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Achievements, Burns competitions, Wider Achievement

Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition 2023

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We couldn’t be more proud of Team New Cumnock today! ❤️

Each and every one of our pupils who represented the school at the Regional Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition is a superstar. The performances they gave in front of a large audience and the feedback from the judges on their adjudication sheets is testament to that!

We are delighted to be bringing home the following prizes:

🏆🥇1st place P4/5 Singing: Adele M

🥈2nd place P6/7 Singing: Aleesha C

🥉3rd place P6/7 Verse Speaking: Arran J

🥈2nd place P6/7 Instrumental: Devan B

🥉3rd place P6/7 Instrumental: Aleesha C

Also a huge well done to our former pupils who are now at Robert Burns Academy and bringing home the following prizes to New Cumnock:

🏆🥇1st place S1/2 Verse Speaking: Emma J

🥈2nd place S3/4 Verse Speaking: Adana W

🥈2nd place S1/2 Singing: Emma J

Well done everyone, you are all stars! ⭐️

Mrs McNulty would like to extend her thanks to Mrs Wilson for coming in to school to accompany our singers to help them rehearse on the run up to the competition. ❤️

We are delighted that our 1st and 2nd place winners have now been invited to attend the National Burns Competitions to represent Ayrshire later this year! 🤩

Achievements, Clean Green Schools, Eco Committee, School Life, Whole school

Scottish Parliament Recognition!

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New Cumnock Primary School would like to extend our sincerest thanks to Sharon Dowey MSP for her recognition of our pupil’s hard work achieving our Bronze Clean Green Schools award with special recognition for Energy, our Climate Champion East Ayrshire Youth award and our 5th Green Flag award!

We received a copy of the Motion which was read out in the Scottish Parliament!

Burns competitions, Community Engagement, Wider Achievement

School Poetry Afternoon

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This afternoon we hosted our school poetry competition. We were delighted to welcome all our classes and families and friends of our finalists in to watch.

Every one of our finalists showed such bravery, courage and wonderful performance skills, and the cheers from our audience were testament to how proud our school community are of you all.

A huge well done to you all!

A big thank you goes out to Mr and Mrs Skilling from the Ayrshire Burns Association for coming along to show their support and to our 3 judges, Iain Burgoyne (better known as Budgie), Reverend Ken Yorke and Billy Hastie for coming along to help us with the difficult job of judging the wonderful talent on display.

Prize winners are noted below:

P1

1st: Millar S

2nd: Skye J

3rd: Amelia W

P1/2

1st: Brooke F

2nd: Megan M

P2

1st equal: Riley S & Stewart Y

2nd: Daisy M

3rd: Bryce W

P3

1st: Ella M

2nd: Honor P

3rd: Darcy B

P3/4

1st: Olivia M

2nd: Ciara O

P4/5

1st: Kal M

2nd: Baylee M

P5

1st: Adele M

2nd: Riley B

3rd: Joey H

P6

1st: Amy J

2nd: Quyn F

3rd: Shaun F

P7

1st: Bruce G

2nd: Arran J

Burns competitions

Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition 2023

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I am delighted to share that this year’s Ayrshire Regional Burns Competition will be held in Belmont Academy, Ayr on Saturday 4th March 2023. 

The competition will take place in 5 different disciplines:

  • Verse Speaking
  • Singing
  • Instrumental
  • Bagpiping
  • Chanter

The same pupil may be entered for one, two or more disciplines,
e.g. Singing and Instrumental.

The competition is open for P1-P7 pupils.

As always, I will be volunteering my time to work with pupils who are keen to enter. This time however, will be limited, therefore pupils will be required to spend time practising at home.

I have very much appreciated the efforts of pupils who have entered these competitions in previous years. We have experienced lots of success in these competitions due to the high standard of talent in our New Cumnock Primary pupils!

If your child wishes to enter the competition, please complete the attached contact form by no later than next Friday 3rd February to allow me to make contact with families and complete the official paperwork that is required in order to enter.

I look forward to working with our talented pupils once again!

Mrs McNulty

Achievements, Whole school

Term 1 Gold Awards

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We were delighted to celebrate our Gold Award winners for Term 1 at today’s Get Together.

Children were awarded for consistent effort, good behaviour and a conscientious attitude to school.

Well done to all our winners!

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Primary 1/2

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Achievements, Rights Respecting Schools, School Life

Silver Rights Respecting School!

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We are so excited to announce that following a successful accreditation visit, we are now officially a SILVER RIGHTS RESPECTING SCHOOL!

We have all worked so hard for this achievement and we are so proud of our learners who shared their thoughts and opinions today with our assessor.

We are now looking forward to our banner being delivered, and getting started on our JOURNEY TO GOLD!

Achievements, Burns competitions, Wider Achievement

Burns Competition Success Shared

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24/6/22

At Friday’s Get Togethers, we were entertained by pupils who competed in the Ayrshire Burns Competition this month, showcasing their talents in singing, poetry and instrumental to their peers.

Everyone was amazed by and in awe of the talent displayed by our young people! Many pupils have since voiced an interest in competing next year after seeing what can be achieved.

Mrs Wilson was presented with a beautiful bunch of flowers to say thank you for all her help in support in accompanying our singers with the piano. We are so grateful for her help!

Well done again to all our talented children, we are so proud of you all!

Achievements, Burns competitions, Wider Achievement

Ayrshire Burns Competition 2022

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We couldn’t be more proud of Team New Cumnock this weekend! ❤️

Each and every one of our pupils who represented the school at the Regional Ayrshire Burns Competition is a superstar. The performances they gave in front of a large audience and the feedback from the judges on their adjudication sheets is testament to that!

We are delighted to be bringing home the following prizes:

1st place P6/7 Instrumental: Ciara B

1st place P6/7 Singing: Alex M

1st place P4/5 Singing: Adele M

2nd place P6/7 Poetry: Emma Y

3rd place P1-3 Poetry: Kal M

Well done everyone, you are all stars! ⭐️

Mrs McNulty would like to extend her thanks to Mrs Wilson for coming in to school to accompany our singers to help them rehearse on the run up to the competition. ❤️