Category Archives: Curriculum

Community Partnership, Health and Wellbeing, Whole school

Mental Health Awareness Week 12th-16th May 2025

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New Cumnock Primary School Promote & Celebrate Mental Health Week Scotland!

The children and staff of New Cumnock Primary School have had a fantastic week participating in a variety of activities that have promoted strategies that help support and maintain good mental health. This has ranged from classroom activities that have fostered kindness and empathy, art activities, group games, dancing, reading and relaxation. As well as this the children have had the opportunity to go outside and enjoy the sunshine and nature, either through local walks, the school garden and playground area.

We have also been fortunate enough to have visiting specialists in to deliver sessions:

First we had Sharon McQuillan, a GP referral conditions specialist from ‘ShapeShift Fitness & Wellbeing Studio’ in Auchinleck, who came in to deliver clinical yoga for the day.

Then we had Laura Pagan; Sport, Health and Wellbeing Coordinator for ‘New Cumnock Development Trust’ (NCDT) who came in to deliver Clubbercise for the day; while Tammy Borthwick, Community Engagement Officer, also for NCDT, came to deliver ‘Get Jiggy with Geraldine’ for the P1 & P1/2 classes.

Finally, we had Tommy Milgrew; a professional badminton coach based in East Ayrshire, who came in to deliver sessions for the day.

We can’t thank these people enough for the time they have given to the school out of their busy schedules, and for the skills and knowledge they have passed on to our children. We have been very fortunate this year to secure these experiences, which have indeed had a positive effect. Our children have been so enthusiastic during sessions and full of buzz afterwards because of their achievements and how uplifted these activities have made them feel.

As well as all of this, Michael McRobert from ‘McRobert’s Tae Kwon do School’, based in the south of East Ayrshire, who is part of theTae Kwon do Association of Great Britain, has very kindly offered a day of his time in June in so that all children at New Cumnock Primary School can experience this martial art for themselves.

Our wee school is full of buzz, happiness and positivity! Hopefully, all their experiences will stay with them and help them along the road of life so that they have a great one!

Achievements, Health and Wellbeing, Sports, Whole school

Sports Day 2025

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Our Sports Day was held today at the Glens Park. We were very grateful of the lovely weather we had!

Each of our House teams led a victory march around the pitch to kick start our Sports Day celebrations.

A huge thank you to our parents and carers who came along to cheer on and support our children as they competed in their class flat races and novelty races as well as our upper house relays.

The Sports Day points will be added to the shields and our overall winning House will be announced at our annual Prize Giving on Wednesday 18th June.

A huge thank you to the Glens Park for hosting our Sports Day and allowing us to use your facilities!

Achievements, After School Clubs, Expressive Arts

Mary Poppins JR

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Cast T-shirts

This year, we are again gifting our School Show cast with Mary Poppins JR T-shirts which they can wear to rehearsals, will wear at the end of the show when all cast are on stage and also as a wee memento to keep to remember their time being part of this experience.

Can parents/carers, please complete the Form below to let us know sizes by no later than Friday 2nd May to let us get the order in.

Rehearsals

Please note that rehearsals will run on a Monday 3-4pm (song practise) and a Wednesday 3-5pm (full stage rehearsals). It is important that all cast members attend. If your child cannot attend a rehearsal, please be courteous and let Mrs McNulty know.

Stage Hands

We are looking for children who would be keen to attend rehearsals to support us with props and staging. If your child would be interested in this, please contact Mrs McNulty by email.

danielle.mcnulty@eastayrshire.org.uk 

Community Partnership, Health and Wellbeing, Whole school

New Cumnock Community Sports Hub – Football Camp

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New Cumnock Community Sports Hub presents our Easter Football Camp!
Open to all young people from age 3 to 12 and all levels of skill.  We cant wait for you to come and join in!   Fun filled football skills, drills and games then finishing off with a “congratulations presentation”
  • When – 8th April 2025
  • Time – Mini Kickers(Age 3/5) @ 9.30am to 10.30am and Big Kids Camp (Ages 6/12) 11am to 4pm
  • Where – Greenhead Playing Fields, New Cumnock
  • How Much – £3pp for mini kickers and £10pp for Big Kids
*Coaches PVG checked* *Please note mini kickers must be accompanied by an adult*
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/new-cumnck-development-trust/t-ojdrxja
Achievements, Burns competitions, Expressive Arts, Literacy, Wider Achievement

