Please click on the link below for details about buying raffle tickets, tickets for our Christmas Show on 14th and 15th December, class party dates, House Reward party date and our Christmas Service …

A busy couple of weeks ahead!!

December dates for your diary

All pupils have been learning some Christmas songs to sing at the Make Catrine Sparkle event on Sunday 4th December.

After the main lantern parade, all Catrine PS pupils, friends and family are invited to meet in the Square at 6.15pm to have a Community Christmas Singalong – guaranteed to get you feeling festive!

We hope you can join us.

We are very pleased to introduce our new permanent Senior Clerical Assistant at Catrine PS – Mrs Deborah Robertson.   

Lots of our pupils and families already know Mrs Robertson as she has worked in our ECC office for the last five years, and we’re delighted that she’s now going to be part of our Catrine PS Team.

Literacy Open Morning  – Wednesday 16th November – 9.00-10.25am

As part of Book Week Scotland please come along to our Literacy Open Morning to see our wonderful Literacy learning in action.  You can visit the classes, investigate the resources and help your child to complete their Literacy work.  All welcome.

Reminders …

Monday 14th November from 3.00-4.00pm – Week 2 of our afterschool Sports Club for P3 and P4 pupils with Miss Norman

Tuesday 15th November from 3.00-4.00pm – Week 3 of our afterschool Homework Club for all stages with Mrs Schendel and Miss McLean

Wednesday 16th November from 9.00-10.25am – Literacy Open Morning

Friday 18th February – all day – ‘Children in Need’ Day.  Pupils can come to school wearing spots/Pudsey gear/casual clothes.  The school/ECC is not collecting money for ‘Children in Need’ – the link for making donations directly is on a previous GLOW post.

We’re looking forward to a great week of learning and fun!

Mrs Govans

At our recent Parents Night on October 12th, our House Captains did a wonderful job of asking parents/carers to complete a short survey of two questions –

What are we doing well in Catrine PS?

What can we improve in Catrine PS?

Thank you to everyone who contributed.  I’ve compiled all of the responses and they’re proudly displayed in the school as we’re chuffed to bits with the positive feedback we received.

Please click on the links below to view the responses.  Mrs Govans

Doing well Oct 22

What could we improve on Oct 22

Wow! Term 1 has simply flown in!

Thank you … to all family and friends who joined us at our Harvest Service.  It was lovely to show off our singing and welcome you back into the school again. 

Thank you … to everyone who kindly donated to our Harvest Hush-In.  The fantastic total of £124.50 was raised, which will go towards transport costs for our school Christmas trip – details to follow next term. 

Thank you … to everyone who attended our Parents Night appointments.  We had a turnout of 98% – our highest turnout EVER!  It was wonderful to chat with parents/carers and great to see families admiring the artwork in our corridors and classes.

Reminder … the school and ECC close today at 3.00pm for the October holidays.   We hope everyone has a lovely break and we look forward to welcoming our pupils back on Tuesday 25th October at 9.00am.

Take care.   Mrs Govans 

• Parent Council AGM  – Tuesday 11th October at 7.00pm via Zoom.  Please email catrineparents@gmail.com for the meeting link.
• Harvest Service – Wednesday 12th October at 9.15am in the school.  All welcome.
• Harvest Hush-In – Wednesday 12th October PM – please log onto Parentpay to see how to donate towards this fundraising event
• Parents Night – Wednesday 12th October.  Thanks to everyone who has already made an appointment to meet their child’s teacher to discuss their learning and targets.  Appointments are still available – phone the school on 01290 551436 to book a time.

A busy few days ahead!   Thank you.  Mrs Govans 

Please remember to check your child’s class blog to see what they’ve been learning in their class.  

This has been a very busy week in Catrine PS – from strings tuition to art exhibitions and from caterpillars to Viking jewellery!

Each class has their own separate class blog which is full of great photos and details about what our pupils have been up to.  The links to the blogs are included in the Menu section of our home GLOW page.

Take a look! 

Please click on the link below to see an invitation to Catrine PS Parent Council’s AGM on Tuesday 11th October at 7pm via Zoom.

New members would be more than welcome!

AGM 11.10.22

We are delighted that we are able to welcome our parents/carers back into school to meet with their child’s teachers at our Parents Nights next week, on Wednesday 12^th October.

Appointments are available from 3.20pm, with each appointment lasting for 10 minutes.

