All posts by Mrs Cross

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.

More Extreme Readers

Evie reading in the bath – no water thankfully! 🛀
Anna in P4 and Molly in P2 reading their Beano comics to the cows – let’s hope it’s aMOOsing! 🐮
Molly and Anna relaxing on the hay bales, enjoying their Beano comics.
Carly from P4 reading up a tree! 🌳
Carly in P4 to her dog, Willow, looks like she’s definitely enjoying the story! 🐶 📖

Extreme Reading

The whole school are participating in an Extreme Reading challenge set by the Reading Schools Committee. Take a photograph of your child reading a book in a strange/unusual setting and send it to MRs Cross:

susan.cross1@eastayrshire.org.uk

Here is our first Extreme Reader!

Hollie in P2 on her trampoline having fun with her book.

Hollie hanging upside down! What a talented girl.

Burns/Scots Poetry Recitals

We would like to say a huge congratulations to all of the children who participated in the poetry recital competition on Thursday afternoon. We were delighted to welcome Mr Lyall and Mr Airbright, from Mauchline Burns Club once again to judge our overall winners. The P7 overall winner, and therefore awarded the Burns Quaich, was Harris. His recital of ‘To a Louse’ was absolutely outstanding! The P4-7 winners have been invited to recite their poems again at the local Burns event later this month at the Kilmarnock Supporters Club and then again at the Mauchline Holy Fair. Every class are looking at Scots words this term as Scots is our third language, after English and French.