Another great Health Week at Catrine ECC

Thank you to everyone who came along to cheer on the children at Sports Day 🙂

Health Week 2025

This week the children and the staff have had the opportunity to participate in a range of experiences to celebrate health week. To start the week we had Hazel in to join us, who has plent…

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Catrine ECC Trip to Kelburn 2025

Well what a great day!

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We would really appreciate some feedback on how you enjoyed (or didn’t) our trip yesterday.

The SWAY above shows just some of  fab times we shared, and the link below is a very short questionnaire to gather your views about how you felt the full day went. 

As always we thank you for your support, cooperation and tremendous parent engagement on days like these 🙂 These are the days children remember and we love being a part of those memories with our families. 

Important information for our trip 

THURSDAY 5th JUNE 2025

• We ask that all parent/carers arrive between 8.45 and 9am where we will have a registration in the playground area, aiming to leave the ECC at 9.15am at the latest
• The ECC will be open from 8.45am to use the toilets if need be before boarding the bus
• If you are running late or not able to come on the day, please phone the ECC (or the school if you do not get a response on our phone) to make us aware
• Please ensure both adults and children are dressed appropriately for the weather. ECC waterproofs and wellies for the children will be available should you require to borrow them. Hi-vis vests will also be available if you would like to put one on your child. These are optional
• Parents of children with medication – this must be carried with you at all times. You can sign our ECC held medication out should you wish to, however please remember if you chose to take our medication out of the building you MUST bring it back into the ECC and sign it back in again when you get off of the bus. This is following our EAC Policies and Procedures in relation to medication. It would be advised to bring your child’s own personal medication from home if you feel you are likely to want to go straight home once we get off the bus
• The ECC will provide each child with a piece of fruit for snack in the morning and a packed lunch later in the day. The children will get a small bottle of water at lunch time. You may however wish to bring another drink for them for throughout the rest of the day
• We would suggest you bring a backpack with you and a change of clothes for your child in case of any accidents, fall, spillages or simply if we get soaked they might be more comfortable with dry clothes for the bus journey home
• Please note we have a no smoking or vaping policy around the children, even in outdoor areas
• We aim to leave the park again at 2pm to be back for 2.45pm
• If you get lost from your group you can phone the school office on 01290 551436. Deborah in the school office will then get in contact with Alana who will then phone you on the number you put down on your child’s EV5 form

Finally, we want you and your child to have a great day.

Your group leaders will take you around the 4 planned stations which we hope you will enjoy and participate in 🙂

We would also love to see photos you take uploaded to your child’s Learning Journal if possible.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask your child’s keyworker or phone the ECC office

An itinerary has been uploaded below for your information

Kelburn Parent Itinerary 2025

Have a look below to find out just some of the experiences and learning opportunities on offer over the past month 🙂

Outdoors

Within our landscape area, Leoni has planned a variety of activities for the children to participate in based on their interests such as:-

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The Dentist

We have been learning about the dentist and healthy eating. The children have taken part in a range of experiences.

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Exploring Measure

Over the past few weeks we have been exploring sorting items by different criteria. We used a range of different resources to identify colours, sort items by colour, sort items by two crite…

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Famous Artists

Over the past month in the Brig, we have had lots of fun exploring the work of famous artists and studying their techniques including Vivienne Westwood, Vincent Van Gough, Jackson Pollock a…

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The Voes – Apr/May planning cycle.

During this planning cycle we have been engaging in the following experiences ;-

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Before the Easter holiday we asked for your support by completing a questionnaire. Please click on the link below to read a summary of the responses we received from parent/carers.

Parent Feedback Summary April 2025

Our Health & Wellbeing Parent Workshop is now open for bookings.

As our HWB Leader, Lesleyanne is super excited to offer a session to parent/carers where the children can show you some of the techniques and strategies which they have been learning within our Nurture Nook over the year.

If you would like the opportunity to join your child on Monday 28th April please complete the form below to express your interest – please note there are only 8 spaces available at each session.

We have made the decision to add the option of a PM workshop following parent requests within our recent feedback questionnaire.

During this session Rena will also give parents a 10minute update so far in relation to our Rights Respecting Schools journey 🙂

Curiosity and Creativity with Michelle and Julie T in our Voes playroom 🙂

The Voe’s – Mar/Apr

During this planning cycle we have been engaging in learning experiences such as;

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Carrie and Sherrie were busy as always in our Greenspace …..

Positional Language

In the green space we have been learning about directions, positional language and how to move and control our bodies. We first set up an obstacle course, where we had to climb up and over …

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Rena has been busy within The Brig developing a range of literacy skills

Stories.

In the brig the children wished to continue with traditional stories, they asked if they could have Little red riding hood, Goldilocks and the three bears and The three little pigs, they l…

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Julie has been in The Mill exploring pets and household chores

Learning our family chores and caring for pets.

Over the three weeks in The Mill we have been learning about household chores and how to care for our pets. We have been discussing the roles our parents do at home and ways that we can hel…

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The Square had Leoni in it this planning cycle offering opportunities to develop numeracy skills

Numeracy fun

Over the last three weeks within the square, the children have had the opportunity to develop and further extend their numeracy skills. In particular we have looked at shapes and numbers, w…

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And Tammie was investigating minibeasts in our outdoor areas

Our Minibeast Adventure

We have had a great time, enjoying the weather in the outdoor area whilst learning all about mini beasts. A wide variety of learning opportunities were on offer and the great weather certai…

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An enormous THANK YOU to Annie’s mum for bringing in the most beautiful baby lamb before our Easter Bunny made a surprise appearance.

We hope you all have a super Easter break and we will see you all back at the ECC on Tuesday 22nd April 🙂

Each of our children had the opportunity to attend one of our day trips to Dumfries and had an absolute ball – staff included!

Alana, Lesleyanne and Sherrie took it in turns to drive the children in 4 groups to the beautiful grounds and spent 4hours there exploring all it has to offer.

Dumfries House

The children had a fun filled day at Dumfries House and the sun was shining for us. We started off in the obstacle course developing our gross motor skills climbing on and off the equipment…

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Our SWAY above shows just some of what each group got up to.

Please click on the link below to see some fab photos from our March parent workshop with Sherrie.

STEM Parent Workshop

Some of our children and parents attended our STEM workshop on Friday, where they participated in different activities based on the areas we cover within the science curriculum. We looked a…

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A huge thank you to everyone who came and of course for the effort Sherrie put in to setting up such a fabulous variety of experiences for you to explore and investigate – not to mention the epic clear up that was required afterwards haha.