Friday Fun Day

Primary 7 is organising a Fun Day on Friday 25 February to raise funds for their leaver hoodies. Each House group will organise 4 fun activities and deliver these to every class throughout the day. A contribution of £1.00 can be paid through ParentPay.

Please note that all children can come to school on Friday dressed in casual clothes.

Thank you.

by Declan and Sonny

Important Update

School changes from Wednesday 16th February

We are delighted that due to updated Scottish Government Guidelines we are able to make the following changes from Wednesday 16th February:

  • Start and finish times: we no longer need to have staggered start and finish times so all pupils from Primary 1 – Primary 7 will start at 9.00 a.m. and finish at 3.00 p.m. This means classes will always try to leave in the same order starting from Primary 1, working up to Primary 6/7. With all classes leaving at 3.00 p.m. we ask that all parents continue to wait outside school gates and step forward when their child’s class is being dismissed.
  • School Streets: We continue to be a proud “School Streets” school and would remind parents/carers of the parking limitations and restricted times around the school and ECC to ensure the safety of all of our children.
  • Playgrounds: Our pupils no longer need to stay in stage bubbles so we are looking forward to them playing together across all stages in all areas of the playground.
  • Indoor P.E.: All classes will start weekly indoor P.E. sessions so we would ask that you send in a P.E. kit for your child (e.g., shorts, trainers in a kit bag that can be left in school). Please check your child’s class blog for their P.E. days.
  • School Lunches: All pupils in Primary 1 – Primary 7 will now eat their school lunch in our dinner hall. Primary 1 and Primary 2 packed lunches will also be in the dinner hall with Primary 3 – Primary 7 pupils continuing to eat their packed lunch in their class.

*Please continue to observe social distancing and guidelines when dropping off/picking up your child. The continued wearing of masks would be appreciated.

To help us all get used to the above changes we kindly ask that all parents/carers avoid crowing around the school gates.

Active Schools – Multi Sports

‘FREE multi sports at Catrine Games Hall with Ayrshire College and Active Schools for P4-7 stage pupils. Further details on the poster. Registration is required via the QR code or  https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/SportsCatrineGH/

If the survey is closed the places are full.’

Thanks

Barry

Scottish Government Free Bus Travel Scheme

Free bus travel is available to all pupils aged 5 and over from 31 January 2022 and can be accessed via the National Entitlement Card.  We have been working with Customer Services as parents have a choice of applying for a new card via the school system or they can go directly to https://getyournec.scot/nec/.  If they go through the NEC website,  parents will require to validate both their identity and that of their child. 

The other option is for them to apply for a National Entitlement Card  / Kidz Kard via the school.  This option assumes that both the parent’s and child’s identity has been validated and simplifies the process the parents. Please go to:

NEC Application Form 1 for pupils aged 5 to 10 years old

NEC Application Form 2 for pupils aged 11 to 15 years old

Due to the current COVID mitigations we will only accept application forms from pupils who require to undertake essential travel at this time, but we will leave the forms open on school website/app to allow parents to apply at a time that is suitable for them.  All forms will be processed when the mitigations are eased and we are able to travel freely.