This Friday is:

A reminder that the school closes at 2.30pm for the Christmas Break.

Children who travel  by taxi will be collected at 2pm

The only option for school lunch this Friday will be soup and sandwiches.

Tomorrow is the last day for purchasing tickets for the FOMC December raffle where you could be in with a chance of winning this fabulous hamper!!

Good Luck🤞

Our Winning House is Air!

Well done to everyone in the Air House who will be going to Jungle Madness  on  Wednesday 8th  January. 

Permission forms have been issued today and  must be returned no later than Thursday19th December.

• Application for Dance Fest 2025, 22/23 April The Gaiety, Ayr: https://forms.office.com/e/Hrv2nXXerm
• Application for East Ayrshire’s Youth Dance Company: https://forms.office.com/e/GCdQxticUV
• FORM for EAC’s Staff Dance Group: https://forms.office.com/e/7VvGqpJ3m7

Tempest Photography.

It’s great to see so many parents ordering their child’s school photos.

For those parents who are yet to order online, you have until Monday 9^th December 2024 to take advantage of free delivery back to school. Order through the Tempest website using your unique link or visit www.tempest-orders.co.uk 

A reminder that tomorrow is our school Christmas lunch. All forms with pupil choices should have been handed in already.

Children can wear their school uniform with a Christmas Jumper.

If you, your family or someone you know is struggling this Christmas, please visit the annual Christmas Toy Appeal which will be held in the Masonic Hall, London Road Kilmarnock on the dates shown. This event is organised and run by wonderful volunteers  who are committed to ensuring no child goes without at this time of year.

Primary 7 Parent/Carer

As you are no doubt aware, your child is due to transfer from primary to secondary education at the beginning of the new school session (August 2025).

Secondary school hand books are available at: https://eastayrshi.re/SchoolHandbooks

Please complete the online P7 transfer application at http://eastayrshi.re/p7transfer no later than Friday 20 December 2024.

Tickets for our P1-3 Nativity “A Christmas Recipe” are now on sale via Parentpay at a cost of £2 each. At the moment, tickets are limited to 2 per family (eg. 2 for the afternoon performance OR 2 for the evening performance OR 1 for each performance)

There are separate payment items for afternoon tickets and evening tickets.

Once  paid for, tickets will be sent home in schoolbags. Please bring them with you on the day of the performance.

Thank you

Please use the link below

https://forms.office.com/e/VVGuFhiQ2N 

OR scan the QR code below to complete the calendar order form.

Don’t forget to pay for your calendars via Parentpay. 

Calendars are £2.50 each

*If you are unsure if your child was at school on the day the photographs were taken , please pop into the school foyer where the sample calendars will be on display and you will be able to view the appropriate class photo.*

Reminder!

This month instead of 1 raffle , we  have 2!,  where the children  have the chance to win a fabulous advent calendar; either a Hot Wheels one or a Barbie one. You can enter either raffle or both via Parentpay.

Today is the last day to buy raffle tickets for our Double raffle! Both raffles will be drawn on Friday 29th.

Good Luck🤞🤩

A reminder that this Friday (29th) is our final dress down day of the month. If possible we are kindly asking for any donations of home baking for our Christmas Fayre.

A reminder that we have Tempest Photography coming tomorrow for individual pupil photographs. Please note there will be NO provision for sibling photographs this year.

Today we took delivery of an enormous delivery of brand new school uniform which was kindly and very generously donated to our school by Tesco Extra, Kilmarnock.

These items will be added to our Uniform Exchange.

Our school recently entered a competition to win a real Christmas tree from Dobbies in Ayr……..we won!🎄🤩. 

Yesterday Mrs Fergusson travelled to Dobbies to collect our tree which will be displayed in the foyer of the school.

The Book Fair will be on display and available to purchase books from during both our Pupil Progress Meetings; tomorrow  and Thursday.

We do not accept cash for any purchases made from the Book Fair. Instead, there will be order forms available on both nights where you can order a book(s) and make payment online at the same time.

All order forms will then be delivered to the school office and orders made up and distributed to pupils in due course.

The SHA are hosting a come try event for all mini players, boys and girls (born 2014/2015 – roughly P5 and P6) and a female only event for two age categories – players born 2012/2013 (P7&S1) and players born 2010/2011 (S2&S3).

For young people to sign up, their parent/guardian must complete the MS forms that is linked below.

https://forms.office.com/e/MJeTwm2UwY

‘Be safe Be seen day’ on the 22^nd November. 

It’s that time of year when children will be making journeys to school and back in the dark. When the evenings are darker, visibility is greatly reduced for everyone which makes pedestrians and cyclists even more vulnerable than usual so help us promote:

‘Be safe Be seen day’ on the 22^nd November.

 We want to encourage all pupils to wear something bright on their journeys to school. Remember we are looking for as bright as they want, fluorescent and especially reflective clothing is so important when the days become darker.

We hope you have fun helping us promote this important road safety message and please let us know what great ideas you come up with and if sharing on your socials be sure to tag us #ayrshireroads.

Please find below the link to the most recent Primary Counselling Newsletter:

East Ayrshire School Counselling Newsletter – Primary Schools

Do you have any Christmas Jumpers/party clothes which are too small for your child/children? If you do, we would be very grateful if you could hand them into the school.

Thank you.  

There will be non-attendance of school crossing patrol in place on Mieklewood Road, today 12/11 and tomorrow 13/11.

Due to the reduction in cost per child for the Pantomime from £15 to £12, we are working our way through individual refunds of £3.

Once you have paid £12, please ignore any outstanding balance showing regarding this on your Parentpay account as we are having issues amending it .

Thanks

Afternoon

We are excited to announce that our Nativity performance will take place on Wednesday 11th December with both an afternoon and evening performance that day. For the afternoon performance doors will open at 1:30pm with tea and coffee being served in the small hall. Ticket holders will then be able to take their seats at 1:45pm, ready for the performance to start about 2:00pm.

Evening

On Wednesday 11th December we will also have our evening performance. We expect that all pupils in Primary 1-3 will attend this. If your child is unable to attend this performance please return the tear off slip in the Nativity letter which will be sent out 7th of November. This should be returned by Tuesday 12th November. All Primary 1-3 children should arrive at school at 5:00pm via the front entrance. Our doors will open at 5:30pm with tea and coffee being served in the small hall. Ticket holders will then be able to take their seats at 5:45pm, ready for the performance to start about 6:00pm.

Details about how to purchase tickets will be sent home in the coming weeks.

Christmas Fayre Donations

We will be holding Dress Down Days on every Friday throughout the month of November.  We are kindly asking if, on those days, the children could bring in a donation for the bottle stall / tombola for the Christmas Fayre.

We are only asking for 1 donation per family and not 1 donation for every child in the family.  Please note that all children are welcome to dress down even if they are not bringing a donation.

Below are  suggestions for items on each Friday, however we will gratefully accept any donations on any of the 4 Fridays:

• Friday 8th November- Bottle for bottle stall
• Friday 15th November- Chocolate/Sweets
• Friday 22nd November- Gift sets/Toiletries
• Friday 29th November-Home Baking

Pupils attending the cross country event tomorrow (7/11) should come to school wearing their PE kit (leggings, joggers) and school jumper. They should also bring with them full school uniform to change into when they return.