In our Home Circles today we focused on Article 24 of the UNCRC which states that ‘every child has the right to the best possbile health’.
Our BIG questions today were …
What health services are available to you, both in school and as a family? Who helps us when we are feeling ill or in pain?
What can we do, as a school community and with our families, to keep ourselves healthy and fit?
Check out our awesome answers below 
Mrs Campbell and Blaine popped into the school and made a special visit to Primary 2. Mrs Campbell would like to thank our P2 pupils and families for their kind gifts, flowers and warm wishes for Blaine, who is now 10 weeks old and thriving.
Blaine thoroughly enjoyed visiting the class today (although he slept through most of it!) and Mrs Campbell promised that they’ll be back to visit the school soon.
Today in our Home Circles we focused on Article 15 of the UNCRC, which states that ‘children have the right to meet with friends and join groups’.
Our BIG questions were …
Check out their excellent answers below!
On Friday 16th May, two Catrine brothers – Alfie in P6 and Jack in P5 – travelled to the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow to deliver a presentation at the ASSIST Conference, on behalf of EAC.
Members of every Scottish local authority were present at the conference, which was focusing on how communities can tackle climate change and improve their local environment.
With Alfie being recognised as EAC’s Youth Climate Change Champion at an awards ceremony earlier this month, it was only right that he delivered EAC’s message (and he asked if his wee brother could help out too!)
We are so proud of how well both boys did – speaking confidently and clearly to a packed conference room and then answering questions. What a credit they are to our school, our community and their family. Well done!
https://newsroom.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/news/pupils-from-east-ayrshire-wow-at-assist-conference
Well done to Ethan in P2 and Lucie in P6 who were both awarded Second Place in their age categories at Saturday’s Catrine Show Art Competition. They each received a bag of goodies from the Cattle Show organisers.
Look out for our artwork in the chemist window and in the Cotton Trail – they love displaying our wonderful artwork!
Well done, Lucie (Ethan is off school ill 
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This week in our Home Circles we were learning about Article 17 of the UNCRC which states that ‘ children and young people should be able to access information, particularly from the media. They should be able to get information from many places, from their country and beyond’. This statement prompted a brilliant discussion about what social media is.
The BIG questions were –
What is social media and how do we use it in school and at home?
Why are there concerns about children using social media apps?
All of our pupils have been given their annual Report Card today and I hope you are as proud reading about your child and their progress as we were writing about them! EVERY child in our school has made progress with their own personal learning targets this year and it has been a pleasure to watch them flourish and grow.
The report cards summarise what our pupils have been working on throughout year and also highlights their future learning targets.
We are looking forward to discussing your child’s progress further at our Parents Night next Tuesday, 1st April.
Have a lovely weekend. Mrs Govans
Catrine PS Vision, Values and Aims – the three parts summarise our goals, priorities and standards for everything we do in Catrine PS.
In consultation with pupils, parents/carers, staff and the wider school community, we have reviewed and updated our Vision, Values and Aims over the past couple of years.
We are proud to highlight our new posters which are displayed all around our school building. In our weekly assemblies and monthly Home Circles, we regularly discuss our Vision, Values and Aims to ensure our pupils have a sound understanding of our high standards and expectations.
Our School Captains – Eli, Lucy, Lenore and Hannah – will be happy to have a blether with you about our updates at Parents Night next Tuesday, 1st April.
Click on the link below to see our new poster
The whole school participated in our Home Circles and we focused on our last CATRINE Value of Excellence.
We also focused on Article 28 of the UNCRC which states that ‘children and young people have the right to education on matter who they are: regardless of race, gender or disability’.
Our BIG questions were….
Read our very detailed and responsible answers below.
We are delighted to introduce the newest member of #Team Catrine…
Welcome to the world, Blaine Craig Campbell, born on 18.03.25 weighing in at a healthy 7lb 10oz. Both mum and baby are doing well. Our love and congratulations to Mr and Mrs Campbell x
In consultation with pupils and staff, we are trialling a period of having NO school bells ringing throughout the school day.
Normally, the school bell rings 8 times every day and it can be quite overwhelming for some pupils as it is very loud in certain areas of the school.
Staff in the playground will inform pupils that it is time to line up, and pupils in P1 to P4 should line up as usual. Pupils in P5-P7 are not lining up – their entrance door will be opened by staff and they should enter the school in a free flow manner.
We find that this is resulting in pupils entering the school in a more calm and settled manner, meaning that they are better prepared to start their learning.
