Pupils, staff, families and parishioners celebrated Education Sunday at the vigil Mass in St Luke’s on Saturday 16th and the morning Mass in OLGA Cathedral on Sunday 17th November. Cathedral pupils led the bidding prayers and offertory and senior pupils from Our Lady’s High School the readings and Catholic Education Week address. Cathedral school choir also led the music at the Sunday morning Mass.
Across our schools and parishes, we celebrate and give thanks for the precious gift of Catholic Education which seeks to develop and nurture the whole person, build a community between home, school and parish and continue the Church’s mission of calling young people to discover and enter into a living relationship with Jesus Christ.
The four schools which make up Our Lady’s Cluster have put together an electronic newsletter for Catholic Education Week, which can be accessed via the link below.
To round off their knights and castles topic, 
Primary 2 learners donned their crowns on Friday 15th November and travelled to the Great Hall for a glamourous medieval ball. The classes in Brainbox Boulevard gathered to wave to the princes and princesses on their way past. Our young royals enjoyed dancing and party games before sitting down to a banquet and then having their photos taken next to the golden carriage. What a grand end to a fantastic topic!
These two tech-savvy Primary 3 learners popped along to Mr Young’s office on Thursday 14th November to share some of their literacy work. The boys had programmed the Chatterpix app to make the mouth of the character on the front cover of their book move in time to a recording of them retelling the story in their own words. Impressive!
Our Play Zone was a hive of activity on Thursday 
14th November for the second day of Family Learning, this time for our Primary 2 classes. Once again, Mr Young began each individual class’s session with a presentation on Cathedral’s approach to play and then parents and carers had the opportunity to visit the Play Zone and learn alongside their child.
Schools across Scotland will mark Catholic Education Week during a two-week window, beginning on 16th November (the feast of St Margaret of Scotland) and ending on 30th November (St Andrew’s Day).
Family Learning session started with a presentation from Mr Young outlining the importance of play and how it is organised in Cathedral Primary School to facilitate adult-led, adult-initiated and child-led learning. Parents and carers then had the opportunity to visit the Play Zone to learn alongside their child.
‘Bookworm of the Week’ certificates were reintroduced to our weekly assemblies on Monday 11th November. Directly linked to ‘Accelerated Reader’, which is used to organise Cathedral’s school library, certificates are awarded to those Primary 4 – 7 learners who read the most words each week, based on books completed (including completing end-of-book comprehension quizzes).
This Primary 5 learner recently participated in the North Lanarkshire schools swimming time trials at the Tryst Sports Centre, Cumbernauld, competing in the girls’ 12 and under 50 metre breaststroke and freestyle.
There was an absolutely fantastic atmosphere at our Family Fun Night on Friday 8th November. As always, there was something to appeal to all ages and the queues for the sparkly tattoos and the tombola were equally long. The children’s entertainer held everyone’s attention in the gym hall throughout the evening, with some great dance moves from both the children and the grown-ups.