Mr Young and Mrs Duffy made the hour-long journey to Lendrick Muir on Thursday 9th May to join P7 for dinner and their evening activity. Mr Young was absolutely delighted to hear from both Cathedral and Lendrick Muir staff how exceptional the children’s behaviour had been throughout the week.
Every pupil was eager to talk about their favourite activities and Sophie from P7b even mentioned she wished she’d brought a Cathedral skills-mat with her to check off all the skills she’d used and developed during her week at Lendrick Muir.
Many thanks to Mrs Campbell, Mrs McLaughlan, Miss Cameron, Mr Hamill, Father Colum and Mr Ross for giving so generously of their time and allowing our P7 Cathedral learners to have such an incredible experience.
Wednesday 8th May saw another fabulous day for Primary 7 at Lendrick Muir. Activities including archery tag, a nature walk and trail biking, which finished with a dip in the river! The children were joined by Mrs Findlay and Mrs Shevlin for their evening meal before after-dinner beach volleyball provided an energetic and fun end to Day 2 of the trip.
The first day of Primary 7’s residential excursion to Lendrick Muir finished off around the campfire on Tuesday 7th May. The children had spent the day trail-biking, bungee trampoling and some Cathedral learners had even overcome their fear of heights on the Leap of Faith! Pupils and staff alike are looking forward to a good night’s sleep to prepare them for another action-packed day tomorrow.
Primary 5 have been focusing on food technology in class over the past few weeks and have learned about food hygiene,
food storage, kitchen safety and knife skills. The children had the opportunity to apply their learning on Friday 3rd May when they made their own pizzas. Prior to embarking on their cooking activity, there were some important discussions about food allergies and intolerances as everything had to be nut free and the children also wanted to ensure there were both dairy free and vegetarian options. Our Primary 5 learners will be further developing their cooking skills this week when they make fruit kebabs.
As you may have read in a newsfeed post back in December (see below), Andrew Dickson, a Cathedral parent and international trade specialist within the Scottish Space Programme, along with his colleague, Derek Harris from Skyrora, delivered an exciting presentation on space to Primary 5a, 5b and 5/6 pupils. At the end of the presentation, the children were set the challenge of designing and building their own rockets. These two budding scientists were selected as the winners and were recently awarded a prize of a space-themed Lego kit. Well done to both of you!
Allergy Awareness Week 2024 took place from the 22nd to the 28th April. The week aims to raise awareness about allergies and offer help and support to those living with allergic conditions. Allergies are very much real and affect more people than we may think. It might be as small as a minor rash or as severe as a complete immune system shutdown. Either way, allergies are something we all need to take seriously.
There was an impressive turnout for our final coffee morning of the year on Friday 26th April. The event, run by our Primary 5 pupils, gave the usual opportunity for parents, families and friends to enjoy a catch up over a cuppa and a cake, as well as the chance to win one of our raffle prizes. The coffee morning raised a fantastic £739, which will go directly to enhancing the learning experiences of Cathedral pupils.
Primary 6’s current class topic is the Egyptians and, following some careful research, these two learners worked together to create their own pyramid. The girls were able to talk confidently about the skills they used, which included researching, designing, measuring and collaborating. Well done!
These Primary 1 pupils popped along to Mr Young’s office on Tuesday 23rd April to share their latest reading book, ‘Rat-a-tat-tat’, with him. The young learners utilised lots of their phonics and reading skills – including bucket loads of expression – when they read the fun story to Mr Young. Well done, everyone!
These two young gymnasts appeared at Mr Young’s office on Friday 19th April to show off their recently awarded medals: one for freestyle, the other for acro. Well done to both of you!