Category Archives: Community Engagement

Santa Dash Sing-A-Long 9/12/25

Tomorrow, Tuesday 9th December, we will host our whole school sponsored event – Santa Dash Singalong.

All money and sponsor forms for this event should be handed in to your child’s teacher tomorrow morning. Please note that any sponsors received after this date cannot be accepted due to money being banked already.
All returned sponsor forms will be put into a draw to win a movie night hamper.
We will be leaving school at 9.30am to head to our singing spots throughout New Cumnock to spread Christmas cheer by singing a range of Christmas songs. If you are able to come and see us, please do,or give us a wave at the window if you see us passing by. Each class will also have a donation bucket with them for any member of the public who wishes to donate if you like what you hear.
P1 – Afton Court Sheltered Housing Complex
P2 – Mounthope Terrace
P2/3 – Dalhanna Drive 
P3/4 – New Cumnock Fire Station
P4/5 – Ashmark Avenue 
P5 – Castle Shops 
P5/6 – Afton Bridgend square 
P6 – High Park shops 
P7 – Pathhead park 
Please ensure your child is wrapped up warm with a thick coat for this event and children are encouraged to wear festive headwear if they have some.
 
Please note that if it is too wet tomorrow, we will postpone our Santa Dash Sing-A-Long until the next anticipated dry day. We don’t want to trail the children out singing in the rain and not have the public able to come out and enjoy seeing us all. A message will be sent via the school app early tomorrow morning if this is the case.

Summer Fayre Success

A massive well done to our hard working Parent Council on another fantastic event for New Cumnock Primary School. The rain certainly didn’t dampen any of our New Cumnock spirit!

It was great to see so many parents, children, staff and members of our community supporting the school.

Thank you everyone!

A huge well done to Lottie J who won the Guess the Bears Name competition, she is now the proud owner of ‘Bubbles’!

 

Noo that’s whit a ca’ a Burns Nicht!

A huge thank you to our talented young people, brilliant local performers and all in our school community who joined us for our 3rd annual Burns Family Night!

We love having the opportunity to welcome everyone in to showcase the work and talents of our young people, and with the title of ‘Scots Schuil and Scots Teacher of the Year 2025’ to our name, we really do have a lot of talent to share!

The evening was a huge success, the profits of which will go towards our P7 Residential Trip.

We thank you for your continued support!

Tasty treats for our guests to enjoy.

David Bunten from EPIC bagpiping.

Our school choir.

A jammed packed hall.

Local poet, Stuart Paterson.

Local musician, Ciaran McGhee.

Chloe and Adele shared their own poems they had written.

Local musician, Joan McDade.

Wullie Dick from New Cumnock Burns Club.

Our Scots poetry competition class winners.

Local poet, Rab Wilson.

Musical duet, Jolyn and Davie, otherwise knows as Brigadoon.

Our interactive Kahoot! quiz is always a huge success! Well done to our winning player, ‘Tea Cakes’.

Simon Thoumire from ‘Hands Up For Trad’ gave the closing words.

Everyone gathered singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ to finish off the evening.

New Cumnock Burns Club – Burns Supper 2025

Today, our class poetry winners and school choir performed at the New Cumnock Burns Club, Burns Supper at the Town Hall. It was a wonderful afternoon, with a wide array of talent on display. From wonderful singing to recitations and a lovely meal provided free of charge, there was something for everybody!

Well done to each of our talented youngsters for being such confident performers!

A huge thank you to New Cumnock Burns Club for their very generous donation to our school too, we are extremely grateful for this and appreciate the partnership we have.

 

Choir Christmas Events

Our school choir have been extremely busy over the festive period, singing in the community. They do say, ‘The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!’

We have visited:

The School for our Christmas Fayre (30/11/24)

Dumfries House for the arrival of Santa (30/11/24)

Kilmarnock Town Centre for their Christmas Light Switch On (1/12/24)

The Baptist Church for the Women’s Fellowship (2/12/24)

New Cumnock Parish Church for The Women’s Guild (3/12/24)

Afton Court Sheltered Housing for the residents and staff (4/12/24)

New Cumnock Parish Church for The Coffee Bean (5/12/24)

Cumnock Hospital for the patients and staff (12/12/24)

Dumfries House for the King’s Foundation (18/12/24)

A huge thank you to all our community partners for welcoming us along!

High School Musical JR

Tickets are on sale now for our upcoming High School Musical JR show. This is not one to miss! Our children have worked so hard on this and can’t wait to show their friends and family!

Tickets are priced at £5 each. Click on the link below to purchase. (If the link below doesn’t work, please visit the school blog and open the relevant post)

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/new-cumnock-primary-school/e-rljbkp

HSM poster