Mr Gray joined us at Get Together this morning to tell us that KiDZONE is running their Under The Sea club each night this week at Bridgend Gospel Hall from 6-7pm. This is available to P1-P7 pupils.
Please see poster below for more information.
New Cumnock Gala Day 2026
We hope everyone enjoys the New Cumnock Gala Day today. Well done to the team involved in making this event possible for the community.
Good luck to our pupils who are part of the Royal Party, we hope you have a special and memorable day!
CJCE Community Classes
Cumnock Juniors community classes are restarting. Please find information about these below and the sign up link if you wish your child to attend.
Monday – Free 2021 Aged Football – https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/aWrqh80HYq?origin=lprLink
Monday – P4/P7 Football – https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/ErT5kEa2G8?origin=lprLink
Thursday – P1/P4 Girls Football – https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/GD2fHQVNy4?origin=lprLink
Friday – P1/P3 Football – https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/y8D1sJzPjb?origin=lprLink
Friday – Under 5s Mini-Kickers – https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/FVZLry5BMV?origin=lprLink
NCPS Social Media Platform
Our school communication platforms range from: sharing important information and news (via the school app and blog), personal learning progress and targets (via Learning Journals) and photos of learning and success stories across the school (previously via ‘X’)
Our Social Media platform is now changing and we will no longer be using ‘X’ to share our successes.
We would like to know from our families which platform they would find most useful moving forward. Please vote below.
Meet Miss Lind!
We are delighted to welcome Miss Lind to New Cumnock Primary School as our Probationary Teacher this session. Miss Lind will be teaching Primary 4/5 and will be supported by Mr Hastings.
Breakfast Club 19/8/26
We are delighted that we still have remaining funds from our previous New Cumnock Development Trust grant, which will enable us to be able to run our Breakfast Club in Term 1, for free to our families!!!
We continue to actively seek funding which will allow us to continue this provision for the remainder of the school year. Please keep your eyes on our school communications for further information about this, as the school year goes on.
We are extremely grateful to the NCDT for providing the funds to enable us to run this club, which not only supports the Health and Wellbeing needs of our young people, but supports our families too.
Please note:
- Breakfast Club will start on Wednesday 19th August 2026.
- Breakfast Club will run Monday-Friday 8:00am until 8.45am (Last entry to Breakfast Club will be 8:30am)
- Entry will be via the back door to rear of the car park. Parents/carers must please refrain from parking in our staff car park as the morning time is busy with staff cars and school transport.
Please complete the Form below if you wish to register your child to attend.
Welcome back to session 2026/2027!
Good afternoon!
We hope you have all had a lovely summer holiday with your families. We are looking forward to seeing all of our children return to school tomorrow, Wednesday 19th August.
New P1 Pupils:
On Wednesday 19th August, our new Primary 1 pupils will be met in the playground by Mrs Clarke, Mrs Elliott and Mrs McMurdo at 9.15am. We kindly ask that P1 parents refrain from entering the playground before 9am. This will allow us to get the P2 – P7 children into the school safely before your arrival. Once our P1s arrive, a maximum of 2 parents of each child will be invited into the school to see them in their new classroom. This should be a quick visit to prevent your child becoming upset.
P1 parents should collect their child from the playground at the end of the day. The P1 teacher will bring the children out at 2.55pm before the playground gets busy when the rest of the school is dismissed at 3pm.
Playground Arrangements:
Morning –
Children should enter the playground at the gate at the front of the school and walk along the path beside the staff carpark or enter via the gate beside the ECC which leads straight into our playground. Please note, that pupils should not enter the playground before 8.45am in the morning. The playground is not manned by staff until 8.45am, therefore children should not be in the playground prior to this time, to ensure their safety.
There shouldn’t be any parents coming into the playground in the morning (with the exception of new P1 parents on their child’s first day.) Staff will be at both gates to support children into school if needed.
From Thursday onwards, our P7 buddies will be on hand in the playground to help P1 children get to their zone and into their line at the 9am bell.
End of the Day –
Please remember that only P1-P3 parents are permitted to pick their children up from the playground at the end of the day to prevent congestion when our children are leaving. P4-P7 parents, please arrange a meeting spot with your child outside the playground if appropriate.
School Attendance:
All East Ayrshire Council schools are required to maintain an accurate attendance record for all pupils. When your child is absent from school, parents/carers are required to notify the school of the reason why. This can be done by:
- Phoning the main office – press 1 for absence line (01290 338404)
- Alerting us through the absences feature on the Safer Schools App
School Uniform:
We expect all of our pupils to be wearing school uniform to ensure they are easily identifiable and represent Team New Cumnock. If you require support with this, we have a well stocked pre-loved uniform stock (including polo shirts, jumpers, hoodies, trousers, skirts, pinafores, jackets and shoes) in our main reception. Please come to the office and have a look and take what you need.
Free Toast and Fruit:
We are delighted that we still have enough funding remaining from our previous NCDT grant to enable us to run our Breakfast Club again in Term 1. Please find the relevant post on our school blog and app which will contain a link to register your child’s attendance at Breakfast Club.
Please do not forget that as per East Ayrshire policy, we provide our children with free toast from 8.45am. Children can make their way into the dinner hall in the morning to get this. As well as this, we have free fruit available at morning interval.
PE Days:
Your children will receive 2 hours of PE each week. In order to participate fully, they are required to bring a change of footwear (plimsoles/trainers) and a change of bottoms (joggers/shorts/leggings) to wear for these lessons.
These can be put in a gym bag to remain on their peg in school or kept in their school bags.
