Primary 7 pupils WILL NOT take part in the scheduled transition visit to St Joesphs on Thursday 19th December, this will allow them to participate in our Christmas Mass instead.

Thanks 

• 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

Please ensure your child arrives in school  on time (no later than 9am) tomorrow as buses will leave at 9.15am prompt

Children can wear their Christmas Jumpers to school tomorrow on top of their normal school uniform 

***This payment item is now LIVE on Parentpay. Please make sure you make payment for the correct performance***

Please find below link for additional tickets for the P1 – P3 Nativity. 

Please do not use link on December Newsletter as this is no longer active or working

Additional Nativity Tickets

Please have a look at our December newsletter.

December Newsletter 2024

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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.*

We look forward to seeing you all at our Christmas Fayre tomorrow evening from 6.30 pm – 8.30pm, our wonderful school choir will be getting us into the Christmas spirit from 6.15pm 

Tempest school photographs will be in childrens school bags today (27/11)

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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🤞🤩

Dear Parents/Carers,

Following interviews held yesterday, I am delighted to be able to advise that Mrs Joanna McGahon has been appointed to the post of Acting Head Teacher, St Sophia’s Primary School. 

Joanna is currently Depute Head Teacher at Mount Carmel Primary School, and will commence her post at St Sophia’s PS in the New Year.

I am sure you will join me in congratulating Joanna on her appointment.

Kind regards,

Linda McAulay-Griffiths

Chief Education Officer and Head of Education

East Ayrshire Council

London Road

KILMARNOCK

KA3 7BU

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.

Primary 6 took part in the Day of Dance which saw schools from all over East Ayrshire showcasing their talents. It was a wonderful day and the children represented the school beautifully. A great big well done to each and every one of them! 💙

On World Children’s Day we celebrate children’s rights as it is the birthday of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This year, this human rights law for children became a part of the law in Scotland.

This morning P4, P5 and P7 took part in a special online assembly led by Nicola Killean, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner. During the assembly we learned about the link between climate change and children’s rights, heard from other children who have created climate campaigns in their local area and shared our views with children across Scotland.

We are feeling inspired!

#rightsrespectingschools #climatechange #cleangreenayrshire

Pupil Progress Meetings are scheduled to take place on Wednesday 20th November and Thursday 21st November.

Unfortunately, the meetings for Primary 2 with Mrs Travers will have to be rescheduled.  At this time it is not known when these will take place.

Due to staff absence Primary 5 meetings will take place with Mrs Terras only.

As part of Catholic Education Week P5 explored the letter which Pope Francis has written to people all over the world telling them about the Jubilee Year of 2025.

The theme is ‘Pilgrims of Hope’, and it will be a year of hope for a world suffering the impacts of war, the ongoing effects of COVID-19 pandemic, and a climate crisis.

After discussing the main messages of the letter P5 designed their own ‘Pilgrims of Hope’ logos!

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.