Category Archives: Achievements

Achievements, Hunter Award

Hunter trophy winners 2020

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We are delighted to share that our Hunter trophies have now arrived after a delay in production and have been presented to our award winners from last session.

We are incredibly proud of each of our winners and loved having an opportunity to celebrate this wonderful achievement again with their peers! Well done to you all! 🤩

Garden Room – Alfie O

Primary 1 – Baylee M

Primary 1/2 – Georgia G

Primary 2/3 – Ryan H

Primary 3 –  Amy J

Primary 4 – Bruce G

Primary 5 – Mary Y

Primary 5/6 – Eilidh M

Primary 6/7 – Lucy W

Primary 7 – Craig M

Achievements, New Cumnock, Whole school

New Cumnock Primary School Prize Giving 2020

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Today we are delighted to share our Prize Giving ceremony with you all.  It is not how we envisaged our ceremony to be, as we love it when we all gather in the church at this time of year to celebrate your successes.  Nevertheless, we have worked together to mark this momentous day in our school calendar and we hope you enjoy it!  So sit down, get a cup of tea and enjoy our Prize Giving ceremony from the comfort of your own home.

We will begin with Mrs McMurdo’s Head Teacher Speech.

No Prize Giving is complete without a few words (or a tune) from our beloved Minister, Rev. Cuthbert.

Thank you to all our certificate winners for coming to school last Friday to be awarded with their certificates.  We are delighted to share these with you now.

Now onto our Hunter award winners.  Each year, one child from each class is awarded this prestigious award.  Listen carefully as each teacher shares their reasons for choosing their award winner this year.  We want to extend a huge thank you to The Hunter Foundation for their continued support of our school and our annual Prize Giving.

And now onto our wonderful P7s.  This is certainly not the way we wanted your school years with us to end.  We are extremely proud of you all and cannot wait till we can have you all back to celebrate your time with us.  We wish you all the very best of luck in your future.

Some final words for our P7 Leavers.  A huge thank you to Mrs McTurk for sharing this poem with us, it is wonderful! Click on the link below if you wish to download a copy to keep.

P7 Leavers Poem

Last but not least, we are sadly saying goodbye to 4 members of staff this session.  A huge virtual hug goes out to Mrs Morton, Miss White, Mrs Sussman-Bryden and Miss Ritchie.  We have loved having you all as part of Team New Cumnock and hope our paths cross again one day.

And this marks the end of our Virtual Prize Giving ceremony.  Thank you for tuning in.  We hope you all have a lovely, relaxing summer holiday and we look forward to seeing you all again in August.

Stay safe everyone.

Team New Cumnock x

Burns competitions, Wider Achievement

Ayrshire Schools Burns Competition 2020

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On Saturday 7th March, Mrs McNulty, parents/carers and 33 of our pupils attended Irvine Royal Academy to participate in the Ayrshire Schools Burns Competition.

We had pupils entered in Verse Speaking, Singing and Instrumental sections.

For the first time ever there was a P1-3 Verse Speaking section and we were not restricted to how many entries we could submit so Mrs McNulty thought, the more the merrier!

A lot of work goes on behind the scenes to get our children ready for this competition, a huge well done to our pupils and parents/carers for the work you have put into being prepared.

A great day was had by all. The standard of talent was exceptionally high and not only did our pupils shine with their singing, speaking and musical talents, but also with their positive attitudes and excellent behaviour! We couldn’t be prouder of you all! A huge well done to all our participants.

Under normal circumstances, our 1st and 2nd place prize winners Alex M and Lucy W would represent Ayrshire at the National Competition in Carluke, however, due to COVID-19, unfortunately there will not be a Nationals Competition this year.

Team New Cumnock!

Our Verse Speaking performers

Our Singing performers

Our Instrumental performers

We were delighted to enter 2 former pupils, who are now at Cumnock Academy. Casey K was entered in S1/2 singing and Adana W was entered in S1/2 Verse Speaking

Emma Y made it to the final 6 in P4/5 Verse Speaking and got to perform again in front of a big audience

Lucy W made it to the final 6 in P6/7 Verse Speaking and got to perform again in front of a big audience

As we weren’t able to track down everyone for photos at the event, it was a great excuse for Mrs McNulty to have another photo shoot with us all back at school!

Our proud Verse Speakers with their certificates

Our proud Singers with their certificates

Our proud Instrumentalists with their certificates

Our proud prize winners! 

1st place P4/5 Singing – Alex M

2nd place P6/7 Verse Speaking – Lucy W

3rd place Instrumental – Hayley C

Certificate of Merit P4/5 Verse Speaking – Emma Y

Mrs McNulty hopes to get copies of the official photos taken on the day and will get these to you all when she does.

Achievements, Active Schools, Health and Wellbeing, Sports

Sport Scotland – IT’S A GOLD!!!

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26/11/19

Look at what we received today! 🥇 We are so proud to have been presented with our GOLD Sport Scotland award! Huge thank you to Mr Hastings for leading us on this journey and for our staff and pupils for their hard efforts! A lovely warm welcome was given to our visitors today 😁

‘It’s a gold – doo doo doodoo doo dooooooo!’