Category Archives: Community Engagement

Community Engagement, Community Partnership, New Cumnock, Whole school

Burns Candlelight Tea Success!

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Last week we hosted our first School Burns Supper with a Candlelight Tea theme! It was a hugely successful and enjoyable evening. We are extremely grateful to the support shown by our families and partner agencies such as the New Cumnock Burns Club and the Ayrshire Burns Association for attending. We were thoroughly entertained by a variety of songs, instruments and verse speaking. What an array of talent we have in New Cumnock! We feel this will be the first of many Burns events hosted in our school! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤩

A huge thank you to Emma J for capturing these images for us on the night!

Choir, Community Engagement, New Cumnock

Entertaining the community!

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This weekend has been fun filled with our pupils entertaining the local community at two Burns events.

Firstly, on Friday evening, Arran, Bruce and Quyn performed poetry recitations for the locals at the Afton Lily Burns Supper. They kick started the evening with super performances which were thoroughly enjoyed by their audience.

Following that, on Saturday afternoon, members of our school choir and 1st place poetry winners from each class were invited to perform at the Town Hall for the New Cumnock Burns Club centenary community concert. The children were very well received by the packed hall and were showered with wonderful compliments on their performances!
It was a wonderful afternoon and not only did the children display wonderful performance skills but their behaviour and enthusiasm made each of them a credit to the school!

Burns competitions, Community Engagement, Wider Achievement

School Poetry Afternoon

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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:

P1

1st: Millar S

2nd: Skye J

3rd: Amelia W

P1/2

1st: Brooke F

2nd: Megan M

P2

1st equal: Riley S & Stewart Y

2nd: Daisy M

3rd: Bryce W

P3

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

P5

1st: Adele M

2nd: Riley B

3rd: Joey H

P6

1st: Amy J

2nd: Quyn F

3rd: Shaun F

P7

1st: Bruce G

2nd: Arran J