Category Archives: Achievements

Clean Green School Awards 2023

June 19, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

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!

Achievements, Burns competitions, Wider Achievement

National Burns Primary Schools Competition 2023 Success

June 10, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

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!

Achievements, Whole school

Term 3 Gold Awards

March 25, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

We were delighted to celebrate our Gold Award winners for Term 3 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!

Primary 1

Primary 1/2

Primary 2

Primary 3

Primary 3/4

Primary 4/5

Primary 5

Primary 6

Primary 7

Achievements, Burns competitions, Wider Achievement

Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition 2023

March 4, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

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!

February 27, 2023 Mrs Clarke Leave a comment

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

February 2, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

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:

1st: Millar S

2nd: Skye J

3rd: Amelia W

P1/2

1st: Brooke F

2nd: Megan M

1st equal: Riley S & Stewart Y

2nd: Daisy M

3rd: Bryce W

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

1st: Adele M

2nd: Riley B

3rd: Joey H

1st: Amy J

2nd: Quyn F

3rd: Shaun F

1st: Bruce G

2nd: Arran J

Burns competitions

Ayrshire Burns Schools Competition 2023

January 26, 2023 Mrs McNulty Leave a comment

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

Pupil's Name

Pupil's Class

Parent's Name

Parent's Contact Telephone Number

Discipline pupil wishes to enter (multiple entries are allowed)(required)

By ticking this box, I confirm that my child is available to participate in the competition on Saturday 4th March 2023 and I am aware it is parental responsibility to ensure my child has transport to Belmont Academy.