Our junior road safety officers would like to remind everyone that Catrine primary school is proud to be a school street.We are disappointed at how many cars go past every day . Please remember no cars are allowed to pass the planters between 8.45am and 9.30am and between 2.30 pm and 3.20 pm.
Please help us keep everyone safe on our roads.
Thank you
by Caleb and Connor
On Tuesday 15th November Alana and Lesleyanne had the privilege of attending the CYPIC conference in Glasgow SEC where a video clip was presented showcasing Catrine ECC and our fabulously famous children 🙂
Scottish Government asked the ECC to discuss some of the changes they have made so far whilst on their journey to becoming a Communication Friendly Environment with the collection of data and quality improvement methods in mind.
Below you can find the link to the video clip where you might see some familiar faces (Riccarton ECC appear first in the clip with Catrine following on a few minutes later)
https://vimeo.com/channels/1821612
Thanks to everyone who came along to our Literacy Open Morning yesterday to work alongside our pupils during their Literacy learning. We hoped you enjoyed looking through our resources, playing interactive games on the smartboards and iPads, taking part in group activities and joining in with group learning tasks.
As always, our pupils and staff loved welcoming family and friends into the school and we look forward to having you all back in again soon!
We are very pleased to introduce our new permanent Senior Clerical Assistant at Catrine PS – Mrs Deborah Robertson.
Lots of our pupils and families already know Mrs Robertson as she has worked in our ECC office for the last five years, and we’re delighted that she’s now going to be part of our Catrine PS Team.
The Parent Council School Disco will be on Wednesday 23rd November, 6pm-8pm.
Please come along and support this event
Please click on the link for information regarding the upcoming Industrial Action.
Letter to parents-carers – Industrial Action – Thursday 24 November 2022
Literacy Open Morning – Wednesday 16th November – 9.00-10.25am
As part of Book Week Scotland please come along to our Literacy Open Morning to see our wonderful Literacy learning in action. You can visit the classes, investigate the resources and help your child to complete their Literacy work. All welcome.
Reminders …
Monday 14th November from 3.00-4.00pm – Week 2 of our afterschool Sports Club for P3 and P4 pupils with Miss Norman
Tuesday 15th November from 3.00-4.00pm – Week 3 of our afterschool Homework Club for all stages with Mrs Schendel and Miss McLean
Wednesday 16th November from 9.00-10.25am – Literacy Open Morning
Friday 18th February – all day – ‘Children in Need’ Day. Pupils can come to school wearing spots/Pudsey gear/casual clothes. The school/ECC is not collecting money for ‘Children in Need’ – the link for making donations directly is on a previous GLOW post.
We’re looking forward to a great week of learning and fun!
Mrs Govans
Girls Football at Catrine Games Hall, Primary 1 – 3. Click on the link below for registration and information.
It was lovely to see so many of you at the Maths Family After School club on Tuesday. We were so busy we forgot to take photos! We took some time to work on our scrapbooks together and then some of our amazing pupils demonstrated a few of the addition methods we use in school.
Following a request, we will look at multiplication and the resources and methods we use in school at the next session.
Please remember these are drop in sessions so if you didn’t manage along last week you are very welcome to join us on Tuesday 8th November at 3pm.
All pupils must be accompanied by an adult. Please collect your child as normal after school and then come to the main doors.
Please click on the Maths Family Learning tab above for more information on supporting your child at home with maths.
Mrs Schendel
The BBC Children in Need is having a Great SPOTacular Appeal Night on Friday 18th November, live on BBC One and iPlayer.
Your child can come dressed in Spots, Pudsey gear or in casual clothes for a Dress Down Day.
We are not taking donations in school, the link to Donate is below.
https://donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/
Please click on the link below for information on upcoming events for November and December.
Yesterday we went to Troon and learned about road safety and trained to be Road Safety Officers. We drew a poster all about road safety, we played a board game, we acted out what might happen if we don’t pay attention when we cross the road. We spoke about being safe on the roads.
It was fun and we can’t wait to be your Road Safety Officers.
Caleb Gilmour and Connor Brown
Mrs Schendel and Miss McLean will be running a Maths Family Learning Club in the school every Tuesday in November from 3pm – 4pm.
This club is open to all pupils across the school who must be accompanied by an adult.
The aim of the club is to support children and families with all aspects of maths. You will have an opportunity to work together on our maths scrapbook activities, to ask questions about the maths work that takes place in the school and try out some of the resources and methods we use in the classroom.
These are drop in sessions. There is no need to book a place or attend every week.
Our first session will be on Tuesday 1st November. Please collect or meet your child as normal at the school gates then come to the main entrance.
Please contact Mrs Schendel if you have any enquiries.
roberta.schendel@eastayrshire.org.uk
Miss Norman will be running a fun sports club for P3 and P4 pupils from 3.00pm to 4.00pm for 3 weeks; Mondays 7th, 14th and 21st November.
Please click the link to complete the form to register your child. Please complete by Friday 4th November, to ensure a place.
Miss Norman will be running more after school clubs for P1/P2 and P5/P6/P7 pupils in January.
As well as asking our parents/carers for their views about our school, we also asked our pupils. Please click on the links below to view their very honest and relevant feedback and suggestions.
We’ll work together during our Assemblies to address their suggestions and see what changes/improvements we can make happen.
Update – thanks to everyone who donated to our Harvest Hush-Sponsored Silence during the October holidays. Our final total is now a brilliant £173.00!!
Are you interested in being part of the School Parent Council?
Details of the Parent Council AGM:
Tuesday 1st November 2022, 7.15PM
Please contact catrineparents@gmail.com for the meeting link and login details, thank you
At our recent Parents Night on October 12th, our House Captains did a wonderful job of asking parents/carers to complete a short survey of two questions –
What are we doing well in Catrine PS?
What can we improve in Catrine PS?
Thank you to everyone who contributed. I’ve compiled all of the responses and they’re proudly displayed in the school as we’re chuffed to bits with the positive feedback we received.
Please click on the links below to view the responses. Mrs Govans
What could we improve on Oct 22
