Category Archives: Community Partnership
Winter Support – THANK YOU!!!
A huge thank you to the following charities and organisations for the generous support to our families this festive period! We are extremely grateful to you all!
Hillhouse
Cash For Kids
Taylor and Fraser
P1 and P2 trip to Scotmid
Today our P1 and P2 classes visited Scotmid to decorate the store’s tree with decorations they had made themselves at school.
Our young people even entertained the shoppers and staff by singing some of their Nativity songs during their visit.
A huge thank you to Kal’s Mum, Suzanne, for arranging for us to visit!
CJCE Christmas Holiday Camps
Cumnock Juniors Community Enterprise are running a 2-day camp during the Christmas holidays. Please find information included in the poster below and the sign-up link should you wish to register your child.
Sign-up Link – https://forms.office.com/r/dYQ7BZ6m6Z?origin=lprLink
Working Mens Club – Home Energy Scotland
On Monday 10th November, between 10-11am, Home Energy Scotland will be at the Working Mens Club to provide a top up for those on a prepay meter for their gas and electric.
We know this will be a huge support to many of our families. It will be given on a first come, first served basis.
Thank you Heather and Sheryl for letting us know about this.
Royal Drawing School: Free Drawing Course
The Royal Drawing School are running a fully funded, free 10 week Saturday drawing course for young people aged 10-14 years old, based at New Cumnock Townhall and online.
Taught by professional practicing artists, the weekly classes are an opportunity for students to develop their passion for drawing in a creative and supportive environment.
They still have some spaces left! If your child is a keen artist, please follow the link below for more information and email youngartists@royaldrawingschool.org to register their place.
In the studio & online, New Cumnock AM (Aged 10 – 14)
Clean Green Conference 2025
2 of our P7 Clean Green Team members, Peighton and Summer, were excited to attend the Climate Conference today at Loudoun Academy today. We had a great day networking with lots of partnership agencies who can help us on our journey to Gold status. We are looking forward to using all our inspiration from this event to help us generate our 25/26 Action Plan. 💚♻️ #EANetZero
P7 Free Strings Tuition
Free String Tuition Opportunity for P7 Pupils
Please click the link above for more information about a fabulous opportunity for free string instrument tuition at Dumfries House for our P7 pupils.
These sessions will build on the skills pupils are developing in whole class strings sessions.
Please note these sessions are from 4pm-5pm on Wednesday evenings in the Pierburg Building on Dumfries House Estate. The first session is on Wednesday 1st October.
Fitfest Ambassadors
This week we were visited by Tammy from the New Cumnock Development Trust who came to tell us all about Fitfest 2026 and how our P6 and P7 pupils have the opportunity to apply to be a Fitfest Ambassador.
Application forms were sent home and the closing date for these to be delivered to the NCDT office is this Wednesday 17th September. Applications will be shortlisted and interviews held soon after in school.
This is a wonderful opportunity for our young people to develop leadership skills and to represent their school and community.
If your child didn’t get an application form and wishes to submit one, please email Mrs McNulty and she will get one sent home on Monday.
Yipworld support for families
Yipworld are one of our community partners who have Youth Groups and Services running for young people and the greater community.
Employability Support
Our employability team will be available from Monday to Thursday each week from 9am to 4pm each day. This support programme is aimed at anyone ages 16 to 24 and can aid in writing C.V.’s, finding
training, applying for jobs or higher education and provide advice. They are always happy to accept referrals of school leavers looking to take their next step in life!
Their employability team can be reached at either:
kthomson@yipworld.org or lmcnaughton@yipworld.org
training, applying for jobs or higher education and provide advice. They are always happy to accept referrals of school leavers looking to take their next step in life!
Their employability team can be reached at either:
kthomson@yipworld.org or lmcnaughton@yipworld.org
Families First
For any low income families with children, who would like support to improve their family circumstances and achieve their goals, a service is being offered by Yipworld.
Families First can provide budgeting advice, emotional and practical support as well as introductions to attend community resources.
For further information or support with making contact please contact:
Tracey Bradford,
Home-Link Practitioner
New Cumnock Primary School
Tel: 01290 338404
Mobile: 07788124474
