It is with great sadness that we can now confirm today is the last day we will have the wonderful Abby Lennox with us at Catrine Early Childhood Centre.
Abby has been instrumental this year, for both the staff and the children and she will be missed so dearly.
Abby has been filling in for our Rena Dornan, who will be re-joining us after the Christmas break!
We wish her well in her new position at New Cumnock ECC, and very much hope to have her back with us before too long.
Well …… busy is an understatement! I know I say it every month but the past 3 weeks has been jam packed full of fun. Please see below some SWAYs from December 🙂
The children have been learning about the story of Christmas. We read the book and listened to the story on the smartboard. We used the dress up resources to explore the different character…
This month we have been very busy working as little elves in Santa’s workshop. We have been building toys, wrapping them up and putting them in Santa’s sleigh, we have been developing our f…
Whilst in The Square playroom Carrie offered snack each day and once this was tidied away her main focus was on the action songs for our Christmas Carols in the Community. I think you will agree the children all did fantastic – and so did Carrie 🙂
This month we have worked super hard to learn all our new Christmas songs. We have been learning the actions to the songs, makaton signs and had lots of practice using the props and hats. A…
Within outdoors over the month of December with Leoni, Julie, Corrie and Lesleyanne, the children have been getting into the Christmas spirit as they have decorated the garden with tinsel a…
We would like to welcome Lindsey McCabe to our Catrine team!
Lindsey will be joining us as an Equity and Excellence Lead from January until the Easter holidays. She will be offering extra support to all our children and organising workshops for Parents/Carers and families.Â
We are very excited to have her on board with us at Catrine Early Childhood Centre.
Thank you to the 9 parent/carers who completed our 2 Stars and a Wish FORM. We are always looking for your views and ideas on how we can improve our service and really appreciate the time you take to try to help us achieve this 🙂
I have collated the information and transferred it onto 2 posters and linked them below.
For easier reading, I have also displayed them in the ECC corridor.
Thank you to everyone who came to our Christmas family event on Friday. We raised an amazing £604.50! All of this money will go towards resources and summer events for the children. A special thank you to everyone who donated raffle prizes and Catrine community action group who donated selection boxes for all the children.
‘Following unprecedented demand a further Childhood Flu Vaccination drop-in session will be available later today to accommodate children, who have missed their GP/ community clinic appointment or nursery session’
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 Tuesday 09/12/25-NWKAC, Western Rd, Kilmarnock-Drop in from 4-7pm
‘The final Childhood Vaccination drop-in session of this year is available later today to accommodate children, who have missed their GP/ community clinic appointment or nursery session’
 Monday 08/12/25-NWKAC, Western Rd, Kilmarnock-Drop in from 4-7pm
Please see below our calendar for children transitioning to Catrine Primary School in August 2026. Please also note that registration for ALL CHILDREN going to school in August 2026, regardless of which school, is from Monday 12th January – Friday 16th January.
Event have already taken place as noted in the calendar above and will continue to do so over the coming academic year.
More formal class visits with the teacher begin in March. These dates along with other events will be shared with parent/carers along with the January to June 2026 Dates for your Diary newsletter in the new year 🙂
If you have any further questions regarding transition please do not hesitate to speak to your child’s keyworker or Alana.
