Thanks to everyone who came along to our Scots Verse Celebration. Our judges, Mr Clipston and Alana from Catrine ECC, presented the prizes to our winners.
Primary 2 – Quinn
Primary 3 – Owen
Primary 4 – Brody
Primary 5 – Lucy
Primary 6 – Millie
Primary 7 – Lexie
The winner of the Libby Papworth Memorial Trophy is Lexie, with Brody as the runner-up.
Well done to everyone- we are very proud of you all!
As we close today at 2.30pm for our Christmas holidays, it’s time for some big Thank You messages!
Thank you … to our Cleaning and Janitorial Teams of Helen, Janette and Stuart, for making sure our classrooms and learning areas are always clean, warm, safe and ready for us to use. Special thanks to our jannie, Mr McCreath, for also being our Lollipop Man this term and getting our pupils safely to and from school.
Thank you … to our Catering Team of Shelagh, Helen, Pauline and Tracey for our delicious school lunches.
Thank you … to our Senior Clerical Assistant, Mrs Robertson, for getting us organised, stocked up and kept up to date. Our school office is a very busy place and she keeps us all running like clockwork!
Thank you… to our Classroom Assistants – Mrs Watt, Mrs Goudie and Miss Brown – for their professional and enthusiastic attitude towards the million different tasks they are asked to do on a weekly basis! Their support of our pupils is just wonderful.
Thank you … to our class teachers – Mrs Cook and Mrs Ferguson, Mrs McKenna and Miss Norman, Miss McLean and Mrs McCaig, Miss Murdoch and Miss Burleigh – for their creative, interesting and challenging teaching and learning approaches as they continually strive for the best for our pupils.
Thank you… to our Depute Headteacher, Mrs Schendel, for, amongst her very varied responsibilities, ensuring that every child receives the quality learning support that they deserve to help them achieve their potential.
Thank you … to all of the staff at Catrine ECC for sharing their wonderfully creative, inventive and fun learning and teaching approaches with us during their time at the PS. We will miss the ECC staff and children when they return to Newton Street, and we can’t wait to visit them in their gorgeously refurbished nursery. Special thanks to our Depute Manager, Alana, for her enthusiasm and innovation – and crazy costumes!
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy New Year. Looking forward to seeing our pupils return on Monday 9th January at 9.00am. Take care, Mrs Govans x
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!!
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
As well as asking our parents/carers for their views about our school, we also asked our pupils. Please click on the links below to view their very honest and relevant feedback and suggestions.
We’ll work together during our Assemblies to address their suggestions and see what changes/improvements we can make happen.
Update – thanks to everyone who donated to our Harvest Hush-Sponsored Silence during the October holidays. Our final total is now a brilliant £173.00!!
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
What could we improve on Oct 22
We will be celebrating Hallowe’en on Monday 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. 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!
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
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!
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 12th 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.
Well done to all of our Catrine PS pupils for a brilliant year
What a brilliant Sports Day we had this morning in the glorious sunshine!
Thanks to everyone who came along to support our wee superstars, and a special thanks to all family and friends who participated in our Parents Races.
Huge thanks to Robert MacKenzie for setting up Riverside Park for us, and to Catrine Amateurs Football Club for donating bottles of water for every pupil. Also to Karen, Ashley and Skye for being our line judges – not an easy job!
All of our pupils represented their classes and houses very well, and we’ll find out who our Sports Champions and Sports House Trophy winners are at Prizegiving on Thursday.
Thank you, as always, for your continued support. Mrs Govans
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:
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
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