Health and Wellbeing, Parental Engagement, Whole school

RSHP Parent Workshop 22/4/24

April 19, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parents/carers,

Prior to the holiday, we shared with you via the app and school blog that in Term 4, we will be delivering Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenting (RSHP), as part of our Health and Wellbeing curriculum, across all stages of the school.

In line with East Ayrshire guidance, we contacted you to inform you of this.

The programme of study is generated in accordance with National guidelines. The contents of which, form a key element of personal, social and health education in our school and is an important part of children’s preparations for adult life.

Parental guidance letters can be found on the original post or within the Curriculum – Health and Wellbeing – RSHP tab on our school blog.

I write to invite you attend a Parent Workshop session where we can discuss the content of this curricular area at each stage and share with you the resources our staff will be using to support its delivery.

This will be held on Monday 22nd April 4-5pm.

I hope you can make it. Should you be unable to attend and would like to meet to discuss at another point, please contact me via email to let me know. danielle.mcnulty@eastayrshire.org.uk

Kind regards,

Mrs McNulty

Community Engagement, Community Partnership, Primary 7

P7s – Gala King and Queen

April 17, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Primary 7 parents/carers,

The New Cumnock Events Group have asked us to appoint a ‘King and Queen’ to be part of the upcoming community Gala Day.

Due to the success of last years event to celebrate King Charles Coronation, the New Cumnock Events Group are busy organising another Gala Day for the local community. This will be held on Saturday 1st June.

King and queen clipart » Clipart Station

Names of children who wish to be entered will be added to a hat and chosen randomly at Monday’s Get Together next week.

Children must be willing to dress up, happy to be part of a parade through the town and must be available on Saturday 1st June.

This is a wonderful opportunity to be part of a huge community event!

Please speak with your child about what is expected of them if chosen and if they wish their name to be entered, please complete the Form below to submit their details by 8.30am on MONDAY 22ND APRIL please.

Achievements, Burns competitions, Choir

Choir Success at the Choral Competition 2024

April 17, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

A huge congratulations to our school choir who have been placed in the top 3 in The Robert Burns World Federation school choral competition!

With a lot more schools having entered this year and the standard being extremely high, it is a wonderful achievement to have made it to the top 3 in Scotland for another year!

The results of the competition will be announced at the Primary Festival on Saturday 1^st June 2024 at Clydeview Academy, Gourock.

I am inviting any members of the choir, who were in the recording, who wish to attend the festival for the announcement of the results. We will listen to the recordings of the top three choirs ahead of results, and medals for the choir will be presented on the day.

Please note that this will be down to parental responsibility to arrange transport, should you wish to attend. The awards ceremony is usually held about 3pm, therefore I would encourage you to come along for no later that 2.30pm where you will be entertained in the main hall.

Please find attached the bio for the adjudicator, Kerry has also given feedback in the form of an adjudication sheet, these will be released once the results are announced.

Bio for Kerry Burley Adjudicator

Well done everyone, this is an amazing achievement!!!

If you do wish to attend or have any questions, please contact me via email. danielle.mcnulty@eastayrshire.org.uk

Kind regards,

Mrs McNulty

After School Clubs, Primary 1, Primary 1/2

P1 Kilmarnock Football Afterschool Club (Thursdays 3-4pm)

April 17, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Kilmarnock FC are hosting a 4 week block of football for P1 children commencing Thursday 18th April from 3-4pm. (Dates are 18/4/24, 25/4/24, 2/5/24, 9/5/24)

To register your child to attend this afterschool club, please complete the Form below.

Please provide a contact email address and Mrs McNulty will notify you to confirm your child has a space.

Please note that spaces are limited.

Parental Engagement, Respect Me, Whole school

New Cumnock Primary School’s Anti-Bullying ‘respectme’ Scottish Government Initiative

March 27, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

If you remember, we posted a parental questionnaire at the beginning of our ‘respectme’ journey last year, and now we are asking for this to be done again as we need to measure impact and change based on responses across the whole school community. The questionnaires are not lengthy and shouldn’t take long to complete – so PLEASE could you spare five minutes for this, as we need this data to apply for the ‘respectme’ school award. We really appreciate your help and support.