This is a great opportunity to meet your child’s teacher, have a wee look through their jotters and class work, ask any questions you may have about their progress and find out their learning targets for next term.

Please phone the school for an appointment on 01290 551436 and we look forward to opening our doors to you for our first in-school Parents Night since October 2019!

When we celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in June this year, we wrote letters in our classes and posted them off to Buckingham Palace.  We have received this lovely letter from Balmoral Castle, thanking the pupils of Catrine PS for their letters and best wishes.

Every pupil is also coming home with a free memorial book to commemorate the Platinum Jubilee.  Happy reading!

We’ve enjoyed a wonderful first day of Term 1 at Catrine PS.  Our Primary 2 to Primary 7 pupils settled quickly into their new classes.  A warm welcome to Miss Norman, our P3/4 teacher.

We all enjoyed being together again in the dinnerhall at lunch time and it was a pleasure to see our pupils all looking so smart in their uniforms (please remember to label your child’s jumpers and jackets as we have items in the Lost Property Box already!)

As for our new Primary 1 pupils – they were all wee superstars! They have worked their socks off today for Mrs Cook and Mrs Ferguson – well done to them all.  P1 pupils in from 9.30am to 2.30pm on Friday, then from 9.00-3.00pm from Monday 22nd August.

At the end of the school day can parents/carers of Primary 1 and Primary 2 pupils step forward to the gate to collect their child as we don’t like letting pupils cross the road.  Thanks for your support with this.

Looking forward to a busy, creative and enjoyable first term.

Mrs Govans

Our Whiteflat pupils enjoyed a brilliant House Reward Party at the Games Hall this afternoon.  Accompanied by Mrs Ferguson, Mrs Watt, Mrs Goudie and Miss Brown our pupils had fun on the bouncy castle, inflatable slide, earth ball, football station and arts and craft activities.

Whiteflat achieved the most house points this session due to their lovely manners, hard working attitudes, helpfulness and kindness and the best lines.  Well done to Captain Sophie for leading such a great team!

Special thanks to the Games Hall Crew – Tommy, Karen and Leeanne – for making our winners party such a success!

It was lovely welcoming our P7 family and friends to our Prizegiving this morning, and great to be able to celebrate another successful year at Catrine PS.

Please click on the links below to see the lists of Class Prize Winners and Individual Prize Winners.

Ayrbank won the Sports Trophy and Whiteflat were the Winning House, so all Whiteflat pupils will be invited to a House Reward Party on the afternoon of Monday 27th June at the Games Hall – details to follow.

Individual awards 2022

Class prizewinners 2022

Well done to all of our Catrine PS pupils for a brilliant year

F.A.O P7 Parents/carers from The Robert Burns Academy

We are looking forward to seeing the new S1s next week and hope they are excited about their visit! 

During the induction days teaching staff and senior pupils will be on hand to ensure that they are supervised and supported at all times.

They will need to bring with them next week: 

• A schoolbag and stationery 
• A note of their new PLP and practical class (eg. 1A1- 1P3) 
• Their username and password for logging on to the computers, this is the same one used in the primary school 
• A pair of trainers for P.E.  
• A snack for interval 
• A free school lunch will be available, although you may wish to bring your own packed lunch.

  Our school cafeteria has kindly agreed to provide a free school meal for any pupil who would like to sample what’s on offer, although you may wish to bring your own packed lunch. Please note that our new S1 will have a designated area to eat lunch as a year group and will not be allowed to leave this area at interval or lunch during their two day visit.

  Kind regards

  P McGurn
  Depute Head Teacher
  The Robert Burns Academy 

Due to the horrible weather, today’s Sports Day is CANCELLED.
We’re now having our school Sports Day on Monday 20th June at 10.30am at Riverside Park.  Fingers crossed for a dry day!!
Thanks, Mrs Govans

We are still planning to go ahead with our Sports Day tomorrow at 10.30am at Riverside Park.  However, the weather forecast is looking a bit dodgy so a final decision will be made TOMORROW AT 9.00AM.  We will notify you via GLOW and APP if we are going for it or having to cancel our Sports Day due to wet weather.

If we have to cancel our Sports Day tomorrow, our reserve day is Monday 20th June at 10.30am at Riverside Park.

Fingers crossed for a dry day – we’re all organised but can’t control the weather!