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Weekly Wizards

At Cochrane Castle, we are very fortunate to have such a unique school name and we like to celebrate the ‘castle’ element as much as possible.

We have our Kings and Queens awards to celebrate children that demonstrate our school values and now, to coincide with the relaunch of our houses, we have our weekly Wizard Awards to celebrate children who have excelled in areas of the curriculum.  One Wizard award will be given each week from each class.  The children can be the Maths Wizard, the PE Wizard, the Science Wizard, the History Wizard and so on.

Our Wizards will receive a special star shaped badge in the colour of their house, a special certificate and an invitation to a special banquet with Mr Mothersole where they can have a drink, some crisps and a chocolate or sweet treat of their choice.

Today was the first special banquet and our first weekly Wizards had a great time.

Congratulations to the Wizards from Topaz –

Connor Toman, Erin McDougall and James Adams

Congratulations to the Wizards from Emerald –

Robyn Mitchell and Shaun Mitchell

Congratulations to the Wizards from Sapphire –

Mirren McBeth and Lily Houston

Relaunch of School Houses

This week at Cochrane Castle we relaunched our School Houses.

After many suggestions from our families, the children in school finally settled on the theme of precious stones for the House names.  Our Houses are now Topaz (yellow), Sapphire (Blue), Ruby (Red) and Emerald (Green).

Our new House Captains are –

Finlay Rayner – Topaz

Kelsey Alexander – Emerald

Brooke Fielding – Sapphire

Charlie Campbell – Ruby

 

Our first points tally will be given on Monday with the winning house for the month of December receiving a house prize in January.  Our house prizes will be chosen by the children and the House Captains will report back to Mrs McLeod.

The children have been trying extremely hard this week to gain as many house points as possible as they all know – ‘What do points make…PRIZES!’

 

Good luck to all the houses for the month of December and the rest of the school year.

CCPS Fleeces and Jackets

We have purchased school fleeces and jackets for every child in the school.  They are of a very high quality and the children are very pleased with the new additions. These items will be kept in school and we have a cleaning rota to keep them clean and fresh.

Due to spending an increased amount of time outdoors and because we keep the windows of our classes open to meet covid regulations, we felt the fleeces would be an invaluable extra layer of warmth for the children.

We also bought waterproof, fleece lined jackets for the children to wear outside for either activities with their class or during break or lunch time.  We felt this would be a welcome alternative to their own winter jacket and stop so many parents having to wash jackets on a daily basis!

There is no requirement for your child to wear the school provided items at break or lunch but when they head out on a school activity with their class, everyone will wear the same jacket to help identify our pupils.

Lots of the children opted to wear their new fleece at break today and it was lovely to see so many children taking pride in their school and running around with the Cochrane Castle badge on display!

School Day

A letter has been sent home in the pupils’ bags today to advise that we are reverting back to our more traditional start and finish times.

Please see attached. School Day

9.00 am start and 3.00 pm finish for every class in the school as of Monday 8 November.

We will offer an early entry to our Primary 1 – Primary 3 pupils, opening the doors for them at 8.50 am (depending on staffing levels)

Depute Head Teacher Appointment

Good afternoon everyone,

I am delighted to announce that after a successful interview process, Mrs. McLeod has been appointed as the permanent Depute Head Teacher of Cochrane Castle Primary School.

Mrs. McLeod has been in the role in an acting capacity since Mrs. Patterson retired therefore there will be no disruption to the service provided to your children.

I am sure you will all join me in congratulating Mrs. McLeod on a job very well done.

Kind regards

Mr G T Mothersole

Acting Head Teacher

Cochrane Castle School Values

Cochrane Castle School Values

 

Since returning from the Spring holiday we have re-established our school assemblies and our focus has been on the school values. Due to current restrictions our assemblies are taking place outside and with half the school at a time.

We feel that the disjointed year we have experienced has resulted in a loss of the community feel in the school and it is important to us that we have school celebrations and opportunities to come together as often as possible.  Our school community is built on our school values and we want to ensure that those permeate through everything that the Cochrane Castle Community does and that the children use those values to guide their thinking and their behaviour.  For that to happen our values need to resonate in our children’s lives both at school and at home.

We are working as a staff to establish a consistent and purposeful way of celebrating and teaching our school values.  As a result of that work you and your children will be sent a questionnaire on the school values that I would like you to complete.  The results of the questionnaire will help guide our next steps in relation to our school values.

If you have any questions regarding our values, then please do not hesitate to contact me via the school office.

Yours sincerely

 

 

Mr G T Mothersole

Acting Head Teacher