Ayrshire Schools Burns Competition Success 2025

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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:

3rd place P1-3 Verse Speaking: Alice M

3rd place P4/5 Verse Speaking: Stewart Y

1st place P6/7  Verse Speaking: Adele M

1st place P6/7  Singing: Arabella S

Millar S was also in the top 6 who had to compete again in a head to head for the P1-3 Verse Speaking.

Our P1-3 Verse Speaking entries – Millar S, Alice M and Annika S

Our P4/5 Verse Speaking entries – Daisy M, Connie B, Stewart Y, Olivia M and Lewis J

Our P6/7 Verse Speaking entries – Adele M and Harry W

Our P6/7 Singing entries – Paige Y, Jorja K, Arabella S and Adele M

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:

3rd place S1/2 Verse Speaking: Amy J

3rd place S1/2 Singing: Aleesha C

2nd place S3/4 Verse Speaking: Emma Y

3rd place S3/4 Verse Speaking: Emma J

1st place S3/4 Singing: Emma J

1st place S5/6 Verse Speaking: Adana W

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 in Dumfries to represent Ayrshire later this year! 🤩

Literacy, Whole school

World Book Day 2025

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World book day will be celebrated in school on THURSDAY 6TH MARCH!  We would like to invite all our children to come to school that day either dressed up as a book character or snuggled up dressed in their pyjamas for a bedtime story.
In the lead up to World Book Day we will be hosting our annual Scholastic Book Fair.  Children will have the opportunity to visit the fair with their class and write their “wish list” of books.  If you wish to purchase books from your child’s wish list you can do so by following instructions to online payment that will be given out to children at the book fair.

Finally, it wouldn’t be World Book Day without a story themed competition!  Our Reading Schools Ambassadors are setting a challenge for children to CREATE A CHARACTER TATTIE!  At home, find your best looking tattie and transform it into a literary character… a Harry Potter tattie, a Gruffalo tattie, maybe even a Tracey Beaker tattie… use your imagination and get creative!  Please bring all finished tatties to school for judging by WEDNESDAY 5TH MARCH!  There will be a winner and a runner up from our infant school (P1, P1/2, P2/3), our middle school (P3/4, P4, P4/5), and our senior school (P5, P6, P7) so plenty of prizes up for grabs!

Happy reading!

Achievements, Numeracy, Whole school

TTRS – NSPCC Rocks!

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Dear parent/carer,

As part of our commitment to make maths exciting and high profile in our school, we are taking part in a friendly competition involving schools in across the UK. The competition runs from 07:30 GMT Friday 7th February 2025 to 19:30 GMT Friday 7th February 2025. It’s all done online via play.ttrockstars.com.

Children can play in any gamemode with every correct answer to a multiplication or division question, earning themselves, their class and the school a point. The Times Tables Rock Stars platform will calculate the class average (the number of correct answers per pupil in the class who play during the competition hours, subject to a daily 60-minute limit (see below)). Winning classes in the school and in the competition as a whole will be the ones with the highest average.

To support player wellbeing, there is a daily time limit of 60-minutes per player. In other words, each player can earn competition points for up to 60-minutes between 07:30 GMT and 19:30 GMT on 07:30 GMT Friday 7th February 2025 to 19:30 GMT Friday 7th February 2025. Once the player goes beyond 60-minutes of play on that day, they will still earn coins but will no longer earn points towards the competition.

In the spirit of the competition, please don’t play on their behalf but by all means encourage and support them to the extent that it doesn’t cause high stress levels or impact on family plans.