Our Easter Egg decoration competition has seen some ‘egg-cellent ‘ entries this year.
Well done to all our pupils that took part and made this competition very difficult to judge.
A massive well done to our year group winners;
P1 – Sheep – Savanah
P2 – Gruffalo – Matthew
P3 – Little Chick – Miley
P4 – Ninja Turtle – Oscar
P5 – Turtle Club – Maddisen
P6 – Audrey 2 – Bette
P7 – Eminegg – Georgia
Well done to this week’s winners for being excellent pupils in our dinner hall.
Letter of thanks to Dino and Maureen, from all the pupils, staff and parents of Catrine Primary School, for your constant support of our school and pupils.
Our Parents Night last night was a brilliant way to round off Term 3. We had an amazing turnout of 98%!! It’s always great to be able to update you on how your child is progressing in school and also to have a chance for a wee blether.
Thank you all for coming along to look through your child’s work and have a catch-up with their teacher.
Remember we close at 2.30pm today, and I wish you all a safe, happy and healthy Easter holiday. Take care. Mrs Govans 🙂
Just a reminder that Thursday 28th is a dress down day.
Please do not wear football colours or cropped tops.
Thank you to the parents/carers that came along to our Easter service this morning, we hope you enjoyed the singing and stories as much as we did.
A massive well done to all our speakers and to Rev Clipston for coming along and joining us.
Remember we close at 2.30pm on Thursday 28th March for our Easter Holidays, and reopen on Monday 15th April.
Have a lovely Easter break
Well done to Joey P7 & Callum P3 who each won a £15.00 Cotton Trail Voucher in our recent P7 Hoodie Fundraiser.
£87.00 was raised towards the Hoodies and an end of term treat for our P7s.
Thank you to everyone that bought an entry. Your continued support is appreciated.
The vouchers were kindly donated by Cameron Tablet of Failford.
We are so proud of Lucy, Brody and Emily who represented Catrine Primary School at the first Barony Burns Festival at Robert Burns Academy. Although we weren’t successful this time all three performed beautifully in front of the judges.
Emily said she loved the morning because she liked when she was saying her poem.
Brody thought he had done well and he enjoyed the shows and entertainment that was put on. He also said it was nice to see some friends from other schools.
Lucy loved that she got the opportunity to take part in the Scot’s Verse competition at the Robert Burns Academy.
Active Schools Easter Sport & Games is coming to Catrine. Details are on the poster.
Sign up is required via the link or QR code for the appropriate age group:
P1 – P7: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Easter24Cat/
What’s happening at Catrine PS this week:
Our Easter Service is on Wednesday 27th at 9.15am – All family and friends welcome
Children and Young People’s Cabinet are organising a Colour Run for Children and Young People.
Wednesday 10th April
Howard Park, Kilmarnock
The event will start at 3pm
There will be free BBQ and popcorn as well as live entertainment from local young artists throughout.
Old clothes are advised!
We encourage you to sign up so we have an idea of numbers attending but you can also just show up on the day too!
We have now completed our P5 swimming block at Visions.
Everyone that attended has had a fantastic time either learning to swim or improve on their swimming techniques, thanks to the staff at Visions.
On top of the life skill of learning to swim, our P5s have also had the experience & life skill of travelling on the Stagecoach Bus each week, using their bus pass.
Thank you to the parents ensuring that their child had their swimming costume, towel and bus pass each week.
Well done P5, you are all swimming superstars.
Thank you again to the parent council and to DJ Billy for yet another amazing disco last night.
Well done to this week’s winners for being excellent pupils in our dinner hall.
EAC are currently holding free training and support for people interested in a career in childminding.
The Inclusion Committee held their last meeting on Wednesday afternoon. We watched a PowerPoint about ‘Everyone is special, everyone is different’ and we talked about our similarities and our differences, and the fact that everyone is allowed to like what they want.
We then split into pairs and completed a Venn Diagram about activities, having a conversation with our partner about things they like doing, things that we both like doing and things that none of us like doing! We had to cut out and stick in lots of activities and we had great blethers while completing this task.
The Inclusion Committee has made posters for around the school to remind everyone that we are all important and that we all matter.
Check out our photos – Mrs Watt and I even sneaked in a cheeky wee selfie! Mrs Govans 🙂
The children from P1 and P6 had a wonderful afternoon down at the ECC for our Teddy Bear’s Picnic. The P6 children were such fantastic role models, playing with and looking after their buddies. They even took a book with them to enjoy when they were eating their delicious teddy shaped biscuits. The P1 children had great fun seeing the ECC ladies and telling them all about the big school. We would like to say a HUGE thank you to Shelagh and the kitchen staff for making the delicious biscuits. They went down an absolute treat!
The Reading Leadership Committee met for our final time yesterday. We spent a lot of time tidying the library as we have started letting classes check out books to take home. So far Primaries 2/3, 3/4, 5/6 and 6/7 have had the opportunity to borrow a book and P1 and P4/5 will get their chance next week. The committee have been amazing at ensuring that the library is kept tidy and the books are all labelled and put in the correct areas. We also spent some time making book marks.
A huge well done to all of the members in our STEM committee for successfully promoting STEM learning across the school.
Thanks to our members, all classes have participated in STEM lessons created by the Maidsafe Foundation.
Additionally, all pupils from P2/3 upwards have entered the ‘If you were an engineer’ Leaders Award. This gave pupils the chance to think like engineers, coming up with a problem and creating a new invention for the solution. The pupils also wrote letters to explain why their invention should be built as a prototype by real engineers!
In our last committee meeting, the pupils engaged in a design challenge. We looked at the strength of eggs and what birds use to protect them. The pupils then used some of those ideas to build an egg protector which we then put to the test.
Take a look at our results!
Active Schools Easter Sport & Games is coming to Catrine. Details are on the poster. Sign up is required via the link or QR code for the appropriate age group:
