December 12, 2021
by Mrs Campbell
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All applications require to be completed online at – https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/schooladmissions
Any placing requests should also be completed online with a closing date for Placing Requests being Monday 31 January 2022.
December 12, 2021
by Mrs Campbell
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If you child qualifies for free school meals then they would be entitled to receive a two course meal worth £2.15 per day. You can qualify even if you are working and in receipt of certain benefits. By qualifying via the free meal entitlement this route, families will be awarded £160 per child by the end of January if they are registered by the end of the term at Christmas. Continued entitlement throughout next year will award 4 further payments of £130 each.
Check if you qualify and to apply online at –
December 12, 2021
by Mrs Campbell
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If you qualify for free school meals based on low income then you will also qualify for the £160 Family Pandemic Payment. This payment will be made by 20th December for those already qualifying or register before 30th November 2021. New claims registered after 30th November but before the end of term will be paid by the end of January 2022.
In 2022, 4 equal payments of £130 will be made at Easter, Summer, October and Christmas. The payments will be made in line with the start of the school holidays.
You can’t get these payments if your child is in early learning and childcare (nursery). The Scottish Child Payment is available for children under the age of 6.
Visit website –
https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/CouncilAndGovernment/Coronavirus/Family-pandemic-payment.aspx
Or contact Julie our Financial Inclusion Officer for assistance.
Julie McCall
Tel: 07584 490 511
Email: julie.mccall@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
December 12, 2021
by Mrs Campbell
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Child Winter Heating Assistance extends for 16-18 year olds
Child Winter Heating Assistance is a benefit from the Scottish Government. It was first paid in 2020 for children under 16yrs old. It’s a payment to help disabled children and young people and their families with increased heating costs over winter.
It’s paid once a year. The payment for winter 2021-2022 is £202.
Payments are usually made from November onwards.
Children and young people in Scotland can get the assistance if they’re under 19 years old and get one of the following ‘qualifying benefits’:
They must be getting this on at least one day in the third full week of September. In 2021 this was Monday 20 September to Sunday 26 September.
For further information see factsheet –
Or contact Julie our Financial Inclusion Officer for assistance.
Julie McCall
Tel: 07584 490 511
Email: julie.mccall@east-ayrshire.gov.uk
December 12, 2021
by Mrs Carey
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Hi, it’s getting a very exciting time with Christmas fast approaching and lots of mischievous elves around. A big thank you to Jack and Jay’s in P1’s Grandpa for giving us a clay decoration on Friday. We painted them white and if you manage to decorate them this week could you possibly email me a photo of them.
email – rosemary.carey@eastayrshire.org.uk
Language for this week
Nemo – diagraph oi
key words – their, some, then, last
Education City Activities – Soil Spoil and Cuckoo’s Nest
Dory – phonemes b and u
key words – be, but, you
Education City Activities – Bath Time Bubbles, Snug as a Bug, Umbrella Up
Maths for this week
We will be developing our problem skills in class this week with some Christmas activities. You might have noticed the children are doubling numbers by using their fingers. You could have some fun doubling numbers in this way this week or reinforcing number bonds to 10 using your fingers too. Enjoy these activities.
Starfish
Education City Activities – Fluffy Clouds, Pitcher Framed, Pitcher Perfect
Octopus
Education City Activities – I Spy a Magpie, Hustle Bustle, Fruit Frenzy.
Have a fun week. Rosie Carey
December 10, 2021
by User deactivated
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I can’t believe its Friday again! Time really does fly when you are having fun, and we have certainly had lots of fun this week. Our Elf has been busy getting up to mischief.
Monday – Elf covered himself in our stickers.
Tuesday – Elf made a ball pool with our pom poms.
Wednesday – Elf had a snowball fight with our class toys.
Thursday – Elf decorated our Xmas tree with Haribo.
Friday – Elf climbed on a rope up our dolls house leaving a trail of Batman Christmas gold chocolate coins.
He did share all of the Haribo and chocolate coins with us.
Literacy – We have focused on the phonic ‘f’ and made beautiful poinsettia flowers. Our common words were it, for, on and we will continue to focus on these words next week. We use ‘break and blend’ to help us work out new words. We also read a lovely story called ‘The Puppy Who wanted a boy’. We talked about the characters and setting in the story and created fantastic story maps.
Next week our phonic is ‘O’ and our common words are it, for, on. We will read the story ‘Stick Man’ and will create story maps.
Numeracy – We took part in lots of number sense activities focusing on different ways to show a number. We used dominoes, ten frames, dice, fingers, pictures and a variety of goldfish bowl resources. We are so clever when taking part in these activities. Ask your child to talk about it and you will be impressed.
Next week we will continue to explore numbers. We will focus on number sequence, teen numbers and counting in 2’s and 10’s.
We also explored the traditions associated with Christmas and the Nativity story. We read the story ‘Santas Underwear’ which is so funny! We made beautiful snow globes to decorate our classroom.
Next week we will explore Xmas around the world and how different countries and religions celebrate Christmas. The children are keen to make Xmas cards and Santa Puppets.
Your children work so hard in Primary 1 and they continue to impress me every day! They are super excited about Christmas and love to complete our Christmas activities. I am sure they will be even more excited next week and it really is lovely to get caught up in it all.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend,
Hugs from Mrs Cuthbertson xx
December 10, 2021
by Ms Wilson
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Friday again, what a quick week.
We have been very busy this week working on lots of activities. In literacy, we planned and wrote a diary extract from a Victorian character’s viewpoint. We enjoyed reading our work out to our peers. For our talking and listening task, we created interview questions to ask a Victorian working child about their job. We had fun acting out our interviews and taking turns to be the interviewer and the interviewee.
In Numeracy and Maths, we learned how to record fractions in two different ways and in maths we explored the properties of quadrilaterals.
It was our final skiing and tubing session on Thursday. Most of us enjoyed the chance to ski on the big slope. Although it was scary, we all made it safely to the bottom.
We are still working hard with our Aladdin rehearsals and are really good at the first three songs. Miss Frew and Mrs Wilson were very impressed with the quality of our singing.
Next week, we will be focusing on the meaning of Christmas, who the real Santa Claus was and learning about Christmas in Victorian times.
December 10, 2021
by Miss Baillie
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Hello P4,
We have had a very interesting week! Our naughty elf has been causing mishief as usual and even went as far as to rip up Miss Baillie’s plans on Thursday (she was not very happy) and declare we had a digital learning day! No pens/pencils were allowed to be used all day! We took part in Vetastic Adventures where we joined a teams meeting with a vet who told us all about his job, answered lots of our questions and played fun quizzes with us! A lot of schools were involved and we got to see their questions and hear their thoughts too!
We also had an amazing opportunity to take part in an Ancient Egyptians workshop with Nation Museums Scotland learning about mummification and the afterlife. This included learning about the mummification process, looking and discussing different ancient artefacts and working out words from the hieroglyphics. We had a lot of fun and learned some new things about our topic!
We have also been writing letters to Santa and learning about how we celebrate Christmas.
Have a nice weekend,
Miss Baillie & Mrs Ferguson
December 9, 2021
by Mrs Johnstone
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This week we have been working hard on our World War 2 display. We have been drawing Spitfires (aircraft used during the war) and making model gas masks. Designing and making our own gas mask boxes was a challenge; we had to do accurate measuring and draw our own nets. Our gas masks had to fit and we also had to have a strap to carry the box. At the end we tested our designs to see if they would work.
Some of the work we completed with Miss Little is on display now too. Here is our Remembrance display of oil pastel poppies and poetry.
… and our Victory Gardens.
In maths, we had a fastest finger first challenge using MSTeams for mental arithmetic. It was fun!
We have also been learning about the properties of squares.
Today, we took part in an online workshop called Vetastic Adventures; it was really fun and interesting learning about work as a vet.
December 8, 2021
by Mrs McMillan
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We are getting super excited for Christmas. The class tree is up, there is chocolate in the advent calendar and we have been following the adventures of Palmer and Santa on Santa’s South Pole journey. This has also helped to remind us of things we can do to help our planet.
Our new phonemes for this week are e – e and au. Keep practising these and your tricky words. They are in your diary and there are lots of ways to practise before Friday’s spelling test.
Last week we learned about St Andrew and how he became Scotland’s patron saint. We also learned about the Scottish flag.
We finished our class book The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark and it earned a round of applause in the last chapter when Plop discovered he really was a night owl. We learned lots of interesting facts about barn owls and made our own factfiles.
We also tried sharing what we knew and had learned about COP26 with a talk partner. Lots of information and views and opinions were discussed. P3 really learned a lot about climate change, greenhouse gases and carbon footprints.
This week we will be using a new strategy in maths to do subtraction. We are using grids and partitioning the calculation into tens and units to help us subtract.
Here are some things that we learned last week.
Mrs McMillan
