Category Archives: Achievements

Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition 2024

I am delighted to share that this year’s Ayrshire Regional Burns Competition will be held in Belmont Academy, Ayr on Saturday 2nd March 2024. 

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 verse speaking category is open to P1-7 pupils, the other 4 remain available for P4-7 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 form below by no later than this Friday 26th January 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

School Choir Event Sat 20th Jan

Our school choir have been kindly invited to perform in George Square in Glasgow next Saturday as part of a Robert Burns memorial event in the run up to Burn’s birthday.

They will not only be singing at the laying of wreaths at Robert Burns statue in George Square but also at City Chambers and then The Merchants House. What a prestigious event and fabulous opportunity for our talented young people!

The Jean Armour Burns Trust who are organising the event, are kindly funding our transport costs and are also providing the lunch for the children next Saturday too.

At the organisers request, spaces are limited so I can only offer this opportunity to P6 and P7 choir members. Letters will be sent home on Monday with consent slips and information about bus times and what chidlren will be required to wear and bring.

The children were informed of this today so I wanted to let families know to give prior warning.

We are very much looking forward to being part of this event and will meet at various times during the school day next week and indeed at Monday’s rehearsal to prepare for this.

Kind regards,

Mrs McNulty

FAB Friday 22/12/23

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To celebrate the end of term, this Friday, we will be hosting a whole school FAB Friday Get Together, where we will be recognising the Wider Achievements of our pupils .

We want to hear about your child’s successes! Please bring in your certificates, medals or stories about your achievements from this Term.

To help with the programming of the afternoon, please complete the form below to let us know what your child wishes to celebrate. We will use the names gathered on the Form to create the running order.

House Captains, Vice Captains and Prefects 2023-24

We are delighted to announce our P7 leadership team for the new school year 2023-24.

Every pupil displayed confidence in not only writing about why they should be chosen, but also in their confident speeches presented in class.

A huge thank you to all school staff and our Parent Council members for casting their votes.

Bracken

House Captain: Aleesha C

Vice Captain: Lily M

Heather

House Captain: Amy J

Vice Captain: Shivani R-S

Pine

House Captain: Isla C

Vice Captain: TJ H

Thistle

House Captain: Quyn F

Vice Captain: Conlyn B

Prefects

Bethany M, Devan B, Lyle P, Ruaridh M, Shaun F, Milly C, Brooke W, Mia O, Darcy H, Ilyssa P, Lucy G, Bailey T, Jorjie M, Jacobi M, Skye D and Trinity I

Prize Giving Ceremony 2023

We were delighted to be able to welcome our families and friends back into our local Parish Church to celebrate our annual Prize Giving ceremony today. A huge thank you to you all for coming to join us.

A big thanks also goes to Rev. Ken Yorke for conducting the service, the church media team for their technical support, Tammy from NCDT, Gus Hart, our school football coach and Kerry Cooper, our Parent Council chair, for helping us to present prizes.

Thank you to Lucy and Mia, our P6 class photographers, for capturing our prize winners pictures.

P1 Mrs Johnstone

Excellence in Numeracy – Arlo R

Excellence in Literacy – Bayley B

Excellence across the Curriculum – Daniel M

Effort across the Curriculum – Ella G

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – Alice M

P1/2 Mrs Armour

Excellence in Numeracy – AJ F

Excellence in Literacy – Aliana P

Excellence across the Curriculum – Rylie

Effort across the Curriculum – Noah F

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – Perry Kyle

P2 – Miss McQueen

Excellence in Numeracy – Alexander M

Excellence in Literacy – Darcie H

Excellence across the Curriculum – Stewart Y

Effort across the Curriculum – Lexi B

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – Annabelle H

P3 – Mrs Elliott

Excellence in Numeracy – Ella M

Excellence in Literacy – Grace B

Excellence across the Curriculum – Katie H-T

Effort across the Curriculum – Emilie Y

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – Darcy B

P3/4 – Mrs Petrie 

Excellence in Numeracy – Dylan M

Excellence in Literacy – Olivia M

Excellence across the Curriculum – Chloe M

Effort across the Curriculum – Brandon R

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – Aurelia K

P4/5 – Miss Nicholl

Excellence in Numeracy – James C

Excellence in Literacy – Summer W

Excellence across the Curriculum – Ava F

Effort across the Curriculum – Bobbie R

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – Harry W

P5 – Mrs Frew

Excellence in Numeracy – Ryan H

Excellence in Literacy – Pippa H

Excellence across the Curriculum – Joey H

Effort across the Curriculum – Hollie P

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – Logan M

P6 – Mrs McNulty

Excellence in Numeracy – Conlyn B

Excellence in Literacy – Jorjie M

Excellence across the Curriculum – Amy J

Effort across the Curriculum – Lily M

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – TJ H

P7 – Mrs Clarke 

Excellence in Numeracy – Ciara B

Excellence in Literacy – Arran J

Excellence across the Curriculum – Bruce G

Effort across the Curriculum – Summer H

Tom Hunter Prize Winner – Thomas W

SPECIAL AWARDS

Community Partnership Award – Aimee F

Outstanding Contribution to the School Choir – Adele M

Football

Player of the Year – Conlyn B

Player of the Year – Orla M

Most Improved Player – Arran J

Most Improved Player – Quyn F

 

Winning House – Thistle

P7 Leavers

Clean Green School Awards 2023

Today, Bruce and Orla travelled in style on the McGill’s electric bus to attend the East Ayrshire Clean Green Schools Awards at Council Chambers in Kilmarnock.

In their Captain and Vice Captain role, Bruce and Orla have helped to tackle our Clean Green Schools action plan to help East Ayrshire to work towards a Clean and Green future!


Through the 4 key themes of Waste, Energy, Transport and Natural Environment, our team have worked hard this year to make positive changes to reduce our carbon emissions.

We are delighted to share that we were one of 4 schools in the authority to receive a Silver Award!

Our Clean Green Schools Team are so proud of this achievement and already have ideas in place for next years action plan!

National Burns Primary Schools Competition 2023 Success

Today we had 4 of our school pupils representing Ayrshire at the Nationals Primary Schools Burns Competition held at Belmont Academy in Ayr.

Every pupil performed with such confidence and received wonderful feedback from the judges.

We are delighted to have brought home the following prizes out of the whole of Scotland:

School Choir – 1st place

P4/5 Singing – Adele M 3rd Place

Overall Singing Team – Ayrshire (3 of the 4 entrants were from our school)

Overall wining team – Ayrshire

We couldn’t wait to share our awards with the rest of the school choir!