PE days are as follows:
P1 (Mrs Clarke) MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
P1/2 (Mrs Elliott) WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
P2/3 (Mrs Johnstone) TUESDAY & FRIDAY
P3/4 (Mrs Armour) TUESDAY & FRIDAY
P4/5 (Miss Lind) TUESDAY & THURSDAY
P5 (Miss McQueen) TUESDAY & FRIDAY
P6 (Mrs Ramsay/Miss Nicholl) MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
P6/7 (Mrs Petrie) WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
P7 (Mrs Frew) MONDAY & THURSDAY
Names on Items:
Please ensure that you have your child’s name on ALL of their personal items, including clothing, packed lunches and water bottles. We had an obscene amount of lost and found items left at the end of last school year, that we were unable to relocate as they had no names!
School Lunches:
All primary school pupils in East Ayrshire are entitled to free school meals.
Our school meals menus operate on a three-week cycle. You can view the school meals weekly rotation schedule on the school blog.
Parents/carers are encouraged to pre-order their child’s lunches via ParentPay. If your child choses to bring a packed lunch, this option can also be recorded on ParentPay.
Data Forms:
Prior to the holidays, children were sent home with data check forms for completion. This is to ensure all the information we have on record is correct.
Included in this is photographic consent forms, which we require before we can upload images on our school blog and Learning Journals. We are really keen to start sharing our learning and successes with you so if you have not yet returned these, can we ask that you do so as soon as possible.
Learning Visit Summary (May 2026)
Dear Parents/ Carers,
On the 19th, 20th and 21st of May, our school received an Learning Visit from the Local Authority Education Team. The purpose of this visit is to support the school with the self-evaluation process and identify strengths and next steps. Please find below the findings from the visit:
Overall Strength
· The school demonstrates strong, supportive relationships rooted in mutual respect, care, and positive partnerships, contributing to a nurturing and inclusive learning environment for all learners.
· The school is at the heart of its community, making a positive contribution to local life while effectively utilising community facilities and partnerships to enrich learners’ experiences. The school is well regarded within the community and promotes strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders.
· Children are respectful and responsible and are supportive towards each other. Their politeness and respect for others reflect the school’s current values and positive ethos.
· The school demonstrates highly effective communication at all levels, fostering positive and collaborative relationships with learners, staff, parents, partners, and the wider community. Clear and consistent communication supports a shared understanding of the school’s values, priorities, and improvement agenda.
· Very effective attendance procedures are consistently implemented across the primary school, with the process being ably led and closely monitored by the Principal Teacher, resulting in stronger engagement and improving pupil attendance.
· The school has strong, well-embedded structures and processes in place, and these should continue to be regularly reviewed to ensure ongoing effectiveness and continuous improvement.
· It is recognised that staff support one another’s wellbeing, contributing to a positive and caring working environment.
· The headteacher demonstrates strong, highly effective leadership, which is widely recognised and valued by all stakeholders.
· There is clear evidence across the school of the effective implementation of Meta Skills, supporting learners to develop transferable skills for learning, life, and work.
Areas for Consideration
The areas for consideration build on evidence observed during the visit. There is no implication that the areas for consideration are not already being considered or actioned but may benefit from being strengthened or consistent across the school.
· The school should consider refreshing its vision, values, and aims to ensure they remain relevant, inclusive, and reflective of the school community. This process should engage stakeholders and align with current educational priorities, supporting a shared sense of purpose and direction for continuous improvement.
· The school should refresh and further embed its Rights Respecting Schools approach to ensure all pupils are fully aware of their rights and feel empowered to exercise them. There should also be a clearer understanding and explicit connection to the Rights Respecting Schools initiative to strengthen consistency and impact across the school community.
Required Actions
· The school should review its current forward planning approaches, including the use of East Ayrshire Progression Planners, to ensure they incorporate meaningful pupil enquiry, support responsive learning and teaching, and provide regular opportunities to monitor and review progression across the curriculum.
· The school should review its current “Excellent Lesson” model, in consultation with all stakeholders, to ensure a shared and agreed approach that promotes consistency in high-quality learning and teaching. This approach should maintain flexibility to meet learners’ needs, support meaningful pupil-led learning experiences, strengthen pedagogical understanding, and ensure effective assessment and progression in learning.
· The leadership team should regularly review remits to ensure alignment with educational priorities and the school improvement plan, with a clear focus on improving outcomes for learners and driving improvement at all levels. Remits should balance strategic and operational responsibilities, provide clarity of roles and accountability, and be evaluated for impact, while supporting staff leadership development, distributed leadership, and whole-school capacity building.
To strengthen readiness for future inspections and scrutiny, the school should ensure that evidence and presentations consistently use evaluative language, clearly demonstrating the measurable impact of actions, approaches, and improvement processes on outcomes for learners. Self-evaluation should be evidence-informed, reflective, and focused on identifying strengths, areas for development, and next steps for sustained improvement.
New Cumnock Swimming Pool Summer Timetable
Please find the summer swimming timetable below. Book via phone call or Facebook messenger to avoid disappointment.
New Cumnock football team win the Football Fun Factory cup!!!
We are delighted to share that our school football team were the winners of the EA final last night after playing against Kilmaurs Primary School at Bonnyton Synergy Arena in Kilmarnock.
They edged a brilliant final with both teams playing some excellent football. New Cumnock brought home the Football Factory Cup with a 3-2 victory.
⚽⚽ Braeden W
⚽ Dylan M
It was a great turnout of family and friends to support the players, exactly what football is all about!
A huge thank you to our school football coach Gus Hart, for his hard work and commitment to our players all session.
