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Catrine PS Parent Council AGM
Catrine Primary School Parent Council AGM will take place on Tuesday 8 September at 7.00 p.m. via “Zoom Meeting”. All parents/carers are invited. If you would like to take part, please email Catrine Parent Council on: Catrineparents@gmail.com for further details.
COVID-19 information
Please find information below from the Scottish Government regarding COMMON COLD AND COVID-19 SYMPTOMS :
Coronavirus – Jason Leitch Letter on testing and common colds – 31 August 2020
Government Update – COVID-19
Please click on the link for update/information.
https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-test-and-protect/pages/summary
Welcome back to Term 1 August 2020
Your child will be given a copy of their Annual Data Check on their return to school. Please ensure this is completed and returned to school as quickly as possible.
To prevent paper returns, please read the information below and complete the online return:
Parental Letter – Pupil registration in schools- attendance
Thank you.
School lunches
Due to the changes in our school lunch service at the moment, with lunches being eaten in the classrooms, it is really important that parents/carers order their child’s lunch in advance through our ParentPay lunch ordering service. We had six children with no lunch ordered today and as our lunches are delivered from Auchinleck Academy we have no facility to organise additional lunches. We will always ensure that every child receives a lunch, but it’s so much easier if all lunches are ordered in advance.
In the past, we were sometimes able to add lunches if parents/carers phoned the school – we now can’t do this so it’s even more important that your child’s school lunch is ordered in advance. Please phone the school if you have any issues with ordering lunches.
Due to pupils in our school suffering from sever nut allergies, please help us by ensuring all food brought into the school is “nut free”. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Arrangements for week beginning Monday 24th August 2020
We’ve survived our first week back – and what a great week we’ve had being back together.
Special thanks to Mrs Cook and Primary 3 for their wonderful efforts today in tidying up our playgrounds – they had so much fun pulling weeds and cutting hedges! Thanks to Mrs Goudie and Mrs Watt for cleaning up after our very enthusiastic helpers!
Throughout this week we’ve tried various timetables and made some changes to our day-to-day running to ensure our school continues to be a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment for our pupils, staff and parents/carers.
- We are continuing with our staggered start and finish times so P1/2, P3 and P5/6 will start at 9.00am/finish at 3.00pm with P2, P4/5 and P6/7 starting at 9.10am/finish 3.10pm
- We appreciate when children arrive in our school playground just before their bell rings as this avoids any confusion and mixing of classes/stages
- We are having one interval and one lunchtime now – lunches will continue to be eaten in classes and children then go out to their designated playground area. This system is working well and our pupils are being so creative with their playground equipment and games
- We have established ‘hand washing stations’ so pupils in P3, P4/5, P5/6 and P6/7 are washing their hands outside before returning to class after interval and lunch
- We have sanitisers situated throughout the school and our pupils are using them confidently and regularly
- Pupils are encouraged to bring a bottle of water with them to drink from throughout the day in class, as well as a snack/drink for interval/lunch
- Pupils don’t need to bring a bag to school – all necessary resources will be provided by the school
- We are delighted to welcome Miss Harrigan, a COVID Recovery teacher employed by EAC, to our school every Thursday and Friday throughout this term. She will be working alongside our teaching staff to assess learning and set individual targets for pupils as we continue to ease back into our learning and teaching programmes.
Have a lovely weekend – see you all on Monday.
Mrs Govans
Best Start Grant
The Best Start Grant School Age Payment is a £250.00 payment made around the time a child normally starts Primary 1. Please click on the PDF to view full details:
NHS returns
Please ensure all immunisation forms are returned to the school as soon as possible.
If you wish any further information, please do not hesitate to contact the school.
Thank you.
Promotional Meal Deal
East Ayrshire Council are running a promotional event for Half Price Schools Meals from Monday 17-08-20 to Friday 28-08-20. During this period pupils will be charged £1.08 for their lunch (please note that this is only on the reduced lunch menus that we are serving at the moment).
If you have any difficulty accessing the lunch menu on ParentPay, please contact the school office.
Thank you.
Vibrant Communities
We want to hear from our children and young people between the ages of 8 – 26 years!
In partnership with our Children and Young People’s Cabinet, we have launched our brand new campaign, 5000 Voices, where we are seeking the views and opinions of 5000 children and young people throughout East Ayrshire about what matters to them most.
