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Dyslexia Awareness Week

Monday 2nd – Friday 6th is Dyslexia Awareness Week. We all learned more about Dyslexia, and how to help others, at the assembly on Monday.

Wednesday 4th is NO PENS WEDNESDAY which means we try to do most of our work orally instead of writing.

Mrs Cross met with the Inclusive Schools Committee on Tuesday and spoke about how the children make the biggest difference to ensuring the school is inclusive of everyone. We checked our SWAY from last session and made a few changes. Please have a look.

Inclusive Schools Committee SWAY

Two of our P6 pupils have written about their experience of having Dyslexia and wanted to share their thoughts with everyone.

Hi, my name is Riley and hi my name is Casey today we are going to talk about pros and cons of being dyslexic. 

So, we are going to talk about good and bad things about dyslexia we. know what it is like to have dyslexia because we are both dyslexic.  

Let’s get started to talk about good things about dyslexia let’s get into it some good things about dyslexia. One thing that is good it can help you in ways like art the good thing about art is you can get more. Creative and more amative. another good thing is it makes you a good problem solver it makes you Beter at pulses, and riddles we are also good observers. 

 So now we will be talking about the bad things about dyslexia it can affect you in Spelling, Writing, Literacy and. Reading in Spelling it can affect your spelling so you struggle to spell and write. In reading it can affect you to read the right words in a book. People who have dyslexia can struggle to remember things easily. Thank you for reading our article about dyslexia.                                           

Quick disclaimer if you have dyslexia, it doesn’t hold you back in life from doing anything you what do   

 By Casey Montgomery and Riley Mcclure p6 Mauchline primary school 

 

Improvement Plan 2023-24

Welcome back to Session 2023-24!

Below is the summarised Improvement Plan for Mauchline Primary School and ECC for this session. Please click on the link:

MPS&ECC Summary SIP 23 24

EAST AYRSHIRE LIBRARIES ∙ FREE

 The summer holidays are the perfect time to read some good books and keep kids’ reading levels up.Encourage your youngsters to take part in our Book Bazinga and read at least six books over the holidays.

There are thirteen reading challenges, choose six or complete them all! After completing a challenge, tick thebox and show it to a library staff member when returning your books. At the end of the summer, everyone who completes the challenge receives a certificate and will be entered into a prize draw.

Sign up today at your local library. You need to be in it to win it!

Accessibility Button

We have activated a new accessibility button on our school blogs. This blue button should appear in the bottom right-hand corner of the blog and allows the line spacing, font, images etc to be changed to best suit your needs.

Hopefully this will assist some of our users to allow everyone to access the information in the best format for them.

World Book Day 2023

We are once again celebrating World Book Day at Mauchline PS & ECC. This year we are celebrating on Thursday 2nd March.

The children are invited to dress up as a book character, or simply bring a prop from their favourite book e.g. Harry Potter’s wand, a mixing bowl from George’s Marvellous Medicine etc. If not dressing up, the children are welcome to dress down on the day. (No football clothes/colours please).

Please hand in any old costumes that you cannot use any more to the school office. We are happy to add them to our recycling rack in the school.

The teachers will have events planned for the day that promote the enjoyment of reading. The ECC will have their own events planned for the day and will be informing parents/carers of their plans.

Here is the link to the family section of the World Book Day website:

https://www.worldbookday.com/families/

World Book Day – Thursday 2nd March 2023

We will once again be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March. More details will follow after the February holiday, however we just wanted to ask if anyone has any costumes that their child/children used in a previous year that they no longer require? If you do, please send them into the school office and we will find a new home for them.

Save the date - World Book Day | World Book Day is a registered charity.  Our mission is to give every child and young person a book of their own.