We have trialled this system over the past three Fridays and it has gone very well so we’re now trialling it for a longer period of time. We will seek feedback from staff, pupils and parents to see if having NO school bells should become a permanent fixture.
Thanks, Mrs Govans
BIG excitement at Catrine PS today as our new play barrels were placed in our playground for use by all pupils.
Pupils from P3-P7 were involved in choosing the area of our playground where our new equipment was to be placed, and they enjoyed being the first pupils to have a go!
Thanks to Mrs Schendel and Mrs Robertson for sourcing these ‘barrels of fun!’
Our school football team recently took part in the Bill Shankly Football Festival at Townhead Park in Cumnock.
Although we didn’t win the tournament, Miss Burleigh said the team represented their school and community very well, showing great sportsmanship and teamwork.
We are very proud of them all!
From L to R: Harry, Harris, Darryl (C), Jamie, Brody, Alfie, Steven, Oscar and Finlay.
In our Home Circles on Tuesday we focused on Article 29 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Article 29 states that ‘a child or young person’s education should help their mind, body and talents be the best they can. It should also build their respect for other people and the world around them. ‘
The BIG questions our pupils answered were …
As always, our wonderful Home Circles came up with some insightful and thoughtful answers. Read them below …
We also focused on our CATRINE Value of Nurture.
We enjoyed a wonderful FUN 31 in the lovely sunny but chilly afternoon today, playing with our new outdoor play equipment. The new tyres, steering wheels, planks and rollers were well tested out by our pupils. A great way to kickstart the weekend!
East Ayrshire Recycling – visit to Catrine Primary School
On Wednesday we had 2 people from East Ayrshire Recycling come in to the school to talk about recycling and how we can improve on helping to recycle more.
Brian and Jordan were our 2 community waste officers who came in to the school. Jordan talked to primary 5, 6 and 7 about everything that we can do to help improve recycling:
We have the Romaquip Recycling Vehicle that collects our recycling and food waste:
We learned about food waste and what you can and can’t put in your caddy…
You can put in dry food, out of date stuff, eggshells, bones, tea bags and coffee grounds.
You can’t put in liquids, bags or pet waste.
We also learned about the bio capital in Cumbernauld, which is where all the food waste gets processed. Did you know that 60 to 200,000 kgs of food waste gets processed every week?
There is also a food waste sniff test. We learned what goes in which parts of the recycling trolleys that we use at home:
We can also sit out small electrical items (WEEE) which stands for Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment.
Fun facts… did you know that 1 x full food caddy can make 8 slices of toast and 2 x full food caddies can power a cinema for a whole movie! Also, 1 x recycled aluminium can can power your TV for 3 hours!
We learned a lot during this visit and we would like to thank Jordan and Brian for coming to our school.
Report written, and visit arranged, by Alfie in P6
Thank you to all family and friends who came along to celebrate our Scots Verse winners today. We’re sure they enjoyed both the poems and our singing of some weel-kent Scottish songs.
We are all very proud of our pupils and the efforts they have made to learn their Scots poems, and of how confidently they recited their poem, both today and yesterday at the the 12 O’Clock Gang Lunch Club.
Our winners and runners-up are
Our Whole School Overall Winner is Hannah in P7, delivering an excellent recitation of ‘Willie Wastle‘ by Robert Burns.
Thanks to our judges – Alana Speirs, Depute Manager at Catrine ECC and Mr Clipston, Minister at Catrine Parish Church.
In our Home Circles today we focused on Article 30 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Article 30 states that ‘every child should have the freedom to enjoy their culture, practise their religion and speak their language with other members of their minority.’
The BIG questions our pupils answered were …
As always, our excellent Home Circles came up with some insightful and thoughtful answers. Read them below …
We also focused on our CATRINE Value of Inclusion.
In our Home Circles this morning we were answering two BIG questions based on Article 14 of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) which states that ‘every child has the right of freedom of thought, belief and religion’.
Our BIG questions were
We were very impressed with their detailed answers. We also focused on our CATRINE Value of Respect.
Our new football team got their season off to a winning start by beating Auchinleck PS 9-1 today in the first round of the McWilliam Cup Small School draw.
We look forward to finding out who we are playing against in the quarter finals. We’ll keep you posted.
Back L to R – Daryl, Caleb, Curtis (C), Brody and Alfie
Front L to R – Harry, Stephen, Harris, Brooke and Finlay
