RME 0-03a I am becoming aware of the importance of celebrations, festivals and customs in religious peoples lives.
TCH 0-01a I enjoy playing with and exploring technologies to discover what they can do and how they can help us.
MNU 0-11a I have experimented with everyday items as units of measure to investigate and compare sizes and amounts in my environment, sharing my findings with others.
LIT 0-01b I enjoy exploring and choosing stories and other text to watch, read or listen to, and can share my likes and dislikes.
Wellbeing Indicator: RESPONSIBLE
This week in Cathedral Nursery, our young learners have been busy finding out about religious festivals and traditions. They talked about their existing knowledge of some well-known traditions such as Pancake Tuesday and then used iPads to learn about Ash Wednesday, the month of Ramadan and Eid.
In our STEM area, our learners have been exploring measuring in a variety of ways. They have found out about tools we use to measure things accurately such as a measuring tape, metre stick and a ruler. Some of our younger children were able to use other ways to measure such as foot span and building blocks to measure height. Our wooden toolkits have been well used this week by our young engineers and they have given careful thought to health and safety.
All children enjoyed sharing their favourite books and stories on World Book Day and this sparked great conversations about likes and dislikes. In our story area, our young learners were encouraged to vote for ‘Story Of The Week’ and some of our pre-school children went on to share the reasoning behind their vote. The children also worked together to create a giant beanstalk for the playroom and built the giant’s castle using recycled materials.
What an incredible week of learning!
Following an idea dropped into our Pupil Voice Suggestion Box, one of our recent Smart School Council projects was the opportunity for Cathedral learners to design a mascot for their House. The most popular animal submitted for each House was chosen as the winner and all six have now been transformed into real-life mascots, complete with their own Cathedral t-shirt.
Primary 1 learners and their Primary 7 buddies got together on World Book Day to enjoy ‘The Cat in the Hat’ by Dr Seuss. Our learners, from opposite ends of the school, enjoyed listening to the story together and then teamed-up to make fantastic hats of their own (see below).
Three members of St Bernadette’s parish Legion 
of Mary visited Cathedral Primary on Thursday 6th March to pray the rosary with Primary 4 learners. The children meditated on the Mysteries of Light during their time of prayer:
Cathedral school community gathered for Mass on Ash Wednesday, 5th March, to mark the beginning of Lent. Pupils and staff received their ashes, a
sign of being sorry for the wrong things we do and of our commitment to grow closer to Jesus in the coming weeks.
The latest artwork to appear in Cathedral GOMA (
Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, falls on 5th March.
One of the daily pleasures of learning and working in Cathedral Primary School is being surrounded by beautiful artwork. Over the next few weeks,
we want to share some of our talented learners’ masterpieces with newsfeed readers.