Well done to all of the children who participated in the challenge. Here are the three winners.
The Windy Challenge – Winning Posters!
EAC Clean Green Award
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…
and Tip#3…
December Challenges…
Click on the link to ‘Windy’s Festive Countdown’ Advent calendar and see if you can complete/use any of Windy’s tips for December!
Happy December! 
Mauchline Parkour
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
Introduction to ADHD – NEST workshop in Cumnock
12 Dec, 10:00 – 12:30
YipWorld (Cumnock), 19 Barrhill Rd, Cumnock KA18 1PG, UK
Would you like to know about ADHD? This workshop provides parents and carers with an opportunity to learn more about ADHD and how it affects all aspects of a person’s life.
https://www.nest.scot/workshops
Please use the link to book your space.
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:
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!
Inclusive Friendly Schools Committee
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.
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Community Garden
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.
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.
