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.
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.
A massive Thank You to the Catrine Bowling Club who have so generously been collecting donations for our nursery and have donated a whopping £141!
We are so grateful for their support, and the continued support of our wonderful community.
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’
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.
Tuesday 2nd Dec – Due to staff shortages, lunches will be soup & a sandwich today. Thanks
We cannot believe we are now at the end of November!
It has been yet again another busy month for the children and staff within the ECC.
Click on each of the links below to find out a little about what has been on over the past month.
Sherrie was out and about in the community lots looking for BEARS 🙂
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Plenty of exploring the village this month – Abby has been introducing the children to navigation and directional movement whilst out and about also.
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Julie was reinforcing ways in which we could regulate our emotions in the Square. We have taken resources away from this room to enable it be a calmer, quieter, more nurturing space for children who find the main playroom a little busy or overstimulating at times
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A huge thank you to Cerys and Nighean’s mummy who came into the centre to support Leoni’s learning about the Police. The children thoroughly enjoyed it – as did the staff 🙂
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And finally in The Mill Lesleyanne and Corrie were creating wonderful stories through a range of media and developing their creativity using loose parts
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Children within the Voes – you can continue to find out about your room planning on your child’s monthly learning story and weekly photo dumps on Learning Journals 🙂
Have a great weekend, everyone, and we will see you all on Monday for the start of some festive fun 🙂
