Our new Junior Road Safety Officers began their work today with a visit to Kilmarnock.  Harper and Lyle, both from P3, worked with other JRSOs from across Ayrshire to explore ideas of how they can help the rest of the school be safe on the road. In their workshops they found safe places to cross the road, they made a poster about The Green Cross Code and identified road signs. They also enjoyed a bit of drama where they had to act out vehicles you might see on the road.  Look out for competitions and projects on road safety throughout the year.

Here they are with a poster that will get the nursery involved too.

Well done Harper and Lyle, you were super stars today!

Catrine Primary School has received a large donation of brand new school clothes from Tesco Auchinleck.

We have shirts, polo shirts, boys trousers, girls trousers, skirts and pinafores.

These will be available to view on parents evening on Wednesday 2nd October.

The whole school worked together in their new Home Circles for the first time this year, and what a wonderful job our P7 pupils did with their younger house members.

We completed a ‘getting to know you’ activity where everyone talked about their favourite things, ranging from Star Wars to Sea Cadets to football to pizza!

Then each Home Circle answered our Big Question based on our school Values –

C is for Community.   What is a community?  Which communities are we a part of?

Check out their answers below …

Parents Night – Wednesday 2nd October : 3.20pm – 8.00pm

Parents Night Appointments are now open for booking.

Please call the school office to arrange an appointment to speak to your child’s class teacher.

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who came along to our Numeracy Open Morning last Thursday.

We had a massive turn out and your continued support is much appreciated.

Please check your individual class blog pages for more photos.

Well done to our Ruby Reward winners this week for being excellent pupils in our dinner hall.

Congratulations and a massive well done to our House Captains for 2024/2025;

Lenore – Marneil

Hannah – Whiteflat

Eli – Avalon

Lucy – Ayrbank

118 days to go until the P7s will take part in their residential trip to Dolphin House.

The payment plan is open and payments can be made at any time.

The bus payment will be set up in November.

Thank you to all that have made payments already.

Just a reminder that the school will be closed on Friday 20th and Monday 23rd September.

We will close on Thursday 19th at 3.00pm and return on Tuesday 24th September at 9.00am.

Have a lovely long weekend.

Thank you to Catrine Bowling Green and Paul & Kerry Winning for their recent donation to Catrine Primary School.

From recent fundraising events they donated £464.00 to the school.

This donation will be used to purchase a hand writing product called Nelson Handwriting, which the whole school will benefit from.

Catrine PS is delighted to have been awarded an Eco-Schools Green Flag award by ‘Keep Scotland Beautiful’.

After an intensive audit, we were awarded our flag because

• we have pupils from every class represented in our Eco Committee
• we have regular whole school and community litter picks
• our Clean Up Crews are doing a great job of improving our school playground and environment
• we support biodiversity in our school grounds by making bird feeders and bird houses
• we have regular clothes Swap Shops for school uniform, Hallowe’en costumes and Christmas jumpers/party clothes
• we have Junior Road Safety Officers who regularly highlight the importance of safe parking on our School Streets areas

Our Green Flags are proudly displayed in our main playground and our main entrance, as highlighted here by Ellie, Dalton and Olly.

We have also been asked to present at the EAC Climate Conference next week at the Grange Academy – look out for an update next week.

Please note the change to the lunch menu on Friday 4th October.

If you have already booked a lunch on Parentpay, you will have to go back in and reorder for this day.

EAC School Counselling Newsletter

Click on the link below for information and support for your child.

EAC School Counselling

Well done to our Ruby Reward winners this week for being excellent pupils in our dinner hall.

Catrine PS is proud to be a School Streets area and, to keep our pupils safe, we have parking restrictions in place around our school streets at both drop-off and pick-up times.

Between 8.45-9.15am and 2.45-3.15pm the streets around our school should be free from all traffic, apart from residents, to ensure our pupils and wider school community can enter and leave our school safely.

We would appreciate your ongoing support in this matter.