Please be advised that the school will open to pupils as normal, 9.00am on Friday 19th January.

Statement from East Ayrshire Council:  UPDATE @16:00hrs, Thursday 18 January.

Muirkirk Primary School and Early Childhood Centre will remain closed tomorrow, Friday 19 January 2018.  We anticipate that all  other educational establishments will re-open  as normal. 

Multi-agency efforts are being made today to ensure safe access to, and around, educational sites in readiness for potential opening.

For up to date news bulletins from East Ayrshire Council please click here.

Statement from East Ayrshire Council: 

ALL schools and  educational establishments in East Ayrshire will be closed on Thursday 18^th January.

This extends to primaries, secondaries, early childhood centres and special needs establishments, and to organisations who use these facilities out of hours.

We have taken this decision following advice from partners and colleagues in education, roads and transportation and in response to an amber weather warning for more snow and ice coming our way this evening and into tomorrow morning.

In the interests of ensuring the safety of pupils, parents, staff and carers, we consider this to be the safest option for all concerned.

The situation will be closely monitored tomorrow (Thursday) before any decisions are taken for Friday.

For up to date news bulletins from East Ayrshire Council please click here.

The next Parent Council Meeting will take place on Monday 15th January, 7pm till 9pm at Kilmarnock Academy.  All are welcome to attend.

In preparation for the Interschool netball festival, our Active Schools Co-orindator has arranged 3 after school netball sessions starting Monday 15th January.  Letters have been sent home today in schoolbags.  If you child is interested in attending please return the forms asap.

It was lovely to see the children back at school this morning all ready to start a new term.  This term will be as busy as ever and we look forward to taking part in lots of fun activities such as Burns Poetry, World Book Day, our before/during/after school clubs and many more events!

Please remember to check back on our school blog as we will continue to use this as one of the ways to communicate what is happening to the whole LPS community.

Do you shop online?  Then you may be interested to know that Loanhead Primary School is part of Easy Fundraising which processes a donation everytime you shop!

It’s very simple to do, you just need to register on the Easy Fundraising site and then they will automatically make the donations to LPS on your behalf every time you shop at no extra cost to yourself.    So if you are heading to the sales after Christmas, why not consider joining Easy Fundraising first.

For a quick guide on how to register please click here.

To register and for more information on Easy Fundraising please click here.

The children took part in an ICT login Challenge at home recently.  Thank you to everyone who took part and supported this.  This challenge tested the speed for logging into both their computers and Glow.  The fastest speed recorded was 19secs!  This is a superb improvement from when we started this challenge which was 7 mins and 30 seconds.  Well done to all, challenge well and truly achieved!

Just a reminder… School will close early at 2.30pm on Friday 22nd December for the Christmas holiday.

Christmas card designed by Isla McGregor

Many thanks to everyone who supported our LPS’s Santa workshop, we are delighted to let you know…