New Library Books
The library committee are absolutely delighted with the new books we were able to purchase following a very generous donation from the Parent Council. Mrs Govans also very kindly allocated us some money from the Pupil Equity fund which allowed us to purchase even more books. We would like to say a huge thank you to both the Parent Council and Mrs Govans. Just look at all the fabulous books we were able to buy!
Entitled – Financial Inclusion Team
Wondering how to get help with Benefits, Clothing Grant, School Meals and many more everyday concerns? Click on the link below for how to get in touch with a member of the Financial Inclusion Team.
Girls Football- Catrine Games Hall – P4,P5,P6,P7
Girls Football starting on Tuesday 2nd May at Catrine Games Hall. Please click on the link to register.
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/CatGirlsFooty23/
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!
