This week we begin Challenge 2 of Shoot To Saturn, as we begin to log our S-Miles across the school in the hope of making it to the Beta Station in 12 weeks time.

Please find more information in the letter below, which details how you can help us and encourage your children to participate.

Primary parent_carer update – Jan 2025 NCPS

A huge thank you to all of you who completed our Parent Council Road Safety surveys.

Your views and comments are extremely important and will be collated to support us as we move forward in addressing the road safety concerns around our school.

Our Clean Green Transport Team gathered all the completed forms and input them to a random generator to select the winner of the £30 Aldi voucher. And the winner is…

Iniya P (P3/4)

A huge thank you to Ian McMeekin for spearheading  this campaign.

The Parent Council and Clean Green Transport Team will be taking their concerns and views of our parent body to a Community Council meeting next week. Stay tuned on our progress with this.

Today, our Accreditation Rich Tasks groups participated in Windy’s Earth Hour by getting outside and enjoying lots of screen free fun together!

We felt it was important that everyone got involved, in order to spread the Earth Hour message, not just our Clean Green Team. It was great to see so many children having fun outside with not a piece of technology to be found!

(Apart from Mrs McNulty’s phone making an appearance to capture the proof! Ha!)

The official Earth Hour is tomorrow, Saturday 23rd March at 8.30pm.

We ask that for 1 hour tomorrow evening, our families take time to switch off and dedicate an hour to help bring our world back to life. You can do this in any way you like, by spending 60 minutes doing something positive for our planet. Need inspiration? Click on the link below to view some ideas.

Give an Hour for Earth | Earth Hour

If you choose to take part, please evidence what you choose to do and upload it as a Parental Contribution to your child’s Learning Journal. We will showcase these entries at Monday’s Get Together and award house points to all our participants.

Parents/carers,

We are continuing to encourage our young people to walk, cycle, scoot or park and stride to school as part of our Journey to Jupiter challenge in partnership with Clean Green East Ayrshire.

We will continue to log S-Miles gained by those who have travelled to school in an environmentally friendly manner each day. These results are then sent away to the Clean Green EA team who will collate the results of all participating schools in the local authority in the hope that we gain enough S-Miles to power our rocket all the way to Jupiter!

As we shared previously, we have concerns with the dangerous parking we have witnessed around our school grounds which makes it difficult for our children to safely use the footpaths around our school.

Click on the link below to our previous post which highlighted the  5 safe car parks within walking distance of our school which we encourage all our families to use when travelling by car.

NCPS Road Safety Campaign

Please listen to the message from our young people to help keep everybody safe and healthy as we encourage environmentally friendly travel to school!