Tuesday 9th June Daily Challenge

Good morning everyone, I hope all is well! Today I have a fun building activity for you all.

I want you to see how creative you can get with your letters and see what things around the home you could use to build the letters of your name and if this is super easy for you then start exploring building other members of your families names!

Remember to send over some of your photos to me!
courtney.cameron@eastayrshire.org.uk

 

Headteacher’s Challenge #23

Happy Tuesday to you all 🙂

Thank you to all pupils, parents, family and friends who participated in our Health Week and Sports Day last week.  It was wonderful seeing so many photos and videos of your Family Sports Day events – lots of effort had gone into preparing for races and organising equipment and it was brilliant to see.  I was lucky enough to see April and her big brother, Kerr, enjoying their races with their mum and gran – they had a welly throw competition, obstacle race and a dressing up race.  They were having a great time!

All staff are gearing up towards getting back into both the school and ECC from next week – we are making plans for when we return in August and will share these with you as soon as they are approved by EAC.  The health and safety of our children is our main priority so we’re taking on board both local and national guidelines to make sure we get it right.

Today’s challenge is an Estimation Challenge, and it might sound easier than it actually is.  Sit yourself down in the living room of your house and count how many doors there are in your entire house. Easy peasy!  Or is it?? 

Remember that there are external doors, internal doors, cupboard doors, cabinet doors, dolls house doors … the list is endless!  With the help of someone in your house guess how many doors there are – make an estimate – and then go around your whole house and count all the doors and see how close your estimate was to the correct answer.  You’ll be amazed how many doors there are in your house!  Challenge the other people in your house to make an estimate too. Let me know who got the closest answer in your household.

As always, take care, stay safe and keep in touch.  Mrs Govans x

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

Active Apple Man says Well Done!

Active Apple Man is impressed with all the hard work of all of those who took part in Health Week last week.

From counting your miles whilst out walking & cycling to naming parts of the body, from drawing your own pair of pants to joining in the the Catrine ECC Workout video.

You all did a fantastic job and we are all so proud of you.

Health and Wellbeing – EAC website

East Ayrshire Council have developed a dedicated Wellbeing Website at  https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/SocialCareAndHealth/Wellbeing/Wellbeing.aspx which is filled with advice on mental wellbeing, exercise, healthy eating and new activities to try. It also has a range of supports for those who may be struggling. There is a dedicated section for Children, Young People, Parents and Carers which I hope you will find particularly helpful during these challenging times. We will continue to add to this section therefore it would be helpful if you could email any suggestions to healthandsafety@east-ayrshire.gov.uk together with any feedback on the current content.

Thank you.  Nicola Stewart, Principal Educational Psychologist for East Ayrshire Council

RESULTS OF MILE CHALLENGE

Hello everyone, I just want to start by saying thank you all so much for your contribution in this week’s virtual health week and our sports day today. We have all loved seeing your pictures and videos.

I set a challenge on Monday for the full Catrine team on how many miles we could complete combined and see where it takes us to. I can now let you all know we have managed a whopping 85 MILES!!

Altogether with the miles we have completed starting from Catrine ECC and our final destination is…

 

EDINBURGH CASTLE!!

Active Apple Man and myself are so proud of everyone of you and all your hard work, thank you all for your participation. We hope you enjoy  your weekend x

 

 

Catrine ECC Virtual Sports Day

Well done to everyone who took part in our first virtual Catrine ECC Sports Day. We hope you all had fun taking part and trying out all of the different challenges. We loved seeing some of your videos and pictures of you having fun and involving all your families in the day too.

And the winners are:

Race 1: Hurdles

1st Place:Oscar  2nd Place: Rebecca 3rd Place: Harris

 

 

 

 

Race 2: Egg/Potato & Spoon

1st Place:  Alfie       2nd Place: Logan   3rd Place: Oscar

 

 

 

 

Race 3: Dress Up

1st Place:  Lukas McC       2nd Place: Ashton   3rd Place: Harris

Race 4: Sack Race

1st Place:  Rebecca       2nd Place: Alfie  3rd Place: Logan

Race 5: Welly Boot Toss

1st Place: Harris       2nd Place: Lukas   3rd Place: Ashton

Race 6: Long Jump

1st Place: Ashton       2nd Place: Oscar   3rd Place: Lukas

 

Race 7: 3 Legged Family Race

1st Place: Logan       2nd Place: Alfie   3rd Place: Rebecca

 

 

A big Well Done to all the winners and thank you all for taking part  – Catrine ECC Sports Day Superstars

 

 

SPORTS DAY 2020 IS HERE !!!

Whooo hooooo !!!!!

Team CATRINE ECC are super excited for today !!!

