Please see the PDF below which contains lots of helpful information about the Lockerbie Manor P7 residential.
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AUTHOR VISIT – 7TH MARCH
Exciting News! P4-7 Author Visit – Friday 7th March

NRPS Transition Calendar 2024/2025
Please find our ECC to P1 transition calendar below.

Rag Bags – Fundraising
JUNIOR CHESS TOURNAMENT EVENT – 4
Please find attached the entry form for the next event to be held next week
Please also be aware that there are road signs up advising of road closures at Stanecastle Roundabout and along Long Drive in Irvine from 17th Feb for two weeks – we would assume that diversions will be in place, but please make your travel plans accordingly
Junior chess tour event 4 Greenwood
John Montgomery
Secretary
On behalf of Ayrshire Chess Association
JUNIOR CHESS UPDATE
Please see below, updated information regarding the Junior Chess Tour
MISSING JACKETS!
Please check that your child has the correct jacket as we have a few children who have lost their jackets. Some missing jackets do have names on them, eg, inside pockets etc.
Many thanks.
Christmas Concert 2024!
Our Christmas Concert was a huge success! We can’t thank our pupils, staff, parents and community enough for joining in the fun, smiles and laugher 🎄🎼💃💜
URGENT! CHESS UPDATE
Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will have to cancel the junior chess event planned for Tuesday 17th December 2024 to be held at Greenwood
We hope to start them again in the New Year and will advise you when that is planned
Thanks for your attention and patience in this matter
John Montgomery
Secretary
On behalf of Ayrshire Chess Association
Christmas Activity Trail
JUNIOR CHESS TOURNAMENT
Please find attached the entry form for the next Junior chess event to be held in December at Greenwood as well as the report on the recent event held at Greenwood in November
Thanks
John Montgomery
Secretary
On behalf of Ayrshire Chess Association
FAMILY FUN WITH NUMBERS
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- Saturday 23rd November 2024
- Saturday 7th December 2024
- Saturday 11th January 2025
- Saturday 1st February 2025
HALLOWEEN DISCO UPDATE
- We hope all the boys and girls had a fantastic time at the Halloween disco. They all looked incredible in their costumes. We are delighted to announce that the disco raised £637, £500 of which we will donate to our reading resource campaign, with the rest added to our general fundraising pot. We appreciate all of your support.
A special thank you goes to Mr Howie for his amazing experiments, Miss Orr, Mrs Beveridge and Mr Gilroy for keeping the disco flowing, our P7 volunteers who helped run the door and support our younger pupils, and our brilliant helpers who applied glitter tattoos and staffed the tuck shop and lucky dip. We hope wehaven’t missed anyone but we really appreciate everyone’s efforts to make the night so much fun for our children.
JRSO Seminar
JUNIOR ROAD SAFETY OFFICERS SEMINAR
On Tuesday 24th September 2024, we went to Kay Park Church Hall for our seminar. This is the event that helps train us for our roles as Nether Roberlands’ Junior Road Safety Officers.
We arrived early to school on the Tuesday so that we could get the bus to take us to Kilmarnock. We left school at 8.45am and we walked to the bus stop on the Robertland Hill. When the bus came, we got on and sat together up at the back and it took us to the bus station.
We used all the correct crossings when we got off the bus to keep us safe and when we arrived at the hall, we were met by a lady who registered us and gave us a goody bag which included our JRSO notebooks.
Lots of other schools were attending and we were in the green group with 2 other schools.
The first activity that we were doing was with Barbara, who works for Ayrshire Roads Alliance. She talked to us about The Green Cross Code and got us to make posters. We used different coloured paper and we had the choice of lots of crafty items to use.
The next station we went to was to listen to a new initiative that JRSO’s are being asked to join in with. It’s called ‘STARS, we strive for 5’. We are being asked to do 5 things over the year and aim to get 5 starts. The things we have to aim for are….
- Sustainable Travel Initiative.
- Bikeability/Cycling
- Road Safety Campaign
- Run a school travel or road safety competition.
- Create and maintain a noticeboard or school blog.
We are looking forward to the challenge and hope to earn the 5 stars.
We then stopped for a snack. There was juice and biscuits provided for us and we were extra lucky as Miss McMillan bought us snacks too!!
After snack time, we joined Chloe who asked us how we arrived at school. We were asked if there was different ways we could encourage pupils to walk, cycle etc, rather than taking the car.
We had to use our imaginations for her next task. We were to come up with crazy ideas to get to school without using electricity! Water slides, trampolines, jet packs and flying carpets were just a few of the funny ideas!!!
Before we knew it, our morning was over. It had been really enjoyable and we have taken lots of new ideas away with us.
It was time for us to get the bus back to school. When the ladies heard that we were using public transport, they were very impressed that we hadn’t used cars or taxi’s to get there…..a big gold star for us!

Macmillan Coffee Morning Update
We are delighted to share that our whole school community came together this morning to raise money for this amazing charity and in doing so, we manage to raise a whopping £1035.10!
Huge thank you to every single person involved!
Children and families – For all the donations of cakes
Parents/carers – For helping with the set up and running of the morning and for your very generous donations
Our Parent Council – For making it a reality with all your planning
Doreen and her team – For helping with all the crockery and for catering for our children with allergies
Sandy (Janitor) – For helping with the setting up
P7 Helpers – For being super leaders before, during and after the coffee morning
Mr Gilroy – For all his coordination
Stewarton Academy – For supplying us with all the crockery
Miss Orr – For all she does!
AYRSHIRE GYMNASTICS
Please see below information regarding Ayrshire Gymnastics. Thank you.
Yearly Overviews for Session 2024/2025
Our class teachers have planned learning for the session for their classes. If you would like to see what the planned learning is to support with this further at home, please take a look at the document for your child’s class by going to the ‘Sharing Learning’ page in the menu above. The planned learning is subject to change.

