Dear Parent/Carer
As you are no doubt aware, your child is due to transfer from primary to secondary education at the beginning of the new school session (August 2025).
Secondary school hand books are available at: https://eastayrshi.re/SchoolHandbooks
Please complete the online P7 transfer application at http://eastayrshi.re/p7transfer no later than Friday 20 December 2024.
Catrine ECC’s Depute Manager, Alana Speirs, delivered a wonderful presentation today to an audience of over 90 EAC colleagues, including Headteachers and Heads of ECC from across the authority, the Senior Education Managers and the Head of Education at the Council Chambers in London Road in Kilmarnock.
She was highlighting the educational journey of the ECC which led to them earning national recognition – Scotland’s first Digital Learning ECC accreditation.
Alana detailed the structured programme led by Sherrie Devlin, ELCP, and talked about the drive, professionalism and commitment of all ECC staff members in working towards this whole ECC accreditation.
Alana and Sherrie are now working alongside Education Scotland colleagues to review the Digital Literacy programme of learning to ensure that the Early Years curriculum is well-structured, challenging and innovative. #TeamCatrine leading the way 🙂
(apologies for the poor photo quality – I was too busy beaming with pride to take better ones!)
New Year, New Goals at Cluarankwai Judo! 2025 🌟
Ready to kick-start your fitness journey or try something new?
Join us this January 2025 for FREE Judo classes for new starts all month!
Whether you are looking to improve your strength, flexibility, or mental focus, Judo is the perfect sport to challenge yourself.
P1 & P7 parent/carers
Your child will bring home a letter regarding the Dental Examination that will take place in January 2025.
Please read the letter and if you don’t wish your child to be examined please follow the instructions in the letter.
Thank you
P7 Parent/Carers
Just a reminder that the information meeting will take place on Wednesday 4th December.
Please come to the main entrance for 3.15pm, the instructor will be arriving for 3.30pm start.
Thank you
The Exchange Counselling will be running 3 Free Online Neurodiversity workshops in Dec/Jan.
These will be open to parents & carers from all areas as part of ‘Community Family Support’.
N1: Introduction to Understanding and Supporting Neurodiversity- 12 Dec 2024, 16:30 – 17:30
N2: Understanding and Supporting Young People with ADHD – 06 Jan 2025, 16:30 – 17:30
N3: Caring for Yourself While Supporting Your Neurodiverse Child – 09 Jan 2025, 16:30 – 17:30
They will also receive a toolkit of resources if they attend.
To register for a place on the website please click on the link https://www.exchange-counselling.com/community-family-support
Well done to our Ruby Reward winners this week for being excellent pupils in our dinner hall.
Make Catrine Sparkle
For pupils not walking in the parade but wishing to join in with the singing,
Mrs Govans and Mrs Schendel will be at the square, please meet them at 5.45pm.
Christmas Jumper Day & our School Christmas dinner will take place on Friday 13th December.
The Parent Council will be selling tickets for their raffle at the school show on Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th December.
Please note that only cash will be accepted for the raffle tickets on the evening.
Thank you
This year Catrine Primary school have joined the Shoot to Saturn mission. This means we are completing active travel journeys in order to collect s-miles to power our rockets with enough energy to make it to Saturn. Active Travel Journeys include walking, park and strides and using a bike or scooter to get from one place to another.
Primary 6 are this years active travel commanders. This means that we communicate with Mission Control to ensure we are on track with our journey. As active travel commanders, P6 set all pupils the challenge of designing their own rocket for our mission. Classes then exchanged rockets and voted on which rocket would represent each class.
Our winners were chosen today:
P1 – Miller
p2 – Ella
P3 – Lyle
P4 – Logan
P5 – Kacey
P6 – Poppy
P7 – Jacob
We cannot wait to continue this journey!
For a chance to win one of our festive hampers,
raffle tickets go on sale from Monday 2nd to Friday 13th December.
Tickets can be purchased via Parentpay.
Good Luck
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Just a reminder that the Parent Council Meeting will take place tonight @ 6.30pm in Catrine Games Hall.
If you are interested in helping with the Parent Council and the activities they run for the school, please come along to the meeting.
Thank you to Catrine Community Council and Crag Community Arts, Girvan, for coming along the last two Fridays, to help our pupils make lanterns for Make Catrine Sparkle.
A big thank you to our parent helpers for getting stuck in with all the gluing and paper cutting.
The event is on this Sunday 1st December.
Gather at the grass area outside the top shop/Chinese for 4.30pm to collect the lights for your lantern.
Parade starts at 5.00pm.
To allow our Kitchen Manager to plan our Christmas Dinner, please select your children’s Christmas Dinner.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST ALSO BOOK THIS OUT ON PARENTPAY.
The meal is available as dairy free and halal.
Please complete the form by Friday 29th November, thank you.
Well done to our Ruby Reward winners this week for being excellent pupils in our dinner hall.
Can you help us with show costumes?
Do you have items at home that could be recycled and reused for the show?
See below what we are looking for…
We are looking for old rolls of wall paper.
Do you have any lying in a cupboard? It does not need to be a full roll, – any amount of paper left on the roll would be great.
If you have any please let us know, and hand into the school before Friday.
Thank you
Friday 22nd November – Be Safe Be Seen
The JRSO committee are asking for pupils to come to school on Friday in bright clothes as part of our whole school Road Safety awareness raising.
This is optional and pupils can still wear their school clothes, if they wish.
In our Home Circles today we focused on Article 31 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.
Article 31 states that ‘every child has the right to leisure, play and culture’.
We discussed how important it is to work together to make sure all areas of our school are safe, healthy and inclusive.
Our BIG focus was –
Our answers will be used to create our new School Charters which you will see displayed around the school.
We also focused on our CATRINE Value of Teamwork.
