Primary 6 pupils completed an exciting homework project as part of this term’s topic on the Romans. The children were tasked with creating something (e.g. a model or mosaic) and writing something (e.g. a rap or play) and were assessed on effort, creativity, knowledge and presentation… along with some extra points for unique and special ideas!
Primary 6 teachers were blown away by the standard of the children’s presentations and their depth of knowledge about the Romans. Well done, boys and girls, for being such enthusiastic and committed learners!
Coach Willie organised an in-house football tournament on 30th and 31st March for Cathedral’s numerous avid footballers. The boys and girls thoroughly enjoyed the friendly matches and all agreed it was a great way to round off the term.
As part of this term’s World War II topic, Primary 7 pupils had the opportunity to choose an area of interest to delve deeper into. On Thursday 30th March, the children showcased their learning to other classes in an impressive range of ways including models, PowerPoints, posters, leaflets, displays of authentic artifacts and even a video game.
Many congratulations to the above four pupils whose anti-bullying posters were chosen as the three winning designs to be displayed around the school.
Despite the inclement weather, Cathedral pupils walked and prayed the Stations of the Cross outdoors on Tuesday 28th March. Fr Lamb gathered each class in the dining hall for a short introduction and prayer before the children began their prayerful journey around the playground. 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. As part of their prayer, each class carried a stone with them and these were grouped together in the shape of a cross which read, ‘Jesus loves me.’
All Primary 7 Cathedral pupils had the opportunity to gain the Level 1 Bikeability Award during week beginning Monday 27th March . The input, delivered by our Active Schools Co-ordinator, Fiona Russell, took place in the playground and covered a number of skills:
Over the past two weeks, the children have been listening and recalling the story of the ‘Rainbow Fish’, a fishy tale about how sharing can make
you happy. They have expanded their learning by retelling the story and creating their own stories about sharing and feelings. Some of these have been recorded in the talking photo album by the children themselves, which allow the children to revisit and record their stories over and over again. 
Primary 3 took their families on a whistle-stop tour of climate zones at their learning showcase on Friday 24th March. The children delivered fascinating information on each climate zone with incredible energy, enthusiasm and humour and had their audience singing and clapping along from beginning to end. The showcase ended with a humorous reminder that we live in a temperate climate zone which, although avoids us having to experience extremes in our weather, does mean we need to put up with (yes, you guessed it!) lots of RAIN!
Classes across the school had the opportunity to try out judo on 21st and 22nd March. Judo builds fitness levels and increases coordination, flexibility and agility. The children had great fun and hopefully some of them will decide to take up judo as a long-term sport.
As parents and carers will have read in previous newsfeeds, Cathedral Primary is currently working with ‘Respect Me’, Scotland’s anti-bullying service, to review and refresh the school’s approaches to preventing, reducing and responding to bullying behaviour.