Please find the link below for the most recent school handbook.
Free Christmas Activities
RAG BAG collection
Our next RAG BAG collection will be on MONDAY 16th of FEBRUARY. Please bring any items for recycling to school on that day as the truck will arrive early the next morning for collection. There is a list below of items that can and cannot be recycled.
The school receives some money for our recycling efforts and it also helps towards our efforts of being a ‘Clean, Green’ school.
RAG BAG can accept the following items:
- Wearable Clothing
- Paired Shoes
- Handbags
- Belts
However they cannot accept the following items:
- Workwear
- Uniforms (including School Uniforms)
- Wet/Soiled Clothes
- Curtains
- Towels
- Duvets or Duvet Covers
- Pillows or Pillow Cases
- Blankets
- Table Cloths
- Linens
- Cushions
- Carpets
- Suitcases
- Books
- Bric a Brac
- Clothes Hangers
- Electricals
Power Down
See the link to our eco-friendly Christmas Advent calendar. Here you will find lots of daily Christmas Top Tips from Windy the Wind Turbine to help everyone have an eco-friendly festive season!
It’s the 1st of December so find bauble number 1, answer the Christmas themed question correctly and find out Windy’s Festive Tip for today! 
Dyslexia Awareness Week
Once again we are celebrating ‘Dyslexia Awareness Week‘ this week in the school. Mrs Cross led a whole school assembly last week all about ‘Neurodiversity’ and how children with Dyslexia are supported within the school.
The P5-7 classes will also be completing some activities regarding Dyslexia and will be putting away their pens for ‘No Pens Wednesday’.
We use Glow in school and embedded within Glow is Immersive Reader which is a very handy tool for children with Dyslexia. Here is the link if you are interested in having a look:
In school we also use the Nessy Spelling and Reading programme with all of our Primary 4 and Primary 5 children. Some of our Primary 6 and 7 children continue accessing the programme if they need to.
IT is used throughout the school to support our children with Dyslexia. We have Chromebooks, laptops and iPads which the children access to help with their learning.
All children from P3-7 participate in the STAR reading programme and have library books linked to their reading age to allow them to read for pleasure independently. Last session we became a Reading School following all of the efforts we have made to develop a love of reading with our children. We have purchased specific books for our Dyslexic children which are located in a section of our library.
Digital Schools Award
Mrs Cross, Miss Gill and the Digital Committee are delighted to announce the achievement of our Digital Schools Award. We had our validation meeting this morning which confirmed our hard work and effort had all been worth it!
We will continue to strive towards new goals within Digital Learning and we are all excited about what lies ahead for the coming sessions.
Reading Schools Award
Mauchline PS & ECC are delighted to announce our core-level achievement in becoming a Reading School.
The Reading Schools programme, developed by Scottish Book Trust, is an accreditation programme for schools that are committed to building a reading culture for their learners and communities. The programme supports schools to build a reading culture, where every pupil is encouraged to feed their imagination through books.
As a school, we have worked tirelessly all session to achieve our award through the hard work of Mrs Cross’s Reading Committee (part of the Inclusive Friendly Schools Committee), with the help and support of all of our children and staff. Reading for pleasure is central to supporting wellbeing, improving attainment across the curriculum, and boosting critical thinking, creativity, empathy and resilience and we have always aimed to have books and reading for enjoyment as a key element within Mauchline PS & ECC.
We are looking forward to adding all of our new books into the school library and continuing on with our aim of embedding a love of reading within our school.
Reading Schools Book Lists
Please find below a link to the Scottish Book Trust’s Reading Lists. They have books for all ages and all types of readers!
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists
SHOP WINDOW PROJECT
SHOP WINDOW PROJECT
P4/5 and Mrs Burt organised this year’s community Shop Window Project.
They delivered letters to local shops to ask if they would be willing to take part by displaying our art work for 2 weeks.
A huge 
to the following businesses who agreed to take part.
Mauchline Surgery, Thistle & Coo, Blu-Design, Shaw’s Eyecare, Impressions, GetItFitted carpets, Co-op, D.W. Shaw, Wee Chippy, Corner Barber, Well Chemist, Cob Coffee Shop.
The children were delighted to see their art work on display.
P1B Shopping at the Co-op
P2/3 Our house, in the middle of our street… at D.W. Shaw
P4/5 Cuppa At The Cob
P6 Well Clinic Medicine art
P4 Magic Carpets
P2 Spa Time at Impressions
P6/7 The Wee Chippy
ECC Monster Goes to School at Blu Design
P1a Barber’s Pole at the Corner Barber
P7 Healing Art at the Surgery
P5 Thistles and Coos
Community Daffodil Tea
