Basketball stars rock on to the final
Eight schools battled it out at a basketball festival last week at Kilmarnock College’s Centre for Sporting Excellence, the first ‘finals’ event following the launch of the East Ayrshire Olympics programme.
And Onthank Primary – which goes under the banner of Brazil – emerged victorious, with Nether Robertland (Kazakhstan) second and Kirkstyle (Japan) in third place
See link below for story about the basketball festival
James McClelland
A local author arrived in school last week to speak to the whole school at Assembly and afterwards to Question Time in the Pr.2 Literacy groups. Primary 2 pupils had the opportunity to purchase signed copies of his books and the school have kept three copies of each for our own school library, for everyone to enjoy.
James McClelland is local to Ayrshire and his books about a young boy and his pet sabre toothed tiger are published locally in Darvel. The pupils listened to sections from his first two books; chapters involving diplodocus and the mighty T-rex after he had talked about his own childhood experience of writing. We hope that he has inspired some pupils to take the plunge and jump into stories and writing; using their imagination to take them on adventures.
Primary 3 have started a favourite theme using the novel The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark. Owl Magic visited the school bringing some of their birds of prey to introduce to the children. Pupils in Primary 3 & Primary 3/4 got up close and personal with the smallest to the largest; a pygmy owl named Titch and an eagle owl.
As part of children in need fundraising, Kirkstyle cooking classes teamed up with their business partners Asda. Asda provided Mrs McKenna’s budding chefs with Pudsey shaped cutters. The younger classes designed chef hats and decorated biscuits, the upper classes had a free reign on their own design for Pudsey. The winning entrants of the biscuits design headed off to Asda for an official presentation from none other than Pudsey himself.
Pictured below are our budding chefs wearing their hats and the winning entries from Taylor , Alana and Lara.
The children in Primaries 4 to 7 had a wonderful time entertaining parents, family and friends in this year’s pantomime. They really enjoyed making costumes, scenery, learning their lines and songs. A fantastic time was had by all.
The Cast
The Pickled Onions
The Christmas Puddings
The Christmas Turkeys
The Elves
The Fairies
The Christmas Menu and Santa’s Magic Book
The Carol Singers
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