MNU 0-02A I have explored numbers, understanding that they represent quantities, and I can use them to count.
RME 0-06a I am becoming aware of the importance of celebrations, festivals and customs in religious peoples lives.
Wellbeing Indicators: Safe & Achieving
Our young learners have been exploring numbers in a variety of ways this week. We have looked at coins and began to identify each coin and learn that they have their own value. Staff and children have visited the local community to further develop this learning and have risk assessed on the way, crossing roads and listening to their teachers and friends.
We have marked several festivals in the nursery in recent weeks, with Halloween on the 31st October, Diwali on the 1st November and Guy Fawkes on 5th November. The children particularly enjoyed wearing their Halloween costumes to nursery and playing some traditional games.
We continue to use ‘Living our Values’ stickers as part of our daily experiences, encouraging our young learners to show Love, Friendship, Effort and Growth within the nursery environment. Each child awarded a sticker is added to the “I’m proud of this” wall in our nursery cloakroom area.
An array of Viking warriors and Viking gods took to the stage on Friday 8th November for the Primary 3 learning showcase. The boys and girls took their audience on an exciting historical journey, filled with fascinating facts about Viking daily life, jobs, clothes, trading, invasions and beliefs. The children sprinkled in some humour when they articulated their Viking skills, which included raiding and pillaging, and also took to the catwalk for a Viking fashion show! Primary 3’s showcase finished with a rousing song, ‘Vikings Rock’, which got the entire audience clapping along.
Cathedral girls football team excelled at the Motherwell Active Schools Fair Play Cup on Thursday 7th November. The team played six games, winning three, drawing two and losing one. Coach Willie was exceptionally proud not only of the girls’ football skills but also of their exceptional behaviour and sportsmanship. Well done, Team OLGA!
Primary 6b discovered apples growing in the school grounds recently and this sparked some tasty learner-led learning. After discussing various
ideas about what they could do with the apples, the children decided on food technology and worked together to make a delicious apple crumble.
As part of their Pope Francis Faith Award, Primary 7 pupils interviewed Fr Lamb on Tuesday 5th November. Over tea and cake, the children asked Fr Lamb various questions about his vocation and learned more about his life as a priest in the various parishes he’s served in over the years.
As part of Come Clubbing @ Cathedral, Primary 7 pupils recently completed Young Leaders training with our resident Active Schools Co-ordinator, Fiona Russell. The Young Leader Award is a great introduction to leadership, giving young people aged eleven and over the knowledge and skills to organise and lead small games and activities that can be used as a part of club sessions. Primary 7 engaged in a three-week training programme and were awarded certificates on completion of the module. 
2025 will be very significant in the faith life of Cathedral Primary School. Not only has Pope Francis asked that 2025 be a year of Jubilee, we will also celebrate the 150th anniversary of Cathedral school and parish. How incredible to think that pupils, staff, parents and parishioners are part of a community of faith and learning stretching back fifteen decades!
To allow us to finalise our programme of events for the combined 150th Anniversary and Jubilee 2025 celebrations, Cathedral’s House Captains gathered ideas from parishioners after each of the St Luke’s and Cathedral 
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.
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.