Girls Football starting on Tuesday 2nd May at Catrine Games Hall. Please click on the link to register.
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Chess club – week 1
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.
Catrine Values – C
Our Rights Respecting School Committee Group are updating our School and ECC Values and have created a new look. We are consulting our pupils and staff on each Value over the next few weeks, and we think it’s very important that parents, families and friends give their input too.
Our new Values spell out CATRINE, with the C standing for Community.
Please click on the link below and complete the form. Thank you
Golden Ticket – 21 April 2023
Congratulations to the Golden Ticket Winners this week.
Rag Bag Collection – 12th May 2023
A Rag Bag collection has been organised for Friday 12 May.
We can only accept bags on Friday 12th May before 9.00am.
They do not provide bags anymore, so please bring your items along in black bin bags. Thank you
Family Chess Club – P4 – P7
We are delighted that Mr Sean Mangan will start an after school Chess Club on Tuesday 25th April, 3.00pm – 4.00pm. This club will be for pupils for P4 – P7 and will run for 4 weeks. This will give pupils a chance to practice the chess skills they have been learning in class.
We would love to involve our adult family members as we know the children have been sharing their enthusiasm for chess at home. Don’t worry if you have never played chess, Mr Mangan will guide us through the rules.
Please complete the link below, thank you
Catrine Comminuty Action Group – Kings Coronation
Catrine Community Action Group – Coronation Clean Up
Catrine Community Action Group – Garden Club
Information on an upcoming event with
Community Action Plan Group
New App- Safer School Scotland
Just a wee reminder that we are now using the new School APP.
A Parentpay email was sent out on 29 March, with information on how to download and a code to register for this.
If you have any problems accessing this information, please contact the school. Thank you
Easter Egg Competition Winners
Congratulations to our winners of Catrine Primary School Easter Egg decoration competition 2023.
Primary 1 – Logan
Primary 2 – Ayla
Primary 3 – Paige
Primary 4 – Poppy
Primary 5 – Bette
Primary 6 – Ashton
Primary 7 – Ava
Easter Service and Easter Holiday
Thank you to everyone that came along to our Easter Service yesterday. We are really pleased to welcome so many of our parents into the school.
Reminder that we close on Friday 31st March at 2.30pm for the Easter Holidays, and reopen on Monday 17th April.
Enjoy your Easter break.
Parents Night Feedback
Thank you so much to all Parents and Carers who attended their child’s appointments last night. Our teachers really enjoyed sharing their progress and achievements with you. We had an overall turnout of 92%, which is wonderful.
Our Captains were asking our parents and carers two very important questions;
- What makes a quality pupil?
- What makes a quality teacher?
We have collated your responses – please click on the links below for your feedback.
New App – Safer School Scotland
An email has been sent today via Parentpay with information on how to download the new school app.
If you have any problems accessing your emails, please contact the school.
Please bear with us as we move over to the new app. Thank you
Useful maths app
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.
Modern Languages Committee
The Modern Languages Committee have been working so hard over the last few weeks and have been learning all about the French language, culture and festivals.
We started off our first committee meeting by talking about what we already knew about France and what we wanted to know. 
We learned some some facts about France and some French vocabulary. We learned how to say hello and goodbye in French and had lots of fun playing parachute games to practise the French words for colours.
We learned about the French festival of Mardi Gras and made our own Mardi Gras masks. They were amazing!
We learned about Easter traditions in France and got to try some French food. We tasted crepes, baguette, pain au chocolat, croissants, chocolate chip brioche and brie. It was delicious!
STEM Committee
For our last committee, our STEM group were trying to survive a zombie apocalypse!
The pupils were involved in building shelters that would keep them safe from zombie bites! They also investigated their fingerprints to ensure they were all human! Finally, the pupils created new inventions that would help keep them safe and would help to rebuild civilisation.
All pupils had a blast and enjoyed putting their science and investigative skills to work!
Health and Wellbeing Committee
The Health and Wellbeing committee group have worked extremely hard over the last few weeks to promote positive mental and physical wellbeing around the school.
On our first committee group day, we looked at the importance of mental wellbeing and our feelings. We worked together in groups to create mind-maps on what we thought emotional and mental wellbeing is. We shared our different opinions and strategies we can use to keep ourselves in the ‘green zone’ and ways to help if we find ourselves getting angry/upset.
Many of the pupils agreed that they found colouring to relax them and take their minds off of other thoughts. Therefore, we decided to have a mindfulness colouring session to calm down and relax. We also tried some tricky memory games to then reflect on how it made us feel and what we could do to push ourselves back in to the green zone of emotions.
We also took part in a yoga class to help calm us down and relax our body.
As a way of showing our emotions, we decorated ‘mood jars’ and would use colours that relate to different emotions. This was an activity we would continue to add to until the jar was full of emotions.
On the second committee day we looked at physical wellbeing and the importance of healthy eating and exercise. We started our day with some games and exercises and would then discuss how it made our body and mind feel afterwards.
As we discussed the importance of physical exercise and healthy eating, we wanted to promote this around the school so we created posters to encourage all pupils to bring in their gym kit and different healthy foods we could eat.
On our final committee day, we worked together to write a letter to ask if our Active Schools Coordinator would like to take part during Health week and carry out different activities with the school.
We also looked at positive affirmations and the impact they can have on others. We shared different positive comments we would like to hear and made our own cards to be shared around the school to cheer up others.
Golden Ticket – 24 March 2023
Congratulations to the Golden Ticket Winners this week
They were awarded a Golden Ticket for being an excellent role model in our dinner hall.
Rights Respecting Schools Committee
The Rights Respecting Schools Committee have some exciting news to share. Check out our video below to find out what it is.
