Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral Primary School

Cathedral pupils have raised a fantastic £1,076.49 through their various Lenten fundraisers. All of this money will be donated to Missio Scotland, the Holy Father’s official charity for overseas mission.

Many thanks to Cathedral families for your generosity: your Lenten almsgiving will make a huge difference to some of the poorest people across the world.

We are very proud to be the parish school of Our Lady of Good Aid Cathedral. As we approach the Easter holidays, we encourage parents and carers to take their child(ren) to at least some of the liturgies taking place over the coming days, as well as to regular Sunday Mass.

Holy Thursday

Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 7.00pm in the Cathedral

Night Prayer: 9.15pm in the Cathedral

Good Friday

Morning Prayer: 10.00am in the Cathedral

Solemn Passion: 3.00pm in the Cathedral and also in St Luke’s

Stations & Veneration of the Cross: 7.00pm in the Cathedral

Holy Saturday

Morning Prayer: 10.00am in the Cathedral

Easter Vigil: 7.30pm in the Cathedral

Easter Sunday

Easter Day Mass: 9.30am in St Luke’s;

10.30 am & 6.30 pm in the Cathedral

On Easter Sunday, there will be a children’s Easter egg hunt after the 9.30am Mass in St Luke’s and after the 10.30am Mass in the Cathedral.

One of the hymns we’ve sang during the season of Lent says: ‘Whatsoever you do to the least of my people, that you do unto me.’ This Cathedral pupil has been putting her faith into action in recent weeks by making and selling bracelets in her local community for SCIAF’s Wee Box campaign. Well done for showing our first school value of ‘Love’.

This Primary 4 pupil was very eager to show off his trophy to Mr Young. He plays with Motherwell FC Community Trust and was recently awarded Trainer of the Week for his commitment, effort, attitude and skill on the pitch. Well done, and don’t forget to record your wider achievement on your Rose Trainer Achievement Award card! 

Cathedral pupils and staff made a prayerful journey around the school grounds on Tuesday 26th March for our annual outdoor Stations of the Cross. Each station was led by a group of Primary 7 pupils and the 12th Station featured a large wooden cross on top of the hill. The children were extremely respectful throughout their journey and it was a moving way for our school community to mark Holy Week.

Our final Lenten Mass took place before school on Tuesday 26th March and parents and parishioners were treated to a hot cross bun and cuppa afterwards. It was a lovely opportunity to relax and chat before the arrival of the Easter holidays. Of course, pupils weren’t left out and were delighted to receive a creme egg from Fr Lamb at the end of Mass.

Primary 7c made the short walk to Motherwell library on Monday 25th March to meet and listen to Scottish children’s author, Lyndsay Littleson. The children heard an extract from ‘Secrets of the last Merfolk’, which tells the story of a boy called Finn seeing mysterious swimmers in the firth late at night. Could the local legend of merfolk living amid the waves actually be true? When Finn eventually meets the magical sea-people, he must put aside his own problems and help in the battle against the young merfolk’s ancient underwater enemy before the last of their kind are lost forever.

A highlight of the visit was Lyndsay Littleson signing the children’s own copies of the novel. Now it’s time for our avid readers to open them up and dive into the story!

Primary 2 pupils visited Motherwell Heritage Centre during the week beginning 18th March to discover more about Knights and Castles. Our young learners got a birds-eye view of a model castle, had the opportunity to dress up in medieval costume and even got to handle real chain-mail. What a great way to round off their current class topic!

As they do every year, the young learners of Cathedral, Firpark and Clydeview campus teamed up on Friday 22nd March to support a local Motherwell foodbank. Under the watchful eye of Miss Cawley, pupils co-ordinated the gathering of items donated by the three schools and Andrew Ewart from the Maranatha Foodbank was, once again, astounded by the generosity of Cathedral, Firpark and Clydeview families. This year, in fact, saw the biggest collective donation EVER from our campus and will make a huge difference to numerous local families. Many thanks to all those who gave so generously.

A team of Primary 5 pupils made the short walk to Motherwell’s Duchess Park on Friday 22nd March to sow wild flower seeds and plant native plants.  The event was run by Starling Learning, an ecological consultancy, environmental education and conservation management agency based in Lochwinnoch. Armed with gloves and gardening tools, our eager horticulturists worked in partnership with pupils from other local schools to sow and plant and can look forward to seeing the rewards of their hard work in the coming months.