Diary Dates for Session 2024/2025
Please find the diary dates for this session, 2024/2025. All dates are subject to change and additional dates for school trips and parental engagement sessions will be shared with you as soon as they are planned.
Diary Dates Calendar Session 2024-2025
FOOTBALL TRAINING INFO
Please click below to see upcoming football training opportunities! Thank you.
MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING 27TH SEPTEMBER 2024
We are delighted to invite you to our Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday 27th September 9:30am – 11:45am. All donations raised on the day are made to Macmillan Cancer Support. Children are asked to bring a donation (cash) and they will be given juice and a piece of home baking. Baking will not be on sale for children, it is available for adults only. If any baking is left over, children will be offered it after lunch.
We will be very grateful for any donations of home or shop bought baking. Donations can be brought to school from Wednesday 25th September. Please ensure any containers are labelled with the name of your child and their class so that they can be returned after the Coffee Morning. Due to allergies, we kindly ask that you avoid baking containing nuts. The school cafeteria will kindly provide a piece of baking for any pupil with an identified food allergy.
Due to allergies and personal preferences, we would be grateful if you could complete the permission Form below for your child. If you have more than one child in the school, please complete an additional form.
Each class will visit the Coffee Morning for a short time to enjoy a piece of baking and a juice. Please see timetable below for the time slot each class will visit.
If you would like to make an online donation towards Macmillan Cancer Support, please click the link – Donate to Macmillan Cancer Support
Coffee Morning Pupil Permission Form
Many thanks
Class | Time |
P1B and P1W | 9:30am – 9:50am |
P2H and P2S | 9:55am – 10:15am |
P3M, P3T and P4H | 10:20am – 10:40am |
Playtime | Playtime |
P5L, P5/6F and P6MG | 11am – 11:20am |
P7D and P7H | 11:25am – 11:45pm |
LOST PROPERTY!
Lost property! Please contact the office on 01560 482035 if you recognise this jacket. Thank you!
School Lunch Menus
Please find the three week rotation lunch menus for this session below. We will be starting with week one menu on the first week back.
You will find the menus on the school Blog and on our app. You will also find a reminder in the app calendar for the menu week.
School Holidays 2024/2025
NRPS Parent Council Thank You!
ST COLUMBA’S CHURCH HOLIDAY CLUB
St Columbas’ Holiday club

MESSAGE FROM OUR PA
Girls’ Football Team Final
A huge well done to our Girls’ Football team for an excellent performance in the East Ayrshire Girls’ Premiership final yesterday. They worked hard to secure second place in East Ayrshire, which is a wonderful achievement. We would like to say a massive congratulations to Lainshaw in achieving the 6-1 win.
Thank you to Mrs Mason and Miss Hunter for all you have done to support our team and to our Stewarton Annick Football Coaches for training our girls and in promoting respect, teamwork and fun at all times. We can’t wait to see what next session brings for our football team!

JRSO final update for this session
I would like to say a huge THANK YOU to Arran, Finn, Aimee & Rosie for their dedication and hard work over the last year. They have made my job as JRSO Co-Ordinator a privilege. I have been very lucky to be supported by them. Thank you also to our Sub Team who helped with assemblies and poster making. Your help was extremely valuable on our journey.
Here is just a small re-cap of what has been achieved in a short space of time.
They organised this years’ Hands up for Scotland Survey and presented at many assemblies promoting all things to do with road safety. They created and ran a campaign for safer parking in and around our school grounds. They supported our Parent Council with new parking signs as well as producing many informative notice boards that are displayed in the gym hall full of valuable information for our pupils. They also created a Road Safety Charter back in August incorporating the families of our school. We were successful in receiving a Road Safety Magic Show for P1-P4 (which was well received and great fun). They signed up for the Big Walk and Wheel fortnight as well as the recent Walk to School week. On top of all this, they have kept an informative floor book of their JRSO journey.
My proudest moment was when one of the HMIE Inspectors joined one of our weekly meetings back in January and the feedback from her was that our JRSO Team was the best she had ever seen in Scotland as well as our floor book being very detailed and capturing our journey so far. She said we should be very proud of ourselves.
Such a jam-packed year they’ve had and their last duty was to choose next years’ new team. Together, they wrote application forms, spoke to the Primary 5 pupils and interviewed all of the applicants.
They have now chosen your new JRSO Team and I look forward to introducing them to you in the new term in August.
Thank you to everyone for their continued support.
Miss McMillan
VIBRANT COMMUNITIES SUMMER PROGRAMMES
Please see the posters below for information regarding summer activities from Vibrant Communities. Click to open the link. Thank you.

Girls’ Football Team Final
We are delighted and proud to share that our girls’ football team won their match yesterday against St. Andrews Primary. They played a strong game, with the final result being 5-2. Please support our team in joining them in playing Lainshaw Primary at the East Ayrshire Girls’ Premiership Final on Thursday 20th June (tomorrow) at the Synergy Arena (Bonnyton Thistle) with a 6pm kick-off. Girls should arrive 5pm for 5.30pm warm-up.
We would like to invites parents/carers, family members and pupils to support our team!