.
Nursery and Primary 1
- I can ask my teacher for help when I need it.
- I have people around me who help with my learning.
- I have people who help me to do things on my own.
- I can speak out in class.
- I am eager to learn.
Primary 2 – 4
- I can ask my teacher for help when I need it.
- I have people around me who help with my learning.
- I have people who help me to do things myself.
- I can speak out in class.
- I am eager to learn.
- I can overcome challenges and work to achieve success.
Primary 5 – 7
- I am making progress in all areas at school.
- I can set targets for my learning and work independently towards them.
- I can overcome challenges and work to achieve success.
- I have opportunities to reflect on my achievements.
As newsfeed readers will know, Cathedral school and parish will celebrate an incredible 150 years next year. Our most recent Smart School Council meetings generated some fantastic ideas to mark our special year from pupils and staff and, this weekend, House Captains will gather further ideas from parishioners after Sunday Mass.
In partnership with the Scottish Professional Football League Trust and Ferrero UK and Ireland Ltd, Celtic FC Foundation embarked on
delivering the 
Bag2School gives families the opportunity to clear out unwanted clothes, contribute to saving the environment and, at the same time, raise money for school funds. Cathedral’s most recent donations of clothes were collected on Thursday 31st October. The money raised will go directly into school funds to support and enhance the learning of our amazing pupils. Many thanks to parents and carers for your donations!
A new lunchtime coding club for Primary 3 pupils started on Wednesday 30th October. Mrs Tominey, however, was able to take a back seat as this enthusiastic, tech-savvy Primary 4 learner stepped in to lead the club and support the younger pupils with their digital activities. Very impressive, indeed, and certainly an example of developing the workforce of the future!
Following an autumn walk in the school grounds, these Primary 2 pupils enjoyed some Halloween learner-led learning on Wednesday 30th October. The children gathered lots of branches on their walk and, once back inside, worked together to make broomsticks. Planning, designing, creating and teamwork were just four of the skills the children told Mr Young they were using.
There was a SPOOK-tacularly good atmosphere in the hall on Tuesday 29th October for our Halloween discos. Costumes across all stages were absolutely fantastic and the boys and girls had a great time showing off their spooky dance moves!
These individuals are used to hanging around Hogwarts School but they jumped on their broomsticks on Tuesday 29th October to join in the fun at the Cathedral Halloween discos. All four had a MAGIC time dancing the night away with Cathedral pupils!
Good attendance makes a HUGE difference to your child’s progress and attainment. 
Cathedral hosted a targeted Family Learning workshop on Friday 25th October for parents and carers of pupils currently using Immersive Reader to help with their literacy work in school. Immersive Reader is a support tool built into Microsoft 365 which provides a set of clever features to make reading and writing documents much easier. 