As we continue to look ahead to our inspection from HMIe, which is likely to take place between now and the summer holidays, this week’s Friday Focus for Cathedral parents and carers is the vital area of Child Protection and Safeguarding.
Cathedral Primary School & Nursery Class provides a safe, positive and nurturing environment in which children can grow in their physical, emotional, social, academic, spiritual and moral development. We recognise the vital contribution Cathedral Primary School & Nursery Class makes to safeguarding pupils
from harm and take great care to carry out our statutory responsibilities actively and conscientiously in partnership with all other concerned parties.
Please click on the link below and take a few moments to read through our Child Protection and Safeguarding leaflet which is given to all new visitors to Cathedral Primary School & Nursery Class:
Cathedral’s full Child Protection and Safeguarding policy, based on the most up-to-date national guidance (2023), can be accessed via the link below:
Child Protection policy Aug 2023
All ‘Friday Focus’ posts can now be accessed on the ‘Looking ahead to inspection’ page in the ‘Parent’ section of our website:
Cathedral pupils marked Burns Day on Thursday 25th January by wearing a touch of tartan and enjoying a traditional lunch of haggis, neeps and tatties… a nice warm-up to Primary 2’s Learning Showcase which takes place on Friday 26th and is all about our national poet, Robert Burns.
There was a great turnout for the first of our ‘Talk for Writing’ family learning workshops 
on Tuesday 23rd January. Mrs Tominey and Miss Cameron delivered a presentation on the ‘Talk for Writing’ approach and then several Primary 4 and Primary 7 pupils read some of their own compositions to demonstrate how they had used an original text to support their ideas and writing. The session finished with the opportunity for parents and carers to visit their child’s classroom to see ‘Talk for Writing’ techniques in action and enjoy reading the pieces in their child’s Taught Writing jotter.
This eager learner from Primary 4c was recently inspired by Mr Young’s speedy recitation of the six times table and committed himself to practise at home until he was just as speedy! He succeeded in just a few days and was really proud to show off how quick he was to Mr Young. Well done marvelous mathematician!
The current focus of Smart School Council is celebrating diversity across our school, nursery and campus. Following the pupil consultation last
term, our Action Board has been updated to take forward the children’s ideas.
The morning of Wednesday 17th January might have started off a chilly minus 8 degrees, but it didn’t stop these Cathedral pupils from wearing their shorts to school. It’s quite common in Cathedral Primary for boys to wear shorts as part of their uniform from their first day in Primary 1 all the way up to the very last day of Primary 7. What a hardy bunch we are!
This Primary 7 pupil recently took part in a swimming gala and walked away with an impressive four medals:
Children who turn 5 between 1st March 2024 and 29th February 2025 should be registered for primary school THIS WEEK.
Registration for August 2024 will take place Monday to Friday (15th – 19th January) from 1.30 – 2.45pm each day. Parents and carers should come to the main entrance and will be directed to the dining hall.
Primary 3b spent the afternoon of Friday 12th January being budding filmmakers. Using the ‘StikBot Studio’ app on their iPads, the 
children worked with playdough to create fantastic animations of a story they recently enjoyed in class: ‘Baboon on the Moon’. Mr Young was very impressed with the children’s movie-making skills and thoroughly enjoyed watching the children’s animations.