A reminder that Mrs Schendel, Miss Edmund and Miss McLean will be in the playground from 2.45pm tomorrow, Tuesday 10th May, to chat about all things maths. See post below for more details.
Fingers crossed the weather clears up and we look forward to seeing you then.
Mrs Schendel
Although some restrictions are beginning to ease we still really miss not being able to have our parents/carers in school to see all the fabulous learning that is taking place.
Mrs Schendel, Miss Edmund and Miss McLean would love a blether with parents/carers of P3 and Primary 4 about all things maths and will be in the main playground on Tuesday 10th May at 2.45pm.
Please come along and ask any questions you may have in supporting your child with their maths homework or to ask about the maths work taking place in the classrooms.
We would appreciate that in line with our regulations that social distancing is maintained.
If you are unable to attend but have any maths related questions you would like to ask please e-mail me at:
roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk
We look forward to seeing you then.
Wow!! Our pupils are so creative and imaginative and have once again blown us away with their amazing egg creations.
Well done to our winners!
We even had a special visitor to wish us a Happy Easter.
Have a wonderful holiday!
Mrs Schendel
Our P6 buddies enjoyed another morning with their buddies from the ECC this morning. This week the focus was literacy and we were all so impressed with the children’s skills.
It was great to hear from our National Numeracy partners this afternoon at our parent workshop.
The top tips shared to help build positive mindsets towards maths included:
If you want anymore tips or want to discuss how to help your child with maths please do not hesitate to contact me at the school.
Below is a link to the National Numeracy Challenge website. Click below to explore your own feelings about maths and find ways of boosting your own confidence.
http://www.nationalnumeracy.org.uk/challenge/catpar
Mrs Schendel
A reminder that National Numeracy are holding an online Parent Workshop tomorrow. Please see previous post for more details and do not hesitate to contact me at the school with any questions.
DATE: Tuesday 22nd March
TIME: 1.15pm – 2.15pm
LOCATION: Zoom
Here is the Zoom link for the session:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85833264692?pwd=MDBCejJMdFFZUWVJS3NmS05Hcmxqdz09
Meeting ID: 858 3326 4692
Passcode: 796713
I look forward to joining you for the session.
Mrs Schendel
Primary 6 have been so excited to met their new buddies from the ECC! The children have had two sessions where they have had time to get to know their buddies and begin to prepare them for their move to the ‘big school’.
Staff have been so impressed with how Primary 6 have communicated with and cared for their buddies and you can see in the photos how much fun the children have had together. Our ECC pupils seem very happy and confident and we look forward to more sessions ahead.
Once again I would like to say a huge thank you to all the families who have been engaging with our maths activities at home. It is great to read your comments and hear how much fun you are having with maths at home.
As part of our partnership this year with National Numeracy I am delighted that the charity are offering us a parent workshop. Due to ongoing restrictions this will take place over Zoom. This is a great opportunity for parents to work alongside the staff at National Numeracy and gain more information on our successful project with them this year.
A note from National Numeracy:-
Parental engagement in children’s learning has a large and positive effect on children. We want to support parents to engage positively with our pupils’ maths learning.
Therefore, we are inviting all parents and carers to attend a workshop with the charity National Numeracy.
The workshop is not a maths lesson, nor does it cover any maths learning, but is focused on fostering positive attitudes towards numeracy and tips for ensuring your children develop these too.
The session will cover the importance of maths in the real world, being positive about maths and how to boost your own number skills.
We would be delighted to welcome you to the session.
DATE: Tuesday 22nd March
TIME: 1.15pm – 2.15pm
LOCATION: Zoom
Here is the Zoom link for the session:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85833264692?pwd=MDBCejJMdFFZUWVJS3NmS05Hcmxqdz09
Meeting ID: 858 3326 4692
Passcode: 796713
Please do not hesitate to contact me at the school if you have any problems accessing the meeting.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Mrs Schendel
01290 551436
roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk
All pupils in the school have once again been issued with a maths task to be completed at home.
Last term we were delighted with the response to these activities and loved to see that lots of family members got involved in completing them together. I will be reporting back to National Numeracy this week and I’m so excited to show off all the amazing work and positive comments from the scrapbooks.
The activities are designed to be fun and relate to real life. Here are some comments we received:
“Had good fun doing this one.”
