Have a look at our sway to see some wonderful photographs from our literacy morning up at the school for our preschool children.  The buddies and the primary 1 children joined us in the gym hall to take part in a range of experiences.

This week our activity is to use digital technology to research information.

You can choose anything to research and find out information or facts about. It could be about an animal, a place in the world, a food, a superhero or anything you wish.

Encourage your child to select the apps, support them to try typing in words, allow them to select the web page, use the mouse and look at the pictures. You could also try using voice recognition, such as Siri, to tell the device what they want to find out.

Then create a picture of what you have researched. Adults or children can write or type any information the children can recall from searching the internet about their chosen subject.

You can use pen and paper or even the drawing pad or app on computers/iPads to try and create your picture/poster.

You can bring your pictures into the ECC or, if you have created them on the computer, then email them to easherrie.devlin@glow.sch.uk

Have fun.

Please see link below from yesterday’s visit to Catrine Primary with Rena.

Transition group B

Yesterday, group B went up to Catrine Primary School to visit their new teachers and their classroom. They all had so much fun getting to see the environment and playing with their old frie…

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In the next few weeks we will be starting to develop the children’s learning through exploring different types of jobs that are available in the world we live in.
Therefore, for this home link activity I thought it would be fun to get all our family members to think back to when they were young(er) and what they dreamt of being when they grew up.

So the task is to create a short video discussing what job you wanted to have.

Please encourage the children to use an iPad, phone or recording device to select the app to video your discussion, allow them to watch and help attach the video and send the email.
Discuss what roles the job might have, if the job uses specific tools, the uniform they might wear, the products they produce, where in the world they might work, who they might help, why you wanted to have this job and any other fun facts.
Please feel free to use props, pictures or even dress up to show us the jobs you wanted when you were young.

Please email any videos to easherrie.devlin@glow.sch.uk by Monday 6th of May.

Don’t worry – it will only be the kids and staff that will see the videos 😁

Today our P6 buddies came down to the ECC to help walk our Pre-school children up to Catrine Primary school to visit their P1 teacher and visit their new classroom.  They all had a brilliant time!

In February we were successful in receiving  our Early Years Award through Digital Schools.

And guess what – turns out, we are the first ECC in SCOTLAND to have achieved this!!!

On Tuesday 16th April we were visited by local counsellors, EAC’s Chief Executive Eddie Fraser and our Head of Education Linda Macaulay Griffiths to join us in celebrating the fabulous achievement.

Two of the articles can be found below.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/ayrshire/catrine-early-childhood-centre-becomes-32615074

https://www.cumnockchronicle.com/news/24261842.catrine-early-childhood-centre-digital-schools-award/

As you will be aware in February 2024 we received an unannounced visit from Care Inspectorate. This is usually aimed to be carried out every 5 years.

During the holidays our report was made public on the Care Inspectorate website.

We were delighted with the feedback we received and the fantastic narrative within our report.

The staff have worked extremely hard over the past few years, pushing for positive outcomes for all of our families in everything that we do, and we are so pleased that this report has acknowledged this throughout.

The full report is attached below for your convenience and we ask that you take some time to read it.

Thank you to everyone that completed the parent/carer questionnaire prior to the report being published and for your very kind comments and feedback.

I hope you are as proud of the report as we all are here at Catrine Early Childhood Centre 🙂

Catrine ECC Inspection Report Feb 2024

On Tuesday 25th March our Literacy Champion carried out a parent workshop within the ECC. Please follow the SWAY link below to see just some of the opportunities that were on offer.

Early Writing Parent/ Family Workshop

As Literacy champion, I hosted a parent/family workshop based on early writing skills within children. This had been highlighted within our improvement plan that families felt they could ga…

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