What a busy first day we have had! It’s been a beautiful but chilly day but that hasn’t stopped us enjoying the outdoors. Team games, exploring Culzean, making up our beds, trying new food, playing in the park then back to the park for hide and seek under the stars ✨.
What a fantastic night we had last night at our Christmas Fayre. Thank you to everyone who came along and played our games, bought our crafts and enjoyed a cuppa with friends. Look out for our grand total on a blog post next week.
For a night to be as successful as this it takes a lot of team work and kind donations. We would like to say thank you to :
Prize Winners
Thanks again everyone and have a very Merry Christmas
Hi a wee reminder that our school street is open on Saturdays and Sundays all day.
On Monday to Friday it is not open in these times 8:45am to 9:30am and 2:30pm to 3:20pm.
Please keep your cars out of our school street and keep our pupils safe!
By Skye and Ellie 😀
A warm welcome to Miss Caughie who will be our P3/4 teacher next session.
Miss Caughie was in school yesterday to meet the pupils who will be in her class and she is very much looking forward to joining Catrine Primary School in August.
Here is a video of Miss Caughie introducing herself.
Well done to everyone who took part in walk to school week!
Walk to School Week will take place from Monday 15th May til Friday 19th May.
Pupils are encouraged to walk to school every day and the Junior Road Safety Officers have decided the themes for each day.
Monday – odd sock day
Tuesday – walk with a teddy
Wednesday – back to front day
Thursday – messy hair day
Friday – dress down day
Our JRSOs would like to remind everyone that Catrine Primary is a Street School and cars are restricted on the roads around the school at dropping off and collection times. Thank you for helping us to keep our pupils safe as they walk to school.
Caleb and Connor in P6
Our second group of nursery children came a visit to the school today.
Again, Primary 6 buddies were great role models as they safely walked their buddies from the ECC to the school.
Our P6 buddies were very responsible yesterday in making sure our first group of ECC children made it safely to the school for their first visit into their new P1 class.
We were very proud of the way they spoke to their buddies and reminded them of how to cross the roads safely.
Make sure you look on the P1 blog on Friday to see more photos of how our new P1’s got on in their class.
What a great turn out we had for chess club last night. Our pupils and parents had a lovely time, some learning chess for the first time and some sharing and practising their skills.
Below is a really useful app to help your child with quick maths recall. It focuses on subitising, adding, subtracting, multiplication (including times tables) and division.
This app is free, just search for 1-minute maths in your app store.
Please find attached a link to a poster and newsletter for a very valuable counselling service available for our young people.
P6 had another visit today to the ECC to play with their buddies. For some of us this was the first time meeting our buddy.
Our Primary 6 pupils were so excited to visit the ECC on Friday and meet their buddies for the first time.
They were super role models and we were so proud of the way they took their responsibilities so seriously and interacted beautifully with the children. They are going to make excellent buddies!
Here are some of our photos. A few of the ECC children were absent but we will hopefully meet up with them on our next visit down on the 6th March.
What a fantastic night we had last night at our family ceilidh!
A huge thank you to all our parents and careers who came along and participated so enthusiastically in every one of our dances. What a wonderful family atmosphere!
We were so proud of our pupils who showed off all the skills they have been learning in their PE classes over the past few weeks.
As part of our whole school Scotland topic we are holding a family Ceilidh in the school hall on Tuesday 7th February at 6.30pm to 8.00pm.
We are delighted to have a live band who will guide us through all the dances and keep us entertained.
This event is free and light refreshments will be provided.
Children must be accompanied by an adult. To give us an idea of numbers, please complete the form below.
Not essential, but if you wish, wear some tartan, and wear your dancing shoes.
Well done to the winners of our design a bright hoodie competition.
By Caleb &Connor
Oh what a night!! A huge thank you to the parent council for organising our school disco. DJ Billy had us dancing all night.
A big thank you too to The Cotton Trail who donated all the sweets, crisps and juice for our tuck shop.
Next Friday is be bright be seen day . With the dark mornings and dark nights we need to remember cars can’t always see us when we cross the road.
Next Friday pupils can come to school wearing bright clothes or with something bright in their hair, on their jacket or on their bag. Or pupils can just dress down.
The junior road safety officers will organise some activities for everyone.
by Connor &Caleb
Our junior road safety officers would like to remind everyone that Catrine primary school is proud to be a school street.We are disappointed at how many cars go past every day . Please remember no cars are allowed to pass the planters between 8.45am and 9.30am and between 2.30 pm and 3.20 pm.
Please help us keep everyone safe on our roads.
Thank you
by Caleb and Connor
It was lovely to see so many of you at the Maths Family After School club on Tuesday. We were so busy we forgot to take photos! We took some time to work on our scrapbooks together and then some of our amazing pupils demonstrated a few of the addition methods we use in school.
Following a request, we will look at multiplication and the resources and methods we use in school at the next session.
Please remember these are drop in sessions so if you didn’t manage along last week you are very welcome to join us on Tuesday 8th November at 3pm.
All pupils must be accompanied by an adult. Please collect your child as normal after school and then come to the main doors.
Please click on the Maths Family Learning tab above for more information on supporting your child at home with maths.
Mrs Schendel