“We had lots of fun running around the house looking for all the 3D shapes, there is a lot. It’s a long time since I really looked at objects and tried to work out the 3D and 2D shapes.”
“This is an interesting example as it allows (my child) to start to understand the application of numbers in a real world context.”
“I did a good job.”
“We had fun using puppies to do maths.” (No animals were harmed in the process lol!)
If you haven’t tried one of the activities yet, please give one a go and let us know in the comments box on the sheet how you got on. Please contact me or your child’s teacher if you have any questions. Also keep an eye on your child’s class blog for some examples which might help to give you some ideas.
Here are some examples of the super work that was done last term.
Good luck and have fun!
Mrs Schendel
roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk
I have spent the last couple of days looking through all the children’s maths scrapbooks that have been completed at home and I wanted to say a great big well done to all the children and their families who have put so much effort into completing the tasks. Our families have shown great imagination and creativity and I have loved seeing mums, dads, grandparents, siblings and aunties all getting involved.
It has been great to read the comments and hear that, above all, you have been having lots of fun. The comments have also shown that families have enjoyed relating maths to real life.
We look forward to continuing to work with National Numeracy in the new year and hopefully we will have some more ‘maths blethers’ where we can support each other in building confidence and positive mindsets in completing maths activities.
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.
Mrs Schendel
It was lovely to see so many of our P1 parents for a ‘maths blether’ last week – despite the pouring rain!
Mrs Schendel and Mrs McKenna would love a blether with parents/carers of P2 parents about all things maths and will be in the main playground on Tuesday 9th November at 2.45pm.
Please come along and ask any questions you may have in supporting your child with their maths homework or to ask about the maths work taking place in the P2 classroom.
We still need to follow Covid-19 regulations so please remember to wear a face covering, unless exempt, and maintain social distancing.
If you are unable to attend but have any maths related questions you would like to ask please e-mail me at:
roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk
We look forward to seeing you then and hopefully the weather will be kind.
We are still looking for as many parents/carers as possible to complete our maths survey.
The deadline for the survey is Sunday 31st October.
We would love to hear your views about maths and supporting your child at home. Your views will help us measure the impact of the work we are doing with National Numeracy this year.
The survey should only take 5 minutes and you have a chance to win £50 worth of books and games for your family.
Click the link below to complete the survey.
https://nn.typeform.com/to/xLcyBnNU
Thank you so much for your help.
Mrs Schendel
We really miss having our parents/carers in school to see all the fabulous learning that is taking place.
Mrs Schendel would love a blether with parents/carers of P1 parents about all things maths and will be in the main playground on Tuesday 26th October at 2.45pm.
Please come along and ask any questions you may have in supporting your child with their maths homework or to ask about the maths work taking place in the P1 classroom.
We still need to follow Covid-19 regulations so please remember to wear a face covering, unless exempt, and maintain social distancing.
If you are unable to attend but have any maths related questions you would like to ask please e-mail me at:
roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk
We look forward to seeing you then.
We have had a great week for Maths Week Scotland and I hope you enjoyed seeing all the different ways we do maths in school. If you haven’t done so yet head over to the class blogs to see all the great work taking place.
Over the next few months I will be continuing to work with National Numeracy in involving parents in supporting children with their maths and building positive mindsets towards maths. I look forward to sharing this experience with you.
A reminder that we would like as many parents as possible to complete the National Numeracy survey. Here is the link again if you haven’t completed it yet.
https://nn.typeform.com/to/xLcyBnNU
Quote/top tip
Always promote a “can-do” attitude towards maths.
e,g, “Your number work is really improving!”
“I’m really impressed with what you can do.”
Try not to share with your child the idea that you were bad at maths or that maths was boring. Research shows that as soon as this idea is shared, achievement goes down.
Have a great weekend.
Mrs Schendel
As part of Maths Week Scotland and our partnership with National Numeracy we are keen to gather parents’ opinions about maths. This will also to help us to provide evidence of the impact of the work we will be doing along with National Numeracy.
Parents completing the parent surveys can choose to opt in to a prize draw to win a bundle of books and games worth £50 and we are keen to hear from as many parents & carers as possible.
The link for the survey is below and should only take about 4 minutes. The deadline for completion is Sunday 31st October.
https://nn.typeform.com/to/xLcyBnNU
Our pupils have made a great start to Maths Week Scotland, keep checking the class blogs to see what they get up to this week.
Quote/top tip for today.