As we said earlier in the week, our aim, in an effort to feel part of a group again is to each start at 11am (ish) however if this time doesnt suit everyone it’s fine to do it whenever does ❤

Our first race of the day starting at 11am will be the 50m Hurdles. Thereafter, simply work through the activities remembering to time and record each.

Once you have completed your virtual sports day AND TAKEN PLENTY OF PICTURES send all of your times into Marion our glamorous 2020 Sports Day  Umpire 🙋‍♀️

eamarion.smith@glow.sch.uk

So team CATRINE ECC……On your marks….get set….. GOOOOOOOOOOO

 

Catrine ECC Challenge

Active Apple Man was just wanting to check in and make sure everyone was keeping track of their miles for our full Catrine ECC Challenge. The staff have been doing a great job and I have attached some of their daily walks and cycles below.

Remember to send in your progress and miles to ealeoni.gilmour@glow.sch.uk tomorrow Friday 5th June x

 

 

Thursday 4th June – Health Week: Mindfulness

Good Morning Everyone. I hope you have had a busy, fun-filled week with all of the Health Week activities.

Active Apple Man says as well as looking after our physical health we also need to remember to slow down, take time to relax and look after our mental health as well.

Active Apple Man tries some of the activities and you may want to have a go to:

Describing emotions

Sit together and ask them to describe different emotions. How does it feel when they are angry, happy or worried? You could prompt them by suggesting that they visualise their emotions as colours.

Looking at clouds

Lie down outside together in a safe place and look up at the clouds (be careful of the sun in your eyes). Ask them to look out for shapes and notice how the clouds change as they move along. What shapes, images can they see?

Bubble balloon game

Blow up some balloons and play the don’t-touch-the-floor game, but only using gentle movements. Pretend that the balloons are bubbles that might pop, so you can only tap them delicately and pass them between each other. You can make it a family game by adding more people in.

Mindful breathing

Practising mindful breathing can help with times that they may feel anxious or angry. For example counting off on one hand as you breathe in and the other hand as you breathe out or putting your hand on your tummy to feel it moving in and out.

You might want to try this to practice breathing and taking time to gather your thoughts: Zen Den Mindfulness for Kids

Yoga

Yoga is a great way for both physical activity and mindfulness activity. There are lots of fun moves to practise, for example animal poses and linked to some favourite stories.

Why not try this one: Cosmic Kids Betsy the Banana

 

Send me your pictures of practising mindfulness or Yoga – I’d love to see how you got on eamarion.smith@glow.sch.uk

Thursday 4th June – Family Health and Well-being

This has been a challenging time for everyone and the effects on every family will be different.  The important thing to remember is that you are not in this alone and there is lots of help, advice and support out there for families, if needed.  I have attached some posters with helplines below.

With so much going on in the world, the changes and challenges we have faced as parents/carers, it’s good to take some time, when we can, to focus on ourselves and our own mindset.  I have attached some self care tips for anxiety. 

Exercise is a great way to keep yourself fit and healthy, not just physically but mentally too as a family.  I have attached some yoga positions parents/carers and children can try out together. 

Why not try Cosmic Yoga on Youtube? There are lots of videos available – I will show you one of my favourites.

Have a super day and lots of fun trying out some yoga. Remember You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.  Take care of yourselves

Headteacher’s Challenge #22

Good morning and welcome to Health Week Thursday 🙂

What brilliant activities our ECC staff have planned for you throughout this week and the plan for Friday’s Sports Day is awesome!

I loved the Dance blog today – my two boys even joined in with a few dances although they’ll deny it if you ask them!

Today’s challenge is a singing one – we sing this song regularly at school assembly and I know you’ll pick it up quickly and love the whistling at the end.

As always, stay safe, take care and keep in touch.  Mrs Govans x

Judith.govans@east-ayrshire.gov.uk

CATRINE ECC VIRTUAL SPORTS DAY

As promised here is a sneak preview of our Sports day Schedule for Friday 5th June. We, as individual families, plan to start off our races at home around 11am in an effort to try and make it feel like we are joining forces and racing together 🙂 Feel free to do the same along with us,  however if this time does not suit you, or you are working and actually would prefer to hold your Special Sports Day 2020 on a different day, then that’s fab too.

Remember your “race track”, however you choose to measure it, needs to be 50 metres long. This may well need to be from the top of your garden to the bottom 5 or 6 times or at a grassy area near to your house but please remember to adhere to social distancing rules at all times.

Look out any resources you might need ready and remember to simply adapt things to work that you can find around the house 🙂

We would LOVE to see your videos from this memorable day to share with other ECCs and to revisit upon our return after the summer with the children.

eamarion.smith@glow.sch.uk will be waiting eagerly on Friday for your times and distances to be sent into her by 2pm on Friday at the latest so that she can tally everything up . Results will be posted ASAP.

ROLL ON FRIDAY 🙂 🙂 🙂

 

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