We will be using this information to help shape our future provision and to improve opportunities for children and young people throughout East Ayrshire.
You can watch the video that we created with our young people here: https://www.facebook.com/eavibrantcommunities/videos/868135550639156/
You will find the survey here: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/5000voices. Please share this far and wide and encourage our children and young people to take part! There is a chance to win a £50 voucher for a randomly selected young person who has completed the survey.
If you would like further information regarding 5000 Voices, please email: vibrantcommunites@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
Arrangement for week beginning Monday 17th August
- We are keeping our staggered start and finish times for the time being, so P1/2, P3 and P5/6 will start at 9.00am and finish at 3.00pm (please note ALL Primary 1 pupils will start at 9.00am from 17.08.20) and P2, P4/5 and P6/7 starting at 9.10am and finishing at 3.10pm.
- Pupils don’t need to bring in their school bags – all resources are being provided in class
- Pupils should arrive at school in time for their bell ringing – to comply with social distancing guidelines we can’t have children in our playground too early in the morning unsupervised
- EAC would like to thank all parent/carers who have tried their best to comply with national guidelines at the school gates – it is the responsibility of parents/carers to move away from the school gates once they have dropped off/collected their child(ren) to avoid large groups forming unnecessarily to keep everyone safe and healthy
- We already have brand new items of school uniform in our Lost Property!! PLEASE ensure all of your child’s uniform items are labelled
- In line with national guidelines, to avoid multiple staff visits to classrooms, we are asking parents/carers not to ask us to pass on a message to their child during the school day UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.
Thank you for your cooperation during our ‘soft start’ week, and well done to the pupils of Catrine PS who have started this new term with confidence, positivity and enthusiasm. Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Govans
Staying safe at school pupil handbook
Please click on the link below for further information:
School Transport Application Form
For Attention of Primary 7 Parents/Carers
East Ayrshire Council School Transport application form has now gone live. Please click on the link below to apply:
Active Schools – update
Please click on the links below to see what Active School’s has been up to:
EAC update
Dear Parent/Carer,
We acknowledge the statement by the Deputy First Minister yesterday afternoon with regard to the aspiration of a full-time return of pupils to school.
The DFM has been clear that this will be predicated on further data and scientific advice, and that further guidance will be issued nationally that will then be enacted at local authority level.
Our priority in our planning for schools return has always been safety and it will be important to be assured on how a full return will achieved in a way that recognises this. The central education team at East Ayrshire will await the guidance and will enact this accordingly in consultation with all interested parties as soon as it is received.
Individual schools will not be in a position to publish adapted plans until this further information becomes available.
Communications to parents and carers will continue over the Summer break to ensure that they are kept fully informed and updated on plans to return. As always, we look forward to welcoming our young people back to school is a safe and measured manner.
Kindest regards
Linda McAulay-Griffiths
Head of Education
P7 Contact Information for The Robert Burns Academy
By now you will hopefully have received a letter from The Robert Burns Academy with details of your child’s class, Depute Head and Guidance Teacher.
We are aware of a small admin error with the contact details provided on this letter. If you have any enquires please use our new email address which is Robert.BurnsAcad@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
The Cumnock Academy and Auchinleck Academy email inboxes are still being monitored over the summer for anyone who has already made contact this way.
Our new school blog is now live and has been updated with videos for our new S1 from each department. It can be found at:
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ea/therobertburnsacademy/
We would encourage you to monitor our school blog for any further updates including transport arrangements. Our S1s will all be joining us at Cumnock Academy on Wednesday 12th August, we will direct them to their allocated classrooms as they arrive at school and there will be plenty of staff on hand to assist with this. On their first day we will have a special programme of lessons prepared to answer any question they have about the arrangements in the school.
Outline for August 2020 return
Please click on the link below to see the detailed outline for the return of pupils to Catrine Primary School in August 2020.
Thank you.
Letter from Head of Barony Campus
Attention: Primary 7 Parents/Carers/Pupils
Please click on the link below to view current letter from Peter Gilchrist, Head of Barony Campus
Clothing Grants and Free School Meals
To apply for Clothing Grants and Free School Meals, please follow the link below:
Thank you.