We will have a stand/workshop at Parent’s afternoon/evening that will be supervised by our parent group members and prefects. They will be there to share the good work that has been going on in school to promote this initiative and to answer any questions you may have. They will have fliers for the website and media channels, which contain a wealth of excellent resources. As well as this, there will be iPads available should you wish to complete the questionnaire after familiarising yourselves with what we’ve been working on as a whole school community.

As well as the questionnaire, we have posted below, our ‘respectme’ policy statement for New Cumnock Primary School. This will be available to all staff, children, parents/carers and visitors to the school.

We appreciate your time and support – many thanks,

Miss McQueen

Mrs Armour

PARENTAL/CARER Questionnaire:

Health and Wellbeing, Parental Engagement, Whole school

RSHP Parent/Carer Information

March 27, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Parents/carers,

In Term 4, we will be delivering Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenting, as part of our Health and Wellbeing curriculum, across all stages of the school.

In line with East Ayrshire guidance, we are contacting you to inform you of this.

The age and stage of our young people is taken into account in the delivery of RSHP. The content and vocabulary of which is outlined in the parents letters attached below.

Primary 1:

Early Level Parental letter updated April 2021

Primary 2-4:

First Level Parental letter updated April 2021

Primary 5-7:

Second Level Parental letter updated April 2021

You, as parent/carer, are your child’s first and most important teacher. With your child at school there is the opportunity for parents/carers and schools to work together to help your child to learn. In the links below, there are examples of how you might support their learning. There are also some ideas from parents who have been asked about what they do to support their child’s learning. Click on the links below to find out more.

Learning-at-Home-Second-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers (rshp.scot)

RSHP-Learning-at-Home-First-Level-information-for-parents-and-carers (1)

Learning at Home (Early Level information for parents and carers) (rshp.scot)

We are keen to seek your views on the delivery of this curricular area. Please click on the link below to complete our Form questionnaire, this should take no longer than 5 mins.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKYWquo1CyFFPrpYz8wk8wYNUQlZMSE8zRjM4UEk0SVFKQ1FUSTNQUUZSUC4u

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School Improvement – Have your say!

March 26, 2024 Mrs McMurdo Leave a comment

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We are keen to improve our service to ensure we are providing the best opportunities for our children. We value the opinion of our wider school community and believe that you should play a part in shaping how we do things in the future. We would really appreciate it if you could spend 5-10 minutes completing this short questionnaire below.

https://forms.office.com/e/bz3rTtfhSm

Parent Council, Whole school

Parent Council Easter Competitions

March 25, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Our Easter drawing competitions and Dress Down Day, which were organised by our Parent Council, were a huge success raising £265 for school funds!

Our prize winners were announced at Get Together today.

P1-3 drawing competition

1st Leela F

2nd Harper P

3rd Lottie J

P4-7 drawing competition

1st Tyler M

2nd Lucy G

3rd Hanna-Rose S

Easter hamper raffle winners

Well done to Blaine M and Lewis J!

Thank you to everyone for taking part!

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Childminder Recruitment in East Ayrshire

March 25, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

The authority are currently holding free training and support for people interested in a career in childminding. Please contact using the information above if this is something you would be interested in.

Clean Green Schools, Parental Engagement, Whole school

Earth Hour 2024

March 22, 2024 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

Today, our Accreditation Rich Tasks groups participated in Windy’s Earth Hour by getting outside and enjoying lots of screen free fun together!

We felt it was important that everyone got involved, in order to spread the Earth Hour message, not just our Clean Green Team. It was great to see so many children having fun outside with not a piece of technology to be found!

(Apart from Mrs McNulty’s phone making an appearance to capture the proof! Ha!)

The official Earth Hour is tomorrow, Saturday 23rd March at 8.30pm.

We ask that for 1 hour tomorrow evening, our families take time to switch off and dedicate an hour to help bring our world back to life. You can do this in any way you like, by spending 60 minutes doing something positive for our planet. Need inspiration? Click on the link below to view some ideas.

Give an Hour for Earth | Earth Hour

If you choose to take part, please evidence what you choose to do and upload it as a Parental Contribution to your child’s Learning Journal. We will showcase these entries at Monday’s Get Together and award house points to all our participants.

Your Learning Journals Child Login

East Ayrshire Council site