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.

Numeracy Open Morning

Please come along and join us for our numeracy morning,

on Thursday 12th September @ 9.00am – 10.30am

Visit your child’s classroom, meet their new teacher

and have a wander around the school.

All welcome

The next Parent Council meeting will take place on Tuesday 17th September @ 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.

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

P1 – P4 pupils will bring home a Childsmile consent form today.

Please read, complete and return to school as soon as possible.

Childsmile will be in the school on Thursday 24th & Friday 25th January 2025.

FV Data Protection Statement

Catrine Primary School received a visit on Tuesday from East Ayrshire’s meal mascot, Super Tattie.

Super Tattie was welcomed into every classroom and even made a visit to the dinner hall.

We had a fan-tattie-tastic day.

Dates for your Diary – Please note events happening up to the end of October.

The may also be found under the Calendar section in the school app.

Please ensure that Flu Consent forms have been returned to the school by Friday 30th August.

The forms will be uplifted on Monday 2nd September by a NHS representative, to allow them to calculate how many vaccines will be required for the school.

Thanks

Reminder that we have organised a Rag Bag collection on Tuesday 10th September.

If you have any bags of old clothes/bedding/shoes you wish to clear out, bring them along to the school on Monday 9th September.

Thank you

P1 Open Afternoon

Parents/carers of our Primary 1 pupils are invited to join us on Tuesday 3rd September at 2.15pm.

Family and friends can have a look around the Primary 1 classroom, meet our P1 teacher and school staff,  and enjoy fun activities with your child.

Looking forward to welcoming you all to Primary 1!

Before the summer holidays our senior pupils entered an art competition to design a calendar entry for the new EAC ‘Clean Green’ calendar, which is displayed throughout East Ayrshire.

Congratulations to Eilidh, now in P7, as her design was chosen as one of the runners-up and is published within the calendar.

Your child will have PE in school on the following days.

Primary 1 – Tuesday and Thursday  (Tuesday will be a walk in the community)

Primary 2 – Tuesday and Thursday (Thursday will be a walk in the community)

Primary 3 – Tuesday and Thursday

Primary 4 – Monday and Wednesday

Primary 5 – Monday and Wednesday

Primary 6 – Wednesday and Friday

Primary 7 – Tuesday and Thursday 

For PE sessions, pupils should change into shorts and trainers/gym shoes.  It’s better if PE kits can be kept in school in a PE bag so that they’re always available.  All jewellery must be removed for PE sessions (including earrings). Please ensure all PE items are labelled with your child’s name and let us know if we can help with supplying any PE equipment.