This session we are working towards EAC’s Clean Green Award.  Our classes and school committees are working hard to make Mauchline PS & ECC and our village a climate friendly environment and there will be many activities and initiatives happening across the school throughout the year.

One of these initiatives is EAC’s Power Down initiative. The aim of Power Down is to build a strong community of energy saving champions across East Ayrshire centres, schools, homes and communities.

Mauchline PS & ECC have signed up to join Windy the Wind Turbine’s Workforce. ​Each month we participate in energy awareness/reducing challenges. When we complete each challenge we can collect 8 wind turbine parts which assemble to make a  Windy Turbine and gain a Windy Trophy for our school. We hope Windy can come to visit us at Mauchline too!

Windy has some hints/tips to help us with our challenges. These will be posted here every month…

Here is Tip #1…

and Tip #2…

December Challenges…

Happy December! 

This is a post from the Chief Executive’s blog:

Earlier this year our Mauchline CARS team appointed our Creative Minds team to deliver a Parkour summer school for pupils from Mauchline Primary School. Working with professional dance artists, Louise Chudleigh and Carrie Craggs and expert Parkour tutor, Scott Houston, they created repertoire which was carried out at iconic locations across Mauchline.

Young people worked with digital specialists Prancing Jack Productions to capture footage on a journey around the village showcasing the wonderful heritage we have in our own town.

I wanted to share this short – energetic – video with you. It shows the village in a completely different light!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7oOUqyKNk

https://www.nest.scot/workshops

Please use the link to book your space.

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 the
box 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!

Please have a look at the SWAY that Mrs Cross’s Inclusive Friendly Schools Committee made. It shows all the amazing work that we do throughout the year to support our learners.

Mauchline PS & ECC is an Inclusive Friendly School.

We have weekly assemblies and we cover lots of topics, including:

Go to this Sway

Well what a wonderful 4 days P4 and P2/3 have had outdoors. We have our raised beds and pots planted out with blue salad potatoes, garlic, purple carrots, white and red onion, strawberries, rhubarb, panties and narsturtiums. Today we used little pots to plant tomato, courgette and peas seeds which we will bring on indoors before we plant out. While we were outdoors and requested by the children we took the opportunity to do some still life nature drawings, minibeat hunt and identification using pooters and magnifying glasses and tree identification. Thank you to the P6 boys who helped with the pooters making it all possible to see the mini beasts closer up. Just take a look at how engaged we all were.

Primary 4 and primary 2/3 have been busy in the garden today planting our “Soup and Pudding” themed raised beds.

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.

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/