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New Cumnock, Pupil Council

SURF Awards 2021

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To round off our short week at school we wanted to share with you the wonderful work we have received from members of our Pupil Council.

New Cumnock were shortlisted to the final 3 in the SURF Awards for ‘Most Improved Place in Scotland’. Mrs McMurdo and Mrs McNulty attended the live virtual ceremony last night. Unfortunately we didn’t win, but Team New Cumnock will always be our winner!

In preparation for the event we asked our Pupil Council representatives to send us videos or words about why they think living in New Cumnock is so great?  Their responses were so wonderful we had to share them with you all!

Bennie P – P2/3 Pupil Council memberLucy S – P4/5 Pupil Council member

Emma Y – P6/7 Pupil Council member

Emma J – P7 Pupil Council member

Remote Learning, Whole school

Weekly Round Up 12/2/21

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We are now at the end of week 5 of Remote Learning. Well done for everyone’s efforts to stay engaged with your school work. We are so proud of the wonderful Remote Learning taking place that we wanted to share some of it with you from the past week.

We hope you all enjoy a well earned few days holiday next week, see you all again on Thursday 18th February.

Stars of the Week, Whole school

Stars of the Week 12/2/21

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Well done to this weeks Stars of the Week who demonstrated one of our school VALUES this week! We are extremely proud of you all for working hard to display our school values whilst Remote Learning.

Primary 1 – Katie H for DETERMINATION

Primary 1/2 – Ciara O for DETERMINATION

Primary 2/3 – Kal M for DETERMINATION

Primary 3 – Carson B for RESPONSIBILITY

Primary 4 – James M for DETERMINATION

Primary 4/5 – Lucy S for AMBITION

Primary 5/6 – Harry P for DETERMINATION

Primary 6/7 – Callum O for DETERMINATION

Primary 7 – Chailyn P for RESPONSIBILITY

Whole school, Wider Achievement

Dress To Express – Children’s Mental Health Week 2021

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A huge well done to everyone who took part in Mrs McMurdo’s Wider Achievement Challenge of Dress to Express last week. We loved seeing photos and videos of you all dressed to reflect how you feel and your explanations were super!

Apologies that these photos were missed from our video, but they are too good not to share! Thank you Mary and Miss Mason for your fabulous entries!

Literacy, Remote Learning, Whole school

Jolly Readers – E-Readers available for FREE!

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We are delighted to announce that Jolly Learning have now made all of their Jolly Phonics Readers available as e-readers for Android and Apple devices FOR FREE!

Jolly Phonics e-readers now available! — Jolly Learning

This is the reading scheme we use in school. As we are progressing with new learning, our class teachers will be continuing to use class readers as a resource. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to download these whilst this offer is available.

Spanning 93 books across 5 levels of decodable readers, they will help you to support your children remotely as they practice their reading skills anywhere!

You can access the books by clicking on the links below:

For the Google Play Book Store:

Jolly Phonics Orange Level Readers

Jolly Phonics Red, Yellow, Green and Blue Level Readers

For the Apple Book Store:

Jolly Phonics Orange Level Readers

Jolly Phonics Red, Yellow, Green and Blue Level Readers

 

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Appropriate Use Of Microsoft Teams

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Our teaching staff and Senior Leadership Team actively monitor the class use of Microsoft Teams and it has came to our attention that in some cases in recent days, class Teams pages have displayed some undesirable behaviours.

  • Please keep the general channel related to school work. Your class teacher may add a ‘chatty channel’ which will allow you to chat with your friends, but please refrain from doing this on the general channel as work posts then get lost amongst the chats.

  • Make sure that what you are typing is appropriate. Staff and your peers can see this. Any offensive of hurtful comments will be deleted. Please remember to be kind.

  • Please be mindful of what time you are accessing Teams. Try to keep this within school hours.

  • Whilst in a Live lesson, please conduct yourself as you would be encouraged to be in class, well behaved and mannerly at all times.

We encourage our parents/carers to monitor this closely too.

Thank you for your continued support.

Remote Learning, Whole school

No Printer… No Problem!

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We are aware that many of our families do not have access to a printer. Our teaching staff try hard to not be heavily reliant on worksheets in the daily tasks they set, but sometimes a worksheet perfectly sums up the aim of the lesson.

If you don’t have access to a printer, fear not!

There are some options:

  • You can create your own version of the worksheet on paper or in a jotter (please remember we have staff available to assist you at the school between 10am and 12pm Tuesdays and Thursdays if you wish to collect resources to support Remote Learning).
  • Alternatively, if you have access to an iPad or iPhone device, you can use ‘mark-up’ to annotate the worksheet and then save as a photo to then submit to the class teacher. The video below shows you how to do this.