Just Jeans, Auchinleck have informed us that they are closing down.

They have Catrine Primary School polo shirts, sweetshirts and cardigans available to buy at half price.

They also have other clothing available for other schools.

Sale starts on Tuesday 5th November, 10am – 4pm. Cash or Card.

Pop along if you can and purchase items for next school year.

If you go down the street today, be sure of a big surprise…..BOO!!!

Thank you to Catrine Pharmacy for asking the pupils to decorate pumpkins for their Hallowe’en window display.

The Pharmacy will be holding Hallowe’en on Thursday,  pop down for your ‘Trick or Treat’

Primary 7 will be selling Poppies from Wednesday 30th October till Friday 8th November. Poppies cost £1.00 each.

Please don’t send in cash, payment can be made via Parentpay.

All monies raised will be forwarded to “The Scottish Poppy Appeal”.

Thank you for your continued support.

Well done to our Ruby Reward winners this week for being excellent pupils in our dinner hall

We will be celebrating Hallowe’en on Thursday 31st October at the school.

Pupils can either come to school in a Hallowe’en costume or dressed in casual clothes like a Dress Down Day.

Please ensure that their Hallowe’en costume is suitable for playing outside during interval and lunch, and that they can take it on and off by themselves when using the toilet.

If you wish your child to go home at lunchtime to change, please inform the school of this arrangement.

Please note – no huge accessories (swords etc) or scary masks.

Our pupils will be taking part in Hallowe’en activities throughout the day and will be having a party in their class in the afternoon.

We’re looking forward to a spooky and fun-filled day!

Up coming dates for your diary for the whole of Term 2.

These dates can also be found in the School App in the calendar section.

In our Home Circles this week we focused on World Mental Health Day. We discussed how important it is to look after our mental health, as well as our physical and emotional health.

Our BIG questions were

• why is it important that we look after our Mental Health?
• what can we do to improve both our own Mental Health, and that of our friends and family?

Check out our brilliant answer below …

SCOTTISH WOMAN’S NATIONAL TEAM

SCOTLAND V HUNGARY

Scotland woman take on Hungary at Easter Road Stadium on 29^th October.

As a valued member of the Rose Reilly Football Centre we would like to offer you FREE adult or child tickets

to see Scotland Woman take on Hungary.

If you would like FREE tickets please send your email contact to the Craig, and tickets will be emailed direct to you.

Craig Potter – Craig.Potter@scottishfa.co.uk

A massive well done to Poppy, who took part in a 3 day dance competition at Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow.

Competing in various dances to go through to the final on the Sunday, for the under 12 freestyle dancing.

And she WON.

Congratulations Poppy

Thank you to everyone that entered into our P7 Dress Down Day Fundraiser, you have raised an amazing £107.00.

These funds go towards buying the P7 Leavers Hoodies.

Well done to the following pupils that have been successful in winning a chocolate bundle;

Fifer P1

Harris P2

Caleb D P7

Emelia P7

Well done to our Ruby Reward winners this week for being excellent pupils in our dinner hall.

Thanks to Jack Gillies for completing the Kilt Walk back in May on behalf of the Catrine Games Hall Trust and raising over £3000 for use by the school, which included a large donation from Alan Thomas of Shire Housing.

We have a brand new defibrillator installed at our school kitchen door for use by the community and we have plans for St John’s Ambulance staff to come to the school and train staff, pupils and community members in the safe use of the defibrillator.

The remainder of the money that Jack raised – the wonderful sum of £2272 – will be used to purchase resources to support the teaching of the wider curriculum in our school, such as cooking and baking equipment, specialist art equipment for screen printing and outdoor learning resources.

Thanks also to Mrs Robertson in our office for organising to have the defibrillator installed, with Magnus Electrical Services installing it free of charge as part of their community payback scheme.

Please note that the Defibrillator is only accessible during Term Time.

October School Holiday Week

We close on Friday 11th at 3.00pm and reopen on Tuesday 22nd at 9.00am.

Have a lovely October holiday.

Please click on the link below for information on help at Christmas.

https://www.nightbeforechristmas.co.uk/

If your child qualifies please complete the form below.

The form closes on Thursday 10th October at 3.00pm

The Chocolate Bundles are ready.

Have you entered our P7 Fundraiser Dress Down Day prize draw?

Pay £1 via Parentpay for a chance to win a bundle of chocolate.

Good Luck

Thank you to all parents/carers who took the time to leave a response to our BIG Question at last week’s Parent Night.

Click on the link below to see the collated answers to our BIG Question – how does your child feed back to you about their learning and progress in school?

BIG Question – feedback 02.10.24

FREE October holiday event at Barony Sports Village, Robert Burns Academy, Cumnock

Tuesday 15th October, 10.30am – 1.00pm

 On the back of the Hoodie, the 25 will be filled with your child’s first name.

The list of names will be sent away on Friday 11th to allow the design to be completed.

Please complete the form to give consent. Thank you

We will be ordering the P7 Leavers Hoodies by the end of January

P7 Leavers Hoodies

Our Harvest Service will take place on Wednesday 9th October at 9.15am.

Everyone welcome.

This year we are asking for all pupils to bring along one tin/packet of food, not perishable items.

This collection of food will be donated to the Catrine Over 50’s Club,

who will distribute the food to elderly people of Catrine.