Never underestimate the ‘Power of Yet’.
Mrs Schendel
This week is Maths Week Scotland. Although maths is a focus for us every day in school, Maths Week Scotland helps us to be more aware of maths around us and how we use it in our daily lives.
This week your child will be taking part in maths activities outdoors. Keep an eye on the class blogs to see what they get up to!
This year the school is also delighted to have been selected to work with the independent charity National Numeracy on an exciting project which encourages children and families to do maths together.
As part of the project, we will be introducing National Numeracy’s Family Maths scrapbooks and activities. These activities help children and families to explore everyday maths at home together. They link the maths that children are learning at school with life outside the classroom. Your child will come home with their scrapbook this week and some activities to complete with you at home.
You don’t need any special knowledge or equipment to work on the activities. Just talking about everyday maths can help develop children’s maths confidence. You might like to take photos, draw pictures, write calculations or create diagrams in the scrapbooks – it’s up to you!
National Numeracy has provided a scrapbook for every child in the school. We encourage all families to support their children’s learning by getting involved with the activities.
Later in the year, there will also be a chance for parents and carers to attend a workshop led by National Numeracy on supporting children to develop positive attitudes towards maths. All parents and carers will also be offered access to National Numeracy’s free online learning tool for adults, the National Numeracy Challenge. More details on this will follow soon.
Throughout this week I will be gathering your views on maths, giving helpful tips on supporting your child at home and encouraging positive mindsets to maths. Be prepared for some cheesy quotes like these ones I have on my office door!
‘Believe in yourself. There is no such thing as a ‘maths’ person. Everyone can reach the levels they want, with hard word work.’
And in the words of Ed Sheeran:
Please email me with any questions you have about supporting your child at home with maths and look out for some more posts throughout the week.
Mrs Schendel
This week our P7 pupils have worked extremely hard to write their speeches in a bid to be House Captains. They delivered these speeches with confidence to the pupils from across P1-7 in their house and we are so proud of every one of them!
All our pupils then voted and we are delighted to announce our new House Captains -:
Avalon – Calvin Gardiner
Ayrbank – Sonny Coughtrie
Marneil – Layla Shaw
Whiteflat – Sophie Smith
What a year it has been!
We are so proud of all our children, families and staff who have been such superstars during this extraordinary year. We have faced lots challenges but we have faced them together and achieved so much despite the obstacles in our way.
We have had such a fun week this week to end the year with walks to the park, skimming stones in the river, board games, outdoor games, escape rooms, movies and so much more! Mrs Govans has really missed being with us but she has been enjoying seeing photos and videos of what we have been up to.
P7 enjoyed their fun day on Wednesday and boogied the day away in their disco dome. We wish them the best of luck as they head to the academy and look forward to hearing how they all get on next year.
We say goodbye to Miss Feighan, Mrs Stewart, Mrs O’Hare and Miss Robertson and thank them very much for all their hard work.
We are delighted to welcome Miss Edmond as our P3 teacher next year, I’m sure she will have a great year at Catrine Primary School.
Please keep a look out over the holidays on our blog and school app for all the arrangements for coming back in August. Pupils return on Thursday 19th August.
I wish you all a very happy summer holiday. Keep safe and I look forward to seeing you in August.
Mrs Schendel
Primary 7 are looking forward to their leavers fun day tomorrow. Details of this are on the P6/7 blog page.
All other pupils will be taking part in some fun activities throughout tomorrow and the rest of the week. Pupils can come to school in casual clothes for the rest of the week and be suitably dressed for going walks or playing outdoors.
A reminder that the school closes at 1pm on Friday. Pupils will receive their school lunches before they are sent home.
Mrs Schendel
We are very excited to have acquired some new equipment for our infant playground to encourage loose parts play which helps develop skills such as creativity, problem solving and curiosity as well as developing social skills. Loose parts are things like tyres, wooden planks, crates and plastic guttering. Loose parts lets children play in many different ways – anything from making a pirate ship to building an assault course – the possibilities are endless!
P1/2 and P2 will be spending lots of time outdoors exploring this new equipment and might get a bit dirty! Pupils should come to school every day prepared to play outside. School uniform tops and jumpers should still be worn but children can wear trackies, leggings or older bottoms which you don’t mind getting dirty.
We look forward to seeing our pupils back tomorrow and can’t wait to see what they create with our new equipment.
Mrs Schendel
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