November 2016 – Catrine Primary and Early Childhood Centre

P1 Bookbug Bags

P1 were very excited to receive their free Bookbug bag from the Scottish Book Trust. The children enjoyed reading their books with their parents.

Festive Outing – Odeon Cinema, Kilmarnock

The whole school will be visiting the Odeon Cinema in Kilmarnock on Thursday 8 December to view “Finding Dory” – 10.00 a.m. performance. The cost of the film will be paid from school fund. Parents will be notified as soon as possible the cost of the transport.

Judo

We enjoyed learning all about Judo. Here is some pictures of P2/3 showing off what we have learned.

Pudsey Bear

We got to meet Pudsey Bear and helped to raise a lot of money for Children in Need. We appreciated the P7 children sharing their learning and visiting us to present their PowerPoint, we learned lots of new things about Childen in Need. Thank you!

Science

We enjoyed our visit from the Science Group and had fun learning all about oxygen and how it makes our muscles work. Here are some pictures from the activities – we had great fun!

Halloween

Boo! Primary 2/3 enjoyed their spooky Halloween Party and were all very well dressed for the occasion. Thank you for all your help getting them ready for a spooky afternoon!

Active Literacy

Primary 2/3 would like to share our learning. We have been engaging with active literacy to learn our spelling words and to practice our sounds. We use play-do and lego to build our words and help us with letter formation, we also like to play SPLAT! I hope you like our pictures, we will update you with more recent literacy pictures soon.

Olympic gold medallist comes to Catrine

Yesterday in Catrine an Olympic gold medallist came to give a lesson on judo for the whole school. We learned how to pin someone down and how to wrestle. She showed us her medal.

Angie

Auchinleck transition visit

Today we visited Catrine Primary School, a school we previously attended. We spoke to the Primary 7’s about their transition from Primary to Secondary and all of the things available for them when they come to Academy. We, ourselves, had a great day coming back to our old primary school and getting to speak to the pupils in P7 who are in the same position as we were 6 years ago. The pupils themselves were really respectful and this made our visit all the better.

Thank you for having us,

Chantelle Campbell, Hollie Govans and Jenna Gardiner

Royal Conservatoire dancers teach P5

Ballet dancers came to Catrine today to see our P5 children. They were looking to select children for a dance project.

School Show – ticket sale

Tickets for the school show will be available for sale from Friday 25 November from 9.30 a.m. from the school office.

Primary 2/3 invite to parents

Primary 2/3 would like to invite their parents in on Wednesday 30th November from 2.00 p.m. – 3.00 p.m. to help them “sew”. Please come along and help. Thank you.

VCOP

As a whole school we are working to improve writing. Teachers have introduced ‘VCOP’. Having met with parents who were unsure what ‘Big Writing’ and ‘VCOP’ is we thought this video would give an introduction. We plan to have parent workshops but feel free to drop into school. We will shortly be introducing talking homework.

Class Dojo points

Each class in Catrine Primary have been using Class Dojo points. This video is an introduction for pupils but will give parents an insight to how it works. Last year some parents used this app to find out how their child was getting on in school. Primary 1 would like to be the first class to share information with parents.

We do need t0 meet with parents and ensure we all agree on a consistent approach to promote positive behaviour. We would like to get pupil and parental feedback on how we use this technology. As a school we will consult with you through the Parent Council.

Helping Hands

Can you help?

We are looking for families and the community of Catrine to give a helping hand. Last week our chair of the Parent Council and Pupil Council came up with the idea that many people prefer the structure of practical tasks when coming into school. Some ideas include…